Drug for cluster headaches may cause heart problems
... Cluster headache is a rare, severe form of headache that is more common in men. The attacks usually occur in cyclical patterns, with frequent attacks over weeks or months generally f...New biodegradable magnesium stents for coronary arteries
... ... ... Professor Raimund Erbel...Mid-life headaches may increase risk of vision problems
... For the study, researchers reviewed the headache history and eye health of 10,902 men and women who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Participants, who were fr...Hawaiian treasure, macadamia nuts good for the heart
Washington, D.C. Incorporating macadamia nuts into a heart healthy diet can reduce...cardiovascular disease risks according to Penn State researchers. ... ... The researchers used a controlled feeding study to compare a...Headache-related work absences have a considerable socio-economic effect
... ... But its not just people who consul...Nevada scientist authors influential AIDS/HIV paper
RENO, Nev. The decade-long research that University of Nevada, Reno College of Science Chemistry Professor Thomas Bell has invested in the development of an extremely effective HIV/AIDS-fighting compound received an important boost recently when one of Bell's articles made the list of the 100 most influential publications in the HIV/AIDS research field for 2006.... Out of more than 10,000 HIV/A...Nano world off the radar for most
Sunscreens contain nano particles, carbon and titania nanotubes show promise and nano structures are the rage in engineering schools. While the proliferation of nano research may signal a mini revolution, outside the realms of business and science, this insurgency may be no more than a whisper, according to an international team of researchers.... "In the last 15 years we have continuously been...Dedicated R&D lab established to spur RFID industry in Canada
... ... MRAL is the only initiative of its kind in Canada....ADA applauds health claim for fluoridated bottled water
... ... The ADA also agrees wit...First-ever CANADA-HOPE Scholarships awarded
... The three scholarships announced today are supported by the CANADA-HOPE Scholarship Program. This joint program...Spinal cord stimulators tested as treatment for patients with migraine headaches
... ... "The purpose of the randomized, double-blinded study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of occipital nerve stimulation as a tre...Migraine treatment also appears effective for cluster headaches
... Cluster headaches are characterized by attacks of excruciating pain that typically involve one side of the head and last between 15 and 180 minutes, according to background information in the article. Because the pain is so severe, rapid and effective treatments are needed. Medications known as trip...Medical education must adapt to society's changing attitudes
... ... Firstly, practical training must be made more effective to counter reduced working hours, they say. Research has shown that deliberate practice is a far better method to acqui...Canada high in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's cases: Is Canada too clean?
... ... IBD is a wearing away of the lining of the intestinal tract until it becomes red and raw and begins to bleeds, like a skinned knee. The difference between ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease is where t...Oral bisphosphonate risk slight, but dental patients should be aware, ADA says
Chicago, August 4, 2006 -- People taking oral bisphosphonates, a type of drug used to treat osteoporosis, osteopenia and Paget's disease of bone, should be aware of potential risks when undergoing certain dental procedures, according to guidelines published in this month's Journal of the American Dental Association (ADA).... Relying on a small but growing number of reports linking bisphosphona...Migraine headaches & sexual desire may be linked
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Contrary to the popular clich, "Not tonight, I have a headache," new research suggests that not all headache sufferers avoid sexual activity. In fact, migraine sufferers reported higher levels of sexual desire than those with other types of headaches, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues....... "Our study suggests that sexual...Study suggests tension headache may actually be TMJD
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- People whose recurrent headaches have been diagnosed as tension-related actually may be suffering from temporomandibular muscle and joint disorder, or TMJD, a study headed by a researcher from the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine has shown.... Results showed that examiners could replicate tension-headache symptoms in 82 percent of subjects by performing the clin...First steps taken towards made-in-Canada approach
...This press release is also available in Ottawa -- The Government of Canada is putting in place a made-in-Canada plan for reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) and ensuring clean air, water, land and energy for Canadians. As part of developing the made-in-Canada approach, 15 programs that have completed their work or which require a different approach are being wound down. ...... "We will develop...New family of biodegradable polymers shows promise for intracellular drug delivery
A newly developed family of biodegradable polymers has shown potential for use in intracellular delivery and sustained release of therapeutic drugs to the acidic environments of tumors, inflammatory tissues and intracellular vesicles that hold foreign matter.... These polymers have several advantages over existing biodegradable polymers, researchers said. Among them, the polymers called polyket...Health systems in the Middle East need to adapt to face future challenges
Health systems in the Middle East and North Africa need to adapt to face new public health challenges over the next five years, state the authors of a Comment in this week's issue of The Lancet....... Currently the rate of change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is outpacing the rate of adaptation by public-health systems. In their Comment Francisca Ayodeji Akala and Sameh El-Sah...Radar altimetry confirms global warming is affecting polar glaciers
Scientists have confirmed that climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, according to an article published in the Journal of Glaciology....... Using radar altimeter data from ESA's ERS-1 and ERS-2, Jay Zwally, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and his colleagues mapped the height of the ice sheets and found there was a ne...Prisons not adapting to needs of aging inmate population
The prison inmate population is aging rapidly, but prisons have not yet adapted to the physical and mental needs of geriatric prisoners, according to a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center....... The study, which analyzed questionnaire responses by 120 female prisoners aged 55 or older in the California prison system, appears in the April 2006 issue of the Journal...Prescriptions for headache almost twice as likely in middle aged women as men of same age
