Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...tribute to a number of cases where the individuals experience significant brain damage because of the time without oxygen. Most events are explained. For instance, many can be attributed to children being unsupervised, poor swimming ability, alcohol or other drugs or seizures. However, an appreciable number are...Response of New York City public school children to September 11
...ct exposure. The authors suggest some children may experience greater emotional impact from having a family member exposed than from being directly exposed themselves. "The fifth main finding was that going to a school near the place of the near the place of the attack was associated with lower rates of probab...Babies show ripple effects of mothers stress from 9/11 trauma
... with a parent who is depressed or anxious, or the experience of vicarious traumatization based on hearing stories of how parents suffered, rather than a 'transmitted' biological trait. "In the current study, reduced stress hormone levels were observed in infants, suggesting a larger role for very early environ...Acupuncture treatment no more effective than sham treatment in reducing migraine headaches
...rcent of men and 15 percent to 18 percent of women experience migraine headaches. Many patients require interval treatment as attacks occur often or are insufficiently controlled. Drug treatment with beta-blockers, calcium antagonists, or other agents has been shown to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks;...Therapy to overcome fears helps children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
... health care provider who has specific training or experience in exposure and response prevention therapy. Medication Therapy Medication therapy also reduces symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, though doctors aren't sure why. OCD symptoms usually return when children stop taking medication. "Medic...Health and environmental sciences director named DuPont 'Distinguished Scientist'
...nsible science." Rickard, 52, has over 25 years of experience in various research and management positions at the world-renowned Haskell Laboratory with emphasis on biochemical toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis and the safety assessment of biopersistent chemicals in the environment. He received his Ph.D. in ...Physician assisted suicide and why patients are motivated to seek death
... PAS due to three types of issues: illness-related experience (fatigue, functional loss, or discomfort), loss of...of the illness, including the quality of the dying experience with their patients." Physician-assisted suicide, where doctors prescribe medications to patients f...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...of all the physicians said that their own personal experience with tPA had influenced their answers on the surve...ey wouldn't. "It appears that individual anecdotal experience is influencing decision-making, when it should be the medical literature that leads the way," says B...Doctor voices concerns over new NHS IT system
... week's BMJ. Dr Nigel de Kare-Silver describes his experience of workshops to introduce the new system to users. "We were shown screens of a third rate computer program lifted from the existing system of US hospital administrators," while further meetings produced "lame presentations by various strategic health...Autism conference reports advances in early diagnosis, role of immune system and more
...only a small snapshot of the wealth of insight and experience being accumulated by today's scientists," Amaral said. "It is heartening for parents, doctors and scientists to see this progress, while also knowing the distance we have yet to go to prevent and treat, and perhaps one day cure, autism." IMFAR is or...Study calls for earlier use of ICDs in patients diagnosed with cardiomyopathy
...atients who have a recent cardiomyopathy diagnosis experience comparable mortality risk as those who have had the diagnosis for more than nine months, and they appear to get just as good a survival benefit from ICD implantation as those with a remote diagnosis. Therefore, these findings could help expand the n...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...adjusting for several factors including education, experience and job type. They found that obese insured workers earned significantly less per hour than non-obese insured workers - $3.41 less in 1998. When analyzing the wages in greater detail, they found that the gap is modest when these workers are young, bu...New treatments for common vaginal infection being studied
...e most common type of vaginal condition that women experience and yet its etiology is poorly understood, says Dr...over and you have a potential problem. Studies and experience have shown that a major reason women douche is because their mothers did, Dr. Ferris says. While man...Physical pain aggravates majority of Americans, according to poll
...with life." The new survey carefully documents the experience of pain in America. "It's very unusual that you have an independent, rigorous, national random-sample survey on the subject of pain," said Gary Langer, director of polling for ABC News. "This survey puts this issue out before a broader public, and it...Marijuana withdrawal reported by teens seeking treatment
...ho abruptly stop daily or near daily marijuana use experience some withdrawal symptoms. Though there is anecdotal evidence that withdrawal makes it more difficult to quit using marijuana and that people use marijuana to suppress withdrawal effects, we still need to more carefully investigate how withdrawal impa...End-of-life care involves a more holistic approach
... teaching ward. "We hope that by 2010 the clinical experience of every medical student and medical resident in an Ontario teaching hospital will include proper care at end-of-life as a normative part of the clinical learning experience," he added. Each faculty of medicine, together with their hosting academic h...Lack of sleep can affect athletic performance in teens
...ing trips (eg. spring break) of a week or more may experience schedule difficulties on the return home. "This scenario is most problematic for teams on the east coast that travel west, as student athletes may return with a significant sleep-phase delay that is difficult to correct," Carskadon says. Lack of sle...Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
...ikely to receive triple therapy and less likely to experience AIDS-related complications or death. In fact, none of the 23 children who received triple therapy died or developed AIDS before their third birthday. In contrast, about 55 percent of the children in the first two groups died of AIDS. When the researc...Professor criticises medicine's 'blind spot'
...In order to do this, we must accept the subjective experience of the patient as real and measurable and consider psychological as well as biological aspects of medical treatment as important. Even the performing of medical tests and the giving of a diagnosis are psychological interventions, the effect of which ...Older adults with insomnia report falling asleep faster with ramelteon
...somnia, and approximately half of all older adults experience one or more symptoms of insomnia at least a few nights per week. "Improving sleep in older adults is a very important health issue. Far too often, older adults and their physicians accept the myth that poor sleep is a fact of life that it comes wit...