New 'real time' MRI stress test pictures heart in motion
...cine MRI is able to capture the heart'smovement at almost the same time the heart is contracting and relaxing, or closeto 'real time.' Patients receive a drug called dobutamine and are placed in the MRI machine. Dobutamine works like adrenaline and mimics the effects of exercise on the heartby increasing t...Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"
...l and social context aspects. Onceaddicted, it is almost impossible for most people to stop the spiraling cycle ofaddiction on their own without treatment." While the JAMA article was written primarily to inform physicians about drugaddiction and the effectiveness of treatment, the Principles of Drug Add......ime, said Douglas Bradley, this is an area that is almost completelyignored by cardiologists to the detriment of their patients". As he indicated at the 9th ERS meeting, the Toronto team will be undertaking amore extensive study, involving over 400 heart failure patients with CSA inseven healthcare centers ...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...ugh medication will help most individuals fully or almost fully recoverfrom Bell's palsy paralysis, about 10 to 15 percent of patients will not recoverunless additional measures are taken. The study had three related goals, all attempting to answer the primaryquestions troubling many clinicians treating pat...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
...tes, the survival ratesfor the two groups would be almost equal. Putting these results into perspective, the UCSF co-authors note currentclinical evaluation of surgical treatment by stating, "There is agreement thatsurgical resection saves lives in patients with early-stage, non-small-cell lungcancer." Th...AEDs user-friendly -- even for children
... (AEDs) to save the lives of cardiacarrest victims almost as quickly and efficiently as professional emergencymedical personnel, researchers report today in Circulation: Journal of theAmerican Heart Association. "Now we know that AEDs are literally easy enough for a child to use," says GustH. Bardy, M.D., o...International study provides important benchmark for countries still using leaded gasoline
... gasoline are found inAfrica, where there has been almost no progress in phasing lead out ofgasoline," she adds. Before this study, the research article claims, "there has been little abilityto predict how blood lead levels will change, for a given population, as leadedgasoline is phased out." In areas wher...Study reveals many dental patients don't realize they have major medical conditions
...art disease.People with periodontal disease may be almost twice as likely to suffer fromcoronary artery disease as those without periodontal disease. "This suggests that it may be especially important for people with periodontaldisease to be aware when they have other risk factors for heart disease, such a...Mayo Clinic study shows increased incidence of migraine headaches
... -- an increase fromapproximately 600 new cases to almost 1,000 new cases per 100,000 women peryear. "There are several possible reasons for this trend," says Walter Rocca, M.D., aMayo Clinic epidemiologist and the senior author of the study. "Changes in thesocial environment during the 1980s increased the...Over 400 heart attacks every year in young women smokers could be prevented
...ks ormore a day, the risk increased by a factor of almost 75. Other underlying conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or highcholesterol -- known risk factors for heart disease -- further increased thelikelihood of a heart attack in smokers. In smokers of between one and 19cigarettes a day, wit...Nausea from anesthesia plummets with extra oxygen
...d. In contrast, the use of additional oxygen costs almost nothing, causes no knownproblems, and can be given to all patients from the outset of surgery. "The take-home message from the new studies is that extra oxygen is cheap,risk-free and reduces the incidence of nausea as well as any known drug,"Sessler ...Physicians consistent in prescribing hormone therapy
...orosis is an important reason for prescribing HRT; almost 90 per cent said the prevention of coronary artery disease is also a consideration. (A more recent study indicates HRT may not protect against heart disease as it was thought to before, but this information was not available to physicians at the time...Studies of growth hormone result in new class of drugs
... in the chain in animals and 120 in humans -- with almost any other amino acid, the growth hormone turns from a growth hormone agonist, or enhancer, to a growth hormone antagonist, or inhibitor. The antagonist inhibits the action of the hormone at the cellular level by competing for receptors usually claim...Anti-HIV treatment improves immune system and fights sight-threatening eye infection
...for an average of 16 months, and in some cases for almost two years. This significant result adds to the body of evidence that some patients who have both CMV retinitis and immune recovery from using highly active antiretroviral therapy may be able to stop their standard anti-CMV medications." Another indi......were weaned. "Developmentally, this time period is almost exactly the same time that the human amniotic fluid samples were obtained," said Dr. Hughes. "The major steps of formation of organs in the body occur early on, in both rats and humans. Therefore, the treatment of the rats was intentionally delayed u....... American research on vaccines and anti-TB drugs almost ceased a few decades ago as public health officials assumed the disease was on the way to eradication, just as smallpox was. However, tuberculosis is now the leading bacterial killer in the world, causing 10 million new cases and 3 million deaths eac...The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists releases latest findings at Annual Meeting
...fluences Doctors' Prescribing Habits -- It's been almost a decade since the American Medical Association reversed its policy regarding direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA). To measure the impact of DTCA, University of Mississippi researchers polled physicians regarding how pharmaceutical ads influenced p...New sterol spread can reduce bad cholesterol
... low- and high-dose versions of the spread offered almost equal benefits. That's good news because you don't have to consume very much to get cholesterol-lowering, which might keep the cost down. However, it was disappointing because we had hoped that the more the subjects ate, the more their cholesterol ...Emotional support during conflict situations elevates blood pressure in African-American boys
...escents is important because African-Americans are almost twice as likely to develop high blood pressure as Caucasians in early adulthood-by 40," said Wilson. In individual laboratory sessions, confederates who played the roles of parent, teacher, sibling or peer antagonized the 24 girls and 24 boys in th...Lack of private health insurance increases risk of dying, study finds
...r of uninsured individuals is considered: in 1986, almost 31 million individuals aged 18 to 64 lacked private health insurance," the study found. Young and middle-aged adults who used Medicare or Medicaid also were more likely to die over the follow-up period. The high mortality of individuals without hea...