HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...hs and the participants were assessed for risk. At each visit the participants were tested for HIV infecti...hors suggested two plausible explanations, one for each group. Those with high-risk behavior may have been exposed frequently to HIV and a primed immune res...Survivors who stop taking aspirin increase risk of another stroke
...ulation was 71 years, and 62 percent were men. In each group about 69 percent had hypertension, 20 percent had diabetes, and 14 percent were smokers. In the study group, 52 percent had dyslipidemia compared to 58 percent in the control group (not statistically significant). In the study group, 36 perce...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
... providers must develop systems of care to improve each link in the chain of survival in preventing and tr...,000 U.S. residents have a new or recurrent stroke each year, and about 163,000 of them die. An estimated 5.4 million Americans are stroke survivors and st...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...atment in nine. Most of the herbs were specific to each country. Homeopathy was among the top five in seven countries as were medicinal teas, with vitamins or minerals featuring in the top five in nine countries. Six countries Israel, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Greece and Iceland featured strongly where spir...Suffering from fatigue, abdominal discomfort or bloody diarrhea?
...tis, rather than assessing patients with endoscopy each time symptoms flare," says Higgins. Adds co-author Ellen Zimmermann, M.D., associate professor of Internal Medicine at UMHS: "While endoscopy is still necessary to diagnose ulcerative colitis and to evaluate a patient for early signs of cancer, patie...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...that wealth gap grows by about $410, or 4 percent, each year that a person continues to smoke, said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research. Federal statistics on cigarette spending suggest that the wealth reductions are roug...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...anipulating a hand-held cell phone. Thirty times each second, the simulator measured the participants' driving speed, following distance and if applicable how long it took them to hit the brakes and how long it took them to regain speed. Those factors "have been shown to affect the likelihood and seve...AHA urges earlier diagnoses, referrals for PCI in women
...revent many coronary heart disease deaths in women each year, particularly in women who arrive at the hosp...tement. More than 1 million Americans undergo PCI each year, but only 35 percent of these procedures are performed in women, said Alexandra J. Lansky, M.D....Cardiac imaging is underused in women to diagnose disease
...g the lives of an estimated 240,000 American women each year," Mieres said. Yet, women who are at risk for CHD sometimes referred to as CAD often are not referred for appropriate diagnostic testing, perhaps because physicians are more familiar with using imaging studies to evaluate men, she said. The ...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...geted to the specific cholesterol abnormalities in each woman, so that optimal levels of both the good and the bad cholesterol can be attained," Mosca said. "The reason for under-treating high cholesterol in women remains uncertain; however, the need to better apply the new guidelines and educate physici...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...ized that more women die of heart disease than men each year. "This striking finding underscores the need to raise awareness about the importance of women and heart disease among healthcare providers as well as the public," said Mosca. Insight about barriers to heart disease prevention was gained from ...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...r 2003. For every visit during 1 half-day session, each clinician completed a questionnaire about patient ...rimary care visits that occur in the United States each year," the authors write. "This is the first direct study of missing clinical information in primary...New research could help physicians tailor asthma therapy in children
...luated the children's lung function in response to each therapy to determine which medication produced the most favorable response. The researchers reported on the percentage of children who improved lung function by 7.5% or greater based on a standard test. They found: 17% of the children reached the ...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
... in the neuro-oncology field communicate well with each other, but we need to partner with other healthcare providers, including emergency physicians, primary physicians, neurologists and oncologists in the community, so that the optimum care is provided." The researchers found that the use of some diagno...Yale researcher studying acupuncture to reduce back pain in pregnancy
... hands or by electrical stimulation. In this study each of two groups of women will receive slightly varying acupuncture treatment. The remaining group will receive no treatment and serve as a basis of comparison. Wang said those women who do not receive treatment and those who do not improve with assigne...Progesterone therapy could prevent thousands of preterm births
...81, with more than 470,000 babies born prematurely each year....New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...ng tests. Consequently, over one million patients each year undergo magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRI...aged. But, of the 1.5 million MRI scans performed each year, only about 20 percent show a herniated disc serious enough to be treated with surgery. And, o...Nanoscale diagnostic sets sights on Alzheimer's
...eloped, the researchers were able to detect within each fluid sample a miniscule amount of proteins called amyloid -derived diffusible ligands (ADDLs). The goal is to detect and validate infinitesimal amounts of the biomarkers in blood. Research by Klein and his colleagues suggests that ADDLs first appear...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
...001, with an average of 12.4 women being recruited each week, writes Dr. Ness, who also is chair of the policy committee for the American College of Epidemiology. After HIPAA, due to restrictions on researchers' ability to identify potentially eligible subjects, recruitment fell to an average range of 2.5...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...magnetic microparticle and a gold nanoparticle are each outfitted with an antibody specific to the ADDL an...he protein between the two particles. Attached to each tiny gold nanoparticle (just 30 nanometers in diameter) are hundreds to thousands of identical stran...