Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...ertility is dampeningout and older populations are growing rapidly. It's already happened tosome degree in some of the Scandinavian countries." In Japan, a study estimated that 24 percent of the country's populationmight be over age 65 by the year 2025. One response has been for older managersin Japan to co...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...s will become more and more of an issue."These are growing problems that are going to concern hospitals inthe future when their economic motivations are increasingly placed in directconflict with their desire to do the best for patients," he said. In a plenary session talk on "The Financial Fallout From th...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
... from about 2 percent in 1975. Responding to the growing health concern, the N.C. Statewide Infection Control Program at the UNC-CH School of Medicine has prepared guidelines for preventing and controlling the spread of two of the most prevalent antibiotic-resistant infections. Program staff worked with ot......ented enlargement for a while, but the lumpstarted growing again. She again underwent chemotherapy, but tests soon showedthe tumor had spread to her liver. Dr. David Scott Miller, an associate professor of obstetrics andgynecology and holder of the Dallas Foundation Chair in Gynecologic Oncology atU...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...of ophthalmic lasers and capitalize on the rapidly growing laser eye surgery market." Animal testing to determine the safety and effectiveness of IntraLase lasers will be conducted at the U-M's Kellogg Eye Center under a sponsored research agreement also approved by the Board of Regents. Future human c...Targeted Protein Toxin Effective Against Persistent Brain Tumors
...o a protein calledtransferrin that targets rapidly growing cells such as tumor cells. Nine ofthe 15 patients who were evaluated after this treatment had reductions in tumorsize, and the tumor disappeared completely in two patients. While these resultsare promising, much more work remains before the drug m...Natural Estrogens May Help Protect Women From Brain Damage During Stroke
...ogen, protect thebrain, according to Hurn. "A growing body of evidence indicates that estrogen has multiple vasculareffects, all of whichcould contribute to the salvage of brain tissue during episodes of inadequateblood flow," she says. Ongoing studies suggest that estrogen supplements would have...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...ffluentresidents in developing nations represent a growing market for medical productsand services. "If a large number of people from the purchasing middle classesare going to be spending their money on expensive heart surgeries orangioplasties, how will they have the money to buy the global goods?" ......apy, with the most dramatic declinecoinciding with growing use of protease inhibitors, Palella said. "Our data suggest that intensive combination therapy including proteaseinhibitors should be considered the standard of care for patients with advancedHIV infection," he said. Palella was lead ...Heart Laser Surgery: An Alternative To Transplantation
...d-stage coronary artery disease and that number is growing by an estimated 20% each year. Many of these individuals can not have bypass surgery and are potential heart transplant candidates. According to Dr. Jeevanandam, "Due to the lack of sufficient numbers of donor hearts, TMR offers a cost-effective al...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...recise sequence of signals that tell the sensitive growing brain cells howto "wire" their connections. However, nicotine stimulates the same cellreceptors as acetylcholine, at the wrong time and with inappropriate intensity,confusing the normal development process and causing the fetal brain topermanently mi...Montana Anti-Cancer Discovery Sublicensed To Major Drug Manufacturer
...ey announced that theyisolated taxol from a fungus growing on a Pacific yew tree in northwesternMontana. They named the fungus Taxomyces andreanae, after Andrea Stierle. Thediscovery raised the possibility of creating a renewable source of the drug bygrowing the fungi in vats and harvesting the taxol from t...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
DALLAS, June 23 -- In a growing class of blood-thinning drugs to treatheart attack, researchers have found one that seems to have a greater long-termbenefit rather than only an immediate effect, according to a study released intoday's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Asso...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...k. These projects are threeexamples of the INEEL's growing contributions to technology development in avariety of areas." Safely Measures High Voltage The Electro-optic High-Voltage Sensor (EOHVS) is a safe, small, non-electric,optical sensor that uses photons instead of electrons to measure high voltages...Epilepsy Drugs Useful To Treat Alzheimer's, Studies Find
...tients; useof the medications to treat dementia is growing as clinicians seethe benefit. "This is a case where medical science is trying to catch upwith clinical practice," says Porsteinsson, an assistantprofessor of psychiatry. "The medicines are already being used,but there haven't been studies in pla...'Mutual Insurance Pool' Could Improve Transplant Organ Shortage
...p with the insurance pool idea as asolution to the growing need for organs for children, as youngsters would havebeen unable to participate on their own behalf in the formerly proposed futuremarket system. The pair propose the pool be organized as a government-run monopoly tosimplify the collection a...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
...th that helps to regrowdestroyed bone, essentially growing a new jaw for the patient. Dr. Brian Smith, chairman of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at TempleUniversity Hospital and School of Dentistry, will implant the first internaloral distraction device, called DynaForm, into a patient on Monday, Au......ly at firms where there is lowturnover, there is a growing humanitarian concern for the employee." But the monetization of medicine brings with it some negatives that theresearchers view as dehumanizing. The hospital as factory is a new phenomenon. "Some hospitals now specialize in cancer tr...Understanding Why Antibiotics May Be Over-prescribed For Patients With Sore Throats
...biotics for patients with sore throats in spite of growing clinical evidence that these drugs alleviate symptoms only slightly, if at all. The choice of treatment is affected by both the patient's expectations and what the doctor perceives the patient expects. Over-prescription of antibiotics is a major co......S -- September 28, 1998 -- When Richard Segars was growing up, kids wouldcall him "Coke Bottle" -- a cruel reference to the thickness of his eyeglasses.As a teen-ager, he tried contact lenses, but an allergic reaction made themimpossible to wear. Although Segars, now a 37-year-old sheriff's deputy,accepted t...