Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...fits. "Reducing the time in restraints lowers the chance for complications. This new medication really does represent a significant new option in emergency treatment of severely agitated patients, particularly because it's effective in treating agitation, whatever the apparent cause," he said. Doctors rec...Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
...atients with complex conditions who have a greater chance of poor outcomes." "Based on the collective experience and judgment of experts in medical liability, however, there does not appear to be any basis for physicians who perform care coordination to have serious concerns about liability," Hall and his...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
... deteriorating physically, it gives them a greater chance of surviving the disease they are fighting." This latest research breakthrough is based on earlier studies that demonstrated how a receptor on certain brain cells -- called the MC4 receptor -- can influence metabolism and appetite. Previous research ...Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
Firefighters face a high chance of injury or death whether on the scene of a fire, on the way to a fire or even during training--with an estimated 81,000 injuries and 100 deaths in 2002 alone. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a study* that...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...lts lead us to be very cautious, because there's a chance that we may be doing more harm than good," Dr. Swensen said. No professional health organizations currently recommend CT screening for lung cancer....Improving access to healthy food has little effect on diet
...wledge and access simultaneously may have a better chance of securing improvements in diet and health and a reduction in health inequalities," they conclude....African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...anced endometrial cancer have a 25 percent greater chance of dying than Caucasian patients with the same diagnosis, even in the setting of a controlled clinical trial. Based on the clinical data from the GOG study, the investigators hypothesized that there may be biologic differences in endometrial cancer...... the mouth can't repair itself and the greater the chance for dental erosion, says Dr. Shipley. "As the availability of soft drinks increase so does the amount of erosion in our population," says Dr. Shipley. "The primary action patients can take to decrease their likelihood of erosion is to reduce consump...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...r signed consent. Factors that might influence the chance of consent being given, such as age, illness severity, and length of hospital stay, were also assessed. Consent was obtained for 43% of admissions, only one refusal was received. Gaining consent for all admissions was difficult and varied widely acro...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...al physician. Global risk indicates the predicted chance of having a heart disease event within the next 10 years based on all of a person's risk factors. Becker said that no patient with enhanced primary care attended the smoking cessation program or used the YMCA exercise facilities. Patients at the c...Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
...onfirmed, we believe human vaccines stand a better chance of getting T-cells to respond after most of the tumor is destroyed by hormone therapy," says Drake. "The strategy thereafter would be to continue activating the immune system with repeated vaccines and delay the time until the patient needs more hor...American Academy of Neurology presents 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach
...vide a memorable evening that includes dinner, the chance to bid on several donated items, and a live performance by multi-platinum country music star Clay Walker, who was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 1996. For registered journalists, the on-site Press Room will host a variety of...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...months after the quality effort began had a better chance of being alive a year after their hospital stay ended. But women didn't get as much mortality reduction benefit as men. That difference may be in part because women patients were less likely than men to have a one-on-one session with doctors or nurse...Blood pressure treatment could cut risk of strokes and heart attacks
...on the new treatment strategy had a one third less chance of developing diabetes compared with the older strategy. The 19,000 patient Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) had been comparing a new treatment strategy for hypertension, or high blood pressure, against an old one, in order to discov...Combining PET and CT scans leads to more accurate radiation therapy for lung cancer patients
...CT-based planning alone. This may lead to a higher chance of achieving tumor control."The study showed that the two non-invasive imaging methods were combined because PET scans were shown to have a higher accuracy than CT scans to predict which lymph nodes contain cancer cells and which do not. PET scans al...Statement on the findings of the Women's Health Study
...y must be weighed against the risk of an increased chance of internal bleeding, a well-known side effect of aspirin use. The bottom line is that many women, especially those 65 and older, may benefit from taking low-dose aspirin every other day to prevent stroke. But it is important for women to weigh the ...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
...omen have dense breast tissue, which decreases the chance that a cancer will be visible on their mammograms. With molecular breast imaging, the visibility of the tumor is not influenced by the density of the surrounding tissue. This technique is well suited to find cancers in women whose mammograms may not ...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
... expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by th...ty of South Carolina, USA, argue that although the chance of a donor benefiting may presently be low, "at the pace that stem cell research is moving, perhaps ...... that would give each individual with HIV an equal chance of receiving antiretrovirals. The work is reported in the February issue of the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine . Based on the premise that only a limited number of drugs will be available and only a limited number of health-care f......blished CHD risk factor known to double a person's chance of dying from heart disease. There has been much debate, but no large studies of whether diabetes carries different heart risks for women than for men, said Mark Woodward, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics at The George Institute for International H...