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#7720PATIENTS' HOME PHOTOS HELP IDENTIFY ASTHMA TRIGGERS(Monday, October 27, 10:30 AM EST)

#7720PATIENTS' HOME PHOTOS HELP IDENTIFY ASTHMA TRIGGERS(Monday, October 27, 10:30 AM EST)

#6783IN-HOSPITAL STATIN USE MAY IMPROVE SEVERE SEPSIS MORTALITY(Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 AM EST)

#7710IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT MAY DEVELOP AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION(Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 AM EST)

#6967ASTHMA IN CHILDREN CHANGES WITH THE SEASONS(Monday, October 27, 2:30 PM EST)

#6363TADALAFIL PROVES EFFECTIVE THERAPY FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION(Tuesday, October 28, 10:30 AM EST)

#6480INSOMNIA DOES NOT PREDICT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE(Tuesday, October 28, 1:00 PM EST)

#6786TOBACCO ABUSE BY US TROOPS IN IRAQ TWICE NATIONAL AVERAGE(Tuesday, October 28, 2:30 PM EST)

#7725YOUNGER PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER HAVE BETTER SURVIVAL (Tuesday, October 28, 1:00 PM EST)

Breastfeeding has a number of positive health benefits for baby: it can prevent ear infections and allergies, and lowers the risk of developing respiratory problems. It can also help prevent against obesity later in life, but the reason for this still isn't known.

In an effort to find this link, Katherine F. Isselmann, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Temple's department of public health, has been comparing the feeding habits of mothers who breastfed their babies and mothers who bottle fed their babies, and has also examined the eating habits of their pre-school aged children.

Molecular targets identified by a Spanish research team may hold the key to freedom for some sufferers of kidney disease. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), dmm.biologists.org, reveals the cellular signals which cause one treatment for kidney failure to lose its usefulness over time.

San Diego, October 28, 2008 – Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and emotional distress. Obese children and youth are likely to be obese as adults, experience more cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and stroke and incur higher healthcare costs. In an article published in the December 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers report that children living in inner city neighborhoods with higher "greenness" experienced lower weight gains compared to those in areas with less green space.

INDIANAPOLIS – In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children's weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the University of Washington report that higher neighborhood greenness is associated with slower increases in children's body mass over a two year period, regardless of residential density.

As this year's flu season gets underway in the northern hemisphere, new research finds that when it comes to flu vaccination, more appears to be better.

Two new studies published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine show that increasing the number of people vaccinated against influenza can decrease the burden of the disease, and not just in the individuals receiving the vaccine.

Sulfonylurea drugs, such as glibenclamide, are widely used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. These drugs work by causing pancreatic beta cells to release insulin, which occurs when the drug inhibits ATP-sensitive potassium channels, causing calcium to enter the beta cells which then stimulates release of insulin, and consequently a fall in blood glucose levels. However, long term treatment with sulfonylureas eventually fails, but the mechanism is not known.