When newborns are exposed to the odor of their own amniotic fluid during the separation period following birth, infant distress can be lessened, according to Vanderbilt University researcher Richard Porter, whose previous studies found that babies locate their mother's nipple by its scent.
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified genetic mutations that appear to cause or contribute to more than half of all non-inherited or sporadic cases of the deadly muscle disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
The leather weightlifting belts worn by many people while working out at health clubs may hinder development of back and abdominal muscles and are not needed by most weightlifters, according to a study by Sohail Ahmad, M.D., chief resident physician in orthopedic surgery at Albany Medical Center.
Physicians reporting at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting this week will describe how the Digital Holography System from Voxel (NASDAQ:VOXL) improves the display of trauma and anomalies of the cervical spine.
The cholesterol-lowering effect of soy is the result of natural compounds in the soy known as isoflavones, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers reported today at an American Heart Association meeting in Santa Fe, NM. John R. Crouse III, M.D., said the project was the first to dissect the effects of isoflavones in soy from the overall soybean.
Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy markedly reduces the occurrence of atherosclerosis in the internal carotid artery in monkeys, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center research team reported today. Hormone replacement therapy from soy protein with phytoestrogens provided equivalent stroke-prevention benefits to the standard Premarin therapy prepared from mammalian estrogens.
Soy proteins contain "phytoestrogens" -- biochemical cousins of the female hormone that are a possible alternative therapy to protect against artery disease. In a new 3-year study, postmenopausal cynomolgus monkeys were fed an artery disease-causing diet.
Adding more fuel to this ongoing research debate is a new analysis by the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study: Data from 577 symptom-free utility workers age 40 to 60 show a "significant" relation between total alcohol intake and fractionally less thickness of the wall of the large carotid artery in the neck -- but only in women.
In a large study involving 12,466 middle-aged African and European Americans, researchers report finding a "strong association" between at least two episodes of angina pectoris (chest pain due to heart disease) and migraine headaches, especially in those who also experience "aura," the visual sensation that can accompany migraine.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Sex-related differences in an enzyme that breaks down blood fats -- particularly "bad cholesterol" known as LDL -- may explain why men develop heart disease earlier than women, say scientists today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Genetic make-up may significantly influence how a person responds to a cholesterol-lowering drug, according to researchers who presented their findings at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference today.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- As men and women add extra fat over the years, a silent killer -- high blood pressure -- is creeping up along with the numbers on the weight scales, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
The University of South Florida College of Medicine is the lead center for a federally-approved study investigating the safety and effectiveness of transplanting brain cells from pig embryos into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease.
U.S. physicians should "take their blinders off" and embrace the use of natural antioxidants and other natural forms of patient care backed by scientific research, said Nancy Snyderman, M.D., renowned physician, journalist and author.
New Orleans and San Francisco, March 17, 1998 "” A novel cartilage-transplant technique, performed on an out-patient basis, was shown to repair injured and arthritic knee joints, in a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in New Orleans.
A new screening method helps determine which athletes with torn knee ligaments can safely delay surgery to complete a sports season, University of Delaware researchers reported today. "For athletes, the question is always, 'Can we play them now and fix them later?'" explains UD's Lynn Snyder-Mackler. "And, weekend athletes looking forward to a skiing vacation or workers who can't take time off also should benefit."
DALLAS, March 20 -- Just because you're getting older doesn't mean senility is inevitable. In fact, a Swedish study published in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association suggests that controlling blood pressure may help prevent the memory loss associated with aging.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- With U.S. cigar sales up 44 percent since 1993, a major new health study on the effects of cigar smoking offers both good news and bad news for the growing number of American men and women now puffing "stogies," say researchers today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
A new "meta-analysis" of data from 14 studies involving 6,166 individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD) finds that passive smoking was associated with an overall 23 percent increase in the risk of CHD among men and women who had never smoked.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Blood clotting abnormalities, which have emerged as a potential risk factor for heart disease and stroke, appear to run in families, according to two studies reported today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- T'ai chi -- a slow, relaxed physical activity program created in ancient China -- lowered blood pressure in older adults nearly as much as moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Feeling more confused than enlightened after reading or hearing about the latest dietary study du jour? Newly-released guidelines, based on an advisory group convened by the Harvard School of Public Health and the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation, aim to help the public have a better understanding of emerging nutrition, food safety and health science.
Studies covering topics ranging from computer- assisted mammography to the role of ultrasound in breast cancer detection will be presented at the 28th National Conference on Breast Cancer. The meeting, sponsored by the American College of Radiology, will be held April 18-21 at the Marriott Hotel on Woodley Road in Washington, DC.
According to the current issue of Tobacco Control, the number of U.S. smokers who successfully quit every year has increased approximately 20 percent since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the over-the-counter (OTC) sale of nicotine medications to help smokers quit just two years ago.
