American Heart Association Comment: Tirofiban -- The Platelet Receptor Blocker For Heart Attack
...ed the blood vessel feeding theheart, but they may precede complete blockage leading to heart attack. "People with those conditions often have to have surgical interventions such asangioplasty. Tirofiban may help some patients avoid surgery for a short time ortotally," says Fuster. "By postponing angioplas...Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
... of child labor on a country-by-country basis must precede policy decisions, the researchers say....Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
..., the studysuggests that increased temperature may precede the rupture. According to Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., president of the American HeartAssociation, "Techniques such as thermography that can identify the vulnerableplaque -- one that may rupture and cause a heart attack -- may be used in thefuture a...LSU scientist says new drug will save brain cells attacked by neurological injury or disease
...ible for producing an inflammatoryprotein known to precede brain cell death in conditions of injury or disease-anddiscovered how to switch it off. Both gene and protein are calledcyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). Injury or disease triggers a chain reaction thatsignals the gene to produce the chemical messenger ...Decreased pain perception may help to identify hypertension risk
... believed," said France. "Rather, hypoalgesia may precede the onset ofhypertension in individuals whose families have a history of hypertension,elevated resting blood pressure, or exaggerated cardiovascular reaction tostress." The research appears in the November issue of Psychophysiology. "From a theoreti...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March (first issue)
...ould be decreased cortisol levels which, at night, precede the nocturnal fall in lung function values and may lead to less suppression of airway inflammation in susceptible persons, with subsequent airflow limitation. The investigators found that children with asthma had lower serum cortisol levels at all si...Psychologists hunt for new ways to detect precursors to Alzheimer's Disease
...of knowledge: First, subtle cognitive changes can precede disease onset by as many as seven to 10 years; second, brain images of many AD patients reveal asymmetrical -- uneven -- changes to the brain. With those changes in mind, the research team scrutinized neuropsychological test data from 40 people, a...Depressed people more likely to develop Parkinson's
...his is the first study to show that depression can precede the symptoms of Parkinson's.For the study, researchers identified all of the people from a health registry in the southern Netherlands who were diagnosed with depression over a 15-year period. Those 1,358 people were then matched with people in the r...UCLA researchers check brain waves to predict effectiveness of antidepressants
...vered that specific changes in brain-wave activity precede clinical changes brought on by medication. The new...etect specific changes in brain wave activity that precede the clinical changes in a way that can usefully predict response." Cook's group is continuing this w...Long-term ERT in postmenopausal women with Alzheimer's may worsen memory
...h estrogen. Both of these conditions are likely to precede the onset of symptoms associated with Alzheimer's. As part of the experiment, some of the rats were ovariectomized (had their ovaries surgically removed) to mimic the changes seen in postmenopausal women. Aged rats do not undergo an ovarian failure b...Religious coping may ease depression in cancer patients spouses
...o religion; that is, high levels of depression may precede increased use of religious coping." The study results also suggest that a unique, complex relationship exists between religious coping and depression, even when perceived control, self-efficacy and social support variables are factored. The research ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November (second issue)
...uence of sleep-disordered breathing rather than to precede the syndrome. "Perhaps the time has come to reverse our thinking," he said. The research and editorial appear in the second issue for November 2002 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine....Internet porn-blocking software neednt block health information, study finds
...ggests that careful thought and debate should also precede decisions about what settings to choose." Richardson, Resnick and others from the U-M Health Media Research Laboratory and the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted the study with an eye toward teens, who are likely to turn to the Internet for health an...Trachoma leaves millions blind, costs $2.9 billon to global economy
...ity associated with complications of trachoma that precede visual loss." Worldwide attention to trachoma has suggested that it is a substantial global burden. Although calculations differ, all reports have found the number of people blinded from trachoma to be in the millions. The School researchers incorpor...European study highlights frequency of medical end-of-life decisions in terminally ill pts
...trate how medical end-of-life decisions frequently precede dying in a range of European countries. There are few data about the frequency of end-of-life decisions made involving doctors and terminally ill patients. Medical decision-making for patients with life-threatening diseases entails a balanced consid...Mayo Clinic proceedings releases West Nile virus manuscript early to aid clinicians, public
...ease of information to the journal's Web site will precede print publication of the article, which is scheduled for Sept. 1, 2003." The timing of the early release of the Proceedings review article is in response to a recent, dramatic increase in the rate and geographical distributions of West Nile virus inf...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2003 (first issue)
...h as sighs, startles, and thrashing limb movements precede full arousal. They noted that complete arousals include both autonomic and cortical activation. Alternatively, subcortical or autonomic activation with no cortical involvement represents an incomplete arousal reaction. They pointed out that the fu...Risk factors determine need for colonoscopy
...ates. Polyps outgrowths on the wall of the colon precede most colorectal cancers. Screening procedures can detect polyps before they become cancerous and can be removed during colonoscopy or surgically....Tip sheet for the December 23, 2003 Neurology journal
...chers to study patterns of brain activity that may precede dementia. Watch for a news release from the University of CaliforniaIrvine, or contact Tom Vasich, 949-824-6455, tmvasich@uci.edu . More evidence that gabapentin effective in treating headache Gabapentin was found significantly superior to placebo...Taking vitamin D supplements lowers risk of multiple sclerosis
...gh disease activity, and periods of high vitamin D precede times of low disease activity. Munger said that future prospective studies should measure the levels of vitamin D in the blood prior to the onset of MS....