Penn Medicine researchers discover link between fear and sound perception
• Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 01 13
Anyone who’s ever heard a Beethoven sonata or a Beatles song knows how powerfully sound can affect our emotions. But it can work…
Different neuronal groups govern right-left alternation when walking
• Neurology • Jul 01 13
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified the neuronal circuits in the spinal cord of mice that control the ability to produce the…
Can watching an avatar translate to real-life weight loss?
• Obesity • • Weight Loss • Jul 01 13
An estimated two-thirds of all Americans are overweight or obese and many find it difficult to lose weight and keep it off. They’ve tried…
After Midnight, Night Owls Gorge, Piling On The Calories
• Dieting • Jun 30 13
Now we know what you’re doing when you’re staying up late. You’re eating 553 calories.
That’s the equivalent of a Big Mac, and also…
Headache Docs Hard to Find in Many States
• Headaches • • Public Health • Jun 30 13
Only 416 physicians in the U.S. are certified headache specialists, meaning there is just one for every 73,661 migraine sufferers, researchers reported here.
With…
Drug Combo May Cut Stroke Risk After TIA
• Stroke • Jun 30 13
Stroke risk declined by a third in people who took a combination of antiplatelet drugs after having a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor…
USF study links cardiac hormone-related inflammatory pathway with tumor growth
• Cancer • • Heart • Jun 29 13
A cardiac hormone signaling receptor abundantly expressed both in inflamed tissues and cancers appears to recruit stem cells that form the blood vessels needed…
Rare Weight Lifting Injury Required Surgery
• Emergencies / First Aid • Jun 29 13
A young, healthy man injured himself so severely while weight lifting that he required surgery and nearly a full week in the hospital to…
Scientists discover new mechanism regulating the immune response
• Immunology • Jun 28 13
Scientists at an Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence have discovered a new mechanism regulating the immune response that can leave a person susceptible…
Registered dietitians help critically ill children get necessary nutrition for recovery
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Jun 28 13
For the first time, researchers investigated enteral nutrition and caloric requirements (CR) among critically ill children in a new report published in the Journal…
Govt bans popular diabetes drug and analgin
• Drug Abuse • Jun 27 13
The government has banned three popular medicines - the widely prescribed anti-diabetes drug pioglitazone, painkiller analgin and anti-depressant deanxit - in the wake of…
Curious reaction to honey ‘can cause heart arrhythmia’
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Jun 27 13
Eating honey made from the pollen of rhododendrons can trigger heart arrhythmias, warn experts.
Cardiologists told a European meeting about an…
Stress: it should never be ignored!
• Neurology • Jun 27 13
Work pressure, tension at home, financial difficulties … the list of causes of stress grows longer every day. There have been several studies in…
People with a disability more likely to be obese, have chronic illnesses
• Obesity • • Public Health • Jun 27 13
Adults with a disability are more likely to be obese or extremely obese than those without a disability according to a study led by…
Nurse practitioners can boost quality of care for older patients with chronic conditions
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Jun 27 13
U.S. residents today are living longer than previous generations, thanks to improved public health and medical treatment. But they’re also living longer with chronic…
Toward broad-spectrum antiviral drugs for common cold and other infections
• Drug News • • Infections • Jun 27 13
Scientists are reporting progress in the search for the first broad-spectrum drugs to combat human rhinoviruses (HRVs), which cause humanity’s most common infectious diseases.…
Have a brain injury? You may be at higher risk for stroke
• Brain • • Trauma & Injuries • • Stroke • Jun 27 13
People who have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be more likely to have a future stroke, according to research that appears in the…
Race apparently a factor in sleep apnea, Wayne State University researcher finds
• Respiratory Problems • • Sleep Aid • Jun 26 13
A Wayne State University researcher has found that sleep apnea severity is higher among African-American men in certain age ranges, even after controlling for…
New Data Support Community-Wide Approach to Addressing Child Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 26 13
Community wide interventions hold promise as an effective approach to reducing childhood obesity rates according to new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition…
Huge falls in diabetes mortality in UK and Canada since mid-1990s
• Diabetes • • Mortality and Morbidity • Jun 26 13
Both the UK and Canada have experienced huge falls in diabetes-related mortality since the mid-1990s, with the result that the gap in mortality risk…
Exercise benefits patients with type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • • Physical activity -exercise • • Public Health • Jun 25 13
Moderate-intensity exercise reduces fat stored around the heart, in the liver and in the abdomen of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, even in…
Patient factors play key role in emergency department imaging
• Emergencies / First Aid • • Public Health • Jun 25 13
Despite concerns to the contrary, very little of the variation in Emergency Department (ED) imaging utilization is attributable to physician experience, training or gender,…
New understanding of why anti-cancer therapy stops working at a specific stage
• Cancer • Jun 24 13
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in California have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how and why a promising anti-cancer therapy has…
No evidence of increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome following vaccination
• Immunology • • Infections • • Neurology • Jun 24 13
Patients are not at increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome in the six-week period after vaccination with any vaccine, including influenza, according to a…
U-shaped curve revealed for association between fish consumption and atrial fibrillation
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Jun 24 13
Moderation seems to be key when it comes to eating fish to prevent atrial fibrillation (AF) according to an observational study presented at the…