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Huge Physical And Economic Toll Of Secondhand Smoke
Date: Sep-24-2012Secondhand smoke is accountable for 42,000 deaths annually to nonsmokers in the United States, including nearly 900 infants, according to a new UCSF study. Altogether, annual deaths from secondhand smoke represent nearly 600,000 years of potential life lost - an average of 14.2 years per person - and $6.6 billion in lost productivity, amounting to $158,000 per death, report the researchers...
Need For Aggressive Monitoring, Early Treatment For Children With Kidney Disease To Prevent Later Heart Attacks, Strokes
Date: Sep-24-2012A federally funded study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that children with mild to moderate kidney disease have abnormally thick neck arteries, a condition known as carotid atherosclerosis, usually seen in older adults with a long history of elevated cholesterol and untreated hypertension. The findings - published online ahead of print in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology - are particularly striking, the researchers say, because they point to serious blood vessel damage much earlier in the disease process than previously thought...
Bilateral Cochlear Implants May Restore Binaural Sound Processing In The Brain
Date: Sep-24-2012Cochlear implants - electronic devices surgically implanted in the ear to help provide a sense of sound - have been successfully used since the late 1980's. But questions remain as to whether bilateral cochlear implants, placed in each ear rather than the traditional single-ear implant, are truly able to facilitate binaural hearing. Now, Tel Aviv University researchers have proof that under certain conditions, this practice has the ability to salvage binaural sound processing for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. According to Dr...
Anxiety, Phobias, Post-Traumatic Stress, Panic Attacks Could Be A Thing Of The Past If Fear Can Be Erased From The Brain
Date: Sep-24-2012Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a breakthrough in research on memory and fear. Thomas Agren, a doctoral candidate at the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark, has shown, that it is possible to erase newly formed emotional memories from the human brain...
Poorer Sleep Quality And Lower Blood Oxygen Levels Experienced By COPD Patients
Date: Sep-24-2012Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience poorer sleep quality than people of a similar age without COPD, according to research published in the journal Respirology. Researchers also found an independent relationship between how well patients with COPD slept and the oxygen levels in their arterial blood. "Patients with COPD frequently report fatigue, sleepiness and impaired quality of life," says Professor Walter McNicholas from the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland...
Teenage Patients' Attitude Towards Social Media And Privacy
Date: Sep-24-2012A study of how chronically ill teenagers manage their privacy found that teen patients spend a great deal of time online and guard their privacy very consciously. "Not all my friends need to know": a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy and social media, was published this summer in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and co-authored by Norwegian and Canadian researchers...
Transmitted HIV Strains Often Resemble Original Infecting Virus In Heterosexuals
Date: Sep-24-2012A new study has found that even though HIV diversifies widely within infected individuals over time, the virus strains that ultimately are passed on through heterosexual transmission often resemble the strain of virus that originally infected the transmitting partner. Learning the characteristics of these preferentially transmitted HIV strains may help advance HIV prevention efforts, particularly with regard to an HIV vaccine, according to the scientists who conducted the study. The research was led by Andrew D. Redd, Ph.D., staff scientist, and Thomas C. Quinn, M.D...
Variation In Care For Children With Epilepsy Revealed In First UK-Wide Audit
Date: Sep-24-2012About 1 in 200 children in the UK are affected by epilepsy - yet the standard of care they receive remains variable, according to the results of the UK's first national audit of epilepsy care for children and young people. Led by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and funded by the Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), the Epilepsy12 Audit report, launched today, examines the provision of healthcare for children with suspected epileptic seizures against 12 standard measures...
Potential Solution To Reducing Inflammation
Date: Sep-24-2012Research carried out at The University of Manchester has found further evidence that a simple solution, which is already used in IV drips, is an effective treatment for reducing inflammation. The researchers also identified that hypertonic solution, which is a solution with an elevated concentration of salt, can ease inflammation purely through bathing in it - proving the Victorians were right to visit spa towns to "take the waters" for ailments like rheumatoid arthritis...
Battles Between Steroid Receptors To Regulate Fat Accumulation
Date: Sep-24-2012The androgen receptor in human cells inhibits fat accumulation, but its activity can be sabotaged by glucocorticoids, steroids that regulate fat deposition and are known drivers of obesity and insulin resistance, said researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the journal Chemistry & Biology.* "The project started with a straightforward search for genes or signals specific to human fat cells," said Dr. Michael A. Mancini, professor of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, and director of its Integrated Microscopy Core. He is senior author of the report and Dr...
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