Baby aspirin better for your health, University of Kentucky study says
...ect their hearts from clots, which are the leading cause of heart attacks and strokes. "Patients should check with their doctor to be sure, but there is almost no one who needs to take more than 81 mg of aspirin a day for protection from heart attacks," Steinhubl said.Going forward, the study notes that th...Conception date affects baby's future academic achievement
...ianapolis. Nitrates and pesticides are known to cause maternal hypothyroidism and lower maternal thyroid in pregnancy is associated with lower cognitive scores in offspring. "We have now linked higher pesticide and nitrate exposure in surface water with lower cognitive scores. Neurodevelopmental con...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
...tified by documented information race, gender and cause of donor exclusion. In some cases, disqualified donors had more than one reason for exclusion. About 30 percent of blacks were excluded because of obesity, compared to 16.6 percent of whites. Obesity was defined by body mass index (BMI) greater tha...Meditation may fine-tune control over attention
...their improvement suggests that prior training can cause lasting changes in how people allocate their mental resources. "Their previous practice of meditation is influencing their performance on this task," Davidson says. "The conventional view is that attentional resources are limited. This shows that a...Alpharma presents positive pharmacokinetic study results
...with alcohol, other opioids, or illicit drugs that cause central nervous system depression because respiratory depression, hypotension and profound sedation or coma may result. KADIAN side effects are generally consistent with those found with other opioids. The most common include drowsiness, constipat...Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?
...N -- Blows to the head in amateur boxing appear to cause brain damage, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurologys 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007. "Despite the high prevalence of brain damage as a result of professional boxing, until now there ...Cause of gender differences in blood pressure, kidney damage under study
...rictor when it binds with AT1," she says. "It will cause proliferation, it will cause hypertrophy, it can stimulate the production of reactive oxygen species, so it does all sorts of bad...Breastfeeding and good fats help new moms fight depression
...urrent psychological trauma, act as stressors that cause proinflammatory cytokine levels to rise, according to Kendall-Tackett. "Breastfeeding protects maternal mood by lowering stress. When stress levels are lower, the mother's inflammatory response system will not be activated, thereby lowering her ris...Smoking influences Crohn's disease
...t when Crohns disease is located here, it tends to cause more penetrating or obstructive damage, which would have to be treated by surgery." The results of this study raise interesting questions about why smoking would affect different parts of the intestine in different ways. "Fundamental differences in...Gel-based handrub improves hospital hygiene
...and hygiene measures have previously been found to cause skin irritation and more than half the health care workers in the study reported they preferred the gel to the liquid-based product, indicating that it improved the condition of their skin. No cases of significant skin damage occurred with either for...... the heart, is Australia's and the world's leading cause of death. It is most common in older people and the impact of the disease will continue to rise with an ageing population. Director of Griffith's Heart Foundation Research Centre Professor John Headrick said older hearts become less resistant to d...Forensic pathologists tell physiologists what they know about death and what puzzles them
...of sparking laboratory research to help define the cause of these deaths and prevent more of them. The fo...cal examiners, for instance, nail down the precise cause of death and the exact time. Or they pinpoint the number of pills a person took before dying of an o...Promising drug fails to improve COPD symptoms
...nd Crohn's disease. COPD is the fourth-leading cause of death of men and women in the United States and...world. It is projected to become the third-leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, by 2015. Stephen I. Rennard, M.D., of the University of ...Brains scans of symptomatic Gulf War veterans show differences
...erformed on the memory tests. "We dont know the cause of these differences in the veterans brain volumes, but the hypothesis is that they are related to exposure to hazardous substances during the first Gulf War," said study author Roberta White, PhD, of Boston University School of Public Health. "Many ...Recommended doses of ginseng, ginko biloba do not interfere with drug absorption
...ncerns that other popular herbal supplements might cause similar changes, thus significantly altering drugs...e way drugs produce desired therapeutic effects or cause adverse side effects. The possibility of these pharmacodynamic, as opposed to pharmacokinetic, inte...Green tea extract protects against brain damage in new mouse model of HIV-related dementia
...cytokines, which interact with the HIV proteins to cause death of the brain cells. High levels of these cyt...ty of the cytokine to act with the HIV proteins to cause death and damage of the neurons. In further confirmation, the green tea compound also inhibited the...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
... smoke can be harmful to children's health and can cause or contribute to asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis and pneumonia and ear infections. The developing lungs of young children are severely affected by exposure to secondhand smoke for several reasons including that children ar...Serious illness among children with sickle cell disease reduced with vaccine
...ting blockages that can reduce blood flow. SCD can cause painful episodes and strokes, and can damage organ...by a bacterium known as pneumococcus are a leading cause of death among children with SCD. People with SCD are between 30 and 600 times more likely to develo...Researchers identify new therapy for patients with Crohn's disease
..., which blocks tumor necrosis factor, an important cause of inflammation in Crohns disease. "Approximately 50 percent of Crohns disease patients who receive repeated administration of infliximab will eventually develop an allergic reaction, need higher doses, or completely stop responding to the therapy...Heart failure medication does not improve survival, compared to more widely used medication
...ntain adequate blood circulation) remains a common cause of hospitalization worldwide, but appropriate treatment is not always clear. Dobutamine improves symptoms but has been associated with an increased risk of death and other cardiovascular events, according to background information in the article. In ...