News tagged with breathing


Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS

Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked ...


Waist size and body mass index are risk factors for sleep disordered breathing in children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the June 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) are consistent, independent risk factors for all severity levels of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children, sugges ...


Preconceptional folic acid supplements are associated with reduced risk of premature birth

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking folic acid supplements for at least a year before conception is associated with reduction in the risk of premature birth, according to a study by Radek Bukowski (from the University of Texas Medical Branch, United ...


Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...


Boy came for a liver, but left with a heart

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

It started as something of a medical mystery that, at first, doctors couldn't figure out.


Researchers study whether yoga can calm overactive hearts

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can doing the downward-facing dog keep your heart from racing out of control? Alicia Jones is hoping so.


Retired national football league linemen have high incidence of sleep apnea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sleep disordered breathing, also known as sleep apnea, is highly prevalent among retired National Football League (NFL) players, and particularly in linemen, according to Mayo Clinic research. This study, involving 167 players, ...


State Preterm Birth Rates

Preterm birth rate drops

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The nation's preterm birth rate declined slightly in 2007 - a finding that the March of Dimes hopes will prove to be the start of a new trend in improved maternal and infant health.


Strike a yoga pose to strike down stress

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When hyperventilating sometimes seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga.


Breathing problems during sleep associated with calories burned at rest

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders appear to burn more calories when resting as their conditions become more severe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Su ...


MIT pieces together the mechanism that allows 2 pacemakers to control breathing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two pacemakers in the brain work together in harmony to ensure that breathing occurs in a regular rhythm, according to new research from MIT scientists.


Bird-Like Breathing System

Meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.



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