Moderate to severe sleep-disordered breathing can lead to stroke
...ep disorders in which a sleeping person repeatedly stops breathing long enough to reduce the amount of oxyg...ty by counting the "events" per hour that a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or more. Moderate to severe sleep disordered breathing is defined as 20 or...Hopkins study describes potentially fatal heart condition among young athletes
...ne died of cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops functioning from a runaway heartbeat.Twenty-nine of the patients' defibrillators "fired" within two years. This was, says Dalal "the good news that most patients do quite well if protected by a defibrillator." Of 22 patients without defibrillator...University of Utah surgeon returns from Iraq to help start-up company fight cancer
... room surgeons identify where the cancerous tissue stops and where the healthy tissue starts. "I am hopeful that this new method of identifying malignant tissue in the operating room will be useful not only for breast cancer treatment, but eventually for cancers of the abdomen, as this technology is wonder...BRCA1 gene found to inhibit two sex hormones, not just one
...cts physically with the progesterone receptor, and stops it from activating other genes. It does this even in the absence of the progesterone hormone, and, thus, acts as a strong check on errant growth. "But in mice deficient in BRCA1, we found that estrogen plus progesterone has a particularly large effec...Antipsychotic drug may block addiction, UIC researchers find
... "Trifluoperazine targets this pathway, which then stops the addiction," Wang said. "When this occurs, you can still use a relatively low dose of the painkiller to achieve fairly good pain control and no drug dependence." Opioids such as morphine are commonly used in pain management, but many patients are...Not every stutterer is a problem case
If a child often stops in the middle of a sentence and repeats individual...er. In well over half of those affected stuttering stops by puberty. 'Parents should not over-react if their children show such symptoms between ages three a...Mailman school researchers studying link between obesity and the urban environment
...so indicates that as the density of bus and subway stops increases in a neighborhood, the body size of residents goes down. Again, it is thought that public transit allows residents to be private automobile independent and promotes walking. With Americans in the grip of an obesity epidemic since 1975, Dr....Study to test drug's potential to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics
... diabetes develops in children when their pancreas stops making enough insulin, the body's compound used to metabolize sugar. The disease is an immune system disorder in which white blood cells called T-cells turn their attention to their own body's pancreas, attacking it as though it was an external invad...New family of biodegradable polymers shows promise for intracellular drug delivery
...etaminophen overdose. In these patients, the liver stops functioning because macrophage cells in the liver create reactive oxygen species. One of the treatments is the delivery of superoxide dismutase, an enzyme that essentially detoxifies superoxide. Other applications include the use of polyketals in an...New 'litmus test' could aid discovery of anti-cancer drugs
...e developed that shuts down protein production and stops cancer cells from proliferating. Their next step, said Mirkin, is to challenge the research community to provide libraries of triplex binders and small molecules for his research teams to test. Any interaction with DNA, whether it be with small mole...ROZEREM (ramelteon) showed significant reduction in time to fall asleep
... the worsening of insomnia symptoms after a person stops taking their insomnia medications. "These data show that ROZEREM can be effective in helping patients fall asleep faster without rebound insomnia and other withdrawal effects," said Thomas Roth, PhD, director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Cent...Kids behave and sleep better after tonsillectomy, study finds
...s. In people of any age, OSA occurs when breathing stops and starts repeatedly during the night, often in part because the throat is narrowed or blocked, keeping sufficient air from getting into the windpipe and lungs. People with sleep apnea often snore, or snort and gasp throughout the night, though not ...Patients with severe sleep-disordered breathing have high odds of abnormal heart rhythms
... illness in which a sleeping individual repeatedly stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer before resuming air intake. These stoppages decrease the amount of oxygen and increase the level of carbon dioxide in the blood and brain. In this study, participants with SDB had a respiratory disturbance index tha...BIDMC's Harold Dvorak, MD, honored by National Foundation for Cancer Research
... Once a wound has healed, VEGF production abruptly stops while in the case of tumors, VEGF production continues, thereby keeping the "healing mechanism" in an on position and causing cancerous tumors to grow and spread. "Hal Dvorak's contributions to the field of cancer research are legendary," notes Jef...Technique that makes brain tumours fluoresce improves surgical outcome
...be because it is difficult to see where the tumour stops and healthy tissue starts, making complete removal difficult. "Traditional techniques used for improving resections have not fulfilled expectations (frameless stereotaxy) or are still too expensive and cumbersome (intraoperative MRI) to have been put...UCLA researchers discover how drug binds to neurons to stop drunken symptoms of alcohol
...n brain neurons, which helps explain how this drug stops the drunken behavioral symptoms of alcohol such as impaired motor coordination, memory loss and drowsiness. The team showed in the lab that Ro15-4513 binds to and blocks alcohol action on these highly alcohol-sensitive receptors. The UCLA group pre...Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in children
... Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. "Our calculator stops ordering errors before they can even reach the pharmacy, let alone the patient." The calculator computes all doses, advises and warns of drug interactions and automatically offers "default" doses and drug dilutions to help doctors avoid overdosing a...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...which uses a highly focused, pencil-thin beam that stops at the tumor, instead of passing through it as does standard radiation treatment does. "For brain tumors that are potentially curable, this is the ultimate radiation technology," says James Cox, M.D., a professor and head of the Division of R...New study shows erosive esophagitis healing linked to acid control
...s when the valve between the esophagus and stomach stops closing properly, allowing acid to leak back into the esophagus. About one in three people with frequent, persistent heartburn also experience erosive esophagitis, in which over time stomach acid begins to wear away, or erode, the inner lining of th......nd cortisol are also increased. When an alcoholic stops drinking, however, the ACTH and cortisol response to stress becomes impaired. This may be due to the body adapting to chronically elevated levels of cortisol. Similarly, in PTSD, the HPA axis appears to adapt to persistently elevated levels of cort...