Pneumococcal vaccine reduces ear infections, pneumonia, new study shows
... implications -- reducing emergency department and outpatient visits -- are also very important," Poehling said. The study provides "the first data that demonstrate a decline in all pneumococcal-related diseases, not just invasive disease, in children aged younger than 2 years since the introduction of pneumoc...Gene therapy tested to protect bone marrow during chemotherapy
...or the genetically altered cells with intermittent outpatient chemotherapy treatments, said Gerson. So far, five patients have entered the trial at the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals of Cleveland, all with advanced malignancies. Only one patient has been able to receive more than one dos...Innovative 'self healing' bandage to help diabetics
... be used in the patient's home, avoiding visits to outpatient clinics altogether. Sheila MacNeil, CellTran's Research & Development Director and Professor of Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield, says; "we are moving the technology through to clinical use as quickly as we can and our objective is t...MIT aims radar research at breast cancer
...le healthy breast tissue contains much less. The outpatient procedure uses a single tiny needle probe to sense and measure parameters during treatment. Side effects appear to be minimal. Patients in the thermotherapy group of the current study receive a minimally invasive heat treatment prior to surgery and...Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial 'vibration theory' of smell
...ecruited several dozen human volunteers to the new outpatient unit of The Rockefeller University Hospital to smell different odors presented in vials, which were coded so that he did not know what they contained. The sniffing subjects then answered a series of questions, such as whether the two odors smelled d...Breast cancer follow-ups 'no longer guess-work' thanks to new physics research
...ans that six years worth of a physician's time and outpatient clinic costs could instead be diverted to parts of the treatment process where it would do more good." Using data taken from a series of patients with T1 and T2 stage (primary tumours up to 5cm in greatest dimension) breast cancer from the Institut C...Researchers receive NIH grant to open pediatric pharmacology research center
...adults', and a shortage of pediatric inpatient and outpatient facilities to perform these studies. Plans are already under way to research an antifungal medication that has not usually been prescribed for children and to evaluate dosing regimens of an antibiotic to be certain that physicians are prescribing th...Carnegie Mellon scientist says new technologies boost bio-terrorism surveillance
...chains maintain electronic records for billions of outpatient prescriptions. Insurance claims typically include diagnosis and medication codes along with the name, address, birth date and social security number of each patient. Under the current ad hoc model of sharing data, widespread potential abuses are po...Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
... to the public health care sector because it is an outpatient treatment," adds Brunsveld van Hulten. Originally a mathematician, Brunsveld van Hulten started working in remote sensing but since the early nineties he has been involved in the use of MRI to carry out biopsies for breast cancer and in studying the...Alcohol-dependence gene identified
...om more than 10,000 individuals from inpatient and outpatient alcohol treatment centers and their families. Families in the COGA study usually have several members with alcohol dependence. For this study, the investigators analyzed DNA from 262 families, a total of 2,282 individuals. They isolated three genes ...NIEHS and UNC to collaborate on registry of 20,000 subjects
...egistry requested consent from 600 patients at UNC outpatient clinics. About 80 percent of those asked agreed to allow a portion of blood drawn for other medical purposes to be used for the isolation of DNA that was placed in the registry depository. The samples are coded to protect the identity of donors an...Medical students inadequately prepared for clinical rotations, caring for chronically ill
...e directors used training sites at community-based outpatient clinics, hospital-based outpatient clinics, private practitioner offices and university hospital acute care units. The directors surve...DNA registry to study links among genetics, environment, disease
...y requested consent from roughly 600 people at UNC outpatient clinics. About 80 percent agreed to allow a portion of a blood sample drawn for other medical purposes to be used for DNA isolation and for placement in the registry depository for25 years. The participants also consented to being contacted for furth...Clinical trial patients don't care about study sponsors or physician conflicts of interest
...13 Maryland-based cardiology and internal medicine outpatient clinics about participating in a hypothetical clinical trial for a new drug to help prevent heart attack. At random, they told patients that either there was no conflict of interest for the physician involved, the physician would receive a $2,000 fi...Children with HIV more likely to utilize health services than infected adults
... those under 2 years of age make a high number of outpatient visits and are frequently hospitalized. Furthermor...researchers focused on the number of inpatient and outpatient visits, in addition to how many children were prescribed ART. They found that HIV-infected children ...Stanford research finds gene variations that alter antidepressant side effects
...ight weeks. All of the patients studied in 18 U.S. outpatient clinics were 65 years of age or older. Side effects are particularly relevant in this age group, Murphy said. Older people, for example, are more susceptible to injury from a fall caused by dizziness, which can be a side effect of some antidepressant...Chronic pain: treatment, rehabilitation, and quality of life
...ent outcomes. 957 veterans receiving inpatient and outpatient pain treatment at six VA medical centers completed... items during their inpatient admission or initial outpatient appointment. Results of this project support the reliability, validity, and clinical use of the POQ-...Staph aureus bacteremia in ESRD patients associated with substantial illness and higher costs
...taph aureus bacteremia, including readmissions and outpatient costs, was $24,034 per episode. The second study reported on the resources, costs and mortality among 143 dialysis-dependent patients hospitalized with Staph aureus bacteremia. In this study, ESRD patients with bacteremia caused by MRSA proved to be ...Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
...rehensive Care Center, one of the nation's largest outpatient AIDS treatment programs. "It is one of the best models of an integrated HIV outpatient center in the United States," D'Aquila said. The Comprehensive Care Center follows more than 2,000 p...Oral contraceptives increase C-reactive protein, an infIammatory biomarker
...and non-users. The study was sited at a university outpatient general clinical research center. Participants (women aged 18-40 years of age) consumed their habitual diet or a soy-enriched diet for two menstrual cycles each. (Soy consumption had no effect on sex hormone metabolism in OC or non-OC users.) Non...