Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
...earchers have long been puzzled by the discrepancy between the large numbers of people with brain aneurysms -...sis performed. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of age, race, gender, health history, family history, and smoking habits. De......Abst. #1080) Rel 7"'Study Finds Direct Association between Cardiovascular Disease and Periodontal Bacteria" (Abst. #1410) Rel 8"Forensic Dentistry Key in Identifying Victims of Tsunamis, Other Disasters" (Seq. #172) Rel 9"Radiography Used to Identify Teens with Sleep Apnea" (Abst. #2531) Rel 10"Dental Practi...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
... to explaining the decline in Germany. In Britain, between 1972 and 1983 there was a small downward trend in ...Average job satisfaction also fell in West Germany between 1984 and 1997, after which it recovered slightly until 2000. Immediately after re-unification, East ...Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
...cks the function of heart valves and muscle, takes between 30 minutes and 45 minutes to perform, and requires... to increase the visual detail. Each machine costs between $1.5 million and $2 million. A single test costs approximately $700. Fellow cardiologist and Hopkin...Increasing physician volume requirement could improve mammogram accuracy, study concludes
...e few studies that have evaluated the relationship between annual volume of mammogram interpretation and accu...ile. The false-positive rate varied from 1% to 29% between individual physicians, but was lowest, in general, among physicians with the most experience. Physic...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...98 persons in 29 countries developed probable SARS between November 1, 2002, and August 7, 2003. The heavies...les. The investigators found that the association between high body mass index (BMI) and asthma occurred in females who became overweight during late adolesce...Other highlights in the March 2 JNCI
...s study--comparing the offer of an explicit choice between screening tests to recommendations of a specific t...sing finding that subjects who were given a choice between screening methods did not have a higher screening participation rate than subjects who were not give...'Artery clearing' system does not provide benefit for patients undergoing PCI
... failed thrombolysis. The patients were randomized between May 20, 2002, and November 21, 2003 to receive PCI with a balloon occlusion and aspiration (removal by suction of dislodged debris) distal microcirculatory protection system vs. angioplasty without distal protection. Among 252 patients assigned to th...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...tments for lymph node-positive breast cancer cases between 1975 and 1999. These trials compared more aggress...nalyses of the studies. "There was no association between age and disease-free survival. Overall survival was significantly worse or patients aged 65 or olde...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
...llow up, survival rates for both cancers were low between 12 and 20 percent. However, three factors increa...ageal reflux disease is potentially the connection between premature birth and esophageal adenocarcinoma. GERD is one of the few established risk factors for ...Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
...campus are active at the same time, the connection between them can be strengthened. This change, or potentia... the construction of new connections, or synapses, between the neurons. "If you learn to do something new, your neurons have to adapt and change to create a st...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...nts the second phase of a dual publishing contract between SHM and Wiley following last month's announcement that Wiley had assumed publishing responsibilities for the Society's newsletter, The Hospitalist, beginning in January 2005. The chief objective of the new Journal will be "to publish original, import...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...c and diagnostic approaches, based on interactions between scientists in this country and in Israel." Added R...s been a long history of productive collaborations between American and Israeli scientists, resulting in significant increases in our understanding and treatme...African-Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment
...tion, the team noted that rates of catheterization between Latinos/Hispanics and whites had grown more simila...once existed. Bertoni noted that while disparities between African-Americans and whites are narrowing compared to earlier periods, the gap remains an important...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...dults has risen by nearly 40 percent, giving those between 18 and 24 the unfortunate distinction of being mor...arents who quit smoking late, when their child was between third and 12th grade, had no impact on their child's quitting behavior in early adulthood. "We had t...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
...ity and is the first paper to show the association between PCOS and NAFLD. The research findings are important because many ob/gyn physicians are not aware that NAFLD can be a problem for these patients. As a result, they do not screen for the disease and may treat PCOS patients with medications that can pot...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...ter FDA approval, has noted that African Americans between the ages of 45 and 64 are two-and-a-half times mor...hat these statistical differences in heart failure between African Americans and Caucasians over 64 nearly disappear. Duster bolsters his conclusions by drawi...Genetic amplification (NAAT) test detects HIV more effectively than standard tests in urban study
...ng HIV testing and counseling at the urban clinics between October 2002 and January 2004. The research team used both standard antibody testing and NAAT testing to screen specimens from 2,202 people who had not previously tested positive for HIV. Sixty-six of the specimens were found to be HIV antibody pos...Dual testing better for monitoring new cases of HIV
...tandards work better for accurately distinguishing between new and old cases of HIV. Current testing standards are based on a single test called the serological testing algorithm for recent HIV seroconversion, or STARHS for short. STARHS relies on differentiating newly infected from chronically infected in......ernational initiative to map out the relationships between health, genes and lifestyle. Discussion partners i...ities for a greater understanding of the interplay between heredity, lifestyle and the environment as regards our most common diseases. In the wake of the HUGO...