New system would vastly improve heart defibrillation
... dithering about the heart muscle. These are what stop the heart pumping. Efimov and his collaborators knew that these little tornadoes are naturally attracted to scarred heart muscle. State of the art implantable defibrillators target the entire heart with an electric current of between 3 and 10 joules...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...process and can clog up the implant. So one way to stop the clotting, reported by Thomas Horbett of the Un...Seattle ( horbett@uweb.engr.washington.edu ) is to stop the fibrinogen from attracting platelets. Sometimes, the surfaces of the implant will adsorb the fib...Lab studies show two proteins prevented progressive nerve cell loss in Parkinson's disease
... But despite their effectiveness, the drugs don't stop Parkinson's disease from progressing, causing pati...se their effectiveness. "Because these drugs don't stop the disease from progressing, we used a genetically engineered viral vector to deliver very specific...Scientists image tooth decay in the 3rd dimension
...iest stages, and lets the dentist take measures to stop or repair the damage before it gets too bad. It gives them a powerful diagnostic tool, and tells them about the size and shape of the disease, and its progression." Tooth decay is caused by acid produced when the sugar in plaque (bits of food and dri...Transplant of pig tissue may reduce stroke size and damage
...less patients are hemorrhaging and need surgery to stop bleeding. The only FDA-approved drug therapy to date in the hours immediately following a stroke resulting from a blood clot is intravenous infusion of the clot-dissolving drug, TPA. Invasive procedures can be used only for chronic stroke, patients w...Seniors reduce or discontinue medications when faced with gap in drug coverage, UCLA study shows
...ort to reducing their recommended dosages, or even stop taking their medications altogether--a situation that could endanger their health, according to a new study co-authored by a UCLA researcher. In a study of 1308 seniors with a yearly cap on drug benefits, 24 percent of seniors who used up their bene......IVIR. Patients experiencing these symptoms should stop taking EPZICOM, ZIAGEN or TRIZIVIR and contact a physician immediately. Patients experiencing this reaction must not take EPZICOM, ZIAGEN or TRIZIVIR again as restarting the drug after a hypersensitivity reaction has resulted in cases of life-thre...FDA approves new labelling for Seroquel in bioplar mania
...5,6 More than half of those with bipolar disorder stop taking their medication at some point during their illness, subjecting themselves to a high risk of relapse and an increased risk of suicide. 7 A medication's overall efficacy and tolerability profile is therefore vital to helping patients comply wi...LSUHSC neurosurgical team discovers novel therapy for intractable hiccups
...planted a Vagus Nerve Stimulator in a Texas man to stop the hiccups which have severely disrupted Shane Shafer's life following a stroke he had two years ago. This is the first reported case of its kind. When Dr. Payne activated the implant following the surgery, Shafer's hiccups stopped, and they have no...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
...fail to fill their prescription often enough -- or stop filling it altogether, even though statins give th... their prescription, and four times more likely to stop taking the drug altogether, than those whose co-pay is under $10, the new study finds. In fact, ...Researchers discover that a protein in grape skins can kill cancer cells
...ells. Drinking much more than that, however, could stop this affect and, in fact, lead to a greater risk of cancer, he said. The findings, discovered by Fan Yeung, a postdoctoral fellow at U.Va., are published in the May 20 online edition of the Journal of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO...OTC statins: A bad decision for public health
... is a concern. Will those who buy simvastatin also stop smoking, lose weight, and do more exercise, or will they substitute drug use for lifestyle modification? Will pharmacists have the time to determine the individual's risk of coronary heart disease before selling the drug and also to give lifestyle ad...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
...care, Davis notes. He recently had a young patient stop coming to him for care because the SCHIP plan his family chose after their income rose too high for Medicaid didn't have a contract with U-M. When the researchers looked at health insurance transition trends among different demographic groups, they ...New data shows Seroquel achieves remission in bipolar mania
...5,6 More than half of those with bipolar disorder stop taking their medication at some point during their illness, subjecting themselves to a high risk of relapse and an increased risk of suicide. 7 A medication's overall efficacy and tolerability profile is therefore vital to helping patients comply wi......ividuals and their contacts would be sufficient to stop the spread." The researchers developed a mathematical model of infectious disease outbreaks using previously published studies that had captured the distribution times of symptoms and infectiousness of the disease. They also found that the success of...Seroquel: New data show efficacy and tolerablity in bipolar depression
...5,6 More than half of those with bipolar disorder stop taking their medication at some point during their illness, subjecting themselves to a high risk of relapse and an increased risk of suicide. 7 A medication's overall efficacy and tolerability profile is therefore vital to helping patients comply wi...Policy makers need to rethink obesity message
..., bearing in mind the psychological obstacles that stop people changing their food and exercise behaviour. 'Although giving out information is important, information is not enough to make people change old habits,' he says. 'More work needs to be done within the school environment, as well as in the fami...Tissue involved in brain development may offer new approach to stroke treatment
...in hemorrhagic stroke patients who need surgery to stop their bleeding. But invasive procedures can be used for chronic stroke, patients who are really sick, debilitated and not responding," Dr. Borlongan says. The only FDA- approved drug therapy to date in the hours immediately following a stroke resulti...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
...ors also contain areas of dead tissue, which could stop the virus's ability to replicate. Finally, researchers are concerned about the issue that has dogged all adenovirus vectors - that, below the neck as it were, a patient could mount an immune response that would blunt the effectiveness of the therapeu...Kids' year-round asthma symptoms triggered by parent's second-hand smoke
...rents smoke around their asthmatic kids, and don't stop even though their children are having trouble breathing all year." The study echoes findings of previous research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which looked at whether children had had severe asthma symptoms on more or less than ...