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* equal so-called "good" air quality affects about children with asthma. A cogitation published in JAMA showed that ozone plains below the current standard of the U Environmental Protection Agency (120 parts by means of billion [ppb], one-hour average; 80 ppb eight-hour average) are associated significantly with respiratory symptoms and the use of liberate medications in children using maintenance medication for asthma. The inquiry of 271 children younger than 12 years evaluated the meanings of exposure to ambient concentrations of ozone and particulate matter from April by means of September of 2001. A 50-ppb rise in one-hour ozone evens increased wheezing by 35 percent and chest tightness by the agency of 47 percent.

* May the force be with you! but not too much. As reported in a pres release from John Hopkins University, biomedical engineering learners at the school have created a device that could help physicians and midwives deliver babies safely during complicated births (eg when a baby's shoulder must be extracted from behind the pubic bone) The device, compos of three electrode attached to the clinician's forearm and combineed to a small box that fits into a suffer measures electric impulses in the muscles to determine by what means much force a physician or midwife uses while delivering a baby.

* "Wired" since birth? on a level the youngest children in the United States are heavily expos to electronic media, according to a telephone observe conducted by the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation and the Children's Digital Media Center in consultation with the Princeton overlook Research Associates. The survey showed that children six month to six years of age consume about the same amount of time watching TV and videos as they do playing outside (about sum of two units hours a day). In contrast, they apply only about 39 minutes a day reading or being read to. from the age of six years, 48 percent of children have used a computer and 30 percent have played video games. Of the 1065 parents inspected 43 percent believed that TV helped their children's learning, and 72 percent said that computer helped learning. n a certain warning symptoms of acute myocardial infarction (MI) are les obvious than others in women A subject of attention published in Circulation found that 95 percent of women who had an acute MI within the previous six month described symptoms other than or in addition to chest pain before the termination In the study of 515 women at five sites in three states, the principally common prodromal symptoms were unusual fatigue (707 percent) rest disturbance (47.8 percent), shortness of breath (421 percent) indigestion (394 percent) and anxiety (355 percent) single 29.7 percent of the women reported chest discomfort, which is a hallmark symptom of acute MI in men The researcher noted that absence of chest pain could be united reason that acute MI frequently is unrecognized or misdiagnosed in women

* It is not at any time too late to start dieting--at least if you are a fruit float A study published in Science raise that dietary restriction in Drosophila defered life span by reducing the short-term risk of death. When dietary restriction (i.e., 35 percent les yeast and sugar than standard medium) was initiated for the first time in fruit flies of any age who had previously been abundantly fed, the flies were no more likely to die than were flies of the same age that had been enthralled to long-term dietary restriction. The investigators remind of that initiation of dietary restriction at any age could have the same consequence in mammals, although specific experiments remain to be conducted

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