New treatment boosts muscle function in myasthenia gravis
... slurred speech. Myasthenia gravis is believed to affect 20 out of every 100,000 people. For the study, 16 people with myasthenia gravis were given daily doses of oral EN101 antisense for four days and monitored for one month. Four of the people later took the drug for a month. The study found that oral...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...ithout understanding how a persons environment can affect that persons health. We looked at several factors to see if they could clarify why housing conditions were contributing to the development of diabetes, but none of these factors seemed to explain the relationship at all, explains Mario Schootman, P...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...ng other equally important health disparities that affect those least able to deal with them, Smith said. The study also found the rate of growth of diabetes prevalence is not as high or as dramatic as often projected. Smith found that during the period studied, the proportion of men diagnosed with diabet...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...ve other medical and psychiatric problems that can affect their sleep, says Dr. Krainson, adding that resear...n the amount of sleep a healthy older man gets can affect his level of testosterone in the morning. A brief behavioral treatment for insomnia appears to ...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...thout understanding how a person's environment can affect that person's health." This study grew out of a larger health study involving African-Americans. In the original study, researchers looked at several factors responsible for the higher incidence of health problems experienced by later middle-aged a...Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals
In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are at greater risk of school absenteeism than their normal-weight peers. The study of more than a thousand 4th, 5th and 6th g...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
...ound that the two, known to have a cancer-inducing affect working together, also have separate effects individually. In the Cell paper, researchers show IKK does its damage working in the cytosol of the cell, the internal fluid outside of the nucleus. Together, the two kinases previously were known to fre...Some women benefit more from exercise when emphasis is on health, not appearance
...ests that mirrors in a workout room can negatively affect how someone feels, particularly a woman who is concerned about her physical appearance, Focht said. In the classes that emphasized health over appearance, the instructor wore a loose-fitting t-shirt and gym shorts. She also sprinkled health-oriente...Bioengineering to prevent iron deficiency?
...espiratory tract infections, and anaemia which can affect their brain, motor activity and general performance in school, whilst adult manual laborers in developing countries were found to be less productive when iron-deficient, and left untreated for hookworm and other infections. The three main strategi...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...hyperparathyroidism in CKD, other factors can also affect PTH levels. Dr. Kovesdy explains, "Our current therapeutic practices aimed at correcting elevations in PTH focus mainly on abnormalities created by the decreased kidney function, and don't factor in these other mechanisms." The study is the first ...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
... half of them have one or more conditions that can affect their ability to participate in activities of daily living, such as bathing and dressing on their own. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System analyzed the responses of more than 11,000 participants in the national Health and Retire...Parents' depression can weigh on children
... Obesity. Understanding more about factors that affect an overweight childs well-being could help health-... Janicke said. Also, the behaviors a parent models affect the lifestyle choices a child makes, too. When parents are struggling, they may have less energy a...Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...hey influence each other, and how individual cells affect the whole. The research will involve both studying the function of individual cells in his electrophysiology lab and functional resonance imaging of the whole brain at the University Heights Center for Advanced Imaging in Newark. With this grant, w...In women, caffeine may protect memory
... researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect memory abilities, such as age, education, disability, depression, high blood pressure, medications, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses. Caffeine is a psychostimulant which appears to reduce cognitive decline in women, said study au...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...ical mechanisms that enable the electric fields to affect dividing cancer cells. In vitro, the electric fields were seen to have two effects on the tumor cells. First, they slowed down cell division. Cells that ordinarily took less than an hour to divide were still not completely divided after three hours...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
...l during practices or games. But machismo doesnt affect physiology. Physical activity raises players temperatures higher than normal, Mueller said. When body temperatures rise to 103 or 104, the brains hypothalamus loses its ability to regulate the heat. The heart beats faster to increase blood flow to th...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...hat their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early for school at the beginning of the week when they revert back to their old routine. Aggressive behavior and bullying, common among schoolchildren, are likely to have multiple causes, one of which may be an undiag...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...e report either had the potential to significantly affect quality and efficiency in the nations health care system, had bipartisan support or were unique and innovative. The executive summary and full report are available on the Commonwealth Funds website, www.commonwealthfund.org . Methodology Co...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...athetic nervous systems and how various mediations affect brain cell receptors. Fitch explained that using a live clinical scenario to emphasize basic science learning allows students to understand the clinical relevance of the subjects they are studying. What I think is really great about the concept is...Students with symptoms of mental illness often don't seek help
... campuses offer several ways to reach students and affect their lives positively." The study, "Help-seeking and access to mental health care in a university student population" appears online in the journal Medical Care on June 24. ...