Results of a new study demonstrate Accolate (zafirlukast), the oral asthma controller therapy from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, may have a positive additive effect for symptomatic asthma patients on low-dose inhaled corticosteroids. The study data were introduced today in a scientific presentation at the 54th annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
From the March 1998 Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: 1) First Case of Lyme Disease in Taiwan, 2) Oysters in Chesapeake Bay Contain Cryptosporidium, 3) Progesterone Affects Chlamydia's Infectivity
Older adults with high blood pressure can be quite successful at changing their eating and exercise habits -- and can often stop taking blood pressure medicine as a result, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and three other medical centers reported in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
STANFORD - The act of sniffing may be a wake-up call, alerting the brain to the imminent arrival of a smell, Stanford researchers propose.
In the March 18, 1998 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers say reduced sodium intake and weight loss constitute a feasible, effective and safe non-drug approach of treating high blood pressure in older persons.
The genetic defect responsible for progressive rod-cone degeneration (prcd), a form of progressive retinal atrophy known to cause blindness in at least five breeds of dogs, appears to be the canine version of the gene defect producing RP17, one of the numerous forms of retinitis pigmentosa that cause blindness in human families, researchers at Cornell University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center report.
A new study helps determine the risk of developing multiple sclerosis for siblings of MS patients. The study is published in the March issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology
The multiple sclerosis drug glatiramer acetate (previously called copolymer 1) sustains its effect for patients for at least two-and-a-half years, according to a study published in the March issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal.
Winston-Salem, NC -- New findings from a large-scale study of estrogen replacement therapy help show why the treatment may help reduce a woman's risk of a heart attack. Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Intervention (PEPI) study show estrogen replacement therapy, with or without progestin, "produces consistent and sustained reductions in plasma lipoprotein (a) concentrations," said Mark A. Espeland, Ph.D., professor and head of the Section on Biostatistics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Scientific research shows that Seroquel (R) (quetiapine fumarate) tablets, the newest of the atypical antipsychotics, reduces hostility and aggression in people with psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
Mayo Clinic Health O@sis (www.mayohealth.org) has won the 1998 international Webby Award for best Internet health site and has been named a finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards.
Johns Hopkins researchers have new evidence supporting a controversial theory that asthma is partially caused by the failure of deep breaths to relax constricted lung muscles enough to let in more air.
One in 10 health care workers frequently exposed to rubber surgical and examination gloves is on the cusp of developing allergy symptoms that could seriously affect both their health and their careers, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
DALLAS, March 17 -- The absence of emotional support for elderly women hospitalized for heart failure places them at high risk for additional heart problems, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 17 -- Hormone replacement therapy may help reduce a woman's risk of heart attack, by lowering blood levels of the most potentially destructive form of cholesterol, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 17 -- Statins, the newest class of cholesterol-reducing drugs, dramatically lower the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and other causes, according to a study reported in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Pelvic congestive syndrome, a painful disorder in women, which often goes undiagnosed and untreated, can usually be cured by plugging blood vessels in the ovaries, according to a study by a Johns Hopkins radiologist.
Physicians today reviewed the impact of the newest class of asthma medications, antileukotrienes, on the management of asthma symptoms in a scientific symposium funded by an education grant from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals at the 54th annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
Low estrogen levels caused more than 50 percent miscarriage in pregnant baboons, primates whose hormones during pregnancy act much like those of humans. The fetuses died before miscarriage.
1) Exposure to passive smoking causes the aorta to lose its elasticity. 2) Over 30 percent of gallstone disease can be prevented by 30 minutes of endurance type exercise five times a week. 3) Low cholesterol is associated with high risk for violent death. 4) Is managed care a "monstrous hybrid?" 5) Thalidomide is effective in treating Behcet syndrome.
After four months in cardiac intensive care, a 56-year-old Baltimore County woman woke up at the University of Maryland Medical Center with a new heart on Valentine's Day. What makes this transplant unusual is that it was a ìdirected donationî ñ a rare occurrence in which an organ donorÃs family may designate the recipient.
1.Smell Loss an Early Indicator of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases; 2.Newly Found Endothelial Receptor Implicated in Both Heart Disease and AIDS; 3. DNA Vaccination Lowers HIV-1 Viral Load in Infected Chimpanzees
Phase I clinical trials of fluasterone, a synthetic steroid with many potential therapeutic and preventive uses, show it is safe at high doses, well tolerated and not metabolized to testosterone or estrogen in men or women.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public have found that a simplified regimen of treatment provided protection against tuberculosis in HIV-infected, PPD-positive adults.
As the number of Americans with asthma--and the number of asthma deaths each year--continue to rise, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals released results of their recently sponsored survey which was conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide. The survey assessed asthma patients' attitudes and compliance with their medication.
Marietta, GA ñ March 11, 1998 ñ Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market the lowest oral estrogen dose -- 0.3 mg ESTRATAB (tm) (Esterified Estrogens Tablets, USP) -- for the prevention of osteoporosis.
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