Alcohol drinkers three times as likely to die from injury
...n the survey year, had a higher risk of dying from each cause of injury when compared to non-drinkers and former drinkers. The greatest increase in risk was for drowning: drinkers were 3.6 times as likely to drown as non-drinkers. The researchers also learned that female drinkers had a greater increase in...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...rsity, programmed the PDAs to beep randomly during each two-hour period of an entire week, and prompt participants to report their mood at those random moments by completing a quick series of ratings. "The big advantage of using PDAs is that you can get representative snapshots of a person's experience, ...Nonhuman primate males more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline than females
...measured spatial memory. The researchers presented each animal with an increasing number of identical disks for which the animals had to identify the disk appearing in a new location. "We saw young adult male nonhuman primates outperform females, a finding consistent with human data that shows men have a...HIV infection still on the rise
...ecause of infections acquired abroad. Furthermore, each newly diagnosed HIV patient consumes 12,500 in healthcare costs each year, while the lifetime costs of care for the current 50,000 infected individuals in the United Kin...Electronic medical records reduce hours, cut cost
...a wide range of disease categories. In the study, each patient was randomized either to the intervention group the group that would receive Care Considerations or the control group those for whom Care Considerations were identified, but not communicated. Underscoring the potential danger of a paper-b...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...Kaldjian said. "At the very least, we have to let each other know the basis of our disagreements, otherwi...that those involved simply have not conversed with each other enough to understand each other's thinking and reasoning. "Physicians are often unsettled by p...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...dent studies provide great external validation for each other emphasizing the robustness of our findings and the value of expanded HIV screening," she said. Sanders led the study with colleagues from the Palo Alto (Calif) VA Health Care System, Stanford University, and St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. T...Physicians call for increased funding for federal infectious disease programs
...ple acquire bacterial infections in U.S. hospitals each year, and 90,000 die as a result. About 70 percent of these infections are resistant to at least one drug, according to CDC. The total cost of antimicrobial resistance to U.S. society is nearly $5 billion annually, according to the Institute of Medic...Study shows protective equipment not very effective for rugby players
...ed from 304 rugby players in Dunedin, New Zealand, each week during the 1993 season. The detailed information concerned injuries, protective equipment use and participation in practice and games. "I think the bottom line is that rugby is a wonderful but dangerous sport, and that new types of protective eq...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...choose among the three potential therapies. "Since each drug has its own drawbacks, trying to compare them...d for quality of life factors and analyzed the way each drug affected quality-adjusted survival." Gage and Washington University medical student Cara O'Brie...News briefs from the journal CHEST, February 2005
...f inflammation, researchers were able to determine each individual's amount of systemic inflammation. Results showed that smoking was associated with 1.6 increased odds of elevated CRP levels, a reduction in lung function was associated with 2.3 odds of elevated CRP levels, and for individuals with both ...Over-the-counter supplement appears effective in treatment of midlife-onset depression
...her receive six weeks of DHEA therapy, three weeks each of two dosages, or six weeks of placebo treatment. Following the six weeks of DHEA therapy and a period of one or two weeks without any therapy, the treatment groups were reversed. The participants in the study were evaluated at three and six weeks d...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...Hospital of Philadelphia, see hundreds of children each year with this condition, frequently caused by inf...ing physicians did not know which children were in each group. "By the end of the study, we realized that most families prefer to start with the oral rehydr...New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
...rine cancer, with more than 40,000 cases diagnosed each year. Widespread screening with the Pap test has allowed doctors to find pre-cancerous changes in the cervix and vagina and has helped to prevent the development of more invasive cancers. Many patients are not aware that their cancer may be best cure...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...sked to think of one word that, when combined with each of the three given words, would make compound words or a short phrase. For example, students were given way, ground and weather, for which the answer was "fair," to create fairway, fairground and fair-weather. For the second problem-solving test, stu...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
... because risk factors tend to "gang up" and worsen each other's effects. The Heart Truth is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service...Non-lethal weapons focus of research study
...ses of deaths related to their use. A physician at each study site will review each less-lethal weapon use and record the severity of the injuries and the type of non-lethal weapon use...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...randomly selected 583 individuals without RA. For each patient with RA, an individual without RA was matched for birth year, gender, and length of medical history. The majority of the subjects were white and female. The median age at baseline, the year of RA diagnosis, was 57. ...Least protection offered to those most at risk of sudden cardiac death
... use are conversely the lowest. 100,000 people die each year from sudden cardiac death in the UK. Most of these deaths occur when the heart's rhythm suddenly goes out of sync, causing the heart to stop. But an 'inverse care law' is effectively in operation in England, say the report's authors, with area...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
... dollars, the agency is leaving the decision up to each author whether to make their research results available. The policy lacks any definitive time frame or deadline by which NIH-funded research must be available for public use. The policy puts grant recipients in the untenable position of trying to...