Under-18s spell out what they need to enjoy quality of life on a ventilator
...x to 12 and 18 were teenagers. A quarter were from single parent families, a quarter were from ethnic minority groups and six per cent were in care. Some needed to be ventilated 24-hours a day, while other only needed to be ventilated overnight or when they were asleep. Ventilator use frequently increased...Health professionals should be trained to be wary of pharmaceutical promotion
...isease, which led to huge drug sales even before a single clinical trial with cardiovascular disease end points had ever been done. In the hope of reducing the adverse influence of pharmaceutical promotion on health professionals, the organizations recommend that health professionals should be: Educate...Multiple organ failure and malignant tumors main causes of death in ICU and hospital
...e much more common causes of death in the ICU than single organ failure. In addition, patients with central nervous system failure had a 16.07% increased risk of dying while in the ICU and patients with cardiovascular failure had an almost 12% risk of dying these were the main risk factors for death while...Chemists make tiny molecular rings with big potential
...bstance that enables the reaction -- reacts with a single ring-shaped molecule, and multiplies it many times over, spawning rings of many different sizes. He likened the process to a child blowing a cascade of bubbles. The rings form, break apart, and reform, until the chemists introduce a compound that s...Sildenafil prevents rebound pulmonary hypertension in infants
A single dose of sildenafil, a blood vessel widening vasodi...n Melbourne, Australia, and five associates gave a single dose of sildenafil to 15 infants undergoing withdrawal from inhaled nitric oxide therapy. None exper...Adolescent brains are insensitive to alcohol for a short time, but at great cost
... than in blood or brain alcohol levels following a single alcohol dose, she said. We know that social behavior is sensitive to low-to-moderate doses of alcohol. Therefore, this study examined development of acute tolerance to alcohol-induced impairment of social behavior among adolescent and adult rats. R...Racial disparities high in Medicare plans
...es of care that require simpler actions, such as a single annual blood test. "Our findings suggest that nearly all Medicare health plans will need to develop specific programs to improve equity on at least three of the four clinical outcome measures we studied," says Trivedi. "The federal government requi...Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities
...encoded endoscopy (SEE). Multicolored light from a single optical fiber introduced through a probe about the size of a human hair is broken into its component colors and projected onto tissue, with each color illuminating a different part of the tissue surface. The light reflected back is recorded, and t...New study shows the benefits of eating fish greatly outweigh the risks
...th (HSPH) tackled that question by undertaking the single most comprehensive analysis to date of fish and he... compared with health risks. Seafood is likely the single most important food one can consume for good health," said Mozaffarian....DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
... in the body, and make decisions at the level of a single cell," says the researcher, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation. Her main collaborators in this study were Milan Stojanovic, of Columbia University, and Darko Stefanovic, of the University of New Mexico. Macdonald is currently us...Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
...rately toward other objects. "I've never seen a single paper in which researchers studied these processes in children this young," Rakison said....Resident work-hour restrictions yield little improvement in perceived quality of patient care
...ss-coverage availability. "The bad news is that a single change to relieve long work schedules ofsurgical house officers in order to improve quality apparently has'failed,'" says senior author, Dr. Eavey, Director of PediatricOtolaryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. "Those same,well-reste...Researchers identify new weapon to fight deadly bacterial sepsis
...hat in laboratory mice, blocking the activity of a single enzyme known as aldose reductase can short-circuit sepsis, protecting heart function and greatly reducing sepsis deaths. Moreover, the scientists have accomplished this feat using a chemical compound very similar to a diabetes drug already in stage t...LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look
...rds of the psychiatrists' research that indicate a single dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, provided in a...y of whom had not had a sip of alcohol since their single LSD experience 40 years earlier. According to one study conducted in 1962, 65 per cent of the alc...Secondhand smoke in cars may lead to dangerous levels of contaminants for children
...eral population. The results showed that smoking a single cigarette for just five minutes could produce potentially harmful RSP levels. Given the levels the researchers observed, SHS in cars poses a potentially serious threat to children's health. The authors hope that their findings will encourage renewe...USC researchers discover breast cancer stem cells in bone marrow
...stant site that creates metastases, and not simply single cells that detach from the primary tumor and travel to another part of the body. Although disseminated tumor cells, either in the bone marrow or lymph nodes, are already regarded as a prerequisite for relapse and metastasis, no studies have as yet ...Medical experts launch global campaign against salt
...globally. Raised blood pressure is the biggest single cause of cardiovascular disease accounting for 62% of strokes and 49% of heart disease (2). Strokes and coronary heart disease kill more people around the world than any other cause of death around 12.7 million people each year (3). It is estimate...Scientists show drug can counteract muscular dystrophy in mice
...utions have demonstrated for the first time that a single drug can rebuild damaged muscle in two strains of mice that develop diseases comparable to two human forms of muscular dystrophy. This advance, which is reported online in Nature Medicine, is the latest from a research collaboration that began severa...German researchers develop first non-invasive test to measure skin aging
...ures relative amounts of collagen and elastin by a single factor, which can be positive or negative, like temperatures. Higher values of the factor correspond to higher collagen content, and to lower elastin content. Previously, each of the imaging techniques had only been tested on tissue extracted from li...Studies identify food sources of disease and drug resistance
...g children in a Finnish town to carrots grown on a single farm. An epidemiologic investigation linked illness to eating raw carrots. Laboratory tests confirmed that the bacteria in infected children's stool samples were indistinguishable from the bacteria isolated from the farm. The authors noted that th...