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- Blackouts and near drownings may signal sudden death risk
- Most healthy women would benefit from light meal during labor
- Pediatric patients prescribed more opioids than needed for pain after surgery
- Magnesium during labor may reduce risk of fever in mothers and complications in babies
- The American Academy of Pediatrics tackles youth football injuries
- New hope for the treatment of multiple sclerosis
- Novel link between genetics and movement control
- Resistance developing in drug treatment for tropical skin disease
- Interrupting the transmission cycle: A protein required for dengue virus infection of mosquitoes
- Monitoring critical blood levels in real time in the ICU
| Blackouts and near drownings may signal sudden death risk Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:27 AM PDT Blackouts and near drowning events may signal an increased risk of sudden death, reveals new research. Such events point to long QT syndrome, a genetic heart condition that can be undetected or misdiagnosed as epilepsy or a panic attack. |
| Most healthy women would benefit from light meal during labor Posted: 24 Oct 2015 10:07 PM PDT Most healthy women can skip the fasting and, in fact, would benefit from eating a light meal during labor, suggests new research. Improvements in anesthesia care have made pain control during labor safer, reducing risks related to eating, researchers note. |
| Pediatric patients prescribed more opioids than needed for pain after surgery Posted: 24 Oct 2015 10:07 PM PDT Although it is not uncommon for pediatric patients to be prescribed opioids to treat certain types of moderate to severe pain, new research suggests these patients may be prescribed more opioids than necessary following surgery. A new study found nearly 60 percent of opioids dispensed to pediatric patients following surgery remained unused, which could lead to the unused medication being abused by other adolescents in the household. |
| Magnesium during labor may reduce risk of fever in mothers and complications in babies Posted: 24 Oct 2015 10:07 PM PDT Women who received magnesium sulfate during labor were less likely to develop maternal fever, a condition that can lead to a variety of complications in newborns including difficulty breathing, seizures, cerebral palsy and a condition known as "floppy baby syndrome," characterized by inadequate muscle tone, according to a retrospective study. |
| The American Academy of Pediatrics tackles youth football injuries Posted: 24 Oct 2015 10:06 PM PDT With football remaining one of the most popular sports for children and teens, the American Academy of Pediatrics is issuing new recommendations to improve the safety of all players while on the field. |
| New hope for the treatment of multiple sclerosis Posted: 22 Oct 2015 04:19 PM PDT A new study gets closer to identifying the mechanisms responsible for multiple sclerosis and makes headway in the search for better treatments. |
| Novel link between genetics and movement control Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:12 PM PDT A small molecule in cells that was believed to have no impact on animal behavior could in fact be responsible for controlling precise movements, according to new research. |
| Resistance developing in drug treatment for tropical skin disease Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:11 PM PDT Dermal leishmaniasis is an ulcerous skin disease caused by a tropical parasite, all forms of which can be treated with the drug miltefosine. Researchers in India studied the responses of 86 patients treated with miltefosine over 18 months that indicated a developing parasitic resistance to the drug, supporting a growing evidence base showing the rise of miltefosine resistance. |
| Interrupting the transmission cycle: A protein required for dengue virus infection of mosquitoes Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:11 PM PDT An estimated 2 billion people are at risk for being bitten by Aedes mosquitoes and infected with the dengue virus (DENV). A new study introduces a candidate target for a transmission-blocking vaccine that interferes with virus infection of the mosquito after it feeds on the blood of infected hosts (such a vaccine would be a valuable complement to traditional DENV vaccines in development that seek to prevent human infection). |
| Monitoring critical blood levels in real time in the ICU Posted: 22 Oct 2015 01:11 PM PDT For patients in intensive care, knowing how much glucose, lactate and other substances are in the blood is a question of life or death. Researchers have developed a miniaturized microfluidic device that will allow medical staff to monitor these levels in real time and react more quickly. |
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