Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...asty on a patient, out of fear that if the patient dies it skews the doctor's personal mortality "report c...hysicians as much when a more severely ill patient dies following a procedure; yet 85 percent of those surveyed believed that the risk adjustment model used...Simple sputum test for confirmation of childhood tuberculosis
...he tuberculosis bacillus every second, and someone dies from tuberculosis every 15 seconds, one out of every three being a child. Somber statistics, but not irreversible with the combined effort of scientists, funding bodies, public-health practitioners, and national governments in the search for improved...Penn professor earns 2004 award from the American College of Psychiatrists
...empt suicide each year. In this country, a person dies from suicide every 18 minutes, over 30,000 deaths each year. Further research is critical to address this worldwide public health problem." The award, which was first given in 1998, will be presented at The College's Annual Meeting in February 20...Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
...IDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly one in four adult Americans dies in a nursing home, yet basic needs for pain medication, emotional support, hospice care often go unmet, according to a new study conducted by Brown Medical School researchers and published by AARP. In the report, experts offer several recommendatio...A better death: Hospitals need systematic process to heed patient' concerns
...rector Peter Singer. "Everyone knows someone who dies in pain. When I do a straw poll with audiences, they generally give a B average to end of life care. This study offers the promise of an inexpensive way to tackle the problem of B-grade end of life care. "Needed, quite simply, is more systematic,...Different methods of adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer have similar outcomes
... with colorectal cancer and about half that number dies from the disease. After colon tumors are removed surgically, many patients are treated with fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy. Whether the chemotherapy should be delivered via the systemic or regional methods, however, has been controversial. ...Vaccines against fatal African cattle fever
... If treatment does not follow, the infected animal dies within three weeks. The reduced productivity of the cattle as a result of this disease leads to a lot of poverty in the area affected....Cranberry component linked to reduced stroke damage
...locked by a clot or bursts. When part of the brain dies from lack of blood flow, the part of the body it controls is affected. Stroke can cause paralysis, affect language and vision, and cause other problems. Stroke is the nation's third leading cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term dis...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
...at doctor is to feelings of loss when that patient dies but doctors often suffer these emotions in silence. These findings from a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers are published in this week's issue of The British Medical Journal, a theme issue entitled "What is a Good Death?" Previous studie...Meeting emotional needs of family makes a difference in the ICU
(NORTHBROOK, IL, July 8, 2003) When a loved one dies in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), respect, compassion, communication, and good decision-making are key to making the emotional experience easier for patients and family members, says a study published in the July issue of CHEST , the peer-reviewed j...Researchers investigate needs of family members when a patient dies
...ay reason that anything doctors do after a patient dies is not cost-effective. But its imperative to realize actions taken after a death have a tremendous long-term impact on families. To ignore the interests of a bereaved family can lead to tragic results. Dr. Bishai and co-author Andrew Siegel, JD, PhD...American Stroke Association kicks off American Stroke Month
... someone has a stroke every 53 seconds and someone dies of one every 3.1 minutes in the United States. Here are the major findings of the survey: Only 1 percent of Americans worry most about stroke. When asked which one disease or health condition they worry about most, 33 percent said cancer and 13 pe......ves, the insect hasn't the energy to reproduce and dies of exhaustion and the population dies off. "It's not fast," Wren says. "But it is effective and there is no residual poison to enter the f...New definition may make number of heart attack cases soar
..."When a myocardial infarction occurs, heart muscle dies and in the process, the muscle leaks intracellular components such as CKMB and troponin into the surrounding tissues," says Mark Meier, M.D., UMHS resident physician and a study researcher. Cardiac troponin is a more sensitive marker of myocardial ...Jefferson scientist begins clinical trial to study promising Parkinson's disease drug
...he substantia nigra, which is the brainregion that dies in Parkinson's disease. Comparing patient symptoms and thenumber of dopamine terminals is a significant advance, notes Dr. Schneider."This technology will give us important new insights into the relationshipbetween the expression of the symptoms of P...