Researchers find gene that causes leukemia in children with Down syndrome
...ovide a new target for therapy. Children with Down syndrome are 10 to 20 times as likely as unaffected childre... copies of chromosome 21 places children with Down syndrome at increased risk for leukemia, then this abnormality tips the balance toward AMKL." "This is a rare...Demystifying irritable bowel syndrome
...ed data. Robin Spiller comments: "Irritable bowel syndrome is a major cause of morbidity and deserves serious...symptoms. Evidence is growing that irritable bowel syndrome can no longer be purely regarded as a functional disorder-which is a loose term frequently used to d......the early 1970s the concept of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was introduced in an attempt to categorize death among infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly and in whom post-mortem investigation fails to provide a credible diagnosis. SIDS today is the largest single cause of death industrialized nati...Former insider hits out at FDAs links with pharmaceutical industry
...steron (Lotronex), a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. Within months he was writing to his superiors about a rising toll of adverse incidents, including ischaemic colitis, hospitalisation, surgery, and deaths. Glaxo Wellcome (as the company was then) voluntarily withdre...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
... cases of illness across the region into groups of syndrome categories, such as gastrointestinal, respiratory ...nity, real-time surveillance based on syndromes or syndrome groups provides a potentially more rapid way to recognize and respond to many natural or unnatural d...Consortium awarded CDC grant to coordinate national health system 'radar' to catch bioterror events
...he overall process, which includes finding uniform syndrome definitions, developing protocols for real time aggregation of ambulatory encounter data, forming secure Internet connections to report aggregated information to a data center, defining cluster identification steps, and determining the reporting stru...Opioids should be considered for relief of chronic lower back pain
...onic lower back pain, the most common chronic pain syndrome in the United States. The available data from all studies of chronic lower back pain patients, however, indicate that opioids are useful for pain relief. Though their effectiveness in pain relief has not been widely questioned, the prescription of ...M.I.N.D. Institute study confirms autism increase
... families of 375 children with a diagnosis of full syndrome autism and 309 children with a diagnosis of mental retardation without full syndrome autism. Byrd, a pediatrician with UC Davis Children's Hospital, and his colleagues, conducted the s...New study documents burden of irritable bowel syndrome for U.S. sufferers
...sults of a survey of patients with irritable bowel syndrome in the United States presented at the 67th Annual ...ganization representing those with irritable bowel syndrome resulted in 657 responses. The survey, developed by Mugdha Gore, Ph.D. of Avalon Health Solutions o...Pituitary tumor cells in Cushings syndrome found to express large amounts of protein receptor
... this antidiabetic drug in patients with Cushing's syndrome who have pituitary tumors." The most common type of Cushing's syndrome is caused by prolonged high-level exposure of a hormone called ACTH (adrenocorticotropin), which is ...Study shows first progress in heart-failure survival
...led congestive heart failure or CHF, is a clinical syndrome that is the end stage of various cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary-artery disease, valve disease, cardiac infection or hypertension. Whatever the underlying cause, in CHF the damage to the heart and blood vessels causes blood circulation to b...Used mattresses may increase risk of cot death
...tified 131 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome (cases) and 278 healthy infants of the same age (c...a that have been implicated in sudden infant death syndrome do reside in used infant mattresses, they say. However, insufficient evidence is available to judge ...Lifetime risk for heart failure: one in five
...derly because of accumulated heart damage. It's a syndrome in which elevated pressure inside the heart causes fluid to back up in the body. CHF can be caused by prior heart attack, long-standing high blood pressure, diabetes, or a tight or leaky heart valve. "Our data suggest differing degrees of importanc...Study describes second kind of heart failure
...ppears to have all the earmarks of a heart failure syndrome that can compromise the health and independence of many older people," says Andre Premen, Ph.D., of the NIA's Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Program and NIA program official for the study. "With this study, it becomes increasingly clear that di...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
...s of bradycardia-triggeredarrhythmias in long QT-3 syndrome CONTACT: Robert S. Kass Department of Pharmacology Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 630 W. 168th St. New York, NY 10032 USA Phone: 212-305-7444 Fax: 212-342-2703 E-mail: rsk20@columbia.edu View the PDF of this article at: ht...Evidence supports two types of heart failure
...hat isolated diastolic heart failure is a distinct syndrome and may need to be addressed as such. We look forward to moving toward clinical research to test whether treatments that have proven effective for systolic heart failure, or other new therapies, might be effective against diastolic heart failure." C...Pre-term infants slower than full-terms at processing information
...d. "The detrimental effect of respiratory distress syndrome and other conditions involving insufficient oxygen (hypoxic-ischemic events) on infant information processing speed is consistent with earlier data showing that these same medical risk factors adversely affect visual recognition memory in infancy," a...Northwestern receives $5 million to study polycystic ovary syndrome
...enter of Research (SCOR) to study polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disorder associated with irregular menstrual periods, infertility, excessive body hair and increased risk for diabetes. The SCORs represent an important new NIH initiative in women's health. Northwestern was one of 11 leading medical insti...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November (second issue)
...ols. The amount of the reduction increased as the syndrome became more severe. The investigators analyzed three-dimensional images done on the brains of 21 patients with OSA and 21 healthy control subjects. They reported that OSA patient gray matter losses occurred in such brain regions as the left frontal......out of 20 cases (5 percent) of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers reported today at the American...em is similar to a heart condition called long Q-T syndrome that contributes to sudden death in young people and adults. In long Q-T syndrome, the heart electr...