Mowing the lawn is not child's play
...ring protection. Use a mower with a control that stops it from moving forward if the handle is released. Never pull backward or mow in reverse unless absolutely necessary carefully look for others behind you when you do. Start and refuel mowers outdoors not in a garage. Refuel with the motor turne...Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients
...lood clot in the lungs, or other causes. The heart stops beating and the brain starts to suffer permanent damage within four to six minutes. Death quickly follows. The standard treatment for cardiac arrest is Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) measures, which include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),...Is expensive new heart rhythm treatment 'worth it'?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A new procedure that stops the most common form of irregular heartbeat is expensive, but it may pay off in the long run for many patients, new research suggests. That means it's important for doctors to choose carefully who receives it, and to perform further research on its l...Hormones could be prescription for living longer
...teristic of metabolic syndrome. Dr. Baranowska-Bik stops short of calling adiponectin the fountain of youth, but the results of this study, she argues, provide evidence that adiponectin may play an important role in longevity. Held in a different part of the world every four years under the auspices of t...JCI table of contents: July 3, 2006
...jci.org/article.php?id=29172 HEMATOLOGY The leak stops here: Platelets deliver healing agent for hemophil...?id=28416 ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY TITLE: The leak stops here: platelets as delivery vehicles for coagulation factors AUTHOR CONTACT: Katherine A. High The C...Interrupting HIV treatment could be beneficial
...us may also become resistant to HAART if treatment stops and low concentrations of the drug remain in the body. Bernard Hirschel (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) and colleagues assessed whether taking scheduled breaks in HAART was as effective as giving patients treatment on a continuous basi...New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance
... way and inhibits the action of the enzyme. This stops the virus from spreading to new cells and helps to...idase to carry out its natural job. This process stops the neuraminidase enzyme in its tracks, and makes it impossible for the virus to develop resistance ...Scientists learn how the brain 'boots up' to process information from the senses
... to the cortex, the thinking part of the brain, or stops it. Scientists knew that the thalamus sends information to the cortex, but did not know that nitric oxide affects how the cortex communicates back. "What we have shown is that nitric oxide released into the thalamus enhances communication between t...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...elomeres reach a critically short length, the cell stops dividing and ages (senesces) which may cause or contribute to some age-related diseases. There is also more evidence that the brain is more involved in a person's stress response than previously thought, said McEwen. The brain interprets what is th...Penn researchers find many commercial drivers have impaired performance due to lack of sleep
...d severe sleep apnea (a condition in which someone stops breathing often during sleep), and about 13 percent of the drivers got fewer than five hours of sleep a night on a regular basis. "There are daytime neurobehavioral performance impairments that are found commonly in commercial drivers, and these are ...Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system
...esion or "stickiness" between skin cells. Thus, it stops the disease without affecting the immune system. "There are a number of companies developing inhibitors of the p38 enzyme for treating rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis," Rubenstein said. "Our study suggests that those same drugs might be valuable ...Speedsters' traffic fines fund new research on spinal cord injury
...a spinal cord injury in an effort to find out what stops those cells from fixing damaged nerves in the spine. In addition to his own research, Noble helps to manage spinal cord research throughout the state through his role as co-director of the New York State Center of Research Excellence in Spinal Cord...Drug prevents postpartum hemorrhage in resource poor settings
...uthor and project officer for the study. The drug stops bleeding in the uterus by causing the uterus to co...hort supply. But the drug misoprostol, which also stops uterine bleeding by causing the uterus to contract, does not require refrigeration. It can be given...Dopamine imbalances cause sleep disorders in animal models of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia
... researchers treated the mice with a chemical that stops the production of dopamine entirely. In fairly short order, the mice had used up their initial supply of dopamine and were running on empty. The mice became rigid, immobile, and unable to sleep or dream, displaying symptoms similar to those experie...High-energy clamp simplifies heart surgery for atrial fibrillation
...form scars in the atrial tissue. The scar tissue stops atrial fibrillation by interfering with chaotic electrical signals that cause the atria to contract irregularly. By placing roadblocks in the way of these misplaced electrical impulses, the Cox-Maze procedure redirects them down their normal route so...Synchronous neuronal firing may underlie Parkinson's disease
...ment of these mice with a chemical that completely stops the production of dopamine resulted in mice that quickly ran out of their supply of the neurotransmitter. The treated mice became rigid and immobile, displaying symptoms similar to those experienced by patients with Parkinson's disease. In the curre...Grace under pressure: FSU researchers analyze the effects of stress on decision-making ability
...s enters the patient's room. Suddenly, the patient stops breathing and exhibits an erratic heartbeat. What steps must the nursing student take to ensure that the patient doesn't die before a better-trained medical professional can arrive? Fortunately, in this instance the emergency was merely a simulatio...Holiday season could ring in 'heartburn season'
...at does a lot of things that promote heartburn. It stops the stomach from emptying well, so now you have more material in the stomach that's ready to reflux. It also further weakens that leaky valve." Food myths Eating or drinking certain types of foods, such as milk, in an attempt to reduce stomach ac...Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction
...engage young people in a treatment programme which stops them from injecting drugs and running the risk of infection," he said. "Apart from the danger of contracting AIDS, drug users run the real risk of exposure to the potentially fatal liver disease, Hepatitis C. We face an epidemic of Hepatitis C in...... to lose their stem cell properties, which in turn stops their ability to divide. First they pretreated human glioblastoma cells with bone morphogenic protein 4 (BMP4), then injected these treated cells into mouse brains. In mice injected with cells that were not pretreated, large, invasive cancers grew. ...