Family doctors are almost twice as likely to prescribe drugs to middle aged women with headache as they are to men of the same age, reveals research in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry....... Headache ranks among the top 10 reasons for consulting a family doctor and is the most common neurological symptom seen by family doctors and neurologists. It also accounts for around 20...Maternal death rates in Canada are too high
Although Canada has relatively few maternal deaths (i.e., deaths related directly to childbirth), Donna Stewart points out that the rate can still be reduced. Women giving birth in Canada are more likely to die of indirect causes, including suicide and violence. Professor Stewart argues that Canada ought to redefine maternal mortality (and morbidity) as a broader concept, as has been done in the...Headache, sleep problems connected in children
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that frequent headaches in children appear to be associated with sleep problems. More than two-thirds of children studied who suffer from chronic daily headache also experience sleep disturbance, especially delay in sleep onset. For children with episodic headaches, one-fifth had sleep problems. The findings will be presented this week at the 24th Annual Confere...New data on trends in obesity in Canada
Peter Katzmarzyk and Caitlin Mason report on their analysis of data from 7 national surveys on the trends in overweight and obesity in the general Canadian population from 1985 to 2003. Although the prevalence of overall obesity is known to have increased, they wanted to see if the same has been true for each of the 3 classes of obesity, especially the more extreme classes. The proportion of Cana...Not so different after all: Mysterious eye cells adapt to light
A new retinal photoreceptor adjusts its sensitivity in different lighting conditions, according to scientists at Brown University, where the rare eye cells were discovered....... The results, published in Neuron, are a surprise. Though rods and cones, their biological cousins in the retina, clearly adjust to light levels, these new cells intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, or ip...Caution: New Medicare drug plan may cause headaches
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- If many seniors are scratching their heads about the new Medicare prescription drug plan, so are the experts.... ..."A prescription for confusion" is how Richard L. Kaplan, a professor of law at the University of Illinois, characterizes the new drug benefit, whose enrollment period begins today for Americans aged 65 years and older.... ...Kaplan describes the plan as "fashioned...The 2nd WADA Symposium On Gene Doping
Gene doping is a real danger but anti-doping science is making progress ...... ... ...Gene therapy research has reached a critical phase. Already practised on humans as part of strictly controlled experiments, gene therapy promises to become a widely available form of treatment for injury and disease. However, advances in the science of gene therapy have a darker side: gene doping--the unscrupul...Is rural Canada a good place to grow old?
The experiences of rural seniors in Canada have provided researchers in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta with valuable information that will be used in the development of policies governing a national home-care program.... ...October 1 2005 marks the United Nations International Day of the Older Person and as part of the occasion; researchers at the University of Alber...Severe maternal morbidity in Canada, 1991-2001
The death of a mother during pregnancy or delivery is fortunately a rare event. So rare, that routine tracking of national and provincial rates, while important, fails to capture other non-fatal but serious health hazards. ... ...Shi Wu Wen and colleagues report rates of severe maternal morbidity in Canada over a 10-year period. Severe maternal morbidity, such as cardiac arrest, postpartum hemorr...Acupuncture cuts tension headache rates by almost half
Acupuncture is an effective treatment for tension headache, cutting rates for sufferers by almost half, shows a study on bmj.com this week....... And a minimal acupuncture course works almost as well as traditional Chinese therapy, say the researchers....... In a randomised controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severit...Even in Canada's universal health plan, wealth effects hospitalization
Canada's universal health care plan is designed to provide equal access to care, independent of the patient's income level. A study in Health Services Research examined this issue, looking at patients with conditions for which timely care in doctors'offices has traditionally been thought to prevent expensive hospitalization for more serious consequences. ...... There are nine such health problem...Canada lags behind in caregiver support
According to a new study, Canada lags behind other western countries in the level of financial support it gives to family caregivers. The international review was conducted as part of the Hidden Costs Invisible Contributions (HCIC) research project. The financial support review was led by Mount Saint Vincent University's (MSVU) Dr. Janice Keefe who found that Australia and the United Kingdom do a...NYU Child Study Center presents third Annual Adam Katz Memorial Lecture series
New York, NY (May 17, 2005) The New York University Child Study Center is pleased to announce the Third Annual Adam Katz Lecture Series, which includes two lectures on Thursday, May 19 and Friday, May 20, 2005. The series focuses on learning difficulties and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The Adam Katz Memorial Series was created in 2003 as a tribute to the life of Adam Katz,...Sex, gender and heart diseaseMUHC researcher leads Canada-wide team
MONTREAL, 11 May 2005--A new research project involving more than thirty investigators from across Canada has just been launched. The project, known as GENESIS, is Canada's largest multidisciplinary initiative to study the causes of cardiovascular disease--the leading cause of death in Canada....... GENESIS will investigate key unknowns in the way cardiovascular disease is manifested between men...Acupuncture treatment no more effective than sham treatment in reducing migraine headaches
Migraine patients who received true acupuncture had no decrease in headaches as compared with those who received sham acupuncture treatment, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA. ......Migraine is a common and disabling condition that typically includes attacks of severe, pulsating, 1-sided headaches, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to sound and light, according to backgrou...University of Nevada, Reno professor showcases 'mini' ion accelerator
Tom Cowan's team is thinking smaller, but with big impact. Particle accelerators are a key research tool in a high energy physicist's arsenal, but they take up a lot of space miles and miles of it. But at the University of Nevada, Reno, smaller is better. ......Cowan, director of the Nevada Terawatt Facility at the University, and his research partners have produced a proton beam that has 100 ti...MIAMI BEACH Obesity is linked to a risk of severe headaches, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., April 9 16, 2005....... The study measured the influence of body mass index on frequency, severity, and the potentially disabling effects of headaches. An individual's body mass index helps to determine his or he...