Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram
...fibrillation and death. Their findings explain the link between T-wave alternans on the ECG and voltage changes occurring within individual heartcells. "What we find, if you look at the cardiac cell very carefully, is that the cell's voltage is oscillating. Such beat-to-beatoscillations are the source of ...... other animals; our study is the first to seal the link between theta andspatial learning in humans," says Kahana, assistant professor of psychology andneuroscience at Brandeis. Kahana and his co-authors -- Joseph Madsen, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Children'sHospital, Boston; Robert Sekuler, Ph.D., the Louis...... Cancer. A number of previous studies have found a link between exercise and a reductionin breast cancer risk for younger women. Perhaps the most prominent and oftencited of these studies -- a 1994 paper published by Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., andcolleagues at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center -- f...Phobias deter chronically ill from seeking regular treatment
... The scientists hypothesize a few reasons for the link between psychiatricdisorders and persistent lack regular medical care. Failing to follow up withmedical care may result from the impaired physical, mental, social and rolefunctioning associated with psychiatric disorders. A loss of employment andinco...Losing hostility makes heart patients healthier
...trol group attended one class on hostility and its link withheart disease. The intervention group attended eight weekly meetings, 90minutes each. Participants learned listening skills to help reduce antagonism,and techniques to avoid cynicism and anger. They were asked to keep daily logsof hostile feel...Heart valve disease increases risk of death, research shows
...many patients. This is the first study,however, to link early aortic valve disease with increased risk of death andheart attacks. The researchers called for additional studies to learn how aorticsclerosis and events such as heart attack and stroke are related: Is early valvedisease a marker for h...Aspirin's role in colon cancer prevention focus of $5 million grant
... for that preventive effect, andthey have made the link to an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2), one of theprimary targets for aspirin and NSAIDs. DuBois and his team have found that COX2is elevated in colon cancer and have demonstrated in animals that colon tumorswill shrink dramatically if treated w...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...ounseling. There is little data to show a direct link between absence of health insuranceand an increase in illness for this age group, Irwin said, but that may bebecause the majority of adolescents are healthy. However uninsured adolescentsare three times as likely as those with insurance show up in t...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...ng viral or proteinaceous contaminants. The recent link between bovinespongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and human Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseis a reminder of the possible problems in introducing animal products intohumans." He continued, "As with any natural product, both natural and modi...Behavioral program boosts antibody that fights breast cancer
... experimental datato show a link between psychological interventions and an immune response directly related to fighting breastcancer." She presented the results Aug. 21 in Boston in aninvited ...Brain chemical mellows male mice, but makes mouse moms tough
... the Journal ofNeuroscience, establish a potential link between a single brain chemical--theneurotransmitter nitric oxide--and opposing effects in male versus femalebrains. "This result was a big surprise, given what we saw in the male mice," saysStephen Gammie, a postdoctoral fellow in the <ahref="...Education may help the fight against high blood pressure
...n says. This study presented today isthe first to link parental education to adolescents' blood pressure in reactionto stress. "The teenage years are the perfect age to target because we can help them learnhealth behaviors that will reduce their risk of developing high blood pressureand cardiovascular di...Alcohol consumption triggers free-radical damage in the body
...might alsoform the basis for clinical studies that link free-radical activity inindividuals to the development of diseases in those individuals. Because innateantioxidant protections vary from person to person, the results of such studiescould reveal a great deal about the underlying role of oxidant stres...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...hatthese authors "present landmark studies" on the link between iron and coronaryheart disease. Still, he ...solved questions" remain. Sullivan, who proposed a link between iron and coronary disease nearly 20 yearsago, says that the evidence accumulated so far seem...Rehabilitation for heart patients reduces deaths
... to be based ontheory-driven research results that link specific elements of the plannedinterventions with desired changes in individual patients' risk behaviors andemotional distress as well as the ultimate goals of preventing further heartattacks and cardiac mortality. The study was funded by the Nether...Study finds problems with buying drugs on the Internet
.... sell drugs not approved by the FDA. require a link to another Web site to purchase the drug. lack a mechanism to ask a registered pharmacist questions. do not provide a U.S. phone number and address....'Silent stroke' linked to depression
...from stroke. Although earlier studies suggested a link between depression and brain injury,most of those were small. The Duke study examined more than 3,600 elderlyindividuals enrolled in the Cardiovascular Health Study, which recruitedsubjects from Medicare lists in four communities -- Forsyth County, ...Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...ar label forstudying GVD bodies, but also forges a link between GVD bodies and the morecommonly studied plaques and tangles typical of AD brains. "The most important conclusion from our work is the existence of a molecularconnection between the different lesions of Alzheimer's disease," said Dr.Jeffrey Ku...Telemedicine can be used for accurate diagnosis of stroke symptoms
...symptoms could be performed through a telemedicine link as accurately asat the bedside. In order not to compromise the diagnosis of patients with acutestroke, the study enrolled 20 patients recovering from ischemic strokes - thosecaused by blockage of a blood vessel - at the MGH or Spaulding Rehabilitati......e ERS meeting. Many suggest that there is a direct link withcardiovascular diseases, although the exact ca...ted some as yet unpublished results that point toa link between OSA and hypertension. To obtain these results, the British doctor and his colleagues measure...