Exercise test may help predict mortality risk in heart failure patients
...ly reported as a good indicator of how serious the disease is in patients with systolic heart failure." Previous research has shown that a test score of 34 is a threshold for increased risk of death. In the current study, patients with systolic heart failure had a mean score of 37, which suggests an increa...Study: Who claims to be a pediatrician?
...es with their views on what keeps a child healthy, disease prevention, and treatment options. 6. Gender. As children grow from infants to an adolescents, they may feel less comfortable discussing their changing bodies with a physician of the opposite sex. While adolescence may be years away, Freed encour...How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages
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...eeds. Those who care for adults with brain-related disease will find this article relevant....Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
...odium phenylacetate and sodium benzoate. Metabolic disease expert Saul Brusilow, MD, at Johns Hopkins' Children's Center, pioneered the drug combination in the 1970s as a possible treatment for urea cycle disorders. Although early reports showed promising results, it took years to gather enough patients to p...New system for reporting toxicity burden of cancer treatment
...hat the TAME system will be applicable to multiple disease sites, although this will require site-specific de...ocumenting its accuracy in additional datasets and disease sites.and assessment of its use in clinical decision making."...The general public lacks basic medical knowledge
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...nderstood protein suggests mercury's link to heart disease can be traced to activation of this enzyme, which ...been implicated as a risk factor in cardiovascular disease because of environmental concerns both from contamination and the atmosphere. But no one has looked ...Risk of Parkinson's disease increases with pesticide exposure and head trauma
...edicine. And the risk of developing Parkinson's disease increases according to the level of exposure, the ...und to be 1.13 times as likely to have Parkinson's disease compared with those who had never been exposed. Those who had been exposed to high levels of pestici...Innovative device to treat brain cancer shows promise in early studies
...ed with the Novo-TTF, the median length of time to disease progression was 26.1 weeks; progression free survival at six months was 50 percent; and median overall survival was 62.2 weeks. This is more than double the rates reported in historical data approximately 9.5 weeks, 15.3%, and 29.3 weeks, respective...Doctors, engineers develop new wireless system to detect esophageal reflux
...ely 19 million people have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which is caused by stomach content moving upward from the stomach into the esophagus. The new system involves pinning a small, flexible RFID chip to the esophagus, where it remains until removed by a physician. The chip, about two square c......evels checked as these can be symptoms of thyroid disease which is easily identified and treated. Known m...cholesterol and reduces the risk factors for heart disease by improving the markers of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. In the study, patients ...New hope for severe heart disease patients
...ial to revolutionise the way in which severe heart disease is treated. "If the study proves successful, an ...e a great development for people with severe heart disease offering the exciting prospect of relief from constant pain in the foreseeable future." ...Blood inflammation plays role in Alzheimer's disease
...ation are more likely to later develop Alzheimer's disease than people with no signs of inflammation, accordi...e more than twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as those with the lowest amount of cytokines. A total of 28 percent of the women and 30 percent of t...Inactive kids storing up illness for the future
...omputer games. Family history of diabetes or heart disease in parents is a risk factor for development of diabetes or heart disease in their children. However, the researchers found that children of parents with a family history of ...Personality changes may help detect form of dementia
...to treat the mental health symptoms of Alzheimer's disease can be potentially dangerous for people with dementia with Lewy bodies. The study found that even before diagnosis, people with dementia with Lewy bodies displayed passive personality changes, such as diminished emotional response, disinterest in...Exercise may slightly boost 'good' cholesterol levels
...C level and in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease has received widespread acceptance," the authors w...ent and 3 percent decreased risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women, respectively," the authors write. "If this observation were applied to our results...Soy nuts may improve blood pressure in postmenopausal women
...h blood pressure have four times the risk of heart disease as women with normal blood pressure. Francine K. Welty, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, assigned 60 healthy post-menopausal women to eat two diets for eight weeks each in random order. The first diet, th...Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO
...in a public health emergency such as an infectious disease outbreak. The first rapidly issued guideline was developed by the WHO in order to advise countries that were dealing with avian influenza A (H5N1) infection. Typically, the most rigorous clinical practice guidelines take two years or more to de...