Sentences with phrase «lungs and heart by»

The doctor examines lungs and heart by placing a stethoscope on the chest and listening to heartbeats.

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«We don't have a specific list of conditions that would be disqualifying, but certainly uncontrolled medical problems (whether it's hypertension or heart disease or lung disease, or many other conditions), would most likely cause concern and result in disqualification,» Dr. Tarah Castleberry, an assistant professor of aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, told Reuters Health by email.

He gives the examples of the heart - lung machine and the skateboard, which were invented by frustrated surgeons and bored kids, respectively.

In 1995 more young Americans died by suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and lung disease combined.

But it had by then become possible to sustain heart and lung activity (with a respirator) for days or even weeks after a patient had irreversibly lost all brain function.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

We have learned, then, to think of death as a single phenomenon whose presence is indicated either by irreversible loss of heart and lung function (the traditional criterion) or by irreversible loss of all brain function.

Kathryn developed severe hydrops caused by TTTS, and developed heart and lung problems.

Put together by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Sports Medicine and a number of other organizations, these preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE) forms include a history form, physical examination form and clearance form to make sure kids don't have any heart or lung problems and aren't at risk for concussions or other problems before they play sports.

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The study drew data from the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) and POUCHmoms studies, which were funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

It's a change long sought by groups like the American Heart, Lung and Cancer associations, which believe it could accelerate an overall decline in youth tobacco use.

One person who donates organs (hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines) can save up to eight lives, while a tissue or eye donor (corneas, bone, skin, heart valves, tendons, veins, etc.) can improve more tha 75 lives by restoring eyesight, helping fight infections in burn patients and preventing the loss of mobility and disability.

The measure is supported by numerous health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society.

The bill has been championed by a variety of health organizations, including the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.

In human terms, the costs of lives and families damaged by heart disease, strokes, cancer and lung disease are incalculable.

Materials provided by NIH / National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), appears in the December 28 issue of JAMA Cardiology.

Next up, Maître and his collaborators want to make the illusion even more lifelike by programming the heart to beat and the lungs to move.

Funding for this study was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the American Thoracic Society / American Lung Association Partner Grant; and the Respiratory Health Association.

An international study led by scientists from Inserm and Paris Diderot University (France), the University of Chicago (USA), the National Heart and Lung Institute (UK) and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (USA) together with researchers of the Trans - National Asthma Genetics Consortium (TAGC) has discovered five new regions of the genome that increase the risk of asthma.

The arthritis is accompanied or preceded by fever for at least two - weeks that is daily («quotidian») for at least 3 of those days, with one or more of the following symptoms: red rash (evanescent erythematous rash), enlarged liver, spleen or lymph nodes, and inflammation of the tissue lining (serositis) of the lungs, heart, or stomach.

This opinion is shared by several leading health organisations, including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council and American Public Health Association.

A team led by Antonia Sassmann - Schweda of the Max - Planck - Institute for Heart and Lung Research and colleagues generated mice lacking TAK1 specifically in adipocytes.

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.

Support for this study was provided by the Food Allergy Science Initiative (FASI); the Klarman Family Foundation; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and other sources.

The study, which was funded by NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, made headlines around the world.

Research reported in this news release was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01 HL116585 - 01 and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH under award numbers UL1TR000075 and KL2TR000076.

Led by Chugh and funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the study's goal is to shed light on the risk factors, triggers and genetic defects associated with sudden cardiac death.

But monitoring by the London Air project from King's College, London, showed that the rules had been breached by 9 pm on Thursday for the pollutant, which is linked to heart and lung problems and even early deaths.

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

The study was conducted with researchers at Linköping University in Sweden and the Technical University of Munich, Germany and financed by the Swedish Research Council, Stockholm County Council, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Heart and Lung Foundation, the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, Karolinska Institutet and the European Research Council (ERC).

Two unique clinical features of heart failure in children, say the guidelines» authors, are the possible coexistence of structural congenital heart lesions, with simultaneous over-circulation to the lungs, and under - perfusion to the body (when the two circulations are linked in parallel by an intracardiac shunt or a patent arterial duct); and a change in symptom complexes over time from infancy through adolescence.

This research was funded by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Heart - Lung Foundation, the Swedish Medical Society, the King Gustaf V's and Queen Victoria's Foundation of Freemason, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.

Ischemic heart disease tops the list, followed, in order, by trachea, bronchus and lung cancers; stroke; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; road injuries; suicide; and diabetes.

The research was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, long promoted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association, is rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, along with low - fat or fat - free dairy, fish, poultry, beans, seeds and nuts.

It is transmitted exactly like Dirofilaria repens by mosquitoes to dogs, and settles in the lungs and the heart.

A new letter, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together data from the five - year Conflict of Interest Notification Study backed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, along with broader reports on conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial participants.

Another team member, Paul Cullinan of the National Heart and Lung Hospitals in London, says: «Quite a high proportion of those examined by us certainly had lung damage almost ten years after the evLung Hospitals in London, says: «Quite a high proportion of those examined by us certainly had lung damage almost ten years after the evlung damage almost ten years after the event.

Depression alone was the leading cause of disability in every region of the world except sub-Saharan Africa, and outranked the death and disability caused by anemia (a sign of malnutrition), heart disease, cancer, malaria and lung disease.

By cutting the budget of the famed Framingham Heart Study and suspending clinical exams its participants receive, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute may be signaling that the era of such large, costly long - term studies is drawing to a close.

The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Science Foundation in the United States, and the Science Faculty, Aarhus University, in Denmark.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

Similar cohort studies sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute are confronting a similar fate and some observers suggest that the era of such large, costly long - termstudies is drawing to a close.

Research by Boyd and a colleague, cardiac anesthesiologist John Murkin, had indicated that 3 percent of patients suffer strokes after being hooked up to the heart - lung machine.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has released the first comprehensive, evidence - based guidelines for management of sickle cell disease from birth to end of life, based on recommendations developed by a nationwide team of experts co-chaired by a UT Southwestern Medical Center hematologist.

Recent guidelines instituted by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute have suggested abandoning guidelines for LDL targets.

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder characterized by periodic inflammation of joints, connective tissues and organs including heart, lungs, kidneys and brain.

The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.