Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
...catheterization or bypass surgery than whites even after accounting for differences in age, insurance, disease severity or other health problems. "We also wanted to highlight the striking confluence of known risk factors for heart disease and stroke in minority populations especially hypertension, obesity...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
... care they provide. Recent evidence suggests that after CABG report cards were released, surgeons began to...ort card in December 1991. Researchers found that after the report card was released, the gap in CABG surgery in New York between whites versus blacks and H...Risk of cardiac death after radiotherapy for breast cancer has declined, study finds
... breast cancer received adjuvant radiation therapy after surgery. Adjuvant radiation therapy decreases a woman's risk of local recurrence of her cancer but can increase her risk of death from ischemic heart disease. Patients with left-sided breast tumors receive a higher radiation dose to the heart than pa...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
... had an increased ischemic heart disease mortality after 15 years (13.1 percent) compared to patients with ...ortality. The researchers concluded that each year after 1979, the risk of death from ischemic heart disease declined by six percent annually in women with l...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ue available from embryonic forebrain 1 - 2 months after conception. These cells may serve a role in guidin... is reduced, the behavior changes as well. However after many repetitions, reward-motivated actions become a matter of habit and essentially continue regardl...Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
...stem's attack on cancer cells, and it occurs right after hormonal therapy begins to wipe out the tumor and ...se the vaccine to activate the immune system right after we give the mice hormone therapy to shrink their tumors, T-cells start a reaction against the cancer...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...ican American men are more likely to have a biopsy after an abnormal screening result. "These statistics parallel many medical recommendations and reassure us that good judgment is being applied to the evaluation of the initial screen," Andriole says. "We are confident that when the study is ultimately com...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...ity from childhood vaccination generally wears off after five to 10 years, leaving many adolescents susceptible to this highly contagious disease. If approved, Boostrix would add a pertussis component to the routine tetanus/diphtheria booster currently recommended for adolescents. The committee's favorab...SAM on the favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...cause immunity from childhood vaccination may wane after five to 10 years, many teens are left susceptible to this highly contagious disease. Since adolescents do not commonly exhibit the classic signs and symptoms of pertussis, the infection can go undiagnosed and may be the source of infection for infan...Medicaid enrollment at late stages may partly explain poor outcomes for cancer
...s are among cancer patients who enroll in Medicaid after diagnosis. These individuals were likely uninsured...ts. Therefore, many of those enrolling in Medicaid after diagnosis have late stage cancers. The authors say their findings have far reaching implications for...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...red with women in the first quartile (lowest WBC), after statistical adjustment for other risk factors, the...ith cardiovascular events and death in older women after adjustment for traditional risk factors," the authors conclude. "These data add to available evidenc...Postmenopausal breast cancer survivors at increased risk for bone fractures
... breast cancer survivors and accelerated bone loss after chemotherapy for breast cancer suggesting an incre...tures among breast cancer survivors persisted even after adjustment for other risk factors, including fracture history lifestyle, medication use and the use ...Mountain life spells longer life
... were attributable to coronary heart disease. But after taking account of all the cardiovascular risk factors, mountain village residents had lower death rates, and lower rates of death from heart disease, than their peers in the lowlands. The effects were more pronounced among the men. The researchers co...Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
...s for longer than a month. These risks disappeared after taking account of the extent of existing cardiovas...d from looking at the prescription data before and after the heart attack (known as self controlled analysis). The authors also failed to find any link with...Reducing hostility in young coronary artery disease patients is important piece of rehabilitation
...sease and heart attack. The researchers noted that after cardiac rehabilitation, young patients with hostility symptoms had marked improvements in coronary artery disease risk factors, behavior characteristics and quality of life, and a nearly 50 percent reduction in the prevalence of hostility symptoms....Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...ma. Veterans and civilians over age 18 unconscious after a severe brain injury were evaluated with the DOCS...d functional changes in the urethra in female rats after nerve injury. Fifty-four female rats underwent a pudendal nerve crush and 13 rats were used as contr...CAS science spotlight identifies most requested article
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...ad a higher risk of serious bleeding from the lung after bevacizumab therapy. Patients with a prior history of frank hemoptysis (coughing up blood) were also not enrolled on the trial. The most significant adverse event observed in this study was life-threatening or fatal bleeding, primarily from the lu...Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
... tobacco users measured their responses 30 minutes after dipping snuff. These readings were compared with m...om another session involving the same participants after they had used a placebo product that was similar in taste, color and texture but did not contain tob......s. Bentley calls her microscopic wires "nanowires" after nanotechnology, the booming, cutting-edge science of small. The "nano" in nanotechnology derives from the nanometer, which is equivalent to a billionth of one meter. Several types of nanoparticles are already in use, in products such as sunscreens an...