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...rth-weight infants born in St. Louis with clinical data from the four St.Louis-area neonatal intensive care units during 1987-89 and 1991-92, beforeand after approval of surfactant for clinical use. Very low birth-weightinfants are those weighing less than 3 pounds, 5 ounces. The study found the neonatal ...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...sign for collection, management and analysisof the data from patients at five medical centers. The work wa...ried under an avalanche of data." "Each patient's data must be kept separate," said Drazen. "Allof the people involved in the study must remain uninformed ...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...more precisefocus might permit the storage of more data on CD-ROMs. Semiconductor lasers are also used in telecommunications and incommunications between satellites. The work, funded by the University and the U.S. Air Force's Phillips Laboratory, which employs Marciante, waspublished in the July 29 i...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
....2 days in the Mid-Atlantic). The detailed cost data used in the analysis came from a random sample of the 22,043 U.S. patients who were enrolled in GUSTO, a large international trial that tested two different clot-busting drugs. The sample represents "real world cardiology," Eisenstein said. Physician...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
... at 19 months." Based on the mothers' self-report data on the impact of the infants on theirfamilies, Man... guesses were no better than chance." Unpublished data show that while the premature infants performed significantlylower on measures of cognitive developm...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
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...r 48 weeks. Dr. Ledermanpresented the analysis of data from 33 patients after 12 weeksof treatment. <The data show that the dramatic risein CD4 counts and fall in plasma levels of virus seen early afterstarting...Early Menopause Stress Related In Developing Countries
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...logy, who were both seniors at the time. When the data were analyzed, the researchers controlled for mother's education. "Interestingly, the findings were only significant for speech perception amidst noise, not sound perception" says Maxwell. "This implies that language acquisition is an underlying, in......ve of pastpathological cases essentially becomes a data classifier for processingnew mammograms." In its ...rams that wereproperly calibrated. "In all of the data that's similar to our database data, thisapproach achieved nearly 100 percent detection with what ap...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...w computer workstations are allowing 2D ultrasound data sets to beelectronically reconstructed as 3D images. Ultrasound is also less expensive than other well known imagingtechniques such as MRI and CT. In this study, Delcker and his two colleagues used a prototype magneticsensor workstati...Cardiovascular Costs, Deaths Projected To Rise In 1998
...f cardiovascular disease than men. Final mortality data for 1995shows that the death rate per 100,000 persons for breast cancer - the diseasewomen fear most - was 27.5 for black females and 20.5 percent for white females.The death rate per 100,000 persons for coronary heart disease was 81.6 for blackfemal...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...s," Alberts said. "And while we don'thave concrete data on the outcomes of patients treated by ASTs, those of us whotreat them strongly suspect that patients are benefitting." While the teams appear to be economical to operate in financial terms,the main commitment by a hospital is the time of it...Survey Finds Acute Stroke Teams Gaining Prevalence
...urosurgeon. "While we do not have specific data that prove they are cost-effective,stroke teams certainly do not seem to create a large financial burden," saysMark Alberts, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Duke University. "Thecosts for most of these ASTs are very modest. In all cases, we ...Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
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...all anticipatoryimpression management, is based on data collected at three non-profit hospitalsin a single urban area. The hospitals asked that their names not be disclosed.The researchers' conclusions are based on bills, letters, observations, andinterviews with hospital staff and patients. The researche......alth care plans, which provided individualenrollee data for the study. Some of the medical groups compensated physicianson a fee-for-service basis, while others did so on a salaried basis.Through a survey of 1994 plan enrollment and utilization data, researchersidentified the methods and amount of physic......nal organs. Medical workers will be able touse the data to the pick the exam with the least risk as well as providebetter information for parents faced with tough choices about children's care. "If a parent said, `When my child was 1 or 2, she had a CT exam, somefluoroscopy and several chest x-ray...