Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...l prepared to deal with the situation. Their world suddenly changed, leaving them insecure and uncertain about the future. "Diabetes intruded emotionally and practically upon all of their lives." Lesley Lowes and her team hope that their paper will help health professionals understand the emotional trauma fac...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...at it was used to treat one of the most common and suddenly fatal medical scenarios acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). It ranked among the World Health Organization's essential medications and, like all fibrinolytics, there was a fine balance between efficacy in restoring blood flow to the heart and...Mayo Clinic researchers report on effectiveness of treatments for hot flashes
...ncer can cause menopause to begin earlier and more suddenly than it would normally occur; so, many women undergoing treatment for cancer must also cope with hot flashes. Researchers say that hot flashes appear to be triggered by changes in a woman's brain chemistry that result from decreased estrogen levels a...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...s of radiation. Like an overdeveloped mall built suddenly in a small town, aggressive tumors overwhelm their surroundings; they often grow faster than the blood vessels supplying oxygen to them. Such fast-growing tumors often contain "hypoxic regions," or areas of lower-than-normal levels of oxygen. As it...Study: Vasodilators first choice for some heart patients
... ability to pump blood. When a patient's condition suddenly or rapidly deteriorates to the point that hospitalization is required, the patient is described as having experienced acute heart failure or acute decompensated heart failure. Positive inotropes increase the pumping action of the heart, while nitrogl...Dieting linked to increased wealth, study finds
... of people in the study who received inheritances suddenly increasing their wealth showed no dramatic changes in their BMI scores in the following years. This suggests that wealth does not have a strong influence on weight. However, if weight does affect wealth, there is also the question of how it does so....Report describes potential problem with new drug for seizures, pain
...epilepsy have traditionally been cautioned against suddenly halting drug treatment because abrupt withdrawal c...r, with good relief of her chronic pain, the woman suddenly stopped taking pregabalin when the FDA temporarily halted all trials. The next day she developed nau...Parkinson's medication appears to trigger excessive gambling
...patients given the drugs, and it can be stopped as suddenly as it came on. "It's a very rare side effect and reversible if you get off the drug, but you have to make the association," says Dr. Ahlskog. The Mayo Clinic neurologists treating the Parkinson's patients reported in the case series analysis learne...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...al activity, domestic heating or transportation is suddenly reduced after the holiday season but because there is an eastward outflow of air that was previously revolving around Asia. This is the same type of phenomenon that carries dust from the Gobi Desert across to the West Coast of the US." China is reli...Leading pediatricians group recommends infants sleep in cribs, not parents' beds
... number of factors that contribute to babies dying suddenly and in their sleep," Kemp said....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October 2005 (second issue)
...ood clot that travels through the blood stream and suddenly blocks an artery of the lung. The most common type involves a blood clot that begins in either a leg or pelvic vein. Blood clots tend to develop where blood is flowing slowly such as can occur when an individual stays in one position too long. Onc...Assessing the impact of breast cancer
...ing the end of treatment was almost harder because suddenly I was on my own. I'd had surgery, chemotherapy, an...elt like I was actively fighting the disease. Then suddenly nothing - I felt like I'd been dumped," she said. Dr Paleg said she would have liked access to famil...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...so effective for identifying the many who will die suddenly from arrhythmias." Indeed, while the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics estimates that more than 1 million Americans currently have a defibrillator, national studies published early this year have shown that only 5 percent of these devices ev...Shortness of breath without chest pain can signify the presence of high risk heart disease
... the patients with this serious disease either die suddenly without prior symptoms or have a heart attack as the first manifestation of the disease. The New England Journal paper authored by Aiden Abidov, M.D. and associates described the retrospective study of the medical records of 17,991 patients referred...OHSU study reveals each persons' activity level appears intrinsic, possibly tied to genetics
...o state it more plainly, if you're a couch potato, suddenly becoming active may be harder than you think," said Judy Cameron, Ph.D., senior scientist in the divisions of Reproductive Sciences and Neuroscience at the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center. "Our current findings build further on work we d...Riding roller coasters may actually be 'death-defying' for people with heart disease
...ought the increased G-forces occurring when riders suddenly plummeted towards the ground would increase stress on the body and increase heart rate. "But the increased G-force didn't have too much of an effect on the heart rate," Kuschyk said. "The heart rate appeared to rise more from psychological stress a...Widespread media coverage contributes to rapid decline in HRT prescribing
... They discovered that prescribing levels fell suddenly after August 2003 when the Million Women Study was published. By the end of that year HRT was being used by 8.7 per cent of women aged 45-69 compared with 10 per cent a year earlier. Over the same period, new users fell by 29 per cent and the num...Large-scale study proves volunteer operated defibrillators are life-savers
...ave the lives of 15 out of 100 people who collapse suddenly with CA. Brescia in Italy a large mixed rural and urban county with an area of more than 4,800 square kilometres and a population of well over a million was the site for the Brescia Early Defibrillation Study (BEDS), the results of which are report...Specialized neurons allow the brain to focus on novel sounds
...tly draw a person's attention if their car's motor suddenly made a strange noise or if their cell phone rang." Because novelty detector neurons are somehow able to store information about a pattern of sound, they may also be involved in breaking down an ongoing stream of sound into segments and making predict...Hopkins study describes potentially fatal heart condition among young athletes
...s, only one 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 defibri...