Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
...imelagatran, usually within 6 months and typically declined whether or not treatment continued. "The SPORTIF V trial is the largest yet reported trial involving patients with atrial fibrillation for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism. Low rates of thromboembolism and bleeding occurred when ximelagatra...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
...ite trend. In fact, overall mobility has generally declined since about 1950, and interstate mobility has gene...tion shows that short-distance mobility rates have declined substantially over the last 50 years, whereas long-distance moves have declined less sharply or have...Nonhuman primate males more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline than females
...his finding suggested the males' spatial abilities declined at a greater rate as they got older than did the females." The researchers' next steps are to determine what factors may contribute to the differential cognitive decline between males and females. An example is testosterone, which is known to decli...Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...However, the use of Ginko biloba and Panax ginseng declined during the study period. Overall, supplement users were older, more likely to be female (59.9 vs. 55.5 percent) and white (80.7 vs. 75.6 percent). The use of lutein, a component of multivitamin products, increased in both men and women, with a preval...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...e given nicotine, metabolic activity significantly declined in the women and slightly increased in men -- the original differences all but disappeared. According to Dr. Steven Potkin, who along with neuroanatomist James Fallon led the study, these results shed light on two issues. First, brain activity areas...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...s not as high. In general, the false-positive rate declined with increasing physician age, with increasing time since receipt of medical degree, and with increasing annual volume. Additionally, those physicians who focused their practice on screening, as opposed to diagnostic mammography, had a lower false-po...Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
... today by THE LANCET. In Brazil neonatal mortality declined in the 1980's but rates have virtually remained unchanged since the 1990's. Fernando Barros (Hospital de Clinicas, Montevideo, Uruguay) and colleagues studied births in 1992, 1993, and 2004 in the Brazilian city of Pelotas. They found that important ...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...od-pressure medications. Anemia rates seem to have declined and patients' appetites have increased. There has been a marked improvement in quality of life for the dialysis patients on daily treatments at Indiana University Hospital, a member of Clarian Health Partners. "We've had mothers who didn't have the ...Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...en 72.5 of every 100,000 men had the disease, then declined to 47 per 100,000 men in 1991. In sharp contrast, the incidence of lung cancer in women continued to rise to a peak with 33.1 per 100,000 women in 1991, and then remained relatively stable at 30.2 to 32.3 per 100,000 women from 1992 to 1999. These ...European folic acid policies are not effective enough
...revalence of neural tube defects in Europe has not declined substantially in the past decade, despite national policies of folic acid supplementation in half the countries, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Each year, more than 4500 pregnancies in the European Union are affected by neural tube defects. Resear...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...radiation treatment for breast cancer has steadily declined over the last quarter century, according to a new ...979, the risk of death from ischemic heart disease declined by six percent annually in women with left sided breast cancer compared to those with disease on the...Risk of cardiac death after radiotherapy for breast cancer has declined, study finds
...eath from ischemic heart disease among these women declined over time. Among women diagnosed between 1973 and 1979, those with left-sided tumors had a higher rate of 15-year mortality from ischemic heart disease (13.1%) compared with women with right-sided tumors (10.2%), but there was no statistically signif...New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
...tes in White men and women peaked in 1985 and have declined since. In 2000 the incidence rates in White men and women were 2025 percent lower than peak rates in 1985 and 1015 percent lower than the rates in 1975. During this same interval, incidence rates in African American men increased, and the rates were...