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Attitudes Towards Mental Illness Suffer Following Media Coverage Of Mass Shootings
Date: Mar-23-2013News stories about mass shootings involving a shooter with mental illness heighten readers' negative attitudes toward persons with serious mental illness, according to a new report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers also examined how such news stories impact support for policies to reduce gun violence...
Younger Children Inspired By Teen Mentors To Make Healthier Choices
Date: Mar-23-2013An obesity intervention taught by teen mentors in Appalachian elementary schools resulted in weight loss, lower blood pressure and healthy lifestyle changes among the younger students learning the curriculum, according to a new study. In contrast, children taught the same lessons by adults in a traditional classroom saw no changes in their health outcomes. The results of the eight-week clinical trial conducted by Ohio State University researchers suggest that school systems could consider using teen mentors to instruct younger children in select health-related programs...
Energy Drink Consumption Linked To Increased Blood Pressure
Date: Mar-23-2013Energy drinks can drastically increase blood pressure and disturb the heart's natural rhythm, say researchers who presented their findings at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2013 Scientific Sessions. Using previous data published in several different studies, the researchers, from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, and the the David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, both in California, were able to determine the effects energy drink consumption has on cardiovascular health...
High Salt Consumption Caused 2.3 Million Deaths In 2010
Date: Mar-23-2013In 2010, salt contributed to 2.3 million deaths from strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular disease globally - approximately 15% of all deaths, says a study carried out by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. The research was presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2013 Scientific Sessions...
FDA Proposes To Improve External Defibrillators
Date: Mar-23-2013A proposal to improve the quality and reliability of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Manufacturers of these life-saving devices will need to send in pre-market approval (PMA) applications if the proposed order is finalized. AEDs are medical tools that are portable and electronic. By using electrical stimulation, they are able to automatically re-establish regular heart rhythms when they sense possibly fatal cardiac arrhythmia. Many lives have been saved over the years because of AEDs...
Planetary Stability Must Be Integrated With UN Targets To Fight Poverty And Secure Human Well-Being
Date: Mar-23-2013In the wake of last week's meetings at the UN on the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a group of international scientists have published a call in the journal Nature today, arguing for a set of six SDGs that link poverty eradication to protection of Earth's life support. The researchers argue that in the face of increasing pressure on the planet's ability to support life, adherence to out-dated definitions of sustainable development threaten to reverse progress made in developing countries over past decades...
Radiation Oncologists Study 'Toxicity Map' Of Brain To Help Protect Cognition For Cancer Patients
Date: Mar-23-2013New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer. Ann M. Peiffer, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist, and colleagues looked at how radiation treatment to different brain areas impacts function to help protect cognition for patients during and after radiation therapy and beyond...
FDA Approves Dotarem® (Gadoterate Meglumine), First Macrocyclic And Ionic Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent In USA
Date: Mar-23-2013Guerbet have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dotarem® (gadoterate meglumine), a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) indicated for intravenous use with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in brain (intracranial), spine and associated tissues in adult and pediatric patients (2 years of age and older) to detect and visualize areas with disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and/or abnormal vascularity...
Calculating Risk Of Post-Surgical Venous Thromboembolisms
Date: Mar-23-2013New research from the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, published in the Journal of Surgical Research, may help clinicians determine which patients are at highest risk for post-surgical blood clots in the legs or lungs. A team led by Robert Canter, UC Davis associate professor of surgery, studied the medical histories of more than 470,000 surgical patients to determine which factors increased their risk of blood clots, also called venous thromboembolism (VTE). The team then created a nomogram, a type of calculator, which can help clinicians predict an individual's 30-day VTE risk...
In Rat Model, The Neurological Basis Of Decision-Making Revealed By Brain Mapping
Date: Mar-23-2013Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how memory recall is linked to decision-making in rats, showing that measurable activity in one part of the brain occurs when rats in a maze are playing out memories that help them decide which way to turn. The more they play out these memories, the more likely they are to find their way correctly to the end of the maze...
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