Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...rtery disease. Every participant had at least one sibling with premature coronary heart disease (such as blocked arteries) that had required hospitalization, so family history was a risk factor. Blood tests and physical exams were conducted at the beginning and end of the study to assess changes in each in...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...efits of vaccination, and ensuring availability of sibling child care in the workplace," the researchers write. "Assessing days undervaccinated reveals weaknesses in childhood vaccination programs. Physicians are in the best position to assess the needs of their patients to determine reasons for delay. Evi...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
...that increasing duration of contact with a younger sibling aged less than 2 years in the first 6 years of life was associated with reduced MS risk: 1-3 years of infant contact, a 43 percent reduced risk; 3 to 5 years of infant contact, a 60 percent decreased risk; greater than 5 years of infant contact, an 8...Leukemia patients survive with stem cell transplant
...udy gives renewed hope to adult patients without a sibling stem cell donor. Continued research is needed, how...eed transplants but only 20 percent of them have a sibling match, so there remains a large group--about 16,000 patients--who are forced to seek donors from a m...Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...ntation of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) from sibling donors may be more harmful than bone marrow in ped...t is estimated that nearly 30% of transplants from sibling donors in pediatric patients now use peripheral blood stem cells. The study and an accompanying edit...News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
... increased asthma incidence included a maternal or sibling history of asthma, infant exposure to upper or lower respiratory tract infections, and the presence of congenital conditions, including cystic fibrosis and respiratory distress syndrome. The study appears in the October issue of CHEST, the peer-revie...Breathing problems during sleep may affect mental development in infants and young children
...urity, a life-threatening event during sleep, or a sibling who had died from SIDS. The infants' breathing, heart rates, and blood oxygen levels were monitored electronically at home for the first 4-6 months of age. The researchers found that infants who totaled more than five episodes of abnormally slowed h...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
...dren, teachers rated students who had at least one sibling as better able to form and maintain friendships, g...gs, or how close in age the siblings were. One sibling seems to be as helpful as two or more in developing social skills. "The main distinction seems to be...Researchers discover new clinical syndrome leading to severe osteoarthritis
...throscopic procedures beginning at 16. The middle sibling needed a complete hip arthroplasty by age 26, and a second hip replacement less than two years later....Cancer Survivors Center funded for children
...ment into school and other activities. Parent and sibling counseling Special sports/training programs to re-enter the child into the "active" world. Cleveland business executive Michael Sherwin serves on the Board of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and helped to bring the project proposal to th...Embryonic stem cells induced to develop into bone marrow and blood cells
...ipient as self. Blood or marrow stem cells from a sibling or an unrelated or cord blood registry often fail to develop tolerance to the recipient or patient into which they are infused an often-fatal complication after bone marrow transplantation that is known as graft-versus-host disease. But in the stud...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse based on faulty evidence
...ctive Services suspected child abuse and removed a sibling from the home. "Our investigation found no indicat... examiner corroborated the father's report and the sibling was returned to the home. "We found that the eye findings in this case were caused by an accident," ...OHSU researchers hope to prevent childhood asthma with new eczema drug
... have no diagnosis of asthma, and have a parent or sibling with history of eczema, asthma or hayfever. Some 200 infants will be enrolled in the six-year study. All study-related drugs and treatment (20 visits total) are provided at no charge. The double-blind, multicenter, randomized study is funded by No...Stroke news tips for Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004
...e twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to have a sibling with stroke, Michigan scientists reported. The fi...e; 26 percent a parental history, and 13 percent a sibling history. The population of this Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (Texas) Project was 48 ...New report presents options for oversight of genetic testing of human embryos
... that will be a matched tissue donor for an ailing sibling and to select embryos based on sex. PGD raises a number of scientific, ethical and policy issues. First, there are questions about the safety of the in vitro fertilization and embryo manipulation required for PGD and about the accuracy of the genetic...Study to examine if new eczema drug may prevent future development of asthma
...within the past three months, and have a parent or sibling with eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis or allergic conjunctivitis. Pimecrolimus has been tested for safety and effectiveness in hundreds of babies, and it is currently approved for use in eczema by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for children ...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...se to music came from homes where their parents or sibling played a musical instrument, so that they had heard a lot of music before they began playing an instrument themselves," Roberts says. "Their early exposure to music in the home may have been responsible for the enhanced responses we observed in their...New guidelines on unrelated marrow transplants: A roadmap for physicians
... marrow transplant. For 70% of these individuals, sibling donors who have a 1 in 4 chance of having marrow matching that of the patient are not available and an unrelated donor is the only hope. The major criteria for marrow donor matching is a set of genetically determined molecules known as histocompa...Docs see missed opportunities for adult, kid vaccinations
...ts, emergency room visits or visits during which a sibling or parent is being seen, to administer needed vaccines," say Yemisi Adetunji, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues. Systems that remind physicians and patients when immunizations are due, regular monitoring ...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...s found a series of molecular markers shared among sibling pairs at a rate higher than the 50 percent sharing expected due to their degree of relationship. Based on the observed degree of DNA sharing among ADHD siblings, the researchers estimate that the risk gene if replicated by other scientists studying...