* Can family really be scared to d...

* Can family really be scared to death or die of a impaired heart? Yes, according a thought published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers set up that sudden stress such as offence anger, fear, or grief can cause bitter but reversible left ventricular dysfunction in otherwise healthy patients. Ninety-five percent of patients who reported symptoms of what is now called stres cardiomyopathy were women and all reclaimed rapidly after admission to the hospital. However, researchers warn that more [i]or[/i] less of the cases could have been fatal if the patients had not received medical attention.

* "Have you had your flu shot?" Does it pretend like that's the never-ending question each autumn? Perhaps that question isn't as important in a certain age collection as people may think. Researchers lately studied all causes of death in the somewhat old for the 33 influenza seasons from 1968 to 2001 and published their findings in Archives of Internal Medicine. While flu vaccination rates in the somewhat old jumped from 20 percent before 1980 to 65 percent in 2001 researchers could not correlate increasing vaccination rates with a decline in mortality, and therefore conclud that previous observational studies had substantially overestimated the benefits of vaccination in this group

* The World Wide Web is introducing adolescent substance abusers to a whole of recent origin world of drug information. A inquiry recently published in Pediatrics establish that Internet-based drug information is affecting adolescent unsalable article users' attitudes and behaviors. In the close attention 12 adolescents undergoing substance abuse treatment participated in a cross-sectional view and all said that they changed their drug-using behavior toward a range of physics after viewing information on the Internet. These changes included using fresh drugs and drug combinations, and attempting to minimize the drugs' negative events Researchers found that adolescents not seldom obtained drug information from antidrug Web sites, restraint Web sites, online medical encyclopedias, and electronic medical textbooks

* Losing a piece of work can be emotionally devastating, and it can also be hazardous to a woman's physical health, according to a report published in Circulation. Researchers reviewed nearly 35,000 women and raise a relationship between women who had been laid facing or fired from their piece of works and a higher risk for high kindred pressure and cardiovascular disease, including heart attack, chest pain, and knock Unemployed women were in the poorest physical health, while exerciseed women were the healthiest. Homemakers were comparable in health status to engrossed women, but they had a slightly higher risk for cardiovascular disease. The researchers say that further studies are stand in want ofed to determine if these arises reflect a causal relationship.

* Many the bulk of mankind may stick together "in sickness and in health," on the other hand it isn't always pleasant. A close attention published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society institute that elder abuse is principally likely to occur in spousal caregiver situations. Researchers evaluated interview replications from over 250 pairs of caregivers and elder-care recipients (ages 60 years and older) Approximately 26 percent of care recipients reported abuse at their caregiver, with spousal caregivers as plenteous as four times more likely to be abusive than nonspousal caregivers. The greatest in number common abusive behavior was yelling and screaming, followed by way of name-calling, swearing, threatening the care recipient, and, to a less degree, physical abuse.

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