Childhood cancer survivors: Good health for some, long-term complications for others
...urisy and need for supplemental oxygen compared to sibling controls. An evaluation headed by Kevin Oeffin...sychologically healthy. However, when compared to sibling controls, survivors were found to have a significantly increased risk for reporting depressive sympt...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
... had a close family member -- either a parent or a sibling who suffered a heart attack or stroke. The investigators expected to observe more healthy behaviors and improvements in indicators of risk among those young adults whose family history had taken a turn for the worse. However, their findings, publish...Genetics likely to be a major factor in osteoarthritis of the hip
...genetic contribution to osteoarthritis of the hip: sibling study Click below to download PDF document You will require Acrobat Reader to view file Click here for PDF document Siblings have a five fold increased risk of developing osteoarthritis of the hip compared with unrelated individuals, which sugges...Rush conducts nationwide study to find genetic markers for depression
...h study. The depression must be recurrent and one sibling must have had an episode between the ages of 18 and 30, and the other sibling must have had an episode between the ages of 18 and 40. Qualified participants will be interviewed ...People from large families may have greater risk of Alzheimer's
...39s increases by eight percent for each additional sibling in the family. Those growing up with five or more siblings have a 39-percent greater risk of developing the disease than those with fewer than five siblings. The study examined 770 people age 60 and older who were members of a large health maintena...Emotional support during conflict situations elevates blood pressure in African-American boys
...federates who played the roles of parent, teacher, sibling or peer antagonized the 24 girls and 24 boys in the study. As the verbal prodding continued, the participants were asked to come up with feasible solutions to the conflicts at hand, such as talking to a teacher about a bad grade, or confronting a pe...Possible link between heart attack and helicobacter pylori infection
...ly onset myocardial infarction : case control and sibling pairs study) John Danesh et al of the Internatio... case-control study at ages 30 - 49 and a study of sibling pairs comparing patients between the ages of 30-49 who had survived a myocardial infarction with con...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...th of children with this severe form havea matched sibling who can be used as a source of donor T cells, which cures thedisease. For the remaining infants, there is no long-term treatment short of thekind of thymus transplant the Markert team performed to replace T cell immunity,she said. Several previous re...... project. Each site in the network will enroll 100 sibling pairs whohave symptoms of early heart disease -- such as heart attack, men under age 50and women under age 55. Patients will be recruited through clinic and physicianreferrals, and pre-existing heart disease will be verified from medical recordsand t......n's activities, including the indirect effect of a sibling onoverall awareness. "We found that fathers' work demands were related to lower levels ofparental knowledge, under certain conditions, with marital happiness being animportant factor," Bumpus says. High paternal work demands, ...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...What wenow know is that, while a perfectly matched sibling is preferable, it isn't arequirement. As long as we remove the T-cells from the parent's marrow, theirhalf-matched bone marrow won't attack the patient's vital organs." Called "half-matched" donors because each parent contributes half of hiso...Maternal Tissue Typing Could Improve Selection Of Kidney Transplant Donors
...nt surgeon in cases where an HLA-identical sibling is unavailable. Based on this finding, the Univers...ate’s siblings will provide clues about which sibling would be the optimal organ donor. The researchers hypothesize that prenatal exposu...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
...mily problems, such as poor school performance and sibling rivalry. Theprogram offers a choice of possible resolutions and potential outcomes for each.Designed for people of varying computer skills, the software requires userparticipation, which may be one reason for its apparent success. "There's be...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...receptors in the caudate nucleus was higher in the sibling with the more severe symptoms. "Strikingly, the degree to which the twins differed in this caudate D-2 binding predicted almost absolutely their differences in tic severity," said Weinberger. "This also likely explains the ebb and flow of tics exp...