Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
...ers explains. "However, when the blood pressure is raised by spit tobacco, the heart rate actually speeds up dramatically and there is no decrease in the sympathetic nervous system activity. This tells us that the normal protective mechanisms which help dampen down spikes in blood pressure are blunted when ...European folic acid policies are not effective enough
... status of most women of childbearing age could be raised by fortifying a staple food with folic acid, which would also help to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of neural tube defects, they write. The potential for preventing neural tube defects in Europe by raising folate status is still...New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
... almost quadruple the risk, while mother's age and raised blood pressure are also significant. Many fetal and maternal deaths from pre-eclampsia are associated with substandard care, claim the guideline authors. Poor management includes failure to identify or act on risk at the beginning of pregnancy or to ...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
...art attacks. "Reports of stent thrombosis first raised suspicion of possible hypersensitivity allergic reactions. After more than 50 reports of hypersensitivity reactions to SES were received by the FDA through the medical device reporting system, the FDA issued a warning in the fall of 2003," says Emo......t the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS, it has also raised awareness about the action that needs to be taken to combat the disease, which continues to spread to this day. An honorary doctorate in medicine has been awarded to Sir Richard Doll, for his remarkable contribution to the development of epidemiolo...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
.... The grant brings to $9.6 million the total funds raised through the Mott capital and program campaign, led by U-M Regent David Brandon and his wife, Jan, and U-M head football coach Lloyd Carr and his wife, Laurie. The figure includes more than $400,000 in "M GO BLUE for Mott" wristband sales. The Mott ca...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...t shoes to determine BMI. The association between raised BMI and asthma appeared to emerge in late adolescence, according to the investigators. The participants were part of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study which involved children (52 percent male) who were born between April 197...Cancer in patients with hepatitis C
...ases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 554 HCV patients raised the question of an association between those two diseases and other related cancers in the country's population. To evaluate this possibility, researchers, led by Ann-Sofi Duberg of rebro University Hospital in Sweden, gathered data from the Swedish ...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...al, regulatory, ethical, moral and societal issues raised by carrier testing, prenatal genetic testing, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis of embryos generated during IVF and presents the pros and cons for each. "Our purpose in this report is not to advocate on behalf of any particular policy, but to gui...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...rdiovascular Center. To date, $30 million has been raised which has allowed the campus to begin formal plann...ld at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, has raised $1.8 million over the past seven years. For more information and reservations for this event, please...New study finds kelp can reduce level of hormone related to breast cancer risk
...s of the potent sex hormone estradiol in rats, and raised hopes that it might decrease the risk of estrogen-dependent diseases such as breast cancer in humans. "This study opens up a new avenue for research leading to cancer preventive agents," said Martyn Smith, UC Berkeley professor of environmental healt...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...ful therapy for brain tumors. Other findings also raised concerns, according to Chang. Eighty-nine percent of brain-tumor patients received anti-convulsant medication, yet only 31 percent presented with seizures. "While it is accepted that patients who present with seizures should receive anti-epileptic d...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...um, in or around the anus, or groin. Warts may be raised or flat, single or multiple, small or large. Sometimes they are so small that they can't be seen by the naked eye. Some people only have one episode of genital warts, while others have recurrences. In a small percentage of men, infection with cert...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
... predictor of atrial flutter. These findings have raised the possibility that a causal link might exist between nicotine and atrial flutter in patients with myocardial infarction. Atrial flutter is a type of rapid heart rate caused by the upper chambers of the heart (the right and left atria).The resulti...More studies on risks and benefits of COX-2 inhibitors published in Archives of Internal Medicine
...tment alternatives. Several of these questions are raised by articles in this issue of the ARCHIVES." "Sev...ncerns about the drug safety system that have been raised before. These issues must be addressed now if we are to restore the public's confidence in the safet...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...hing that you deal with, perhaps because they were raised in a time when pain was not addressed in the way we deal with it today, or because they feel that pain is just a normal part of getting older," says Green, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the U-M Medical School and attending physician at ...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...uroscientists whose work in stem cell research has raised the real possibility that spinal cord injuries, long considered incurable, could be repaired. The work of the team holds out significant hope that spinal cord patients will eventually be able to regain much of the ability to move that they have lost....Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...r Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at Penn, raised the possibility that selective COX-2 inhibitors might predispose patients otherwise at risk for an increased incidence of heart attack and stroke. This proposal was based initially on his studies of how celecoxib (Celebrex) and rofeocoxib (Vioxx) wor...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
... due to the Human Genome Project. The question is raised as to whether self-identified race variables, specifically in genetics analyses, should be discarded altogether. Alexandra Shields, PhD (Georgetown University), and her coauthors suggest the latter. "Given the social risks inherent in using self-iden...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...hat there is enough substance both in the concerns raised and in the post-translational modification/positive feedback model proposed to energize the search for yet more plausible models of long-term memory storage, and to redirect and reinvigorate the quest to understand the brain substrates of information...