Novel technology to monitor 'hidden depths' of silent killer
...vascular Therapy Area, AstraZeneca. "We know that raised LDL-C (or bad cholesterol) and low levels of HDL-C (or good cholesterol) are major risk factors for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. CRESTOR can reduce LDL-cholesterol significantly more than the same and some higher doses of other widely...International physician survey reveals misperceptions about the toll of stroke on women
... about cardiovascular disease in women needs to be raised to the same level it is for cardiovascular disease in men. We also want World Heart Day to serve as a catalyst to encourage women around the world to be proactive in preventing heart disease and stroke. Women must have discussions with their physic...Have parents behaved irrationally towards MMR?
...ry by far the largest risk of the three, they have raised little controversy, says the author. In contrast, the alleged link between MMR vaccination and autism, and the small risk of vCJD both met with widespread concern from parents. He suggests that parents seem to neglect the easily perceptible risk, to ...First steps towards a vaccine for pancreatic cancer
Research carried out in the United States has raised the hope that one day there could be a vaccine against pancreatic cancer one of the most difficult cancers to treat successfully. Dr Robert Maki told ECCO12 The European Cancer Conference - today (Monday 22 September) that preliminary work with a c...Adolescents to benefit from launch of new migraine treatment
... studies have shown adolescent migraineurs to have raised levels of anxiety that can be attributed to their migraine attacks.(3) These migraine attacks can also be associated with considerable suffering, with adolescents often disabled due to feelings of helplessness, frustration and anger regarding their ...Jury still out over risks of heading a soccer ball
Concern was first raised following the case of Jeff Astle, a former England player, whose death was described as an "industrial disease" suggesting that repeated heading of soccer balls during his professional career was the cause of his neurological decline. Heading a socce...Penn study: Herb product used to lower cholesterol works no better than placebo
...olesterol) in our trial participants, but actually raised LDL-C slightly," said Philippe O. Szapary, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Penn and principal author of the study. Low-density lipoprotein can lead to heart disease by accumulating on arterial walls. It is often identified as "bad" cholester...New system developed to monitor deaths in general practice
...loped as a practical response to monitoring issues raised by the Harold Shipman case, it can also be used to monitor variations in the quality of care between GPs and practices. Dr Paul Aylin, one of the paper's authors, from Imperial College London comments: "Following the Shipman affair it became clea...Diet as good as drug for lowering cholesterol, says study
...ions for public health. "As we age, we tend to get raised cholesterol, which in turn increases our risk of h... one released December 2002, 46 men and women with raised cholesterol were randomly assigned to one of three vegetarian diet groups. The control group ate mea...New study shows green algae extract boosts flu vaccine
...ology at Dalhousie University. "These results have raised the bar, showing that natural products can be studied for clinical effect in a pharmaceutical-caliber study. The true clinical role for Respondin needs to be determined through future study," he added. The Canadian collaborators gave two different d...Fetal exposure to two chemicals cause of male reproductive disorders later in life
... Because it is ubiquitous, some concerns have been raised about its potential health consequences, since one effect of exposure to DBP is that it inhibits the production of androgen, a human male sex hormone. Other effects include malformations of the epididymus, failure of normal testicular descent and mal...Study: Couric's colonoscopy caused cross-country climb in colon cancer checks
...e powerful colon-cancer screening test -- she also raised the rate at which Americans signed up to get their own colons checked. That's the finding of a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and the University of Iowa. In the July 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medici...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2003 (second issue)
...address many important questions related to points raised by this pilot project. Their research appears in the second issue for June 2003 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. SEVERE ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA MICROORGANISMS COLONIZED IN DE...Who will take responsibility for corporate killing?
...h and safety of their employees and the public was raised again last week with the independent investigators' interim report to the HSE into the 2002 rail crash at Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, UK, in which seven people died, and 76 were injured. It suggests that poor maintenance of track was the likely cau...First quarter prescription drug spending: Generic drugs slow upward trend
...s use of estrogen drugs because of safety concerns raised by studies published last year. According to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, during the previous year first quarter, spending grew at a much faster 16.9% rate. The company, which serves over 50 million consumers, announced the first quarte...Is a picture worth a thousand words? Not for young children
... However the first experiment raised several interesting questions, he said. For one, maybe young children are unable to process visual stimuli such as the pictures in the first experiment. So the researchers repeated the ex...DuPont R&D leader named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
...as director of engineering technologies. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Chowdhry came to the United States in 1968 with a B.S. in physics from Indian Institute of Science, Mumbai University. She earned her M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. Chowdhry was awarded her Ph.D. in mate...Colonoscopy far more cost-effective against colon cancer than promising Cox II drugs, study predicts
...ive for treating chronic joint disorders, and have raised hope that they could be effective against cancer. Already, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of high doses of celecoxib to prevent polyps in people with a rare disorder called familial adenomatous polyposis, or FAP. Now, stu...How 9/11 changed us: First-ever quantitative research documents the before and after effect
...titudes before and after the attacks. "Most people raised within the Judeo-Christian tradition believe that life is at least relatively fair," said Fredric Wolinsky, Ph.D., professor at Saint Louis University School of Public Health and the lead investigator on the study. "They believe that if you work hard...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...e level may seem to be performing normally, if you raised the level of complexity at which they are being asked to perform, they may exhaust their capacities there may be no more brain to bring in, to recruit, to compensate." Martin added that these findings would not have been possible without the advanta...