Archive for March, 2017
Extensive Brain Defects Recorded in Zika Infected Baby
Date: March 14th, 2017
In the recently published studies, researchers noted a variation in the type of brain damage such as empty spaces and dead spots in the brain, congenital deafness and cataracts.
How are the children affected?
However, differences were recorded in all the three studies on the potential ways the infected children could be affected.
Heavy Teen Drinking Linked to Reduced Brain Volume
Date: March 8th, 2017
The observational study cannot be singularly based on to say that heavy drinking is responsible for stunted brain development. Less brain matter may as well be due to genetic factors, and it is such an abnormality that raises their possibility of abusing alcohol.
The lead author, Noora Heikkinen of the University of Eastern Finland, said that “Substance use has been found to be connected to social exclusion, mental health problems and lower educational attainment.”
Patients with cancer history experiencing severe heart attacks
Date: March 6th, 2017
After cancer, higher risk of severe heart attack
The researchers from Mayo clinic located in Rochester, Minn analyzed data from over 2,300 patients who had this rear type of heart attack referred to as ST-elevation myocardial infarction. For every 10 patients, one of them had a cancer history.
Strokes Decline in Older Americans, Rise in Young
Date: March 2nd, 2017
Significant generation change
Those born between 1965 and 1974 (also referred to as Generation X) were found by a recent research to have a 43% stroke cases compared to the Golden Generation.
A lead researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers University School of Public Health in New Jersey, Joel Swerdel, said that “People born during what I call the ‘Golden Generation,’ 1945 to 1954, had lower rates of stroke than those born 20 years before them and also in the 20 years after them.”