http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Children and teens of parents with bipolar disorder appear to have an increased risk of early-onset bipolar disorder, mood disorders and anxiety disorders, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news155240464.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:21:28 EST news155240464 A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep duration is associated with changes in the levels of specific cytokines that are important in regulating inflammation. The results suggest that inflammation may be the pathway linking extreme sleep durations to an increased risk for disease. http://www.physorg.com/news152806699.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:18:46 EST news152806699 Men who develop prostate cancer face an increased risk of having an aggressive tumor if they carry a so-called breast cancer gene mutation, scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report in today's issue of Clinical Cancer Research. The findings could help to guide prostate-cancer patients and their physicians in choosing treatment options. http://www.physorg.com/news152470146.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:49:48 EST news152470146 A research group from Costa Rican evaluated risk factors for gastric cancer in Costa Rican regions with contrasting gastric cancer incidence rates (GCIR). They found that although a pro-inflammatory cytokine genetic profile showed an increased risk for developing gastric cancer (GC), the characteristics of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, in particular the status of cagA and vacA genotype distribution seemed to play a major role in GCIR variability in Costa Rica. http://www.physorg.com/news151755622.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:20:42 EST news151755622 Individuals with particular variants of certain genes involved in metabolizing the most potent carcinogen found in cigarette smoke have an increased risk of developing lung cancer. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the February 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results may help shed light on how lung cancer develops and could have important implications for preventing smoking-related cancers. http://www.physorg.com/news149142605.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:30:05 EST news149142605 Repeated miscarriages and hormone treatment for infertility give an increased risk of pre-eclampsia among pregnant women. This comes from a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. More than 20 000 first-time mothers from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) were included in the study. http://www.physorg.com/news148817012.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:03:32 EST news148817012 An analysis of previous studies indicates that smoking is significantly associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer and death, according to an article in the December 17 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news148668495.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:48:15 EST news148668495 A type of benign breast disease (BBD) known as atypical hyperplasia substantially increases a young woman's risk of developing breast cancer, even if there is no history of breast cancer in her family, say researchers at Mayo Clinic. http://www.physorg.com/news148488167.html Medicine & Health Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:42:47 EST news148488167 People who have been diagnosed with panic attacks or panic disorder have a greater risk of subsequently developing heart disease or suffering a heart attack than the normal population, with higher rates occurring in younger people, according to research published in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal today. http://www.physorg.com/news148193239.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:47:19 EST news148193239 Children who are overweight or obese are over two and a half times more likely to suffer injuries to their upper and lower extremities following a motor vehicle crash compared with normal weight children, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. Overweight and obese children were overall more likely to experience injury to any body part following a crash; however this difference was not statistically significant. The results are available online at the website of the journal Injury Prevention and published in the December print edition of the journal. http://www.physorg.com/news148105294.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:21:34 EST news148105294 A group of drugs commonly used to treat diabetes can double the risk of bone fractures in women, according to a new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wake Forest University. http://www.physorg.com/news148103914.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:58:34 EST news148103914 Use of the steroid medication dexamethasone is effective in reducing nausea and vomiting after tonsillectomies for children, but also is associated with an increased risk of postoperative bleeding, according to a study in the December 10 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news148067457.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:50:57 EST news148067457 A connection between the body clock and abnormalities in metabolism and diabetes has been suggested in new research by an international team involving the University of Oxford, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge. http://www.physorg.com/news148053745.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:02:25 EST news148053745 Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are three times as likely to experience severe coronary events -including heart attacks -than people without the disease, according to a recent study that analyzed the risk of cardiovascular disease in nearly 1,000 patients with IPF and more than 3,500 matched controls. http://www.physorg.com/news147697083.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:58:03 EST news147697083 Researchers have hypothesized that people with lower IQs may have a higher risk of adult mental disorders, but few studies have looked at the relationship between low childhood IQ and psychiatric disorders later in life. In a new, long-term study covering more than three decades, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that children with lower IQs showed an increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders as adults, including schizophrenia, depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Lower IQ was also associated with psychiatric disorders that were more persistent and an increased risk of having two or more diagnoses at age 32. http://www.physorg.com/news147359516.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:11:56 EST news147359516 A new study led by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School has found that a common genetic variant associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the general population is also linked to an even higher risk for people with diabetes, particularly those with poor glucose control. http://www.physorg.com/news146848594.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:16:34 EST news146848594 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found an association between the genetics of donor-recipient matches in kidney transplants and complications during the first week after transplantation. http://www.physorg.com/news146847122.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:52:02 EST news146847122 Women who are exposed to hairspray in the workplace during pregnancy have more than double the risk of having a son with the genital birth defect hypospadias, according to a new study published today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. http://www.physorg.com/news146489261.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:41 EST news146489261 A team of researchers led by investigators at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has determined that certain commonly-prescribed medications may have the unintended consequence of increasing the frequency of migraine attacks. This important finding could alter the way doctors prescribe migraine medicines. http://www.physorg.com/news146314164.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:49:24 EST news146314164 Men and women who have tried to kill themselves and are suffering from unipolar disorder (major depression), bipolar disorder (manic depression) or schizophrenia are at a very high risk of committing suicide within a year of their first attempt, concludes a study published today on bmj.com. http://www.physorg.com/news146297476.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:11:16 EST news146297476 An analysis of randomized controlled trials indicates that use of the cancer drug bevacizumab is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or in the lungs), according to an article in the November 19 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news146247931.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:25:31 EST news146247931 The risk of non-AIDS cancer is higher for individuals infected with HIV than for the general population, according to a meta-analysis presented here at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. http://www.physorg.com/news146231350.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:49:10 EST news146231350 In an analysis of deaths occurring during a large international trial of treatments for HIV-positive patients, researchers have found a strong association between markers of inflammation and coagulation and increased risk of death from non-AIDS diseases, including cardiovascular problems. The research, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, may explain why interrupting antiretroviral therapy (ART) was found to increase the risk of death from non-AIDS diseases for people living with HIV. http://www.physorg.com/news143787402.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:56:42 EST news143787402 Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for women with benign breast disease or for tumors that are hormone-receptor negative or larger than 2 centimeters. http://www.physorg.com/news143133349.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:15:49 EST news143133349 Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to circulatory or psychiatric problems or for surgery, concludes a study on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news142227782.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:43:02 EST news142227782 Toronto, ON (September 30, 2008) - Sunnybrook researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Stanford University statistician Robert Tibshirani have found an increased risk of fatal motor vehicle crashes on United States (US) presidential election days. http://www.physorg.com/news142013087.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:04:47 EST news142013087 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was associated with a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period. The findings are published in the October 2008 Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news142008785.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:53:05 EST news142008785 (PhysOrg.com) -- Patients who take the commonly used blood-thinning drug warfarin face larger amounts of bleeding in the brain and increased risk of mortality if they suffer a hemorrhagic stroke, new research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows. http://www.physorg.com/news141927166.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:12:46 EST news141927166 Men who have too much calcium in their bloodstreams may have an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, according to a new analysis from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin. http://www.physorg.com/news139625659.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:54:19 EST news139625659 Low-birth-weight children appear to be at higher risk for psychiatric disturbances from childhood through high school than normal-birth-weight children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. In addition, low-birth-weight children from urban communities may be more likely to have attention problems than suburban low-birth-weight children. http://www.physorg.com/news139508649.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:24:09 EST news139508649