Statement on the findings of the Women's Health Study
...ular causes in women. Low-dose aspirin (100 mg on alternate days) lowered the incidence of a first major cardiovascular event (nonfatal heart attack, non-fatal stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes) by 9 percent. This was not statistically significant. Stroke was 17 percent lower in the aspirin group,...States find alternate routes to health coverage
... Burton, SCI program director. "States are finding alternate routes to expand coverage and make existing programs work most effectively in this changing environment," says Burton. Most states endured another bad budget year without making deep cuts to their Medicaid programs. This reflects Medicaid's essen...Georgia Medicaid program saves $20 million by controlling use of anti-ulcer drugs
... normal drug costs. For these patients, a possible alternate treatment existed in lower-cost generic histamine type-2 antagonists (H2As), such as Zantac®. After considering these factors, Georgia implemented the prior-authorization program in February 2002, requiring enrollees to obtain approval before rec...Brain can be trained to process sound in alternate way, study shows
...that the brains of rats can be trained to learn an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of sound...eye, speculates Polley, we may be referring to the alternate sensory processing system employed by the expert rats. "This is implicit learning," he says. "How do...Pet scans detect brain differences in people at risk for Alzheimer's
...arly damage done by Alzheimer's by switching to an alternate brain network to complete the task. It could also be that their different genetic makeup results in different patterns of brain activity. In previous studies, Dr Scarmeas has demonstrated APOE-related changes in brain activity in patients that alrea...UIC team develops new screening tool for pediatric bipolar disorder
...acterized by extreme changes in mood. Patients may alternate between deep depression and abnormal and persistent euphoria, or mania. In children, the disorder is associated with sexual promiscuity, failure in school, and suicide. The disorder is often misdiagnosed and treated unsuccessfully. For more informati...New research suggests two brain areas critical for short-term memory
...tegy in some cases it would "expect" the trials to alternate "left," then "right," and fired cells to remember the alternate lever even before the trial began. "When the hippocampus relies on previous experience, and doesn't...Study shows possible link between Parkinson's medication and cardiac valve disease
...ration should be given to switching patients to an alternate dopamine agonist," concludes Dewey....Serious allergic reactions in cancer patients call for expert nursing intervention
...llenge include evaluating the effectiveness of the alternate agents, assessing the loss of or delay in potentially curative therapy, analyzing the likelihood of reaction recurrence and allaying the patient's anxiety. "Many patients receiving medications that may cause an allergic reaction will be successfully...Blood screen may help cancer patients thwart radiation side effects, say Stanford researchers
... that can be used to single out these patients for alternate therapies or lower radiation doses. Chu said screening blood rather than cancer cells means the test would be more accessible to patients. "To be most useful it had to be done on peripheral blood and with a small number of genes," he said. Chu, whose......ty, occurs during the spring. As an alternate explanation for the increased incidence of HPV infections seen during the summer months, scientists suggest quite a distinct biological process: suppressed immunity triggered by a specific band of ultraviolet rays found in sunlight. "T...Detection at a distance for more sensitive MRI
...ysis. Since only the carrier reaches the detector, alternate detection methods, incompatible with the sample because they may be intrusive or require transparency, can also be used -- for example, optical methods that can detect the miniscule NMR signals from living cells. By freeing the detection phase from ...Electrical stimulation in patients with paralysis and spinal cord injury
...w. More than half stated that they did not have an alternate caregiver. Weight-bearing conditions alter foot shape, pg# 517 Study quantifies the effects of weight bearing on the plantar foot shape. The plantar foot shapes of 16 normal feet were obtained by an impression casting method under three weight-bea...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...act that response times were equal could mean that alternate neurological pathways that compensate for the disruption have developed in the brains of the HIV-positive subjects. To assess where HIV-triggered damage might be occurring in the brain, Chao examined the relationship between the strength of CNV activ...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...rgeons to look for changes in language function as alternate hemispheres of the brain are put to sleep. The Wada test provides a rough idea of which hemisphere has primary control of language, but does nothing to pinpoint specific location of language areas within the hemisphere; it also provides inconclusive ...'Reset switch' for brain cells discovered
...sensitivity -- and thus more NMDA receptors -- the alternate mRNA splicing yields a receptor protein with a var...oaches for treating such problems by targeting the alternate splicing of mRNA for NMDA receptors." More broadly, said Ehlers, "these findings could open a floodg...Should the standard guidelines for assessing prostate cancer control be changed?
... definition. "We reanalyzed this data to correlate alternate biochemical failure definitions with provided clin...cent and 68 percent, respectively."Using the three alternate definitions of distant failure, we obtained specificity and sensitivity results of 69 and 73 percent...What you should know about statistics
...bservational studies, you have to include possible alternate explanations, Utts said. "For instance, women's self image could confound the study on breast implants and suicide," she said. Confusing the terms "average" and "normal" is another common pitfall. "We're always hearing that 'the normal temperature fo...Teens struggle to find accurate, useful health information online
...ne misspelled word. Some search engines offered an alternate search that corrected the spelling error, but students rarely noticed or used it. Even when students found a Web site that contained the answer to a question, they didn't always find the answer. In the Paxil question, many of the students ended up at...Patient-centered approach just what the doctor ordered for healthcare industry
...m a first-choice physician often sends patients to alternate providers and even emergency rooms, imposing added cost and inefficiency on the healthcare system. Berry recommends implementing an "advanced access model," which entails having about 50 percent of appointment slots open at the start of the workday a...