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St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix offers special test for children with stroke risk
Children's Rehabilitative Services (CRS) at St. Joseph's Children's Health Center in Phoenix is using a special ultrasound to identify the risk for stroke in children who have sickle cell disease.   view more (2006-01-31)

Monitoring of blood flow to the brain could prevent brain damage
University of Southampton engineers believe that monitoring blood flow to the brains of head injury patients could potentially reduce the incidence of brain damage and long-term disability, and are developing methods of using ultrasound to do this. With many years experience in studying the rise... view more (2003-04-30)

Brain Research To Help In Fight Against Cardiovascular Disease
Scientists at the University of Liverpool, supported by the British Heart Foundation, are studying blood flow in the brain to further medical understanding of cardiovascular disease.   view more (2005-03-21)

Risk of birth complications varies between racial groups
Babies born to South Asian women are at a higher risk of perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) than babies born to black or white women, concludes a study published online by the BMJ today.   view more (2007-03-02)

Stress Is Founded To Be Associated With Hyperprolactinemia
A group of Italian investigators headed by Nicoletta Sonino (University of Padova) has performed the first controlled investigation on the relationship between stressful life events and an endocrine disease characterized by increased prolactin levels (hyperprolactinemia). Little is known about the... view more (2004-07-20)

Deakin University discovery could lead to new leukaemia treatments
Deakin University scientists have identified a protein that could hold the key to new leukaemia treatments.   view more (2006-11-07)

Study confirms vCJD could be transmitted by blood transfusion
The findings underline the importance of precautions against vCJD transmission, such as the Government decision in 2004 to ban blood donations from anyone who had received a blood transfusion since 1980.   view more (2008-08-29)

COLONOSCOPY DANGER? (p 282)
Physicians should monitor blood sodium concentrations in patients developing long-term psychological or neurological symptoms after colonoscopy, report the authors of a research letter published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. After observing an unusual case of colonoscopy-induced hyponatraemic... view more (2001-01-24)

A washing machine for blood
Blood poisoning is fatal in almost half of all cases. Patients could be helped by efficient blood cleansing. Scientists are working on a new technique that will quickly and effectively retrieve toxic substances from the vital fluid without altering the blood count.   view more (2004-10-04)

A model of Pancreas based on the insulin extracting gel-polymer system
If the blood glucose overcontents (permissible content is 0.8-1 mg/ml), the pancreas be-gins to extract some inculin by which an unnecessary glucose is eliminated from blood and is assimilated by tissues.   view more (1999-08-20)

Racism is a public health issue
Racism may be important in the development of illness and countering it should be considered a public health issue, argues a senior psychiatrist in this week's BMJ. Studies in the United States report associations between perceived racial discrimination and high blood pressure, birth weight, and... view more (2003-01-08)

Fear is rarely a barrier to blood donation
Campaigns to recruit new blood donors should appeal to people's social conscience rather than try to reduce their fear of needles and other medical procedures. These findings are reported today, Thursday 15 April 2004, by Dr Geraint Price from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, at the... view more (2004-04-15)

U of MN researchers identify new cord blood stem cell
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have discovered a new population of cells in human umbilical cord blood that have properties of primitive stem cells.   view more (2006-02-14)

Vitamin K discovery may lead to new treatments for patients at risk from blood clots
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have discovered more about the role that vitamin K plays in the complicated process of how blood clots. Their work, published in Nature, may lead to new treatments for patients at risk from blood clots, including those who have had heart attacks, have... view more (2004-02-04)

Unfavourable blood fat levels predict rheumatoid arthritis up to 10 years later
An unfavourable ratio of blood fats could herald the development of the inflammatory joint disease rheumatoid arthritis up to 10 years later, suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.   view more (2006-06-05)

How Bacteria get into Brains to Cause Meningitis
An international collaboration between medical researchers may have identified how meningitis causing bacteria cross from the blood into the brain, paving the way for new strategies to prevent this fatal disease, the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting in Edinburgh heard today,... view more (2003-04-02)

Women may stop anticoagulants after blood clots
Women may safely discontinue oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) after 6 months of treatment following a first unprovoked venous blood clot (thromboembolism) if they have no or one risk factor.   view more (2008-08-26)

Mobilizing white blood cells to the lung: New discovery could lead to an improved influenza vaccine
Findings just published in the scientific journal Immunity by researchers at the Trudeau Institute shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific influenza-fighting cells to the lung airways during an infection.   view more (2008-07-11)

Living close to a flight path may increase the risk of high blood pressure
Being subjected daily to the noise of aircraft flying overhead may be risk factor for high blood pressure, suggests research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.   view more (2001-11-09)

More treatment options for women requiring emergency contraception (p 1803)
Results of an international study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that there are three effective therapeutic options for women requiring emergency contraception after sexual intercourse. Hormone treatment with a single 10 mg dose of mifepristone, and two 0.75 mg doses of levonorgestrel... view more (2002-11-29)

University research dispels popular myth
New research by a University of Sunderland psychologist has challenged the common belief that pregnant women suffer from memory and concentration impairment. A study by Dr Ros Crawley and her team concluded that there is no evidence to support widespread opinion that women's mental abilities weaken... view more (2003-03-13)

Drinking water could be beneficial to patients with low blood pressure
Ordinary tap or bottled water could help people suffering from low blood pressure who faint while standing, claim researchers from Imperial College London and St Mary's Hospital.   view more (2004-12-01)

Breakthrough in understanding of blood vessel inflammation
Medical scientists at the University of Leicester have announced a breakthrough in their understanding of blood vessel inflammation - a serious condition which underlies health problems like organ failure in sepsis, the ability to recover from burns, and transplant rejection. The team in the... view more (2004-01-19)

Anti-fungal drug stops blood vessel growth
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered to their surprise that a drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus can also block angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels commonly seen in cancers.   view more (2007-04-30)

Weight Control Throughout Life Key To Reducing Risk Of Raised Blood Pressure In Middle Age (p 1178)
Results from an ongoing UK population study investigating the association between low birthweight and increased blood pressure later in life are detailed in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Authors of the study highlight how low birthweight, socio-economic status during childhood, and raised... view more (2003-10-08)
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