Low referral rates, low income keep women out of cardiac rehab programs
...en have repeatedly been shown to be less likely to recover well. A woman who has a heart attack is more likely than a man to have a second attack or die within the first year. At the same time, many studies document that women with heart disease are less likely than their male counterparts to participate in...Atlanta researchers to launch clinical trial of progesterone for treatment of brain injury
... with brain injury develop less brain swelling and recover more completely when they are treated with progesterone shortly following injury. The hormone seems to moderate the inflammation that frequently leads to dangerous brain swelling following head injury. Progesterone also seems to slow or block a casca...A helping hand: Healthy arm helps retrain stroke-impaired arm
...est help people with long-term movement disability recover some of their motor skills. Twenty-five patients, average age 64, who had strokes an average of 39 months prior, were randomly assigned to one of three therapy groups. In one group, electrical stimulation known as electromyography (EMG)-triggered st...Do stroke therapies really work?
...ients may be backfiring. Instead of helping people recover lost speech or movement, they could be making the ... the dead cells are not replaced, people can still recover lost functions such as the ability to recall words. The prevailing explanation is that healthy regio...Strong spiritual beliefs may help people recover from bereavement
...f spiritual beliefs determined how bereaved people recover from their grief. People reporting no spiritual belief had not resolved their grief after 14 months. People with strong spiritual beliefs resolved their grief progressively over the same period. People with low levels of belief showed little change i...Conjoined twins celebrate first birthday at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital
...e babies' care to cost upwards of $1.5 million. To recover some of these expenses, the hospital has established a fund called Twins Care at UCLA. Checks payable to UCLA Foundation may be mailed to UCLA Medical Sciences Development, 10945 Le Conte Ave., Ste. 3132, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Healing the Children ...Brain can reorganize after traumatic injury
...oderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can recover some of their memory function by using alternate b... function and ability to work, yet many eventually recover memory function and return to work or school. The study, led by scientist Brian Levine of The Rotman...Laser procedure effective in correcting nasal blockages associated with deviated septum
...ys, the septal cartilage in all patients tended to recover some of the initial deformity (shape-memory effect). Two to 3 weeks later, the cartilage started to restraighten. The septum reached a stable shape after 3 to 4 weeks. This shape change remained stable throughout the observation period (2 to 3 yea...Managing anger, boosting activity helps substance abusers stick with treatment
... programs for the longest times are most likely to recover and not relapse, explains lead author Carolynn Kohn, Ph.D., of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. Prior research also has shown that people whose basic approach to coping with problems is tackling them, not avoiding them, are most likely to ...Biomedical engineers team with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons to improve Fontan treatment
...urgery the child usually takes a number of days to recover from the anesthesia, the use of the heart-lung bypass equipment and the surgery. Initially, the child will be on a ventilator and may need support from IV medicines and a temporary pacemaker. Once the breathing tube is out, the main goals for t...Mayo Clinic surgeons direct robotic 'hands' to perform surgery
...aroscopic surgery, rather than open surgery, often recover more quickly and return to their normal activities sooner," says Dr. Blute. Surgery for prostate removal Mayo Clinic surgeons expect to use this new technology, called the da Vinci system, to remove prostate glands, a common treatment for prostat...Early mental health intervention reduces mass violence trauma
...ts agreed that it is sensible to expect persons to recover from the trauma of mass violence, although some groups may be more vulnerable, such as those with preexisting mental disorders. They also agreed that most survivors who show no clinically significant symptoms for approximately two months generally d...Artificial liver trials show progress, as transplant candidates wait
...ay alive until they receive a liver transplant, or recover without a transplant. Already, says Robert Bartlett, M.D., 20 desperately ill patients at the U-M Health System have used the device in a phase I trial. Six patients went on to receive a transplant, three of whom are still alive. Two other patients r...Still mulling over last night's argument? It could affect your heart
... the first two emotional tasks took much longer to recover to normal levels. In addition, another group of students who were left alone after an emotional task tended to ruminate over the task and have higher blood pressure than students who were distracted from thinking about the task. While the difficult...Right side of brain learns language skills after stroke
...se language abilities after a stroke significantly recover these abilities within six to 12 months. Several studies suggest that language recovery occurs because the right hemisphere of the brain compensates for the loss of the left hemisphere. For example, language abilities recovered after a stroke to the ...New clues to help diabetes and hypoglycemia
...s of low glucose, and then tested their ability to recover upon return to normal glucose levels. The production of NPY in diabetic rats fell significantly during the period of low glucose. In contrast, the NPY levels in the normal rat remained unchanged. A second approach looked at the levels of NPY in res...Doppler-guided fluid administration during surgery improves outcome
...ping the fluid levels from dropping, patients will recover faster and leave the hospital sooner." Patients whose care was guided by EDM were discharged six days after surgery, compared to seven days for the control group who received conventional care, the researchers found. In terms of eating, the EDM group...New avenue of HIV damage found
... "but we now know that the population is unable to recover to a normal size because the environmental niche used to support the cells is destroyed. New CD4 T cells are unable to get into the space they need to be in to function, and there is no space for the cells to divide." One implication of this discover...University of Pittsburgh reports effects of multiple concussions in high school athletes
...hat allowing enough time for the brain to heal and recover before return-to-play is crucial in preventing mor...ost athletes who sustain an initial concussion can recover completely as long as they are not returned to contact sports too soon. More than 10 percent of hig......ent, says the report. It was relished as a time to recover lost years with families and in leisure pursuits, and to draw on social dues, earned through long years of hard graft. The research team found that companies were not hostile to the older managers and professionals, but did adopt a 'hands-off' appro...