السبت، 14 أبريل 2012

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News


Implantable medical device is designed to warn patients of impending heart attack

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT

Researchers have studied the benefits of an implantable medical device designed to alert users about a potential heart attack through a combination of vibrations, audible tones, and visual warnings.

How a bump on the head could have caused permanent disability

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:52 AM PDT

When Dr. Irene Gatti de Leon slipped on the ice and bumped her head, she wasn't too concerned. But two months later, she experienced weakness in her right leg and right arm, and was in imminent danger of suffering permanent disability similar to a stroke.

Dealing with infertility is a complicated journey of options and decisions

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:19 AM PDT

When you cannot become a parent without outside help, making decisions to deal with your longing is a complicated process. The world of assisted reproduction treatment is confusing, but the couples try to adapt since it is their only possibility to conceive a child together.

Changes in gene expression may help explain high blood pressure in pregnancy

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:13 AM PDT

Researchers have discovered that changes in the gene expression of a key enzyme may contribute to high blood pressure and increase susceptibility to forming blood clots in pregnant women with preeclampsia.

Jars of baby food very low in micro-nutrients, UK study suggests

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT

The micro-nutrient content in commonly used ready-made baby meals contain less than a fifth of the recommended daily supply of calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron and other minerals, new research suggests. Researchers took eight different sample jars produced by four popular brands from the shelves of leading supermarkets and investigated the micro-nutrient content. The research showed that infants given one meat jar and one vegetable jar on top of 600ml of formula milk would not be getting enough calcium, magnesium, copper and selenium. On average, the levels were below 20% of the recommended daily supply.

Symptomatic behaviour in childhood strongly predicts psychiatric treatment as a young adult

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT

A survey on the mental health of eight-year-old children could help identify those individuals who are highly likely to require psychiatric treatment in their teens or early adulthood, shows a new study.

In child sexual abuse, strangers aren't the greatest danger, experts say

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:08 AM PDT

Parents drill their children on "stranger danger," but when children are abused its most often by someone they know. This article helps parents protect their children from abuse closer to home: from family members, an adult the family trusts or another child, experts say.

In search of more polymers for medical purposes

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT

A materials engineer has taken a step forward in the development of new polymer materials. Biomaterials are being increasingly used in medicine and need to have a great variety of properties so that they can be used in all types of therapeutic applications.

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