Physicians Study Whether "Super-Aspirin" Prevents Alzheimer's
...2 are being tested as a way totreat arthritis more aggressively with fewer side effects, andthey're being looked at as a possible way to prevent coloncancer. This study is one of the first to see whether such drugsmight prevent or delay Alzheimer's disease. During the past fewyears, O'Banion and others have ......e-home message, he says, is that physicians should aggressively manageheart disease risk factors in heart attack patients with diabetes or glucoseintolerance. They should also consider recommending cholesterol-loweringtherapy for these patients, he adds. The study's other co-authors are Ronald B. Goldberg, M.D.;...Heart Experts Call For Action Against Missed Opportunities To Prevent Heart Disease In Women
...r evidence exists that women are not being treated aggressively toprevent heart disease, the panel reported. For example, the U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Prevention's recent National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveyshowed healthcare professionals counsel women less often than men aboutexercise, nutrition, ...New Method Assesses Risk Of Advanced Cancer After Prostate Removal
...ans thecancer is back and they need to get treated aggressively right away. But thatisn't always the case," says Mario Eisenberger, M.D., a Hopkins oncologist andstudy co-author. "Patients may live for years without having the cancer spread.This information will better equip doctors and their patients to decide w......th drugs to increase thispotential or treated more aggressively with surgery. Cancer and diabetespatients, on the other hand, whose tests show a high potential, would requiremore aggressive treatment than patients who show a low potential for new vesselgrowth." He added that while the implications on heart diseas...Why prostate cancer homes to bone
... theyfound that a bone protein caused the cells to aggressively migrate to the boneextract. The study appears in the September 1 issue of Cancer Research. The investigators used a technique developed by Dr. Kleinman and colleagues atNIDCR, in which cancer cells and tissue extract were placed in separatecompartme...Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet - October 19, 1999
... jails are a well-defined risk group thatshould be aggressively targeted for TB detection and treatment (Editorial, p.617). * * * Even Experienced Physicians Face Barriers Detecting Domestic Violence A new qualitative study of six focus groups of emergency department physicians,obstetrician/gynecologists an...NHLBI study shows relationship between sleep apnea and hypertension
... cardiovascular mortality in hypertensives by more aggressively diagnosing the apnea," he added. Approximately 12 million Americans have sleep apnea, a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep (up to 20-30 breathing pauses per hour, each lasting at least 10 seconds). Th...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...ty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to aggressively pursue its traditional goal of improving health around the world," says Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S., dean of the School of Public Health.......r, Phillips said. In addition, drug manufacturers aggressively market and physicians widely prescribe a more expensive, related class of drugs - calcium channel blockers -- although many physicians don't realize that these medications are not appropriate substitutes for beta-blockers, Phillips added. Beta-blocke...UT Southwestern researcher finds beta-blocking drug reduces heart failure in blacks
... which is prevalent in blacks, and appears to more aggressively affectother organs in the body. Blacks also have more strokes and kidney failure, Yancy said. "We've always had concerns that even though we have come up with treatments for heart failure that appear to be very effective, we've never had sufficient d...NCEP issues major new cholesterol guidelines
...delines include: Treating high cholesterol more aggressively for those with diabetes. Besides their very high short-term risk for having a coronary event, persons with Type 2 diabetes also have a particularly high risk of dying from a heart attack. Type 2 diabetes, or noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus...Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
...even greater proportion by not managing their care aggressively or giving them enough information to manage symptoms on their own, according to a report from Johns Hopkins researchers expected at the American Thoracic Society's annual meeting today. "This is a wake-up call that doctors need to review medicatio......survival benefit could only be achieved by pushing aggressively towards a single target clearance level, which was often overly demanding on our patients," said Dr. Blake. "I look forward to peer review and publication of this study so that organizations that produce treatment guidelines can reassess current st...Drug war strategy: First fund enforcement then switch to treatment, says O.R. paper
...y would catch a new epidemic early, intervene very aggressively on both the demand and supply side, and short-circ...o pursue a policy of moderating its growth or more aggressively attempt to eradicate the use of the new drug. Eradication carries a heavy political burden, they wr...Unique study to begin examination of whether treating periodontal disease cuts heart disease
...patients who had their periodontal disease treated aggressively compared with heart patients who had not, Beck said. About 900 patients, all of whom have had a heart attack or are at high risk of one, will participate. Other cooperating institutions will be Boston University, KaiserPermanente/Oregon Health Scienc...Computerized tool predicts sarcoma outcome and improves ability to make better treatment decisions
...patients at greatest riskof recurrence can be more aggressively treated, while patients at low risk can avoid unnecessary additional treatment. In a study published in the February 1 issue of the Journalof Clinical Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering researchersshowed the sarcoma nomogram was highly effective inpr...$3 million gift from Purdue Pharma to support MGH Pain Program
...ion of the importance of accurately diagnosing and aggressively managing this insidious disease called 'pain.' Thanks to Purdue Pharma's wonderful gift, we can move closer and closer toward achieving this goal."...