Fatty acid from fish oil fights arrhythmias, sudden death
...ntial fatty acids the body needs them to function properly but does not make them. Humans must obtain them through food, which in the case of n-3 PUFA means eating fish, such as salmon, tuna or mackerel. In the GISSI-Prevenzione study, researchers enrolled 11,323 patients throughout Italy who had suffered r...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
... efficacy. We recommend an alternative model that properly addresses the needs of women and the issues that hinder their recovery from breast cancer. This might involve an open access system, or one that collaborates between GPs and specialist nurses, the aim being to develop a model of care that ensures wo...Screening the controversy continues
...ey subsequently developed symptoms. "Women must be properly informed about the benefits and disadvantages so they can decide for themselves whether they want to be screened. What is right for a governments, who naturally tend to concentrate on benefits to the population as a whole, might not necessarily be ri...Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
... a reaction vessel, it might take years to line up properly for a click reaction to take place. However, when the target enzyme was introduced into the picture, active spots on the enzyme's surface acted like hands that grabbed and oriented the click components, snapping them together. Some pairs of click che...NHLBI study shows vast majority of middle-aged Americans at risk of developing hypertension
...have high blood pressure, it's important that they properly control it with these lifestyle measures and medication." High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a measure of the force of blood within blood vessels. It is recorded as two numbersthe systolic (the force of the blood as the heart beats) over the...Dutch study highlights short-term and long-term options for treatment of tennis elbow
...ificant. Nynke Smidt Comments: Patients should be properly informed about the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment options for tennis elbow. The decision to treat with physiotherapy or to adopt a wait-and-see policy might depend on available resources, since the relative gain of physiotherapy is sma...Blood pressure drugs relax heart, reduce heart failure risk
...dysfunction means that the left ventricle fails to properly fill during the relaxed or diastolic phase of the hearts pumping action. The thickened left ventricle is stiff, making it unable to fully relax. The result is that the left side of the heart pumps too little blood while the right side pumps normall...Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
...ting qualified, Board-certified LASIK surgeons who properly screen their patients to determine good candidacy prior to surgery. The rates of complications increase significantly when a patient is in less experienced hands. Todays technological advances, which compensate for eye movements during surgery, not...Elderly lung cancer patients tolerate aggressive chemotherapy as well as younger patients
...n clinical trials, making it difficult to evaluate properly the efficacy and safety of current treatment options in this patient population. Moreover, the incidence of lung cancer rises with advancing age and it is highest in the 70 to 80 year-old age group. Forty-two percent of those newly diagnosed with n...Lack of trained staff and technical support exposes patients to increased risk of cancer progression
...nd neck cancer patients - but which were not being properly exploited. Professor Levendag, of the Dr. Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Department of Radiation-Oncology, Rotterdam, explained: "The increasing effort in implementing advanced technology, given the shortage of highly skilled personnel and linear acc...University of Pittsburgh researcher provides first-ever definition of HIV-associated lipodystrophy
...uide physicians and other health care providers in properly diagnosing their patients." HIV-LS involves changes in fat distribution throughout the body, along with cholesterol and glucose abnormalities, in HIV-infected individuals taking highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) or antiretroviral therapy (...Avandia may reduce risk of cardiovascular disease
...s show an inability of the blood vessels to dilate properly (known as vascular reactivity) and increased arterial inflammation, based on mediators for that condition. In the UB study, Avandia was shown to improve vascular reactivity and decrease levels of mediators associated with blood-vessel inflammation. ......e of it. In type 2 diabetes, the body is unable to properly use insulin a hormone needed to metabolize simple...s resistance to insulin, thus allowing the body to properly use the insulin it normally produces. All patients will be followed for a minimum of five years to a...Expert advises annual lung test for smokers during physical exam
...he vast majority of people at risk for COPD. Once properly diagnosed through spirometry, COPD can be effectively managed." The two physicians joined other experts including Romaine Pauwels, MD., Professor, Department of Respiratory Diseases, Universitair Ziekkenhuis, Belgium, and Claude Lenfant, M.D., Dire...Georgetown researchers to present evidence of biological cause of dyslexia
...sed in other visual tasks;These areas may not work properly in dyslexics Washington, DC -Addressing a long-s...er visual tasks, and that these areas may not work properly in the brains of people with dyslexia. However, the researchers also found that an intensive, phono...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...h of which are unsafe. If she places the backstrap properly in the thumb crotch, she cannot place the appropri...e handgun so the distal pad of the index finger is properly placed on the centerline of the trigger. In this position, the center of the backstrap rests against...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...gration, according to the researchers. Even with a properly functioning system, California has an inadequate supply source for new nurses, said Coffman. She explained that historically the state has imported a large proportion of nurses from around the country and abroad. "With growing demands for nurses acro...Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
...ors should cause relatively few problems, if given properly and according to previous studies will reduce deaths and hospitalizations," Massie said. Nearly five million Americans currently have congestive heart failure, and nearly 50,000 die of the disease each year, according to the American Heart Associati...Dual sensor could provide more information, earlier warning for diabetics
...iabetes in which the body does not make enough, or properly use insulin. The rest have type 1 diabetes, in which the body produces no insulin; this necessitates daily insulin shots. Both forms of the life-threatening disease can cause blindness, nerve degeneration and stroke....Novartis receives FDA approval for Starlix, a new treatment for type 2 diabetes
...is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use a hormone called insulin that is responsible for controlling the level of glucose in the blood. Early insulin secretion by the pancreas is compromised in patients with type 2 diabetes. Starlix works by stimulating rapid, short-acting insulin se...