Archive for July, 2009
Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some cases, death.
How stress and depression play upon one another to worsen asthma is a lingering question.
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown that depressed children with asthma Read the rest of this entry »
What is going on in teenagers’ brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, but not in boys. The study by Daniel Pine, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of National Institutes of Health, and colleagues, shows how emotion circuitry diverges in the male and female Read the rest of this entry »
Most people get allergic conjunctivitis when their eyes come into contact with an allergen - a substance which makes the body’s immune system overreact. The eye becomes sore, inflamed and sometimes painful. Symptoms occur because the overreacting immune system makes the body release histamine and other active substances by mast cells - these cause dilation of blood vessels (blood vessels expand, widen), Read the rest of this entry »
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig, Germany, have identified a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot that is most strongly tied to obesity-related morbidity.
The paper was just published in the Endocrine Society’s the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ( J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2009; 94:2507-251)
"Fat Read the rest of this entry »
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about two-thirds of people over the age of 65 have high blood pressure. What’s more, they report that if you haven’t had it by the time you reach age 55, there is a 90 percent chance you will end up with it during your lifetime. It is something that almost all of us will encounter in our lifetime. But the good news is that watching what you eat can Read the rest of this entry »