Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...k premature infants were three times more likelyto die than white premature babies. Hamvas compared birth and death certificates for all 1,563 very lowbirth-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 ......r, 44,190 people, 99 percent of those female, will die from thedisease -- it is the leading cause of cancer death among women 40 to 55. The biggest challenge in testing the system on mammograms wascollecting digitized mammography data -- radiologists weren't takingmammograms in digital form when Barnes ...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...ndred thousand cells in a tiny region of the brain die for unknown reasons. Thispea-sized part of the brain produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter that's key to the control of movement. Parkinson's, which afflicts adults ranging from ages 40 to 80,results in uncontrollable tremors and shaky, stiff, and sl...Cardiovascular Costs, Deaths Projected To Rise In 1998
...nomy, the real tragedy is the number of people who die orare disabled, primarily from heart attacks and strokes," says Hill, who isprofessor and director of the Center for Nursing Research at The Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore. Cardiovascular disease claimed 960,592 lives in 1995. That's 41....Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...ntion,"says Reddy. People in developing countries die from cardiovascular disease at younger agesthan those in industrialized societies. In 1990 nearly 47 percent ofcardiovascular disease deaths in developing countries were people younger than70, compared to almost 27 percent for industrialized countri......ition, arsonists, violent criminals and people who die by violent methodsof suicide score low on markers of serotonin activity, he adds, and studies ofmonkeys also indicate that low sociability and high hostility may be associatedwith low serotonin levels. The UCSF investigators tracked changes in resea...Cardiac Arrests Outside Hospital - Survival Could Be Improved By Better Public Awareness Of Symptoms
...tresses that as two thirds of all cardiac patients die at home, basic life support training should be targeted at close relative and friends of patients with known coronary artery disease. The author also draws attention to the proposed use of "intelligent" defibrillators by policeman, fireman and oth...Heart Laser Surgery: An Alternative To Transplantation
...timated that about 20 to 50% of these patients may die while waiting for a donor heart. Dr. Jeevanandam says, "Our survival rate was 85% which compares favorably with survival at 1 year post transplant. We don't know yet if TMR will help these patients live longer, but TMR patients are spared the morta...Communication Between Doctors And Asthma Patients Is Key
...n the last decade-and-a-half. Around 5,000 people die each year,'' she said. Clark recently completed a research project in which 80 physicians underwenttraining on how to communicate and educate patients about asthma. Clark'sresearch team studied 650 asthma patients to determine the effect communicati...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
..." Bigner said in an interview. "Almost allpatients die within two years, even with the best efforts using surgery,external beam therapy and chemotherapy. "However, we believe that these initial studies represent a proof ofconcept of this technique, and offer the potential for significant improvem......d andneck are usually given a grim prognosis. Many die within three years ofdiagnosis. The stand...t isimportant to remember that many patients still die from this disease. We arecontinuing to try to improve our treatment strategies to help more patient...Stopping High Blood Pressure Drugs May Start A Stroke
...ne-third of all people who have this type ofstroke die within 30 days, Thrift points out, and a high percentage of survivorsare left with serious permanent disability. Because little can be done to curb the damage after a stroke, preventionis of major importance, she emphasizes. "The bott...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
...w doses oflamifiban were 23 percent less likely to die or have second heart attacks. Whencompared with the standard heparin only treatment, a combination of low doses oflamifiban and heparin reduced the number of deaths or second heart attacks byover 30 percent. Researchers say the stud...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...700,000 Americans suffer a stroke. Thirty percent die and20-30 percent become severely and permanently disabled. The total cost forcaring for all aspects of stroke is $41.9 billion annually in the United States. Currently, rehabilitation through physical and occupational therapy isthe only trea...UNC-CH Researchers Learning Ways To Help Black Women Cope With HIV
...iagnosed with HIV,they thought they were doomed to die and lived constricted lives because oftheir misunderstanding about the infection," she said. "A particularly effectiveaspect of this program has been the focus on depression, which is a common andserious problem these women experience." Other...Researchers Begin Drug Trial In Hope Of Finding New Ways To Treat Acute Kidney Failure
...aiting for life- saving transplants, and 10 people die each day while waiting. Star's research involving the drug alpha-MSH could reduce the disparity of organallocation in this country that results in unnecessary deaths. "We have foundthat alpha-MSH treatment significantly reduced renal damage and inhib......ense," Doron said. "Some babies do fine, butothers die within days, weeks or months or have chronic breathing orneurological handicaps such as cerebral palsy. They also can be mentallyretarded or blind." The medical scientists conducted the study exclusively at UNC Hospitals,one of North Carolina...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...h greater disparities in income are more likely to die than those who live in cities where differences in income are not as large. The effects of income inequality on Americans was examined in a recent study by John W. Lynch, an assistant research scientist at the U-M School of Public Health, and George...Drip And Ship: Start Drug Early, Especially If Plan To Transfer Heart Patient To Larger Hospital
...et drug improves the odds thatthe patient will not die or suffer a second heart attack within 30 days. Based on the results of their so-called "Drip and Ship" study,researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), further recommendthat these smaller hospitals immediately begin infus......again with chemotherapy, and many ofthese patients die during chemotherapy. Among those relapsed patients who dosurvive treatment and achieve a second complete remission ("CR2"), thesesubsequent remissions normally have a shorter duration than the prior CR (amedian of only 6 months in the case of CR2 pa...