Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...d women, and clearly saying their mental health is suffering as a result of unemployment. Unemployed women may have less access to healthcare and are under financial stress," she said. "Unemployed women are more likely to be underinsured or uninsured. This plays a role." Also, with 50 percent of American fami...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...e Jarinski, 43, has been treated with Viagra since suffering a stroke in July 2003. Transferred to Henry Ford from another hospital, she was diagnosed with locked in syndrome, a very uncommon condition, in which she could only move her eyes up down. "To my knowledge she is the first patient in the United State...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...f course, this will be of huge benefit to patients suffering from these severe medical conditions and will also ensure that The University of Manchester remains at the forefront of worldwide medical research," he added. As well as offering higher quality images, the quick scanning time means that more patients...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
According to a new study, women suffering from a common thyroid problem called hypothyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone, are less likely to develop breast cancer than women with normal thyroid function. The study, published in the March 1...UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...ry loss or other neurological deficits. For people suffering from dementia or other memory disorders, shortening travel time for checkups is another positive outcome of telemedicine, Dr. Weiner said. Because of the three-hour travel time to the Choctaw Nation Health Care Center in Talihina, Okla., it had not ...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...ion for abuse, especially if the caregiver is also suffering from his or her own physical or mental problems. Scott Beach, director of survey research in Pitt's University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR); Richard Schulz, professor of psychiatry and director of UCSUR; and colleagues at the Universi...Abandoned bones suggest TB wiped out leprosy in battle of killer diseases
...n time this would reduce the number of individuals suffering from leprosy, leading to its overall decline."...Sex hormone metabolite reduces stress, anxiety in female rats
... correlate with clinical evidence that some people suffering from depression or anxiety have low allopregnanolone levels that normalize after treatment with anti-depressant medications. "New drugs could potentially be developed that mimic the effect of allopregnanolone on the GABA receptor, providing a new app...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
...5, New York) A significant proportion of patients suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease or motor neuron disease, have a marker of retrovirus activity in their blood, reports the February 8 issue of the medical journal Neurology. The study was led by Dr. Jerem...Infectious agent linked to mad cow disease found in organs other than the brain
...animal organs may need to be reassessed in animals suffering from inflammation due to microbial infection or autoimmune disease," said Nancy H. Ruddle, the John Rodman Paul Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine. Previous re...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...ng a past heart attack. "It's possible that people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have so much pain in their joints and are receiving so many painkillers that they either don't feel the chest pain in the same way as those without rheumatoid arthritis or don't appreciate its importance," she says. Previou...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...xcellence, say that GPs should only refer patients suffering severe indigestion (dyspepsia) if they are showing "alarm symptoms". Instead, say the guidelines, patients without alarm symptoms are to be treated with antisecretory drugs or other measures. But senior gastrointestinal specialists say that if patien...Survivors who stop taking aspirin increase risk of another stroke
...pective study to investigate the potential risk of suffering ischemic stroke shortly after discontinuing aspiri...om day nine to 30. "Although the absolute risk of suffering a substantial stroke during a short period of aspirin discontinuation is probably not very high, thi...Yale researcher studying acupuncture to reduce back pain in pregnancy
... approached by a colleague three years ago who was suffering from severe low back pain and sciatica in the final months of her pregnancy. "She asked if I could do anything to help," said Wang, who inserted three, two-millimeter needles into her colleague's ear. "She recovered immediately." A subsequent survey ...Biochip for detection of inflammatory bowel disease
...iverse and enable the establishment of the risk of suffering from the disease, its prognosis and the response of the patient to the pharmacological treatment. From a clinical practice viewpoint the implantation of the IBDchip has a twin usefulness: it enables the selection of the most suitable therapy for eac...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
...be able to be more active than they think without suffering from increased pain. The study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., found that fibromyalgia patients have similar average activity levels as people w...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...op hypertrophy have two to three times the risk of suffering cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and sudden cardiac death....Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
...ugh 2002 occurred in patients with minimal risk of suffering gastrointestinal bleeding from NSAIDs. Stafford said the problems associated with COX-2 inhibitors should serve as a cautionary tale about the growing trend of turning custom-fit medications into one-size-fits-all remedies. The researchers attribute ...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...d NSAIDs, including an estimated 16 million people suffering from congestive heart failure, or liver or kidney dysfunction, which are considered relative contra-indications to both COX-2s or NSAIDs. "What we saw was widespread, rapid adoption of an interesting and promising but expensive and largely untested m...Brenner Children's Hospital named to NIH Pediatric Heart Network
...ls to find the best treatment methods for children suffering from heart conditions that may result in heart failure. They will test both medications and surgical interventions to find the best treatments. Brenner Children's Hospital will conduct four clinical trials in 2005 as part of their participation in th...