Hemodialysis causes antioxidant loss leading to long-term complications
... health problems. Potential therapeutic options to restore balance in patients are also reviewed. Oxidative stress, an imbalance between toxic compounds and defense mechanisms, and prevalent in the dialysis process, has been linked to numerous adverse complications in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients....Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...ns have spent all this time and technical skill to restore blood flow for the patient, they look at the heart as it starts beating and see if all of the grafts look fine," explained Fitzgerald. "But this is without any objective criteria." Around 5 to 8 percent of the time, he said, a graft that initia...Long term outcomes for children who undergo ear tube placement surgery
...on may be insufficient to retain normal hearing or restore it to normal levels," the authors write. At the 14 years' follow-up 177 (74.7 percent) of the children's ears had healed, up from 156 (65.8 percent) at five years following surgery. The number of abnormal outcomes decreased from 81 (34.2 percent) at...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...ile avoiding adverse effects. Too low a dose won't restore blood flow in the artery and too high a dose could cause a bleed in the brain. "While we analysed only one sample from most of the batches albeit testing more than one vial and using two assays in most cases and therefore can't generalise from our r...Increased risk associated with combining carotid artery, coronary artery surgeries
...s" around the blocked part of a coronary artery to restore the blood supply to the heart muscle. Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is another relatively common operation that removes plaque from the walls of one or both arteries in the neck that supply oxygenated blood to the brain. There are several factors that...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...in may respond to new anti-dementia drugs that can restore memory. Huntington's disease is an incurable, inherited disorder of the nervous system that affects specific brain regions and inevitably leads to death. Symptoms range from disrupted control of movements and thought processes, and emotional problems...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...rcent of all strokes (known as ischemic). This can restore blood flow in the brain, and reduce or prevent the risk of permanent damage. But tPA also carries a 1-in-15 risk of causing intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding) that can be fatal. Nearly 10 years after its approval by the FDA, tPA is still only used in...Morphine for chest pain increases death risk
... on the use of proven drugs and procedures used to restore blood flow to the heart. From this registry, the researchers identified 57,039 high-risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (non-STEMI), a categorization of heart attack based on electrocardiogram (ECG) readings. These patie...News briefs from the journal Chest, MAY 2005
...pirin therapy 7 to 10 days before the operation to restore normal platelet hemostatic function, but a new study suggests that it may be more beneficial to continue taking aspirin until the surgery. Israeli researchers studied 32 patients with coronary artery disease about to have CABG. Fourteen patients re...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...velopment in children born with normal hearing. We restore imperfect hearing," said Dr. Svirsky. "This is an indirect way of exploring the issue of sensitive periods." Although the younger children gained language development faster, Drs. Svirsky and Holt did not find a similar effect for speech perception s...Discovery of key inflammation mechanism in COPD could lead to new treatments
... which helps relax the bronchial tubes, could help restore HDAC activity, and potentially reverse the resistance to steroids. Professor Barnes adds: "Although this research is at a fundamental level, the discovery that COPD affects HDAC activity, which in turn can be affected by theophylline, could be the fi...A diet high in milk may cut heart disease and stroke risk
... be challenged, and every effort should be made to restore it to its rightful place in a healthy diet."...Immune factor GM-CSF significantly improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...es the innate immune system and is usually used to restore bone marrow function in chemotherapy patients. Promising results from that study, published in 2002, led to the current multicenter investigation. Patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease enrolled in the study at 28 centers across the U.S. ...Medical whistleblowers speak out
...us to these fault lines," she says. "If we are to restore objectivity to drug development, prescribing, and safety monitoring, we must be willing to examine and change all of the institutions that allow this synchrony to occur." In a related editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors explain why PLoS sponsore...Stress may increase long-term success of vaccinations
...-promoting defense mechanisms to fight disease and restore health," Dhabhar said. "These studies were conducted in mice and more work needs to be done to extrapolate them to humans. We hope that this study lays a foundation for designing interventions that would stimulate or simulate a natural acute stress r...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...e. These findings indicate that exercise can help restore immune systems damaged by anti-cancer drugs, which destroy healthy as well as malignant cells. Women between the ages of 29 and 71 were assigned to an exercise group (28 women) or a non-exercise group (21 women). In the intervention arm, women bega...Exercise helps recovery from chemotherapy for breast cancer
... Mastro's findings indicate that exercise can help restore immune systems damaged by anti-cancer drugs, which destroy healthy as well as malignant cells. Mastro will present the research at the "Era of Hope" meeting of the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on...Placebos can bring emotional relief
...te to the drug, telling the subjects that it would restore the unpleasant perception. In tests the following day, the subjects were told they would receive the same drugs. But instead, they received a saline solution as a placebo when they saw the pictures. The subjects' brains were also scanned during these...'Binge drinkers': Folk devils of the binge economy
...oul-mouthed, vomit-stained youths in an attempt to restore the city centre to daytime levels of comportment. Despite alcohol being our drug of choice, the source is not typically regarded as a problem. Alcohol is a legal drug and so there are no attempts to bring down the 'Mr Bigs' of the alcohol industry. I...Restoring flow to all blocked areas of the heart improves 5-year survival rate, study says
...mplete revascularization" grafting of arteries to restore blood flow to all affected territories of the heart have consistently better long-term survival rates than those who have "incomplete revascularization." The findings are based on a review of 1,034 patient cases with five-year follow-up, and are rep...