UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...th Carolina at ChapelHill have discovered they can almost always prevent life-threatening blood clotsfrom forming during total hip replacement surgery. They have their patients wear a sterile, inflatable sleeve over the legas it's being operated on and for a few days afterwards. Inflating and deflat...Breast cancer patients face increased depression
...oston. "Dysphoria, insomnia, and hot flashes were almost universal in women whosebreast cancer treatment induced estrogen deficiency," says Donna B. Greenberg,M.D., one of the authors of the study. "The rather abrupt change in estrogen addsto other adverse side effects of adjuvant chemotherapy and presents...Database technology threatens liberty
...t their knowledge or consent, open toinspection by almost anyone and be sold to the highest bidder." (And bid theydo. Drug companies and hospitals spend $15 billion a year on technology used tomine medical data.) The medical records provisions of H.R. 10 undermine patient privacy and quality health care an...University of Iowa reading test effective at identifying reading problems due to brain injury
...akers had so much time to finish the exercise that almost everyone passed.In contrast, patients must complete the Iowa-Chapman test in two and a halfminutes. "It's pretty hard to do it in two and a half minutes," Tranel said. "You reallyhave to hustle." The Iowa-Chapman test consists of 25 one- to two-sent...Federal agencies report on nation's children
...ths in 1997. Although the death rate for almost all groups of children has declined,the drop was g... 59.2 per 100,000. Thisrate, however, remained at almost twice the rate for whites, which was 31.6 in1997.* In 1996, the death rate for adolescents ...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...exclude the aneurysm over the long run. So far, in almost two years, ourUNC group has had success in aneurysm exclusion in 90% of patients, Marstonsays, adding that clinical reports from Europe of similar repairs have notedacceptable success for longer periods of time. At UNC, a multi-specialty cent...Component of aspirin prevents antibiotic-induced deafness
...ng loss, up to 70decibels at some wavelengths, and almost complete destruction of the outer haircells in the cochlea. Animals receiving gentamicin and salicylate had minorhearing impairment of less than 20 decibels and minimal hair cell damage. Thelow salicylate doses used in the experiment had no effect ......the long-course AZT used in the United States, and almost 70 times cheaper thana short course of AZT given to the mother during the last month of pregnancy - aregimen tested in Thailand by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention andreported effective in 1998. The Uganda study investigators, part of ...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...rt-healthy eating and vigorous physicalactivities, almost four thousand eighth graders in four states report theycontinue to practice much of what they learned. This follow-up of the CATCH(Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health) Study suggests thathealth behaviors initiated during the element...Heart valve disease increases risk of death, research shows
...rom the CardiovascularHealth Study, which involved almost 6,000 older adults in Forsyth County andthree other communities. The participants in this observational study hadechocardiograms -- ultrasound tests of the heart -- when the study began in 1989. Using these tests to identify participants with...... the "....supposed rise in emergency admissions is almost entirely attributable to the increased reporting of internal transfers of patients after admission." They explain this by using the example that if someone who has suffered a stroke is transferred from an assessment ward to the care of a neurologist...New biological target identified for cholesterol-lowering drugs
... years, CRP levels amongthose taking the drug were almost 38 percent lower than the placebo group's, theresearchers report. The changes seem unrelated to any decline in cholesterol levels. Even whenpatients in the placebo group were able to lower their low-density lipoprotein-- the so-called 'bad' componen...College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
...ppearsto be slightly out of focus. Men are almost as likely as women to report unwanted sexual contact andcoercion, according to a new study of college students conducted by researchersfrom the University of Washington's Addictive Behaviors Research Center. Thestudy, involving nearly 300 students, ...Researchers seek postmenopausal women smokers for hormone, heart disease study
...e risk of cardiovascular death for women climbs to almost the samelevel as men," Girdler said. "Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause ofdeath for both men and women, killing twice as many women each year as allcancers combined." A Boston study of more than 120,000 U.S. nurses indicated that ...New computer model supports the importance of annual mammograms
...r ways toscreen patients for tumors. For example, almost 20 years of clinical trialshave shown that women who have mammograms every one to three years reduce theirrisk of dying from breast cancer by 30 percent. The new computer model came upwith the same 30 percent reduction for a one-to-three-year interva...Adhesive tape connected to hospital infections
...r thingswith the patient and bacteria can be found almost anywhere. But it appears thatdiscarding the outer layer of tape is one simple way of reducing the risk ofbacterial infection," says Dr. Don Redelmeier, associate professor of medicineat U of T and de Souza chair in trauma clinical research at Sunnybr......versees more pituitary disease clinical trialsthan almost any other facility in the country, patients will have unparalleledaccess to these research protocols. "We currently have three large NIH grants in pituitary disease and research, aswell as an NIH training grant, and literally hundreds of patients enr...Bullies need as much help as their victims
...-15 years that they studied were bullied, but that almost a quarter (23.7 per cent) admitted to bullying others. Forero et al found that children who were both bullied themselves but also bullied others had the greatest number of psychological and psychosomatic problems. In a separate study, Professor Riit...Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
...5 percent in individuals undergoing bypasssurgery, almost 9 percent in bypass patients age 75 or older and nearly 16percent in patients with pre-existing disease involving blood flow in the brainor those undergoing heart valve surgery, according to Hogue. Bypass surgeryinvolves rerouting blood flow around ...Hypothyroidism during pregnancy linked to lower IQ for child
...mothers werebeing treated for the condition scored almost the same as children born tohealthy mothers. These findings suggest that early detection and treatment ofhypothyroidism in pregnant women may be a critical part of prenatal care. "We know that the health of the mother can be a key factor in her baby...