Frequent bouts of depression, anxiety, hostility and anger are known to increase a person’s risk for developing coronary heart disease, but a combination of these “negative” personality traits may put people at especially serious risk, according to a study by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Prescription sleep aids may do little to improve the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A new study published in the November issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), finds that patients with OSA who were given prescription sleep aids were no more likely to use their CPAP machines than patients with OSA taking a placebo.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today said yesterday’s pulse polio campaign was successful but admitted that the programme missed some of the pockets in Uttar Pradesh due to apprehensions of local people.
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today unveiled a range of new cardiovascular solutions that supply cardiologists with insightful clinical knowledge for more confident diagnoses at the 2006 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions meeting. At AHA, Philips revealed the industry?s smallest transducer for 4D cardiac ultrasound imaging in infants and children to help cardiologists accurately view a patient?s cardiac structure and blood flow by improving access to the heart.
A dioxin toxin contained in the herbicide Agent Orange affects male reproductive health by limiting the growth of the prostate gland and lowering testosterone levels, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a cohort study of more than 2,000 Air Force veterans who served during the Vietnam War.
Obese patients are more likely to have a recurrence of colon cancer than their normal-weight counterparts and face an increased risk of dying from the disease, while it’s not clear that losing weight would improve their prognosis.
Nine factors were good predictors of which middle-aged men would live healthily into their 80s and beyond, concluded a 40-year study of nearly 6,000 Japanese-American men living in the US state of Hawaii.
Tsunami warnings and watches prompted by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake were canceled from eastern Russia to the South Pacific after experts said there was no longer a threat to coastal areas. U.S. tsunami warning centers announced the cancellations in e-mailed statements as seismologists revised the magnitude of the undersea quake in the northern Pacific from the initial 8.1. The quake struck today off Russia’s Kuril Islands at 8:15 p.m. Tokyo time at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles).
Research led by King’s scientists, and published online in the journal Nature, sheds new light on the development of the immune cells which are critical in fighting infection and some tumours. It may also provide clues to the mystery of why autoimmune diseases in women often go into remission during pregnancy.
Surrey police have advised that eight vials (total 147 gram) of a toxic chemical, potassium cyanoaurate (also known as gold potassium cyanide), went missing from a business in Woking after delivery to Blackburn was arranged on Thursday 2 November. It is not currently known if the package was stolen or is missing in transit.