Length of deprivation in infants affects intellectual development for years
...by the environment. Even among the children who suffered the most prolonged institutional deprivation, ther...uge individual variation in outcome. Some children suffered badly but others emerged relatively unscathed. This finding supports other research suggesting that ...Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
...any of these Louisiana and Mississippi communities suffered greater damage and a higher number of fatalities and physical injuries than we saw in DeSoto County. "Children and families in the Katrina communities who witnessed death and injury and who are still living in damaged buildings should be a priority ...Deployment to Iraq War may not have affected health of UK armed forces
...orces who served in the Iraq War have not, so far, suffered from ill health 3 years post-conflict, according to a paper published online today (Tuesday May 16, 2006) by The Lancet. The authors warn, however, that it is premature to conclude that there has been no effect of deployment to Iraq, and further foll...SCAI Founders' Lecture traces impressive progress in interventional cardiology
...ur hours to complete, and fully one in 20 patients suffered a heart attack in the catheterization laboratory. There was little an interventional cardiologist could do, other than rush the patient to surgery. Introduction of the steerable guidewire made PTCA easier to do and shortened procedure times. Developm...Perfect timing: Cardiologists meet in Chicago during May's National Stroke Awareness Month
...tments are available for patients who have already suffered a stroke. Interventional cardiologists are playing a central role in developing new treatments for stroke. Interventional cardiologists treat trouble spots in the heart and blood vessels with tiny balloons and expandable metal stents threaded throug...Positive results for ACRUX's lead product in US Phase 3 trial
...s efficacy in treating the key symptoms thatmay be suffered by this significant patient group"....Mothers use evasive action to protect sick children from smoking fathers
...his was despite the fact that half of the children suffered from respiratory problems - putting them at high-risk from passive smoking - and 60 per cent of the total sample had been admitted to hospital more than once. The majority of the children involved in the research were under 10 and the average age wa...New treatment allow patients to return to pre-injury activity
...njections of hyperosmolar dextrose. These patients suffered from pain at rest and during normal daily activity as well as during and/or after physical/sporting activity. "I'd observed that the abnormal tendons were thickened and often demonstrated clefts or tears within their substance, and it was these fin...Early myocardial enhancement defects on multidetector CT predicts future myocardial viability
...ctors of myocardial viability in patients who have suffered a heart attack, reported doctors from the departments of cardiology and radiology at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Gated CT coronary angiography was performed on 34 consecutive patients that were admitted with a diagnosis of a heart attack...Should older men be screened for prostate cancer?
...agnosis, men who received aggressive treatment had suffered more urinary and bowel dysfunction and were more bothered by sexual dysfunction. General health and physical function were higher for aggressively treated men but this was likely due to residual selection bias. Our results reinforce concerns that men...Heart risks from Vioxx happen much earlier than believed, says Queen's researcher
... first two weeks of use. A quarter of patients who suffered a heart attack while taking Vioxx did so within the first two weeks of their first Vioxx prescription, says Prof. Lvesque, of Queen's Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. "This demonstrates that cardiovascular risks from taking Vioxx may ...MUHC study reveals Vioxx related heart attacks can occur within the first two weeks of use
MONTREAL, 1 May 2006--A quarter of patients who suffered a heart attack while taking Vioxx did so within th...gnized. "A quarter of individuals in our study who suffered an acute myocardial infarction did so within two weeks of their first Vioxx prescription," says Leve...Small Business grant helps Chadwick Optical bring Schepens Institute invention to patients
...ume treasured daily activities. Charles Osler, who suffered a stroke a year ago, which left him missing vision on the left side of his visual field, says "Now I can go out in public and know that I will not hurt myself or someone else by just walking down the street." Osler, a resident of Falmouth, Massachuse...Look out! Eyeglass injuries may lead to hospital visit
...children and just below 7 percent of older adults, suffered eyeball injuries. The researchers also found that as age increased, so did the number of women who suffered from glasses-related injuries women 65 and older comprised nearly two-thirds (65.5 percent) of glas...Are you getting your money's worth in health care?
...This research especially applies to those who have suffered a heart attack or stroke, and those with type two diabetes or breast cancer. Consumers are constantly reminded of the cost of health care from the monthly costs of health plans to, news reports on the rising share of tax dollars going to Medicare an...Lack of basic research putting patients at risk
...troke in certain patients. Countless patients have suffered as a result, yet much of this research is easy and relatively cheap to do, so why has it not been done, he asks? He calls into question whether medical academia, in its current form, is properly fit for purpose. He believes that medical academia must...New research finds direct link between high cholesterol and prostate cancer
...state cancer patients were 26% more likely to have suffered from gallstones than our controls, with an apparently higher relationship in thinner men. Although that figure was not statistically significant, gallstones are often related to high cholesterol levels. To our knowledge there have been no previous st...OHSU brings relief to 'suicide disease' sufferers
...said the 47-year-old construction manager, who has suffered from TN for 16 months. "I'll go outside and the br...ired California attorney living in Charbonneau who suffered from TN for three years: "It's just very intense. Excruciating is a very good word for it. I would g...Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel condemns 'censorship' of scientists
...y Grundfest, a neurologist at Columbia University, suffered a career setback when he was denied NIH funding during the height of the McCarthy-era Communist witch hunts. Kandel told Science & the City that he considers the current political climate "equally disastrous" for scientists. "From a restrictive poin...... the children in Recife receiving standard therapy suffered fatal infections because of immune system suppression caused by the aggressive treatment, Ribeiro noted. Therefore, in addition to improving supportive care for patients, investigators in Recife sought to reduce the intensity of treatment for a selec...