Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...actice, after being found floating facedown in the swimming pool. She had just finished swimming four laps. Efforts to resuscitate her were unsuccessful. Another case involved a young boy who faile...Attention full-time workers: Get off the computer and out to exercise in your free time!
...hysical activities, including walking, basketball, swimming and cycling, in the past 30 days. The 2,353 participants who indicated they participated in at least one of these activities were also asked how many minutes, on average, they engaged in each activity per session. As part of NHANES, participants wer...Exercise in cold water may increase appetite, UF study finds
...ite said her research is not meant to suggest that swimming or aquatic exercise is ineffective for building physical fitness. In fact, water exercise is suggested for people who are overweight because the buoyancy given by the water makes exercising easier for people with joint or balance problems. "Water ex...Bid to improve diabetes services for South Asians in Britain
...osing their bodies to the opposite sex, such as in swimming pools." Many of the patients did not speak English as a first language and needed help with interpretations during medical consultations. "We found that many of the patients felt frustrated and constrained at having to rely on other people to interpr...Breast cancer, a man's illness?
...ctive to women. Several men said they would not go swimming or without a shirt because of the attention it might bring. With male breast cancer on the rise, Pituskin hopes to raise awareness about the disease and not only encourage men to visit their doctors more often but to highlight the disease to health ...Pregnant women don't exercise enough: Study finds doctors need to better educate patients
...en surveyed. Other common physical activities were swimming and dance aerobics....Exercise is linked to later onset of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
...it by starting to exercise now." Simply walking or swimming for 15 minutes three times a week may be enough, added Larson. And programs such as the "EnhanceFitness" classes that Group Health offers to its Medicare Advantage members can be especially helpful because they are designed with attention to senior s...Remote pools boost Aboriginal child health
A comprehensive study into the impact of swimming pools in remote Aboriginal communities has found s...te community pools were first opened. At a special swimming carnival in Jigalong, Institute Director Professor Fiona Stanley today thanked the community for the...... (electroencephalogram) scanner which looks like a swimming cap covered with electrodes and records electrical brain activity on the scalp. The scanners, popular since the 1960s, are used in hospitals to detect epilepsy in people and are an important tool to show not just what bits of the brain are lighting u...Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara
...opping a kilogram of cocaine into an olympic-sized swimming pool. That concentration would be the equivalent of detecting three parts per million in blood. Still, this is not yet sensitive enough for use in the emergency room, since a person with .3 parts per million of cocaine in their blood would be conside...Type of stress, not duration, key to heart enlargement
...ce exercised for 90 minutes twice a day, either by swimming or running in a wheel. At various intervals, the r...Rockman said. "After seven days, the hearts of the swimming mice were gorgeous," he said. "The hearts of the hypertensive mice were similarly enlarged and appea...UCI scientists find chlorine may contribute to ozone formation
... wind. Chlorine gas also is used to treat water in swimming pools, cooling towers and municipal water supplies. Chlorine atoms react rapidly with hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides from automobile and power plant emissions, contributing to the complex chain of reactions that leads to ozone formation. The primar...Penn researchers calculate how much the eye tells the brain
...pes of biological motion, for example a salamander swimming in a tank to represent an object-motion stimulus. After recording electrical spikes on an array of electrodes, the researchers classified each cell into one of two broad classes: "brisk" or "sluggish," so named because of their speed. The research...Research finds vigorous exercise equals better academics
... harder. Vigorous activities, such as running or swimming for exercise, increase heart rate, causing the exerciser to breathe harder. The fitness levels aspired to in this project are derived from federal government guidelines for health-related behaviors known as "Healthy People 2010." Developed from the...New approach assesses risk of water-borne pathogen disease
...ring the safety of water for bathing, cleaning and swimming all ways that diseases are spread, not just by drinking contaminated water," Vinetz said, adding that the next step is to intervene and clean up the water sources, and assess the impact of cleanup on the incidence rate of human leptospirosis. The ...Higher physical activity associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
...was defined as vigorous activity (such as jogging, swimming or racket sports) two or more times per week or moderate activity (such as bowling, golf, gardening or walking) more than four times per week; medium physical activity (10,030 women) was defined as participation in vigorous activity once per week or ...Strenuous physical activity associated with lower breast cancer risk
...king, golf or volleyball) and strenuous (including swimming laps, aerobics and running) physical activity from high school to their current age and also in the past three years. The women also provided information about other breast cancer risk factors, including race, family history and use of hormone thera...New insights into autoimmunity and depression
...ere then subjected to a series of tests: a forced swimming test in a glass beaker partially filled water to e...i-ribosomal P antibody-injected mice on the forced swimming test. The immobility time of these mice was twice as high as that of the control group, indicating a...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...have chosen a softball game with healthy snacks, a swimming party and a rock climbing demonstration. Reinforcing change In addition to teaching students healthy habits, Project Healthy Schools aims to make the students surroundings more health-conscious. Changes have been made in cafeteria selections an...... used to diminish the need for reapplication after swimming followed by towelling, friction with clothing or sand, and sweating."...