Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...e in the most extreme conditions, but it remains a poorly understood process. Our goal is to study life at the very limit." The core climbing group of seven, two of whom have yet to be recruited, include cardiovascular geneticist Dr Hugh Montgomery, GP Dr Sundeep Dhillon, high altitude clinician Dr Mike Gro...Study: Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
...ain, autistic subjects performed considerably more poorly than normally developing participants. In the future, the findings could help scientists "train autistic children to look at a person's eye region in a more strategic way, like when the person may not be looking directly at them," says Davidson. Rese...Telemedicine revolution is 'disappearing' from the NHS
...nvolvement, we found abundant studies - often very poorly designed - of patient satisfaction. These show high levels of support for new systems, but often represent highly selected patient groups. They often focus on 'hotel' aspects of care rather than important questions concerning patients' confidence abo...Jefferson scientists uncover potential trigger of diabetic kidney disease
...pe 2 diabetes, how diabetes damages the kidneys is poorly understood. Dr. Sharma, along with Erwin Bttinger, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology and biological chemistry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and their co-workers looked at kidney samples from mice and people with and withou...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
...or more than 10 years, Volpicelli says it has been poorly marketed, and most patients and primary care doctors remain unaware of its potential. That may change now that the manufacturer of acamprosate (Campral) has embarked on a campaign to promote pharmacological treatment of alcohol addiction. Review auth...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
... Britain and Ireland, says that the guidelines are poorly researched and unsubstantiated. Though they mention poor outcomes for gastrointestinal (stomach and gullet) cancer sufferers in the UK, for instance, the guidelines ignore better results for patients in Japan and other Western countries - where a hi...... 20% less than the national average, most jobs are poorly paid and of short duration, and support services are in short supply. Is the current benefit system adequate to meet the problems of entrenched poverty or is something different needed? Can benefits be made more flexible so that lone parents and lo...Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood may increase HIV risk
...orhood characteristics impact health behaviors are poorly understood. Our findings show how neighborhood characteristics and stressors, such as crime, abandoned buildings, loitering, unemployment, crowding and litter lead to greater depression. Individuals who have high levels of depression tend to take mor...Antioxidants have no effect on Lou Gehrig's disease
...he researchers found. "Generally, the studies were poorly designed," Orrell says, noting the small number of patients and relatively treatment periods for most studies. Nevertheless, Orrell says physicians may keep prescribing antioxidants to ALS patients because the drugs are inexpensive and relatively sa...Researchers identify the link between heart failure and weight loss
...re, the mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood. Previous studies in rats by Patrick Delafontaine and colleagues from Tulane Medical University Center showed that administration of angiotensin II causes a marked reduction in body weight accompanied by a decrease in the levels of insulin...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
... combustion products from diesel-fueled heaters in poorly ventilated tents, cooking stoves, vehicle exhaust ...stion products through vehicle exhaust, heaters in poorly ventilated tents, and cooking stoves. Military personnel may have had contact with hydrazines and n...First blood test to diagnose paralyzing, blinding disease
...autoantibody attacks normal body constituents by a poorly understood error in immune function. This new autoantibody (named NMO-IgG) was discovered in the Mayo Clinic Neuroimmunology Laboratory in the course of analyzing 85,000 blood samples. However, the significance of the antibody was not initially appre...Surprise mechanism behind light-induced blindness
...e basis for this light-induced damage has remained poorly understood, but this week researchers report findings that run counter to the anticipated connection between light-induced retinal degeneration and accompanying blindness. To characterize the mechanism of photoxicity due to constant light, resear...NIH panel issues State-of-the-Science statement on end-of-life care
...earch, important aspects of this life stage remain poorly understood, according to a panel convened by the National Institutes of Health. The panel found that for many Americans, a lack of continuity of care and poor communication between healthcare practitioners, patients, and family members make the end-...Landmark survey reveals asthma in children remains significantly out of control in the United States
...ould be a major factor in why asthma still remains poorly controlled among America's children. It's important that parents regularly ask their child specific questions about symptoms so they can get an accurate picture of their child's level of asthma control." More than Half of Those Surveyed Don't Under...Ongoing transfusions needed to avoid strokes in children with sickle cell disease
...reasons such as pain," Dr. Adams says of the still poorly understood events that lead to narrowed arteries and stroke risk in these children. The idea of regularly transfusing children has understandably met with some resistance from clinicians and parents because of concerns such as iron buildup and blood-...Imatinib (Gleevec) has activity in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma
... the dose of imatinib administered to patients was poorly tolerated and caused severe side effects, including diarrhea, requiring a dose reduction to 200 mg twice daily for all patients by the fourth week of treatment. Researchers noted that the incidence of diarrhea was higher than in trials of patients wi...Insomnia poorly understood by medical profession
...week's issue of THE LANCET outlines the common but poorly understood condition of insomnia, concluding that awareness and assessment of insomnia by family doctors is a priority. Estimates suggest that between 5 and 35% of people experience insomnia. Michael J Sateia (Dartmouth Medical School, USA) and coll...Hiding drugs in food in nursing homes is common
...n 95% of cases, this practice was routine, but was poorly documented in the patients' records. The procedure for the decision to hide drugs also seems to be arbitrary. Patients with severe mental (cognitive) impairment, reduced function in activities of daily living, or aggressive behaviour were more often ......e same regions in CCHS children's brains responded poorly or not at all. This may explain why the children do not struggle to breathe when their lungs shut down -- even after turning blue from lack of air. IMPACT: The findings suggest that the irregular brain mechanisms provoking CCHS may also underl...