National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
...treatments," he said. "Primary prevention efforts, like blood pressure and cholesterol control, may have led to lower severity of heart attacks when heart attacks occur." The widely reported ARIC cohort study involves about 16,000 randomly selected participants in Forsyth County, N.C., Jackson, Miss.,...The American Heart Association Urges Caution On Cholestin
...ast data todate are very interesting, and we would like to encourage research into itslong-term effectiveness and safety," says Pearson.......n fact,most adults can't do it. If you put glasses like that on an adult, they'd feellike they were on a boat." Dr. Salz served as principal investigator at Cedars-Sinai for the multi-centerstudy of laser surgery for the correction of farsightedness (hyperopia).Although the FDA's guidelines for the proce...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
... time it takes forevaluation and diagnostic tests, like a computer tomography scan, to allowphysicians to determine if the stroke should be treated with a clot-buster. Strokes caused by bleeding in the brain -- hemorrhagic strokes -- are nottreated with clot busters, because the drugs can increase the ble...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
...o swim at the YWCApool: 'Find something you really like to do, and keep at it.' I made my commitment to nursing, and I've never been sorry." In fact, it was at that early age in Tucson, Ariz. -- a time when she was in andout of hospitals because of severe asthma -- that she set her sights on a careerin he...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
MADISON - They look more like stray computer parts than precision medical tools,but Amit Lal's research creations could give surgeons an incomparable new edgein medicine. Lal, an electrical and computer engineer with the University ofWisconsin-Madison, has created a new class of ...New Book Says Cross-Train Your Brain To Increase Mental Function
...cking, of going back to school. It just comes back like that.And you've made all these associations by just living. Just experiencing lifefully is good for the brain, Katz said. "For example, if you go on a trip to Europe, don't spend your timesitting on a tour bus, sleeping in an American-style h...People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
... 75 dollars a week." Punch Line Selection: "I'd like to take the job. When can I start?" (straightforward logicalchoice) "That's great! I'll come back in a month." (correct funny choice - originalpunch line) "Hey boss, your nose is too big for your face!" (slapstick ending - rightfrontal damaged pati....... Evaluation of innovative drugs and technologies like these is difficult for asingle institution because children's cancers are rare, and no one cancer centersees enough children with brain tumors to conduct timely clinical studies, saidMalcolm Smith, MD, of the NCI's Cancer Therapy Program. Joint studi...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...s can reduce those risks and perhaps function more like a normal humanorgan." A second advantage is that t... four degrees centigrade(about 40° Fahrenheit) like a regular organ -- within hours of the request. When attached to blood vessels in the groin, the dev......nducted at UB. The program is structured somewhat like a day-camp, withintensive behavioral treatment using a point system carried out in academic,social and recreational settings. The children spent nine hours a day in theprogram. Each child received one of the following medications twice a day, every...ENBREL (Etanercept) Patient And Physician Support Web Site Launched
...or right away. Thelong-term effects of treatments like ENBREL on serious infection, malignancy, orautoimmune disease are unknown. If you have questions about this or any of theabove, be sure to discuss them with your doctor. Important Product Informationcan be obtained at www.enbrel.com. ENBREL is manuf......n tightens the implant to the bone, the washersact like a spring and generate a stress to the bone. This provides thestability necessary for a person to walk with the implant. The spring washersdirect the forces on the leg from walking to the leg bone rather than theprosthetic device. In the study, UCS...Brain Resolves Sensory Contradictions By Creating Its Own Reality
...th their back toward the ground reported they felt like they were lying ontheir side. And even though they had stopped moving, they felt like they werestill rotating and their eyes continued to move as though they were stillspinning. These s...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...t a 7-month-old fetus canhear its parents because, like a newborn, its heart rate declines and thenreturns to normal in response to interesting sounds. But, forget piping Mozart to your unborn fetus or flashing foreign words at yournewborn: "All you need to do," Hirsh-Pasek says, "is to talk and listen. ...... previously attributed to tissue healingfunctions, like reduction of swelling in the brain. Re...ion reorganization, a re-balancing of the network, like thecast of a play adjusting to the loss of a key actor. The adjustment can beginwithin a day or two ...Fetal Cell Therapy Benefits Some Parkinson's Patients
... four small cosmetic holesin the skull that looked like those made for the implant therapy but which didnot penetrate the brain or its tough protective membrane, called the dura. Allpatients were informed of the risks of the surgery and the possibility that theymight initially be in the non-therapeutic p......The exercise prescription for SCI people should be like a medicalprescription - a specific exercise performed at a set intensity for a specificduration with a defined goal in mind," Gater said. "This study is a first steptoward that prescription."...Laser Pointer Helps Parkinson's Patients Take Next Step
...r move through a doorway. "For these patients,it's like their feet are stuck in wet cement, and currently there's no way totreat it," says Counihan. Doctors don't know exactly what causes freezing in Parkinson's disease,which affects about 500,000 adults in the United States. The disease kills bra......lo says. "There's no other wayto explain something like this." For all the research done on migraines, the disorder remains enigmatic. Scientists have only incomplete explanations for the overall cause. Traditional views hold that a somewhat epilepsy-like disturbance in a "triggercenter" in the b...