News tagged with respiratory distress


Study unravels biological pathway that controls the leakiness of blood vessels

(Medical Xpress)—A research team led by scientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida have decoded the entire pathway that regulates leakiness of blood vessels—a condition that promotes a wide number of disorders, such as heart ...

Medical research created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene linked to respiratory distress in babies

(Medical Xpress)—Some infants are more susceptible to potentially life-threatening breathing problems after birth, and rare, inherited DNA differences may explain why, according to research at Washington ...

Pediatrics created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Preterm labor powerhouse therapy offers promise for inflammatory diseases

Magnesium sulfate is given to many pregnant women to treat preterm labor and preeclampsia and was recently shown to prevent cerebral palsy; however little is known about how it works. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...

Inflammatory disorders created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers prevent heart failure in mice

(Medical Xpress)—Cardiac stress, for example a heart attack or high blood pressure, frequently leads to pathological heart growth and subsequently to heart failure. Two tiny RNA molecules play a key role ...

Cardiology created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Test vaccine successfully protects monkeys from Nipah virus

Researchers have successfully tested in monkeys a vaccine against Nipah virus, a human pathogen that emerged in 1998 during a large outbreak of infection and disease among pigs and pig farmers in Southeast Asia. This latest ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tobacco smoke affects early human embryonic development

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have gained insight into how second-hand tobacco smoke damages the earliest stages of human embryonic development.

Medical research created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stem cells repair lung damage after flu infection

Guided by insights into how mice recover after H1N1 flu, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, together with researchers at A*STAR of Singapore, have cloned three distinct ...

Medical research created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study breathes new life into fight against primary killer of premature infants

A discovery by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies might explain why some premature infants fail to respond to existing treatments for a deadly respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and offers ...

Medical research created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ATS: Early prone positioning reduces mortality in ARDS

(HealthDay)—For patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prolonged prone positioning during mechanical ventilation is associated with significantly reduced mortality at 28 and 90 days, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marine compound discovery shows promise of improved drug treatment for COPD patients

(Medical Xpress)—Pharmacy researchers at the University of Florida have isolated a new marine compound they believe may lead to improved drug therapies for pulmonary diseases by inhibiting their progression rather than ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds association between oxygen deprivation before birth and ADHD

Children who had in-utero exposure to ischemic-hypoxic conditions, situations during which the brain is deprived of oxygen, were significantly more likely to develop attention deficit hyperactivity disorder later in life ...

Attention deficit disorders created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Problems at second US firm tied to meningitis outbreak

US federal health inspectors said Monday they have uncovered serious problems at a second Massachusetts pharmacy run by some of the same people whose tainted drugs caused a deadly meningitis outbreak.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite 1993 cases, hantavirus remains mostly a mystery

In his 30-plus years as a doctor, Bruce Tempest had never seen anything like it.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Kids with neurological conditions at higher risk of flu death: CDC

(HealthDay)—Children with neurologic disorders such as cerebral palsy, intellectual disability or epilepsy are at increased risk of dying from flu, a new study says.

Pediatrics created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

International panel updates definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Gordon D. Rubenfeld, M.D., of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada, and colleagues with the ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) Definition Task Force, developed a new definition of ARDS (the Berlin ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0