Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...hink of as to why women shouldn’t get this lifesaving screening," Dr. Feig concludes. Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute both recommended that women 40 and older have regular mammograms....X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...be crucial to medical treatment -- indeed, theyare lifesaving in some cases -- so the risk tends to be small by comparison. But no one knows precisely how much radiation children absorb fromdifferent types of exams or if it increases their risk of developing canceror leukemia later in life. Hi...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...onary heart disease patients are not receiving the lifesaving benefits of statin therapy and extension of this therapy to untreated patients is urgently needed," he says. Co-authors of the study, "Lipoprotein changes and reduction in the incidence of major coronary heart disease events in the Scandinavian Simva...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
... 20thcentury medicine, one of the downsides of the lifesaving procedures has been therequirement that organ recipients take powerful drugs to suppress their immunesystem for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time, physicians at theMassachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have deliberately induced a state ...Elderly heart attack patients fare well with managed care
...icine. Two indicators of clinicalquality - use of lifesaving therapy and use of emergency transportation - werehigher among elderly patients enrolled in HMOs than in fee-for-service. In allother areas studied, the clinical data between HMO and fee-for-service coveragewere comparable. Cardiovascular disease is...Robotics go where no surgeon has gone before
...ive means of performing coronary bypass surgery, a lifesaving procedure in which blood vessels from the calf or chest are used to route or "bypass" blood around blocked sections of heart arteries. In traditional bypass surgery, the chest cavity is cut open and the bones are "spread," requiring a fairly lengthy......ld of chemistry has led to the development of many lifesaving medicines. His creativity and vision have led to a unique collaborative research program between the University and the biomedical industry that will continue to produce new bodies of knowledge for the benefit of society for many years to come." Hir......ithfully? How can physicians help patients stay on lifesaving drugs? In one of the most in-depth studies of its kind, UCLA researchers found that combining three measurement tools for estimating adherence to drug regimens including an electronic pill bottle cap that provides a dated record gives physicians an...Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...e Congress, are expected to increase access to the lifesaving devices in public places. In addition, Good Sama...on of Good Samaritan laws, it is time to get these lifesaving devices in all fitness facilities, he says. At the very least, unsupervised exercise rooms shoul...Fatty acid from fish oil fights arrhythmias, sudden death
... death was noted. The analysis also shows that the lifesaving benefit of n-3 PUFA is likely due to reducing episodes of potentially fatal irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias. About 250,000 people in the United States die each year from coronary heart disease without reaching the hospital alive. Most of t...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
...eory. Yet a new study reveals that the potentially lifesaving message may be lost on young adults. This observation has considerable public health significance, the studys authors note, given that cardiovascular disease often begins early in life and is the leading cause of death and disability in the United St...Low referral rates, low income keep women out of cardiac rehab programs
...less likely than men to participate in potentially lifesaving cardiac rehabilitation programs. Women hospitalized for a heart attack or unstable angina are far less likely than men to be referred to cardiac rehabilitation programs, even if they are good candidates, a new study in the April issue of General Hosp...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
Jerusalem (June 21, 2002) -- A lifesaving protocol that has wide ranging consequences for the successful treatment of genetic diseases has been developed by a team of Israeli and Italian researchers for the treatment of children born without immune systems. A description of the first success...OHSU receives $7.8 million NIH grant to develop first ultrasound to also deliver heart treatment
...rt than ever before during a procedure and deliver lifesaving therapies using the same device. The first heart condition to be addressed with be life-threatening irregular heart beats, known as arrhythmias. A condition affecting more than 2 million Americans. The multicenter partnership, led by OHSU pediatric...New statement proposes ways to stop deadly drug errors among heart, stroke patients
...ing the hospital who should be getting potentially lifesaving medications such as beta blockers or aspirin are getting them." Finally, Freedman says, adverse events occur due to poor handwriting. "If you scribble a prescription rather than type it, the chances of medication error are so much greater," she sa...Heart devices, transplants have similar costs; what will we pay?
CHICAGO, Nov. 19 Implanting lifesaving heart pumps in people with severe congestive heart failure (CHF) costs about the same as heart, liver and other transplants, according to research reported today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2002. "This is a landmark stud...SWHR: Report findings affirm health of women hinges on reform of clinical research
... clinically relevant information about potentially lifesaving treatments could be lost. "These reports are testament to the fact that women's health has historically been misunderstood as a result of inadequate research. While the research data may be correct in terms of diagnosis and treatment of diseases f...Thymus transplant might save babies born without immune systems
... organ that generates immune cells -- can be given lifesaving tissue normally discarded during cardiac surgery on other infants, researchers have found. Duke University Medical Center physicians have reported in the Aug. 1, 2003 issue of the journal Blood, successfully treating the immune disorder complete DiGe...Innovation attracts new research funding
...er and healthier life." Transplantation is today a lifesaving option for many people facing organ failure. Worldwide, around 50,000 organs are transplanted each year with kidney or kidney/pancreas transplants representing 50-60% of all procedures. Advances in transplant surgery have developed hand-in-hand with ...Implanted defibrillators not covered for half of patients who could benefit, study finds
...e potential impact of Medicare's decision to cover lifesaving implanted devices only for certain heart patients, and not for others. The analysis shows that more than half of the patients who would be good candidates to receive implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) according to criteria from the MADIT I...