Altered mice provide model of rare childhood disease, NIH and Georgetown researchers find
...d cardiac abnormalities that can cause potentially fatal arrhythmias. These findings will be published in the February 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Having the animal model will enable scientists to study the underlying mechanisms of Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome,...Methadone may cause potentially fatal arrhythmia, Georgetown researchers find
...or in susceptible individuals, cause a potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmia known as torsades de pointes (T...rred in a human heart, could lead to a potentially fatal arrhythmia. The teams findings have not yet been confirmed in humans, but their hypothesis about met...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...auses a mild fever in humans but can be serious or fatal in patients with a weakened immune system. "At the least we can say that ticks carry Bartonella DNA and could be potential vectors," said Bruno Chomel, professor of veterinary medicine at the University of California, Davis, and one of the authors o...Researchers gain insights on pulmonary fibrosis
...n in the disease, but in most cases the disease is fatal in a short period of time." Treatment options for these patients are limited. There is no definitive treatment other than lung transplantation, according to Schwartz. "This is such a challenging disease for us as clinicians to treat," Schwart...Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
... People who might be infected with the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus are not getting tested early or often enough, possibly because neither they nor their primary doctors are raising the issue, a new University of Michigan Health System study finds. And even if they do test positive for the virus, th...Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
...for the older heart, and could lead to potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms." In addition to misusing drugs, many patients did not receive guidance and information about how to manage their symptoms. Eighty percent of the patients, for example, did not have a peak-flow meter, a device that measures......introduced in the early 1980s, HLHS was invariably fatal in early childhood. Survival rates for HLHS have been improving over the past 20 years, although children with the condition remain at a higher risk of long-term cognitive and neurological problems, compared to children with other heart defects. The ...Study: quality of neighborhood tied to coronary heart disease
... researchers recorded 615 coronary events, such as fatal and non-fatal heart attacks. Some original subjects were excluded because they had existing heart disease when the study began or because not enough information was available for analysis about where they lived. Living in the most disadvantaged group...New antimalaria drug succeeds in first animal tests
...marily spread by mosquito bites. The most commonly fatal strain of the malaria parasite is showing considerable resistance to current treatments, making development of new drugs a priority. Posner worked with Theresa Shapiro, professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and c...Study on teen licensing: N.C. crashes involving 16-year-olds drop dramatically
...om 1996-97 to 1999, including a 57 percent drop in fatal crashes, according to a University of North Caroli... Highway Safety Research Center findings were that fatal and serious injury crashes were between 18 percent and 21 percent more likely in the more rural coun...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 2, 2001
...The best treatment for the hard-to-treat and often fatal disease is bone marrow transplantation, but not all patients can have this procedure. High-dose cyclophosphamide was successful in treating some aplastic anemia patients. The researchers say that the small, uncontrolled study "provides strong justifi...Foot-and-mouth 'on the move in Asia'
...icles, or through the air. Although FMD is rarely fatal in adult animals it can lead to deaths in young animals such as piglets and calves. The disease causes severe production losses and is a major constraint to international trade in livestock and livestock products....Recent trends in motorcycle fatalities
...ional Highway Traffic and Safety Administration of fatal motorcycle crashes show an increase of 35.3 percent since 1998. The data show that most of the recent fatality increases have been among older ridersthose 40 years of age and older. The analysis also found older riderslikely to be involved in a fata...Low-dose combo no better than aspirin alone in secondary prevention
...rious intracranial bleeding. This bleeding proved fatal for seven patients in the aspirin group and 10 patients who received combined therapy. Death was not associated with delay in starting therapy in either group. Both open-label drug administration and differences in follow-up care in the combined tre...Spiral waves break hearts: Importance of communication between cardiac cells is demonstrated
...t? In an effort to study the factors that lead to fatal cardiac rhythms, a team of Canadian researchers ha...to undergo ventricular fibrillation, a potentially fatal cardiac rhythm that often occurs when communication between cells is impaired. In a real-world sit...Dartmouth research examines the value of cancer screening
... an invasive evaluation causes a patient to have a fatal heart attack, the death may be attributed to a heart attack rather than to the disease being tested for. This misclassification tilts the disease-specific mortality results in favor of screening. Both forms of bias affected the randomized screen...Misclassification of death may influence perceived value of cancer screening
... an invasive evaluation causes a patient to have a fatal heart attack, the death may be attributed to a heart attack rather than the specific disease being evaluated as a result of the screening test. This form of misclassification biases the disease-specific mortality results in favor of screening. The a...Stroke news tips for Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002
... for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) a potentially fatal bleeding of the brain is greatest in the southern United States and among men. However, women are more likely to die in the hospital or to be discharged to a long-term care center. These are among the findings by researchers at the National Instit...Medical experts unite to raise awareness of risk, threat of blood clots
...mbolism (PE), a blood clot in the lung that may be fatal if left untreated, as national health problems. T...rding to the American College of Chest Physicians, fatal pulmonary embolism may be the most preventable cause of hospital death. Some of the risk factors fo...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
...ic investigators. (Lung cancer is the most common fatal malignancy among adults in the U.S.) Researchers pointed to studies that suggested screening with spiral computed tomography can detect lung cancers at a smaller size and earlier stage ascompared with chest radiography and clinical practice. Howeve...