Category: Health and Income

Seizures in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery underappreciated, dangerous

From the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) media release: With mounting concerns about postoperative seizures, doctors at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia placed 161 neonates who had undergone cardiac surgery… Read more »

Mobile stroke treatment units may greatly improve survival rates, chance of recovery for ischemic stroke patients

From the SOCIETY OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY media release: Two new studies presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, report that Mobile Stroke Treatment Units… Read more »

Two-year-olds with larger oral vocabularies enter kindergarten better prepared

From the Society for Research in Child Development media release: Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow… Read more »

Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of early death

From the BMJ media release: Previous research has suggested that beneficial effects of spices and their bioactive ingredient, capsaicin, include anti-obesity, antioxidant, anti-inflammation and anticancer properties. So an international team… Read more »