Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
... the studys wait-list control group, and another 9 individuals who did not participate in the exercises were added to balance the size of the control group. Sub-study participants provided detailed medical histories, received sleep-quality evaluations and submitted blood samples for analysis before injection w...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
...c, medical and functional data were collected when individuals entered the hospital, and they were assessed again after 28 days and one and two years. Fifty-eight percent of patients died within 28 days. Patients who died: more often came from an institution for the elderly (24 of 48 non-survivors vs. seven...DNA vaccine against multiple sclerosis appears safe, potentially beneficial
...ficial changes in the brains and immune systems of individuals with multiple sclerosis, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the October 2007 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the immune system attacks t...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...ed spending more time asleep at night. Such older individuals also experienced more sleep time and slept more efficiently at night. A sleep-related breathing disorder may be associated with impairments in cognitive function in older men. Objectively determined estimates of short sleep were strongly rela...Even low levels of weekly exercise drive down blood pressure
...ircumference are enough to make a difference to an individuals risk of dying from a cardiovascular disease, say the authors Furthermore, the findings show that moderate intensity physical exercise below the recommended weekly levels still makes a difference to health, they add....1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...rmation could lead to diagnostic tests to identify individuals more susceptible to the development of hypertension and diabetic induced kidney disease and perhaps new therapies for the prevention of end stage kidney disease in hypertensive and diabetic patients that account for almost one-third of the adult popu...Waist-to-hip ratio may better predict cardiovascular risk than body mass index
... women between the ages of 18 and 65. Nearly 3,000 individuals participated in a total of three medical visits each, which included an in-home health survey, blood and urine collection, and a detailed clinical exam complete with abdominal magnetic resonance imaging and coronary artery calcium scans. Calcium was...Hormone regulates fondness for food
...y show that these areas of the brain light up when individuals deficient in leptin are shown images of food. Hunger influences what and how much we eat, but is not the only determinant of our eating behaviour. Eating is a very pleasant experience and the rewarding or appetising properties of food play a major ...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
.... Since nutritional studies show that many elderly individuals eat less protein than the average person, research...ere able to measure the rate at which a particular individuals body built muscle protein. During the five hours after the young and elderly volunteers ate the beef...Not all 'drug-related deaths' are 'drug-related'
...phic profile of those who died, and whether or not individuals were tapped in to services designed to assist drug abusers. Dr. Caryl Beynon from Liverpool John Moores University and colleagues studied details of 70 DRDs that occurred over an 18 month period in Liverpool - the UK city with the highest recorded...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...walking ability, while others do not. For example, individuals with damage to the cerebral hemispheres can adapt while those with damage to the cerebellum are rarely able to. This body of work sheds light on the specificity of walking adaptations and demonstrates that patients with certain types of brain damag...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...vastating pandemic, many nations, communities, and individuals adopt what they perceive to be effective social distancing measures or nonpharmaceutical interventions including isolation of those who are ill, quarantine of those suspected of having contact with those who are ill, school and selected business clos...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...ples from the PRIDE study participants, almost 600 individuals who had come to the MGH Emergency Department with shortness of breath. In this study, the single largest ST2 analysis to date, the researchers confirmed ST2 as a novel marker of heart failure, finding the highest levels among participants with the...ADHD appears to be associated with depressed dopamine activity in the brain
...feel high, tired, alert, anxious or restless. In individuals with ADHD, methylphenidate caused less of a decrea...DHD also reported liking methylphenidate more than individuals without ADHD, the authors note. The reinforcing responses to methylphenidate were negatively correla...Why women get more migraines than men
...oaches for therapy for the hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide who suffer from this disabling condition....Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
...ance of rapid response to heart-attack symptoms by individuals and their loved ones and the need to recognize that chest pain may not occur in everyone who has a heart attack. In the study, patients who came to the hospital with no chest pain but with other symptoms of heart attack were less than one-third a...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...searchers hope to use the next trial phase to test individuals with serious pancreatic diseases that are not cancer to see if the changes are truly unique to cancer. Eventually, the researchers hope to expand their study to breast cancer, lung cancer and other variations of the disease. While the new technique...University hospitals wins multiple national IT awards for electronic patient data bank
... a highly secured environment with only authorized individuals allowed access. Other medical information housed in the portal includes patient demographic data with laboratory results, diagnosis information, PACS images, names of physicians involved in the care of each patient and medical transcriptions. The...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...tstanding Service Award. The award is presented to individuals who have contributed significantly to societys health and welfare. ...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...gh they were the smallest group in our survey, the individuals with mental health conditions stood out as the most unhealthy physically and emotionally," Riddle said. "They definitely have some needs regarding an improved quality of life." Caregivers play a critical role in the lives of Delawareans with disabi...