Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...r adults living alone and in the inner-city are at highest risk for heat stroke, as are persons who are infirm or shut-in, the authors say. Conventional practices like opening shelters or giving fans to poor citizens during heat waves are "not enough," they say. "Unfortunately, the most well-intentioned ...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...ns drawn fromthe data. He said the data are of the highest quality, due to extremelyrigorous research methods employed in all aspects of the 26-week randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Clinical coordinators at each of the study locations were able to enterdata over the Internet using an onlin...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...increased 1.8 percent among the 20 cities with the highest TB rates in 1981, the rate declined by 51.7 percen...ting DOT, Baltimore's TB rate fell from the second highest in the nation to 32nd by 1994. Results of the current study appear in the October 1996 issue of the ......ation of a way to single out those HIV+ infants at highest risk for the rapid and aggressive development of AIDS means that doctors may now target these babies for early, powerful therapies, report Emory University researchers in this week's New England Journal of Medicine . Infants who test positive for H..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...e benefits of ReoPro™ are greatest in the highest risk patients with acute heart attack or medically unstable angina. "The Topol study suggests a remarkable 60 percent reduction in mortality at three years in this select group treated with ReoPro™ compared with the group treated wi...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...fected their health. They found thatthose with the highest allostatic loads were most likely to develop newlydiagnosed cardiovascular disease and significantly more likely to showdeclines in mental and physical functioning. The best antidote to break the cycle, McEwen says, is the simplest:exercise. "Of al...Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
...eiving no extract. Results showed that at the highest dose, errors declined by 50 percent. "Despite the urgent need to discover drugs able to prevent, delay, ameliorate or cure age-related memory impairment and the degenerative dementias, progress has been slow," Winter stated in the article. Two ...American Heart Association Comment: Lancet (Jan. 24, 1998) Report
...with high blood pressure taking both drugs had the highest risk forbleeding in the brain. "We need to be more concerned about an increased risk ofadverse reactions, including hemorrhagic stroke, for individuals who have highblood pressure," says Fuster. Furthermore, because the study was conducted inmiddle......rojections based on theexperts' 95th percentile of highest and lowest projections and starting from themortal...out the rate of mortality and the experts' median, highest andlowest suggested rates. Less than 1% difference in the tax rate was projected. The results were: ...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...strialized nations, tobacco control is seen as the highest publichealth priority. "Tobacco is the leading avoidable cause of death worldwidebecause it contributes to deaths from cancer and respiratory disease as well asfrom cardiovascular disease," he says. Developing countries face obstacles toeradicating...Diuretics And Beta-Blockers Are Best Drugs To Combat High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
...es (140.1/81.9 mm. Hg) and calcium antagonists the highest (149.0/86.5 mm. Hg). All of the medications brought some patients down to the HSTP goal. But the pattern of lower treated pressure with the older agents and higher treated pressure with the newer ones was reflected in the percentages of pati...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...pedtaking medication, versus just 2 percent of the highest income group, those whomade more than $45,000 annually. "Most of these lower income patients were uninsured or on Medicaid,"Tung said. "They are living on fixed incomes of less than $800 a month and manyhave out-of-pocket medication costs of ...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...ores. While metropolitan areas contain the highest number of alternative practitioners,nonmetropolitan, urbanized areas have the highest number of alternative practitioners per capita.That finding from Alan Osborne's research in Californ...Most People Cant Identify Stroke Symptoms
...igators was that therespondents older than 75, the highest risk group for stroke, knew the leastabout stroke. While 60 percent of the participants under age 75 could identifyone stroke symptom and 72 percent could name one risk factor, only 47 percent ofthose in the older group could identify one symptom of...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
... forResearch on Smoking and Health, considered the highest honor for research ontobacco-related diseases. Most recently, he was awarded the 1998 Otto KrayerAward of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(ASPET), given to "a distinguished, mature investigator whose research hascon...States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
...All stateefforts should be designed to achieve the highest possible enrollment, thecommittee said. States should coordinate their initiatives with other state andprivate programs to maximize children's opportunities to receive access to care. States also must provide adequate reimbursement rates to maintain...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
...act Results of math modeling show that success is highest among a targeted group ofintravenous drug users. The researchers modeled a group of 10,000 intravenousdrug using women over a two-year period. If there are 25% relapses to riskybehavior during the period, there would be prevention of 1 infection in i...UCSF Study Finds Popular Blood Thinner Does Not Weaken Bones
...xclusively on post-menopausal women, whoare at the highest risk of developing osteoporosis, she said.But Jamal stressed that all older women, regardless of whether they takewarfarin, should be concerned about osteoporosis. Because post-menopausal women produce substantially less estrogen - whichprotects bo...Intervention can help reduce risky sexual behavior, according to results published in Science
...the United States, rates of infection and AIDS are highest amongracial and ethnic minorities living in low-income, urban settings. So the NIMHMultisite HIV Prevention Trial recruited 3,700 such participants from 37 healthclinics at seven sites: the Bronx and Harlem; Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northernNew Jerse...... Eight players died from heatstroke in 1970, the highest one-year total,he said. Before 1955, no heatstroke deaths were recorded among football players.Few schools and homes had air conditioning, and thus it is likely players werebetter able to tolerate hot weather. Mueller and other experts strong...