New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
... and resorts, guests should consider carrying a CO alarm when they travel. ...Mayo researchers discover overdiagnosis of long QT heart syndrome
... physical exertion or auditory triggers such as an alarm clock. However, most cases can be diagnosed following warning signs that suggest its potential presence and from objective data derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG), exercise or adrenalin stress testing, and genetic testing. Genetic testing for th...Ulcerative colitis sufferers find UC quite disruptive to many aspects of daily life
...at UC causes (83 percent). "The findings sound an alarm because a diagnosis of UC shouldn't mean patients are settling for the level of burden reported in this survey for the next 50 or 60 years. UC is a manageable disease with the appropriate therapy," says David Rubin, M.D., a gastroenterologist and as...Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis
... healthily, which doesn't set off the same kind of alarm bells." Fitness is fine, but rigorous exercise coupled with severely restricted food intake can spell trouble just as surely as the more familiar binging and purging cycles seen in girls. Even though the National Eating Disorders Association estima...Syphilis rate on rise in US gay, bisexual men
...orth of statistics, researchers are sounding a new alarm about growing rates of syphilis among gay and bisexual men. The overall number of syphilis cases in the United States fell from 50,578 in 1990 to just 7,177 in 2003 perhaps because of a nationwide prevention campaign aimed at heterosexuals. Neverth...Emergency responses greatly increase risk to firefighters of dying on duty from heart disease
... also observed for other emergency duties, such as alarm response, as compared to non-emergency duties. "The present study confirms our previous results from a smaller study of deaths and an investigation of non-fatal events leading to retirement from firefighting. It provides the strongest evidence to dat...Americans still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, according to 2 recent studies
...ross ethnic, income, and educational groups should alarm public health officials and professionals. With two thirds of the U.S. adult population overweight or obese, the implications of a diet low in fruits and vegetables are extensiveNew strategies, in addition to the 5-A-Day Campaign, are necessary to he...Noise-immune stethoscope helps medics hear vital signs in loud environments
...around 80 decibels, a noise level comparable to an alarm clock or a busy city street. When noise levels reach 90 decibels, these types of stethoscopes are rendered useless. Modern electronic stethoscopes have raised the maximum tolerable noise level to 90 decibels to 95 decibels by replacing the ear pieces...SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked
The SARS virus set alarm bells ringing across the world when it first appeared in 2002, but now a review of the effectiveness of the treatments used against it has found no evidence that any of them worked. The review was commissioned by the World Health Organization and has...Experts add to growing warnings about asthma drug
...sudden asthma attacks. "We do not want to unduly alarm people, but instead help spread the word that patients should talk with their physicians if they are using Advair, or another inhaled asthma medication that contains salmeterol and feel that it worsens symptoms instead of making them better," Weinber...Patients receiving treatment with radioisotopes may trigger security alarms
...and another involved a man triggering the security alarm at his bank. Patients receiving Iodine-131 thera...e particularly careful because they may trigger an alarm up to 95 days after treatment, they add. Following this incident their Nuclear Medicine department...Proposed changes to obesity guidelines may harm children in the US
...als that the U.S. proposals have been greeted with alarm by some senior public health academics who have written to the committee. Dr. Jenny O'Dea from the University of Sydney, for instance, warned that labelling children as overweight or obese can lead to stigmatization, eating problems and avoidance of ...Hospital inputs Shipman death rates to see how fast audit system would raise the alarm
...t the hospital's monitoring system would have rung alarm bells at eight months for the surgeon and ten months for the anaesthetist, as the actual death rates would have fallen outside the tolerance zone for predicted death rates. Papworth is England's main heart and lung transplant centre and its 1,300 st...HEBE: Detection of falls and monitoring of the elderly
... with the option of activating or deactivating the alarm manually geographical location of user and immediate assistance if required. To date there is no single, small and portable commercial system that incorporates these functions. In technical terms, the new system is fitted with a GPS locating devic...Easy to use emergency mobile device for people at risk
...life-threatening situation. Based on this a mobile alarm system is urgently required," he told the project. Though elderly people and those suffering from chronic disease are the core market for the system, the MobilAlarm partners also see potential for it to be used by disabled but otherwise healthy peopl...Delivering online assistance to the needy
...ice staff identified some problems. These included alarm integration, eye-to-eye contact, lack of synchroni... they require better integration for example with alarm systems or with mobile devices that register vital signs such as blood pressure. The IST@HOME syste...Prisons not adapting to needs of aging inmate population
...hese include dropping to the floor rapidly when an alarm goes off, climbing onto a top bunk, hearing orders...derable distance from a prisoner's cell "When an alarm goes off, every inmate has to get down on the floor immediately, in order for the staff to maintain ...Stressed-out women more likely to miscarry early
...y may recognize the elevated cortisol levels as an alarm that conditions are unfavorable for pregnancy. "Maybe increased cortisol is understood by the body as a cue that the context is uncertain, changing, or the quality of the environment is deteriorating," Nepomnaschy said. "The body's response is to sto...Pollution puts fat rats at heart attack risk
...iversity of Alberta researcher who is sounding the alarm in a study offering the first direct proof of that relationship. "There is a growing body of evidence that exposure to fine particulate matter--the small stuff you can't see--correlates to diseases in the public," says Dr. Jim Russell, a researcher ...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
... to the heart). Once the device detects a vein, an alarm is triggered, and medics insert the needle. The vein finder has proved highly effective in initial tests on phantom tissue, a model that simulates human tissue and blood vessels. Researchers have now begun adapting the device for human use. Develo...