Article: You know you've made it when...

Article: UMass Medical School study finds patients diagnosed with coronary ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... diagnosed," said Yunsheng Ma, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and one of the study Es lead authors. "We know that a healthy diet is one of the most important components of a healthy lifestyle, especially for patients following a cardiac ...

Article: Aircraft noise raises blood pressure even whilst people are ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... one of the authors of the study from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London, said: "We know that noise from air traffic can be a source of irritation, but our research shows that it can also be damaging for people Es ...

Article: Knee brace generates electricity from walking.
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 4 watts of metabolic power to generate one watt of electricity because of inefficiencies of muscles and generators. "We've demonstrated proof of concept," Kuo said. "The prototype device is bulky and heavy, and it does affect the wearer just to ...

Article: New findings from J.P. Mezaespinoza and co-authors describe ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Guadalajara, Mexico, "RT-PCR studies in 93 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia from the Mexican West were done in order to know the proportion of b2a2 and b3a2 BCR/ABL1 transcripts (see also Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia). Forty-five patients showed ...

Article: Precious Time - 'Scientists discover how long heart failure ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     621 words ... ... is the leading cause of hospitalization and for the first time, physicians can now answer the question most patients want to know - "How long do I have doctor?" Published in the February issue of American Heart Journal, the ICES study identified Ontario ...

Article: Research in the area of heart transplants reported from G.V. ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... HR (bpm), Systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), (mm Hg), VO2 (mL/kg/min), Slope VE/VCO2, exercise time (ET, min), distance (1); miles), and Nor (pg/mL). Also, after CP tests, 24-h SBP and ...

Article: New research on life sciences from T.J. Chang and co-authors ...
Health & Medicine Week;  February 25, 2008 ;     696 words ...According to a study from Taipei, Taiwan, "Background/Purpos e: We know of no validated Taiwanese-language instrument to measure a utility of the patient's health (see also Life Sciences). Our ...