Strengths and failings of U.S. health care 'system' are driven by embedded vested interests
...proposals, problems in long-term care, comparisons between managed care chains versus hospital chains, and clinical practice guidelines after a public backlash against managed care. The researchers detail the ways in which organizational, cultural, and professional forces shape the health and medical markets...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
... survival rates after transplantation were similar between alcoholics and non-alcoholics (up to 60 percent at...ion. Survival rates for 1 and 5 years were similar between the two groups, but differed significantly at the ten year mark: 45.1 percent in the relapse group v...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...ng Framingham Heart Study and found an association between naturally high levels of blood cholesterol and bet...athematics and Statistics Department, found a link between naturally occurring high cholesterol and modestly better mental function in areas such as visual org...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
...e cirrhosis related to hepatitis C that took place between 1989 and June 2003. The median donor age was 41.5 years and 47 patients had a donor who was 30 years old or younger. Donor age was not associated with the development of severe fibrosis, whereas patients receiving treatment with maintenance steroids ...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...at environmental satellite. A comparison was made between space-based methane observations and model simulat...rface, and the fact that stratospheric species lie between the troposphere and the satellite. "Our calculations showed that it is possible and we are now find...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...to have successfully negotiated the narrow channel between the shallow seamount to its west where it was for.... It would now appear that any contact if at all between the drifting iceberg and the land-fast floating ice tongue is likely to be a consequence of being 'b...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...o those of animate beings -- finding commonalities between stock markets fluctuations, earthquakes, and heart...found that the periods of wakefulness that snuggle between sleep periods of various mammalian species, are similar. The findings lead them to speculate that, ...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...ovascular events is increased. There is a relation between the severity of this disease and cardiovascular risk, but effective treatment with nasal CPAP significantly reduces the cardiovascular outcomes associated with this medical condition. Simple snoring is not a significant cardiovascular risk factor."...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...and reduce the health inequalities seen within and between countries, states an article in this week's issue ... large and growing. The probability of a man dying between age 15 and 60 years is 8.3% in Sweden, 82.1% in Zimbabwe, and 90.2% in Lesotho. Health inequalities ...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...research to establish the most appropriate balance between drugs and non-pharmacological treatments for depression, they conclude....New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
... large and growing The probability of a man dying between 15 and 60 is 8.3% in Sweden, 82.1% in Zimbabwe and...n to violent causes. There is little correlation between gross national product (GNP) per person and life expectancy. Greece for example, with GNP at purchas...Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
... behaviour of 431 active injection drug users seen between December 2003 and June 2004 as part of a separate study on injection drug users in Vancouver. 90 reported that all, most, or some of their injections were at the safer injection facility. 49 reported syringe sharing during this same period. Binge dru...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...ets may result conversely in a widening of the gap between the healthiest and the worst off in England. In California, says the author, heavy early investment in smoking cessation services produced disappointing population results. Nicotine replacement therapy and buproprion are among the most cost-effectiv...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...en and CVD, such as comparisons of the differences between women and men in specific disease and treatment ar...se, but rather that there are specific differences between the genders in symptom profiles and responses to treatment that must be taken into proper account". ...Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
...omplementary studies designed to investigate links between early life exposures, mammary gland stem cells, ma...is well known for his research establishing a link between passive smoking and lung cancer, and was a 2004 recipient of the Julius B. Richmond Award, the highe...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...ere substantial shortages of the childhood vaccine between 2001 and 2003. "The decline in antibiotic resistance in invasive pneumococci in Atlanta between 2000 and 2002 was the result of introducing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine," says Dr. Stephens. ...Countywide forecasts of water use available for Illinois, Midwest
...n. It gives useful insights about the relationship between water use and factors most likely to predict or explain water use, Dziegielewski said. It also offers perspective on the challenges facing water-system managers and regional officials in planning to meet future water-system infrastructure needs in th...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...he UH College of Pharmacy. "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line; however, the line that leads to developing new medical devices is rarely short or straight. This conference will explore options and approaches for meeting this challenge while protecting human subjects." The "critic...Single mothers at higher risk for depression
...g was focused on 205 volunteer women with children between the ages of 2 and 6 who were at high risk for depression. Participants' survey results showed that more than 75% scored in the mild to high range of depressive symptoms based on well-know measurement scales. Results support previous research in t...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...ve care or remote medicine, hope to draw parallels between the human body pushed to its limits during critica...rom Life at the Limits, will discuss the parallels between extreme environment physiology and critical care along with the history and future of extreme high a...