Researchers link childhood asthma to exposure to traffic-related pollution
...into air pollution and kids' health. The study has tracked the respiratory health of children in a group of Southern California cities since 1993. The investigators placed air samplers outside the home of each student to measure NO2 levels. In addition, they determined the distance of each child's home from...Air pollution found to pose greater danger to health than earlier thought
...er the bloodstream. In this study, the researchers tracked this particulate matter, called PM2.5 for short, a...en by the burning of fossil fuels. Scientists also tracked ozone pollution, but found no link between ozone levels and mortality. Increased deaths from heart d...Just one to four cigarettes daily triples risk of dying of heart disease or lung cancer
...problems faced by heavier smokers. The researchers tracked the health and death rates of almost 43,000 men and women from the mid 1970s up to 2002. All the participants were aged between 35 and 49 at the start of the study, when they were screened for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Although a significa...'Noise' affects how brain directs body to move
...erence between how accurately the animals actually tracked a moving object and how accurately the brain perceived the trajectory. Findings showed that both the smooth pursuit system and the brain's perceptual system were nearly equal. "This teaches us that these very different neural processes are limited...Emergency-room visits dip during key Red Sox games
...ce system developed at Children's, the researchers tracked hourly visit rates at six Boston-area emergency departments during the each of the 2004 American League Championship Series (ALCS) and World Series games. They plotted these rates against television viewership as indicated by local Nielsen ratings. D...Autoimmune overload may damage HIV-infected brain
...rage and -analysis tool with which the researchers tracked the rapidly evolving viruses. Gene Johnson developed the tool with the support of an NSF Small Business Innovation Research award. According to co-author Susanna Lamers of Gene Johnson and UCSF, the results strengthen an earlier hypothesis by Kennet...Study reveals hormone can reduce food intake, body weight
...me, scientists measured PYY levels in the body and tracked weight changes in the animals. Analysis of the data revealed that animals given high doses of PYY twice daily averaged 2 percent body weight loss that was maintained during two weeks of treatment. "There is an urgent need for improved therapies for w...Protein suppresses prostate cancer, enhances effects of vitamin E
... prostate cancer preventives. Participants will be tracked for at least seven years, until about 2011. After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in U.S. men. This year alone, there will be an estimated 232,000 new cases of prostate cancer and more than 30,000 U.S. deaths. Approxima...African-Americans have worse quality of life after heart attack or unstable angina
...eatments and severity of illness. The researchers tracked 1,159 consecutive patients (196 black and 963 white) who were treated between Feb. 1, 2000 and Oct. 31, 2001 at two Kansas City hospitals, the Mid America Heart Institute and Truman Medical Center. One-year health status was quantified with the Seatt...Most NSAIDs raise risk of death after heart attack
...002 after a first acute heart attack. Researchers tracked prescriptions of selective COX-2 inhibitors and other NSAIDs after discharge, their dosages, and for how long they were prescribed. At some point after discharge, patients were treated as follows: 3,022 (5.2 percent) were treated at least once wit...Aspirin-a-day advice unheeded by those who need it, Stanford study finds
.... The researchers used two national databases that tracked outpatient visits to hospitals and physician offices between 1993 and 2003, and then assessed the reported use of aspirin therapy associated with those visits. Patients were categorized according to their risk of cardiovascular disease. High-risk pat...Research reveals likely connection between early-life stress and teenage mental health problems
...ed girls. However, in this report, the researchers tracked reproductive hormones and the incidence of menstrual bleeding in female monkeys throughout puberty and found that there were no differences in the timing of puberty onset in animals that had experienced early-life stress compared to control animals. ...New drug target identified for fighting Parkinson's disease
... of LRRK2 protein and two mutant versions and also tracked down the LRRK2 protein's location inside cells. The research team's experiments showed that the LRRK2 protein, in addition to its role as a kinase, actually sits on mitochondria, cells' energy-producing factories, where it likely interacts with a co...Magnetic probe successfully tracks implanted cells in cancer patients
... research team for the first time has successfully tracked immune-stimulating cells implanted into cancer pat...ee whether the magnetically labeled cells could be tracked by MRI, to study their migratory behavior in more detail," says Carl Figdor, principal investigator ...High-sugar diet pushing some Latino kids toward type 2 diabetes
...day dietary habits by using three-day records that tracked children's food-and-drink intake. Then children were admitted overnight to the USC General Clinical Research Center, where they were given a standard dinner and evening snack. The next day, researchers took blood samples from children before and afte...Family habits set drinking path
...come from University of Queensland researchers who tracked alcohol related disorders of children through adulthood as part of one of the world's longest health studies. Data was collected from 2551 Brisbane mothers and their children at six months, five, 14 and 21 years of age. Lead researcher Dr Rosa Alat...Patients with Hepatitis C using more healthcare resources
... the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. They tracked HCV-related physicians' visits from 1996 to 2002. They also gathered data on spending for interferon-ribavirin combination therapy between 1998 and 2000 from the Verispan Source Prescription Audit. The researchers determined that HCV-related hospita...Dialysis patients may be overmedicated due to unreliable blood test
...uthor of the editorial, and his research team have tracked changes in the most commonly used PTH assay. The team has also developed a more specific assay for PTH. They have found important inconsistencies in testing results, Cantor states, indicating that "careful attention to the comparability of PTH assa...MR-guided laser effective in treating liver tumors
...05, the researchers treated 2,506 liver tumors and tracked survival rates to evaluate the long-term results of the procedure. The average survival rate from the date of diagnosis was 3.8 years, which compares favorably to survival rates after traditional surgery (approximately 1.5 to 5.0 years). In LITT, als...Iron particles and MRI could replace biopsies to track stem cell therapy and deploy stents
...ade into a leg of a rabbit to see if they could be tracked in the body with the IRON-MRI technique. Results f...r applications of MRI using IRON, the Hopkins team tracked delivery of an implantable cardiac device, a stent, in a dog. The researchers successfully deployed...