UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
... less likely to experience SRNC than children with longer or shorter sleep periods. In addition to preventing parents from getting a good night's sleep, children in all groups experiencing frequent SRNC were more likely to suffer from a chronic eczema skin condition, and toddlers and preschoolers with SRNC ...Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
... and cardiac monitoring used in the UI study takes longer than a simple exercise test, and requires specialized equipment and experience, but it does provides definitive diagnoses. "We get answers, which is what the patients and parents want," he said. In addition to Weinberger, who was senior author on the...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...aces until they learned to walk again, have shared longer stories, including how they now cope with the effects of post-polio syndrome. Friends, neighbors and colleagues of Salk and his research team also have come forward, each providing a glimpse of what it was like to participate in medical history. Rem...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...ving a new combination of drugs together and for a longer time Between 25 percent and 30 percent of breast c...archers offered the combination of therapies for a longer period of time than is usual, and the drugs also were given at the same time - another departure fro...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
...pplication for an investigational new drug need no longer comply with the Declaration and need comply only with a document describing good clinical practices. The document, written with only government and drug industry input, is much weaker regarding patient protections than the Declaration. The FDA has le...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...communities with more children in child care for a longer period of time have higher carriage rates of pneumococcus among both child care attendees and non-attendees. The study suggests that child care attendance may account for large variations in total community pneumococcal carriage. The researchers don'...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...hen placing stents in leg arteries, which are much longer and wider than coronary arteries. A typical coronary stent is no bigger than a piece of dry macaroni and about as stiff. The leg stent placed in Joan Erickson, on the other hand, was about the size of a crayon and extremely pliable. "For the leg," sa...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
...s and upper-level management. "While hospitals no longer view QIOs as adversaries their impact as partners can be strengthened if they can have more direct and influential relationships with physicians and senior management at the hospital," the authors state. As the primary means by which the Centers fo...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...earchers had previously not studied patients for a longer follow-up period. Led by Antonio Cuadrado, M.D. of...the authors state. They add that more studies with longer follow-up periods in a larger number of patients are needed in order to corroborate these results, a...Storage time and temperature effects nutrients in spinach
...Frozen spinach retains more of its nutrients for a longer time than fresh spinach because of the lower tempe... cooler temperatures retained more nutrients for a longer period of time. Keeping spinach in the refrigerator will slow down its nutrient loss. The spinach ...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
... of deprivation but was better for those who had a longer hospital stays and was worse for older children. The extremely low refusal rate suggested that parents were willing to share personal data. These results reinforce the view that the logistics of obtaining consent for sharing information presents subs...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...arly stop breathing during sleep for 10 seconds or longer (apnoea) and have slowed breathing (hypopnoea). It is associated with high rates of illness and mortality. Previous studies have linked it with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease but these have not taken into account potential confounding fa...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...ical reason why life expectancy should be 48 years longer in Japan than in Sierra Leone or 20 years shorter in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples than in other Australians. Reducing these social inequalities in health, and thus meeting human needs, is an issue of social justice." In an...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...ie as a result of a stroke. As women tend to live longer than men, on average 5-6 years more, it is crucial to acknowledge the growing burden and implications of women's CVD across Europe. Professor Priori says, "Women think 'I can smoke or over-eat' as they have not seen their female peers having heart pr...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...uding financial difficulties for hospitals that no longer treat patients with heart attacks and increased costs resulting from a reduction in hospital competition in the cardiovascular procedure market. Authors include Rathore, Epstein and Krumholz at Yale and Kevin G. M. Volpp, M.D., assistant professor o...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...ey may be more likely to have those infections for longer periods than non-pledgers. "If pledgers have infections for longer periods of time than non-pledgers, this is a reason for concern," said Brckner. The authors said eve...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
...fe expectancy, the researchers calculated how much longer people would live if obesity did not exist. To do this, they used recently published health statistics and assumed that everyone who is currently obese acquired the body mass index of people who have the lowest risk of death. By calculating years-of-...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...t present until 15 years post-treatment, therefore longer follow-up will need to be continued to confirm that the risk to patients has been completely eliminated. According to the study, in 2002 approximately 42 percent of breast cancer patients received adjuvant radiation therapy after surgery, a treatment...Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
...are tested on men whose cancers are growing and no longer responsive to hormone therapy," says Drake. "Fewer than 20 percent of men respond to vaccines alone." Drugs that suppress male hormones such as testosterone, which fuels prostate cancer, are one of the main treatment alternatives for early relapse ......e twin pairs and 58 singletons, whose twin were no longer living or were unavailable for the study, completed a survey and underwent an examination for AMD. The results were then statistically analyzed to determine the relative roles of genes, common shared environment and specific (unique to the individual...