New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
...al bleeding - stokes were 4.5 times as likely tobe fatal as the ischemic strokes, which are caused by insufficient blood flowthrough the brain. "Although further understanding of the reasons for the observed excessin death from stroke among blacks is needed, this study provides a partialexplanation...Statement from Claude Lenfant, M.D., NHLBI Director, on Trends in Hypertension
...ant risk factor for both cardiovasculardisease and fatal coronary heart disease. Despite this encouraging news, however, it is important to note that themajority of coronary heart disease and stroke occurs at lower stages ofhypertension. And, although hypertension levels declined over the 4 decadesbetween......se needing hearts andlungs. CF is the most common fatal genetic disease among the Caucasian race. "Based on our results, two things must happen. First, we need to take a closerlook at the outcomes of CF patients at other centers and re-evaluate the meritsof the current guidelines. Secondly, we need to b......ichitself was associated with an increased risk of fatal or near fatal asthma....Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
...Swestyn of Winston-Salem was in danger of having a fatal stroke. The location of the blockage made surgery too risky. Less than seven years ago, the only treatment option would have been to prescribe blood thinners and hope the stroke wouldn't happen. But new technology meant doctors at Wake Forest Un...Breakthrough New Therapy Uses Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...e myelogenousleukemia (AML) - a virulent and often fatal form of cancer. The experimentalagent, CMA-676, induces remission in a significant proportion of patients withfew serious side effects. CMA-676 represents the first successful applicationof antibody-targeted chemotherapy. AML is an aggressive, lif...Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
...ts in four dose cohorts with severe GVHD, an often fatal sideeffect of bone marrow transplants ("BMT"). Among patients in the three higherdose cohorts, 56% (10 of 18) survived at least 100 days from the start oftreatment with ABX-CBL. This compared favorably to a 22% (2 of 9) survival ratein the low dose...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
...enly die. In fact, one in three people who develop fatal arrhythmias have had no previous arrhythmia symptoms or known heart problems. Some people with other types of heart disease, such as cardiomyopathy, also die suddenly, and doctors are frustrated by their inability to identify and treat such people b...Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram
...et out to determine why this pattern was linked to fatal cardiac arrhythmias. They detected oscillations in the electrical impulse generated by individual heart cells, causing beat-to-beat alternations.Shortly after the process began, neighboring heart cells oscillated out of phase with one another, beatin...Major economic change can lead to an increase in deaths in car accidents
...r economies is ultimately beneficial, it can prove fatal without appropriate injury prevention measures. They say that public health and medical communities must take the lead in ensuring that economic change does not adversely affect the health and safety of the public. Also see accompanying commentary t...The latest flight jacket gives pilots a real feel for flying
... experience, orthe lack of visual clues, can cause fatal confusion. Spatial disorientation can occur quite easily in aircraft for a numberof different reasons, says Timothy Wright, a navy pilot who has overseen thedevelopment of the jacket at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition at theUnive...Brisk walking reduces risk of heart attack in women
...udy found that briskwalking can reduce the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks in women to thesame degree as vigorous exercise. JoAnn Manson, M.D., Dr.P.H., and colleagues at Brigham and Women'sHospital in Boston report: "Our results suggest that...Light alcohol use may protect against sudden cardiac death
...the heart. Smallamounts of alcohol also may reduce fatal disturbances in the heart's rhythm. Co-authors include JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., Dr. P.H.; Nancy R. Cook, Sc.D.; UmedA. Ajani, M.B.B.S.; J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H.; and Charles H. Hennekens,M.D....Low doses of aspirin help prevent some strokes; high doses may increase risk for others
...brainruptures and bleeds, and is more likely to be fatal than an ischemic stroke. "This is the first large-scale detailed study of the relationship betweenaspirin use and the risk of principal types of stroke," says lead author JoAnnE. Manson, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigh...UI study advances understanding of antimicrobials and cystic fibrosis-related infection
... investigator. Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal inherited disease among Caucasians ofNorthern European descent and occurs in about one of every 2,000 births.Advances in treating the disease complications have increased the averagesurvival age well beyond childhood; however, there is no cure. In p...Revived drug prevents malaria, skirts drug resistance
...Plasmodiumfalciparum, the parasite responsible for fatal forms of malaria, from developingthe disease. "Atovaquone attacks the parasite at a different point in its life cyclefrom other drugs -- one that reaches the parasite sooner," says Theresa A.Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., the clinical pharmacologist...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
... prevent the rapid growthof metastases that proves fatal for so many of these patients." Additional co-authors of the study are Dai Fukamura, MD, Yves Boucher, PhD, andChae-Ok Yun, PhD, of the Steele Laboratory; Gerald Soff, MD, of NorthwesternUniversity; Carolyn Compton, MD, of the MGH Pathology Departme...Researchers discover potential new approach to treating cystic fibrosis
...overy." Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal hereditary disease amongCaucasians in the United S... thick, sticky mucus clogs the airways, leading to fatal lunginfections. Alvarez and Freedman are also exploring the relationship between AA andDHA ......, onin vivo or living patients.WE is a potentially fatal disorder caused by thiamin deficiency. WEusually occurs in people who have been drinking heavily and not eating, butcan also occur after persistent vomiting or during hunger strikes. Recentstudies, said Sullivan, have shown that young women sufferi...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
...o groups of patients--those at risk of potentially fatal pulmonaryemboli, and those who would normally require a biopsy to identify a lung tumoras benign or malignant. "Dr. Robey's peptide technology unquestionably speeded up thediscovery and development process for our diagnostic kits," ...