Aggressive heart therapies still underused, despite blood chemical status
...apy are not receiving it. "As physicians, we don't always appreciate or interpret risk accurately," Newby continued. "One key to improving outcomes is for physicians to understand risk, and to understand that these therapies have been proven effective in clinical trials to reduce clinical events, particular...Bite-marks giving false impression
...eth and a bite mark on the victim's breast. Krone always maintained his innocence, and was eventually exone...itics of such evidence argue that the technique is always subjective and has never been held up to rigorous experimental validation. Christopher Plourd, the ...Study shows 'gaming' in heart transplant system
...ced higher on the list, available organs might not always go to the sickest patient. While the researchers in this study looked specifically at gaming of heart transplant patients, they say they same problems exist for other organs. In 2003, the University of Illinois settled a $2.3 million lawsuit alleging...OHSU receives grant to study evolutionary computing for biomedical image analysis
...ven in men with a healthy prostate, the test isn't always a good indicator. When PSA tests are inconclusive, physicians often do a biopsy, which can be painful and time-consuming. "We are going to explore whether evolutionary computer programs can learn how to very accurately pinpoint on a CT (computed tomo...Ovarian tissue storage and later transplant shows promise for women infertile from cancer therapy
...ry or that can metastasize into ovary, it will be always difficult to completely exclude the presence of such cells in the graft. To provide an evidence-based approach in future practice, a multicentre trial could be proposed in which girls or young women at intermediate risk of sterility would be randomis...New breast pap smear detects early cellular changes; May prevent onset of breast cancer
...e good tests for looking at cancer, but they don't always do a good job of finding early changes in the brea...the next runner, the entire loop is broken. "We've always known that vitamins are important in the prevention of cancer, but here is a clear-cut example at th...Nutrition education helps stretch meager food budgets
..., but more than 10 percent of its households don't always have enough food to eat. One way to reduce the incidence of families running out of food, a significant nutrition study at Cornell University has found, is education in food selection and resource management. That education can help families cope ...Teens present research findings at major international meeting
... no strangers to the lab. According to Tina, "I've always been interested in dental research, but it has onl...ve taken those interests further. Growing up, I've always been surrounded by medical and dental influences. A few years ago, my sister Sophia completed some r...Contraception study supports convenience, simplicity
... in the current issue of Contraception. "It's not always easy, but it is very important for women using any birth control pill to take it at the same time every day to prevent unplanned pregnancy," said Vanessa Cullins, M.D. FACOG. "What's exciting is that this study shows that the birth control patch is ...New tool measures children's own health perceptions
Parents and children do not always agree in their assessments of the child's health. Parents usually report that their children are feeling better than the children say they are. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that children as young as six can...Study shows women's medication use higher than expected
...prescribed the drug. For example, patients did not always tell the gynecologist they were taking high blood pressure medication prescribed by another physician. "Patients may not perceive that their blood pressure medication was something their gynecologist needed to know about," Tracy says. "Sometimes, pat...System can predict disease spread
...l affect the spread of the disease." That's not always easy, the scientists said. The model assumes a knowledge of the life expectancy of the vector an insect, rodent, etc. that can carry the disease. One must know the ratio of the vectors to the host that gets the disease, the relative abundance of th...Ratings of teen-rated video games do not always fully describe content
...ted video games shows that industry ratings do not always fully describe the content of video games. Led by researchers at the Center for Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston and the Kids Risk Project at the Harvard School of Public Health, the study appears in the February 18 issue of the ...Clinical trial of new TB vaccine begins
... least six months to complete, and medicine is not always available in developing countries. The current clinical trial will enroll 30 healthy adults in the U.S. to test the safety of the vaccine and the immune response it provokes. After the trial has been completed, a similar study will be conducted in ...Pitt receives $14.5 million from NIH to improve pediatric heart transplantation outcomes
..., the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has always been to foster multidisciplinary collaborations and to promote the translation of basic science research into the clinical setting," said Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at the...Alcohol abuse history could pose problems for HIV patients
...es, sometimes to the point of dementia, are almost always reported in the latest stages of the illness, but some research has demonstrated that asymptomatic HIV-positive patients will experience subtle cognitive impairments that influence their daily activities. Given that risk and these new findings, Borns...UCI receives major grant to study how acupuncture can treat cardiovascular ailments
...l support. "Contemporary Western medicine has always been skeptical about acupuncture," said Longhurst, who is also the Lawrence K. Dodge Professor in Integrative Biology. "But the fact remains that hundreds of millions of people worldwide benefit from this treatment, so it is our goal to bridge this g...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...ience, and noises patients find disturbing are not always apparent to nursing staff. But it's worth the effort; reductions of even a few decibels can improve sleep and help patients get the rest they need to heal." Co-authors of the paper include Dana Karr, Dawn Gasser, Loretta Oliphant and Amy Neveau. The ...Large-scale analysis of women with androgen excess: thorough treatment can reduce symptoms
...en in their reproductive years, its causes are not always easy to determine. In this large sample, only 59 patients (6.75 percent of the total) had specific identifiable underlying disorders. These included a very small number of cancers, classic and non-classic adrenal hyperplasias, and hyperandrogenic ins...Virtual reality helps breast cancer patients cope with chemotherapy
...g chemotherapy. Some are very sick and you tend to always look at the individual who's sickest. For me, I felt sicker when I was in this environment," said Honeycutt, who underwent her chemotherapy two years ago and completed a portion of her treatments using virtual reality. Susan Schneider, Ph.D., directo...