Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
... the risk of falls and injuries that are a bane of old age. But a large new University of Michigan Health System study suggests that the real culprit may be the underlying insomnia, rather than the medications used to treat it. Residents with untreated, or partially treated, sleeplessness have a much hi...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The old saying that 'money doesn't buy happiness' may hold true most of the time. But when a serious health problem comes along, financial resources may really cushion the blow to a person's psyche, a new study suggests. The finding, made by researchers at ...Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
... blood of 600 men: 300 men between 30 and 50 years old who had been hospitalized for a previous heart attack, and 300 matched controls. Because the subjects were in the military, the researchers could examine blood samples that were collected and stored in the Department of Defense's serum repository bef...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...ed seven to 17 who had previously been thought too old to benefit from treatment for amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye", showed improvement after treatment in a clinical trial reported in the April issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Although it is widely agreed th...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...s gotten her answer to questions by following some old advice: she used the library. It's not the kind of library her mother or teacher suggested, but a combinatorial chemistry library of many different protein sequences that some day might help her and her colleagues develop a successful timed ...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...en the ability to make estrogen is impaired, as in old age, exposure to BPA could adversely affect hippocampal function and contribute to agerelated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, in which hippocampal function is impaired. About two billion pounds of BPA are produced annually in ...Scientist works to reduce side effects of radiation therapy
...ive to solve the problem. "Cancer is a disease of old age, so the number of people getting whole-brain radiation will increase," he said. Robbins says that, in essence, radiation speeds up the brain's aging process. Researchers believe the cause may be chronic inflammation or oxidative stress, which occ...New research reveals working mothers do not adversely impact on children's diets
...w that analyses information from over 2000 11 year old children and their parents (in 1984-5) reveals no evidence that number of parents in the household or family meals are associated with children's diets, while maternal employment is associated with better diets. The children involved in the study we...New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
...st women in the UK. (One study found that 30 year old women with chest pain were much less likely than 30 year old men to be given a cardiac diagnosis, much more likely to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, and aroun...Breakthrough for kids with epilepsy
...onducted this study on how children aged 3-7 years old developed intellectually in the few years following epilepsy surgery. While those with severe epilepsy are at high risk for significant mental handicap, data showed that those who became seizure free after surgery were able to develop better and may ...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
... the report says. However, children up to 2 years old should receive whole milk because of their developmental need for dietary fat. In addition, the committee recommended that the amount of cheese provided for most participants be reduced from a maximum of 4 pounds per month to no more than 1 poun...College education protects middle-age caucasian women against obesity
...women whose average age was approximately 46 years old from Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh for four years as part of the Study of Women Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Lewis found there were no differences in BMI in African American and white women with a high school education or less. However,...Obesity in middle age increases risk of dementia in later life
...y associated with an increased risk of dementia in old age, regardless of the presence of existing illnes...y associated with an increased risk of dementia in old age, regardless of the presence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in mid and late life, say the...Facelift alternatives rid patients of neck 'wattle' without the downtime of surgery
...ng facelifts. They may feel they are too young or old for an invasive procedure, are not able to afford the prolonged recovery time, or only want targeted improvement of their neck region. Patients have less invasive options to rid the "wattle," reports a study in May's Plastic and Reconstructive Surge...Male combat veterans rank high in heart disease risk
...ck males, 20 percent. The men were 44 to 66 years old during the initial interviews from 198789. Combat veterans represented 22 percent of the study population (1,183); non-combat veterans represented 40 percent (2,131); and non-veterans represented 38 percent (2,054). Of the combat veterans, 13.5 perc...Giving children access to drug clinical trials is crucial, clofarabine approval shows
... the treatment of pediatric patients 1 to 21 years old who have relapsed or refractory ALL that developed after at least two regimens of treatment. Researchers say it has been years since a new anti-cancer drug has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for pediatric use before approva...Latest research and emerging treatments for osteoporosis focus of NYAS conference
...ding of the precise pathways through which new and old bones are repaired and remodeled. Clearer too are the basic biological properties of the skeleton and how it responds to hormonal, cytokine, and mechanical stimulation. How are these exciting new studies opening the doors to novel cellular and mole...Scientists report strong evidence of alterations in blood samples of children with autism
...hildren with autism who were between 4 and 6 years old and from 35 children of the same age who didn't have the disorder. The samples were then analyzed by a biotech company, SurroMed, LLC, Menlo Park, Calif., which has developed technology that can identify differences in the number and types of immune ...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
... see how the liver can tell the difference between old fat and new fat. Eventually, Semenkovich believes these findings could lead to more effective strategies for the treatment of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic problems. For now, he says that dieters who want to lose fat stored in peripher...Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
... birthday than were infants who were 3 or 4 months old when treatment was initiated. Infants who received a combination of three antiretroviral drugs did even better. "This is an important finding because there's been a lot of controversy in the literature as to whether infected but asymptomatic infants ...