Viagra helps men with heart failure
...ted to take their medicines." Sildenafil caused no harmful effects and improved exercise performance during t...l have created some concern that the drug might be harmful in men with CHF. But there's not enough data on the safety or potential harm of sildenafil in CHF p...Food irradiation is focus of two-day symposium, Aug. 19-20
...ation of food is a safe way to reduce or eliminate harmful bacteria. Despite this resounding endorsement, consumers have been slow to accept irradiated food products. Meanwhile, researchers continue to investigate the practice. A two-day symposium, entitled "Food Irradiation and Packaging for Irradiated Fo...NIEHS announces $20 million, three-center effort to pin-point environmental triggers of Parkinson's
...esult from a combination of a person's exposure to harmful environmental agents and the person's inherited susceptibility. The disease is marked by the death of cells in the brain that produce and release the neurotransmitter dopamine. Current drug therapies, which attempt to replace the lost dopamine, ca...Medical students don't receive enough training in helping patients quit smoking
...dents to help people quit this habit which is also harmful and addictive." Spangler said most current smokers would quit if their doctor told them directly to do so. "Several studies have documented physicians' failure to counsel their patients to stop smoking." He added, "Physicians often perceive they are...Peer pressure matters in young adults smoking decisions
...st social pressures to smoke and beliefs about the harmful effects of smoking. Questions included: "Do you believe smoking relaxes you? That smoking makes you do poorly in sports? Makes you feel more at ease with others? Gets you into trouble at school? Or can harm other people (not just you)?" Participants ...New National Academy of Sciences report highlights health importance of nutrients found in almonds
...aturated fat plays a role in helping almonds lower harmful cholesterol just as effectively as expensive drugs, according to a University of Toronto study, recently released by the American Heart Association. Researchers there asked people to eat a small handful of almonds each day for a month, and those who...Early mental health intervention reduces mass violence trauma
... qualified mental health caregivers can reduce the harmful psychological and emotional effects of exposure to mass violence in survivors, according to a national conference report released today. Experts emphasized that although more research is needed, existing data, including studies of other kinds of tra...Off-the-job drinking predicts subsequent on-the-job injury for up to five years
...difying stress and norms about drinking may reduce harmful drinking-related outcomes. Bennett noted that one prevention effort, called "Team Awareness," has been federally identified as having effectively reduced problem drinking among municipal workers....Researchers find trigger for devastating digestive disease, propose treatment
...n a simple, oral supplement that can eliminate the harmful effects of gluten. The treatment approach would be similar to enzyme supplements taken orally by people who cannot digest lactose, a sugar found in milk. Khosla adds that an approved therapy could be as many as 5 to 8 years away, although research ...HHS announces contracts for developing a new anthrax vaccine
...fective measures to protect U.S. citizens from the harmful effects of anthrax spores used as instruments of terror," said Secretary Thompson. "These awards represent the first step toward our goal of securing an initial 25 million doses of an improved anthrax vaccine for our emergency stockpile." "Vaccines a...OHSU ethicist offers guidance for physicians with patients using alternative medicine
... most forms of CAM, and some therapies may even be harmful when used alone or in combination with conventional medicine. This provides the potential for serious patient-physician conflict." To aid physicians in consulting patients undergoing or considering CAM therapies, authors provided a list of factors ...Task force issues caution on combined hormone therapy
...ribed hormone regimens. However, it concluded that harmful effects of the combined therapy are likely to exceed the chronic-disease prevention benefits for most women. The Task Force further concluded that the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against the use of estrogen alone for prevention of c...A little blue and purple helps body fend off deadly parasites
...es. It may also provide an effective way to remove harmful organisms from blood. The study was presented recently at the annual meeting of the Argentina Association of Hematology and Immuno-hematology in Buenos Aires. Dr. Jose Ocariz, associate professor of pathology and director of UCI Medical Center's Bloo...Protein patterns may aid prostate cancer detection
...to accurately identify men who are affected with a harmful prostate cancer but spare healthy men from undergoing unnecessary biopsies." In the new study, Ornstein and collaborators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration- National Cancer Institute Clinical Proteomics Program and Correlogic Systems In...Drinking during pregnancy: Information may not be enough
...has shown that information about the potentially harmful effects of drinking alcohol during pregnancy does ... even per week, as opposed to daily intake, may be harmful in pregnancy? If there is no consistent data to suggest that an occasional drink is harmful, it is ...New compound holds promise for lupus and related diseases
...he body's healthy cells and tissues. The result is harmful and sometimes fatal inflammation in various tissues and organs, particularly the kidneys. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lupus affects 1.4 million Americans, and more than 22,000 have died as a result of the disease ove...Bridge Medical white paper examines evidence of barcoding success in medical error prevention
...--Oct. 17, 2002--A new studyreports 40 potentially harmful drug errors a day, on average, in the36 hospitals and nursing homes examined. Today, Bridge Medical -- acompany that has been honored for its patient safety technology andeducational initiatives -- released a new white paper that offerspromise of an ...Ouch! The receptors mediating acidic pain sensation
When we feel pain in response to harmful stimuli it is the result of messages sent from pain sensors in the periphery of the body to the brain. These pain sensors or nociceptors often lie beneath the skin and detect and signal the presence of tissue-damaging stimuli or the existence of ti...Men more dependent on exercise than women, UF study shows
...a good thing working out, in this case can have harmful effects on well being. Craig Hall, a professor of health sciences and kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario who has conducted similar research, said Hausenblas' findings undoubtedly will lead to further studies. "In our own exercise rese...... that the promotion of a dangerous product as less harmful than another undermines the efforts to achieve tobacco cessation. Also, these products could increase smoking initiation among people who probably would not have started." Jack E. Henningfield, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sci...