Long heat waves boost hospital admissions
...g disorders by five percent. Individual hot days cause fewer problems, suggesting that people can recover during cooler breaks in the weather. Usually the first heat wave of the summer is considered the most deadly, however the team found that hospital admissions peaked during both the first and last h...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...t pump blood efficiently, heart failure is a major cause of cardiac death. Diagnosis has been a challenge, since the symptoms of heart failure are similar to those of many other conditions. In recent years studies from several groups, including collaborators on the current report, have identified a numbe...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
...minal organs to move into the chest cavity and may cause lungs to be underdeveloped Omphalocele, in which the intestines or other abdominal organs protrude out through the navel Mothers of babies with gastroschisis, which is similar to omphalocele but involves organs protruding through a defect in th...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
... for a while, but protecting them for too long can cause them to weaken. When those muscles are called into play unexpectedly -- such as lurching forward to grab a bag of falling groceries -- more injury can occur, said Thomas, an associate professor of physical therapy whose study is funded by a four-year...ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...on. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and UA and NSTEMI are acute manifestations of this condition. In 2004, the National Center for Health Statistics reported 669,000 hospitalizations for UA and 896,000 for myocardial infarction. Unstable angina, which ca...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
... Motor vehicle accident injuries are the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 3 and 33. Counseling during regular physician visits about the proper use of child safety seats, seat belts and the dangers of drunk driving might reduce death and injury from car accidents. Reviewing pu...Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
...can control the lesions and be used long term, may cause squamous cell carcinoma the second most common form of skin cancer, Dr. Hsu says. Some of the most effective anti-dandruff shampoos also have carcinogens in them. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows that in small amounts, the bottom l...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...ial cancer stages, even pre-cancerous lesions, can cause minute, potentially detectable changes throughout ... The technological breakthrough is the ability to cause light to penetrate the cells most affected by cancer without hitting deeper unaffected cells and to ...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...etecting pancreatic cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Known as a silent killer, with no method of early detection, pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and seldom is detected in its early stages. The new technique could lead to the first screening method for pancrea...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...ology. Colorectal [cancer] is the second leading cause of cancer mortality, and the molecular pathways [b...mily of signaling enzymes, was the culprit. But to cause cancer, an enzyme or other agent is expected to be active all the time, like a light with no off swi...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...l to uncover defects in chromosome regulation that cause malignancy, which may lead to advances in combating cancerous cells in the body. Wallace Marshall, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco Dr Marshall investigates how cilia, the hair-like projections that move...Worcester Polytechnic Institute to host national forum on locating first responders inside buildings
... or disabled inside buildings is the third leading cause of firefighter fatalities. There is also a critical need for indoor location and tracking technology by public safety departments, the military, the mining industry, and other fields where people can become lost or trapped indoors in dangerous or lif...Low hospital staff levels increase infection rates
...fecting critically ill hospital patients. It can cause a stay of about an average of 10 extra days in hospital at a cost of US$10,000 to $40,000....Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities
...tand. If the amount of exposure were too low to cause the excess risk, we would expect leukaemia rates to remain consistent before and after the start-up of a nuclear facility. However, our meta-analysis, consistently showed elevated illness and death rates for children and young people living near nucl...'SCHIP funding levels too low' ACP tells Senate Finance Committee Leaders
...ley. Given the fact that smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States and a huge contributor to the growing numbers of patients with chronic diseases covered by federal government, funds from higher tobacco taxes should be applied to the SCHIP reauthorization and to avert Medi...Stroke in nonvascular atrial fibrillation -- anti-coagulants better than anti-platelet therapy
...ts can then travel to the brain, block vessels and cause a stroke. One way of reducing the risk of this occurring is to give drugs that limit the bloods ability to create clots. Two commonly used options are anticoagulants that inhibit the clotting process (e.g. warfarin), and drugs such as aspirin that ma...6 out of 10 doctors aren't frustrated that patients can't lower cholesterol
...scular disease which they identified as a greater cause of death than cancer - the importance of lowering cholesterol does not appear to be widely endorsed says co-author Professor Richard Hobbs from the University of Birmingham. Our study also highlighted discrepancies between what family doctors do wh...First of its kind report on how children with brain tumors perform at school
...ation therapy, which has been regarded as the main cause of cognitive decline. The study also found 94 pe... of cancer occurring in childhood, and the leading cause of cancer-related illness and death in this age group....Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
...n humans lead to an accumulation of prelamin A and cause a host of disease phenotypes, including partial loss of body fat depots and metabolic syndrome. The fact that HIV protease inhibitors block ZMPSTE24 and have been associated with side effects similar to those observed with a genetic deficiency in Z......unknown. Consumption of antibiotics in plants may cause allergic reactions in sensitive populations, such as young children. There is also concern that consuming antibiotics may lead to the development of antimicrobial resistance, which can render antibiotics ineffective. Holly Dolliver, the lead sci...