Aprotinin, a drug used for limiting blood loss in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, is associated with an increased risk of death during five years following the surgery, according to a new study in the February 7 issue of JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.Aprotinin was first approved for use in high-risk patients needing coronary artery surgery in the United States in 1993. As background information in the article, the...Wednesday, 7-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
When it comes to body fat, today's older adults face a double whammy, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. Up until age 80, older adults not only gain fat as they age -- but because of the obesity epidemic -- they actually begin their older years fatter.The result is an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis and disability, according to Jingzhong Ding, M.D., Ph...Wednesday, 7-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Research on how junior high school students' beliefs about intelligence affect their math grades found that those who believed that intelligence can be developed performed better than those who believed intelligence is fixed. The findings come from two studies conducted by researchers at Columbia University and Stanford University, and are published in the January/February 2007 issue of the ...Wednesday, 7-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to a large study carried out in the United States older people who are lonely are far more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.This is not the first study to suggest that social isolation is linked to diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, but this latest study shows loneliness doubles the risk.The findings are the result of a study of more than 823 elderly patients with an average age of 80.7, over a four-year period.Social isolation means people have a sma...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative's (IAVI) January 2007 Annual Issue of VAX, an editorially independent bulletin on AIDS vaccine research published by IAVI, reports that 13 new preventive AIDS vaccine trials were initiated in eight countries around the world in 2006. There are now more than 30 trials ongoing in 24 countries, across every continent. This annual publication provides the only comprehensive listing of all AIDS vaccine clinical ...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
A large British study indicates that individuals with severe mental illnesses are significantly more likely to die from coronary heart disease and stroke, but not cancer, than those without mental illnesses, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.Physical health is a concern among those with severe mental illnesses, according to background information in the article. The adverse effects of antipsycho...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
People at high risk of stroke due to blocked blood vessels in the brain benefit from successful stent placement, according to a study published in the February 6, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Before now it's been unclear whether people with severe artery blockage, an important cause of stroke, had a higher subsequent stroke risk after ang...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Lonely individuals may be twice as likely to develop the type of dementia linked to Alzheimer's disease in late life as those who are not lonely, according to a study by researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center. The study is published in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Previous studies have shown that social isolation, or having few interactions w...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Teens who talk to strangers online are more likely to become victims of online harassment than those who share their personal information on the Internet, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. In addition, engaging in an overall pattern of various online behaviors is more closely linked to online interpersonal victimization than any specific behavior alone.Online interperso...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. The work was conducted by a core team of cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), an...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
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