Dr. Tracy Rupp has won the 2008 National Sleep Foundation Young Investigator Award. A total of 106 abstracts from young sleep researchers (i.e., within 5 years of having obtained the doctoral degree) were submitted to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). Each submission was rated by a team of 3 established sleep researchers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others' success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success, according to an analysis of 80 years of research. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center will present their latest research findings at the American College of Cardiology's 57th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago, March 29 to April 1. Among the most significant presentations are the following:Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents for Transplant Allograft VasculopathyDr. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Expanded use of palliative care services is associated with enhanced communications between families and caregivers, improved symptoms management, and better quality of life for children dying from cancer, according to study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
A study published early online in the journal JAMAconcludes that patients who received angioplasty after a heart attackand who received stents that released the drug sirolimus were much lesslikely to experience major adverse cardiac events in the following 8months compared to those patients who received uncoatedstents. Marco Valgimigli, M.D., Ph.D. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Last May, a widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn't sound right to the cardiac electrophysiologists at Children's Hospital Boston, who've seen hundreds of children, teens and young adults with heart conditions requiring pacemakers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
A child spikes a high fever, sometimes as high as 104 or 105 degrees, and sometimes causing seizures. She's rushed to the emergency room, the hospital runs test after test, specialists are brought in, but no explanation is found.Many families though no one knows how many go through this cyclical nightmare. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Prasugrel has been shown to block platelet activity in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) more effectively than clopidogrel, and to cut by more than half the risk of thrombosis, or blood clotting, inside the coronary stent. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Using a simple blood test to individualize the loading dose of a medication that prevents blood clotting significantly reduces the risk of major cardiovascular complications after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), according to a multicenter study reported in a Late-Breaking Clinica Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
A large randomized trial will shed light on the ideal combination of medications for preventing unwanted blood clotting during and shortly after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
New games releases for spring 2008 include a range of sport themes, with a new version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 specially for Wii, a blue tennis-playing hedgehog, high-def racing cars... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:49 am
They may be the scourge of cityscapes and the countryside and the bane of environmentalists, but discarded plastic bags have spawned a growing and lucrative cottage industry in Ivory Coast. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:29 am
In some parts of the world, a television in the classroom might be a diversion for students. But in remote areas of the immense Amazon jungle in Brazil, it's an educational... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:22 am
Ten years after Viagra hit the market, revisiting some of The Times’s reporting on the drug’s first months. Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:58 am
Jody P. Weis, superintendent of the Chicago police, has shocked the ranks with talk of mandatory fitness tests and maximum body-fat allowances for officers. Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:50 am
When six Mekong country premiers meet in Laos from Sunday, China will be the elephant in the room, having lavished highways and sports stadiums on its neighbours and expanded its search for Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:35 am
Mental health insurance parity raises all sorts of tricky questions. Is an ailment a legitimate disease if you can’t test for it? Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:22 am
The study, presented at an ACC satellite session, combined all known randomized trials and registry studies of Cypher and Taxus drug-eluting stents vs bare-metal stents and suggests that DES are just as safe as bare-metal stents, even when used off label and in the "real world." Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 2:21 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Young people who continue to smoke after a heart attack are three times more likely to have future heart problems than survivors who kick the habit, Greek researchers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:56 am
The largest-ever clinical analysis and comparison of PCI centers with and without surgical backup in the US has shown that PCI facilities without on-site surgery have similar outcomes to centers with traditional backup. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:08 am
Investigators report a definite stent thrombosis recurrence in nearly 20% of patients who had an initial event; nearly 15% of patients who had a first stent thrombosis died during follow-up. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 12:50 am
Experts are quibbling over the heparin dose and definitions of bleeding used in the study, but investigators for the study insist that the results are meaningful, particularly in the US, where some clinicians are already substituting bivalirudin for heparin in troponin-negative patients undergoing elective PCI. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 12:40 am
A small randomized trial opens the door to the prospect of individualized pre-PCI clopidogrel dosage increases to overcome "resistance" to the antiplatelet drug; patients with the titrated dosage increases had fewer clinical events over 30 days. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 12:25 am
A new analysis from the TRITON-TIMI 38 trial shows similar significant reductions in stent thrombosis with prasugrel vs clopidogrel irrespective of stent type and stent-thrombosis definition. The risk of stent thrombosis will therefore be another factor that can be considered when weighing which of these antiplatelet agents to use, TRITON investigators said. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 12:07 am
England's TB rate is rising because measures to prevent the disease are not being used, health campaigners say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Mar 2008 | 11:59 pm
Captain Haddock would have choked on his whisky: original artwork for a Tintin comic book fetched a record 764,200 euros (1.2 million dollars) at a Paris auction Saturday, organiser... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Mar 2008 | 9:50 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Patients with heart failure are especially vulnerable to influenza and most doctors recommend they get flu shots, but a study suggests these annual jabs may not offer... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Mar 2008 | 9:46 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Treating a stent-related blood clot with an additional stent in an emergency procedure sharply raises the risk that a patient will get a second clot and should be... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Mar 2008 | 9:35 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the commonly used blood thinner heparin is recalled around the world and some doctors worry about shortages, researchers say the anti-clotting drug Angiomax works... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Mar 2008 | 9:29 pm
Thousands of disabled people demonstrated in the streets of Paris to demand higher benefit payments, while separate protests unrolled across France against proposed pension reforms. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Mar 2008 | 8:45 pm
The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C. March 29, 2008 Mar. 29--CHAPEL HILL -- Most people occasionally worry about germs, strange noises in the night or whether they forgot to turn off the oven before leaving on vacation. But for as many as 5 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder -- also known as OCD -- such anxieties are constant, and... Source: PsycPORT.com | 29 Mar 2008 | 11:06 am
