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Safe Sleep Environments Key to Preventing Many Infant Deaths, MU Researcher Says

By Guest PostApril 20, 2012Healthback to sleep, california, campaign, delaware, hawaii, heather dykstra, infant, injury prevention, michigan, nevada, ohio, patricia schnitzer, Pennsylvania, sids, sleep environment, soft bedding, suids, tennessee, texas, theresa covington, united states, university of missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Since 1992, the government’s Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University of Missouri injury prevention researcher says that safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical to preventing sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs).

“Many of these SUIDs are due to unsafe sleep environments, and these deaths are totally preventable,” said Patricia Schnitzer, an associate professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. “The safest place for infants to sleep is on their backs in their own cribs without soft bedding.” (more…)

New Findings in Breast Cancer

By Guest PostApril 20, 2012Healthbreast cancer, breast cancer research, invasive tumors, treatment design, tumorigenic cells, tumorigenicity

Results from Berkeley Lab and University of Copenhagen Collaboration Contradict Current Views on Cancer Stem Cells

New findings in breast cancer research by an international team of scientists contradict the prevailing belief that only basal-like cells with stem cell qualities can form invasive tumors. Research led by Ole William Petersen at the University of Copenhagen (CU) and Mina Bissell of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and has shown that luminal-like cells with no detectable stem cell qualities can generate larger tumors than their basal-like counterparts. This may hold important implications for the diagnosis and the treatment of breast cancer as well as future personalized cancer medicine. (more…)

Rebuilding a Heart, Saving a Life

By Guest PostApril 19, 2012Healthamerican patient, angela irizarry, birthday, blood vessel, blue babies, bone marrow, bridgeport, cardiac surgeon, christopher breuer, circulatory system, claudia irizarry, congenital heart defect, connecticut, fda, function, gary kopf, hypoplastic, infection, inflammatory response, left heart syndrome, mark saltzman, natural cell, operation, organ, oxygenated blood, polymer, synthetic grafts, synthetic nature, tissue engineered, toshi shinoka, united states, yale doctor, young girl

A young girl in Bridgeport, Connecticut, born with one of the most serious, life-threatening congenital heart defects known, is on her way to living a normal life thanks to Yale doctors who developed and performed the first operation of its kind in the United States.

Angela Irizarry was the first American patient to receive a tissue-engineered blood vessel made of her own natural cells. (more…)

Stress About Wife’s Breast Cancer Can Harm A Man’s Health

By Guest PostApril 18, 2012Healthbreast cancer, cancer diagnosis, caroline dorfman, coughing, disease, gastrointestinal problems, hae chung yang, headaches, Health, immune dysregulation, kristen carpenter, laura simonelli, men, nausea, negative effect, ohio state, ohio state university, physical symptom, sharla wells di gregorio, stress assessment, stress symptom, symptom, treatment, weaker immune, william carson, wive

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men’s health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research.

Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives’ cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed. (more…)

Scientists Find Possible Cause of Movement Defects in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

By Guest PostApril 15, 2012Healthamino acid, childhood disorder, christine beattie, emily caldwell, function, gene, genetic link, genetic manipulation, le hao, levels of protein, marc wolman, michael granato, motor neuron, muscle weakness, nerve cell, plastin 3, protein, sma, smn, spinal cord, spinal muscular atrophy, zebrafish

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An abnormally low level of a protein in certain nerve cells is linked to movement problems that characterize the deadly childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research in animals suggests.

Spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, is caused when a child’s motor neurons – nerve cells that send signals from the spinal cord to muscles – produce insufficient amounts of what is called survival motor neuron protein, or SMN. This causes motor neurons to die, leading to muscle weakness and the inability to move. (more…)

Heart Failure Patients with Diabetes May Benefit From Higher Glucose Levels

By Guest PostApril 12, 2012Healthblood glucose, diabetes, diabetes patients, heart failure, heart failure patients, risk of death, survival rates

Lowering glucose levels for people with diabetes is normally critical to improving health outcomes. But for diabetes patients with heart failure, that might not always be the case, say UCLA researchers. (more…)

Non-cancerous Brain Tumors Linked to Frequent Dental X-rays

By Guest PostApril 11, 2012Healthbrain tumor, california, central nervous system, connecticut, dental xrays, elizabeth claus, joellen schildkraut, joseph wiemels, lisa calvocoressi, margaret wrensch, massachusetts, melissa bondy, meninges, meningioma, motor control, non cancerous, north Carolina, panorex dental exam, texas, yale

People who received frequent dental X-rays in the past, before dosages were lowered, have an increased risk of developing a meningioma, the most common and potentially debilitating type of non-cancerous brain tumor, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is published online in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society.

Meningioma is listed as a rare disease by the National Institutes of Health. The estimated incidence is up to 8 out of 100,000 people, and it occurs more frequently among women than men. Although it is the most frequently diagnosed type of brain tumor, meningioma is listed as a rare disease by the National Institutes of Health. Tumors develop in a membrane that envelops the brain and the central nervous system known as the meninges. They can grow undetected for years and eventually reach the size of a baseball or larger. While they are not cancerous, they can cause debilitating side effects such as headaches, vision problems, and loss of speech and motor control. (more…)

Wearable Artificial Kidney to Be Tested For Safety and Effectiveness in Collaboration with FDA

By Guest PostApril 10, 2012Healthartificial kidney, dialysis community, kidney failure, kidney transplants, renal disease, wearable artificial kidney

A wearable artificial kidney, designed as a new treatment for kidney failure, will be tested in Seattle. The trial will be done in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration under a new Innovations Pathway announced Monday. (more…)

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