Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...comprehensive in their stroke care. This is about equal access for all citizens to high-quality stroke care. It's critical to leverage technology to make the stroke expertise available to all, regardless of their geography or economic circumstances. If you're poor and live near a poor hospital, you shou...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...ing suggest that the wealth reductions are roughly equal to how much smokers spend on their habit. "We don't have any direct proof, but taking the study results and the federal statistics together, it seems that the money smokers spend on cigarettes comes out of income that normally would be saved," Zagors...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (first issue)
...atients received a placebo of sterile saline in an equal volume. In the control group, one patient admitted with septic shock died on Study Day 3, and nine patients developed delayed septic shock that was complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome in four. One additional control patient developed...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...s strive to communicate effectively with patients, equal effort must be made to communicate effectively with all those involved in the care of patients," they conclude. (JAMA. 2005;293:489-490. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com )...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
...ason African-Americans and the poor should receive equal medical treatment and compensation for occupational back pain. It's actually cheaper in the long run, concludes study author John T. Chibnall, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Research by Chibna...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
...people of any age and occurs in men and women with equal frequency. Although current medications used to treat Wegener's halt the disease temporarily in most patients, 60 to 80 percent of patients eventually suffer from disease flares. The need to treat many patients repeatedly with medications such as gl...Study says 43% of US adults at risk of heart disease are not utilizing aspirin therapy
...ost behind Alzheimer's (39%) and stroke (39%), and equal to breast cancer (36%). Even though women overall considered themselves slightly more knowledgeable than men about aspirin therapy (41% vs. 33%), only 54% of increased-risk women reported taking aspirin on a regular basis to reduce their risk of hea...Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife strongly linked to risk of dementia
... men and women, followed up for 27 years, all with equal access to medical care," said study author Rachel Whitmer, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif....Study naming hospitals in top 5% for clinical quality released by HealthGrades
...HealthGrades risk-adjusted the data, to compare on equal footing hospitals that treated sicker patients. Hospitals with risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates that scored in the top five percent or better nationally which demonstrates superior overall clinical performance were then recognized as ...African Americans half as likely to receive surgery for esophageal cancer
...receiving surgery. "African-American patients need equal opportunities to receive quality cancer care. The time has come for us to move beyond just trying to remove barriers to access to care and actually work to engage vulnerable patients and find ways to facilitate their participation in care," Dr. Stey...2001-2002 survey finds that many recover from alcoholism
...own to increase relapse risk. They include roughly equal proportions of abstainers (18.2 percent) and low-risk drinkers (17.7 percent). The analysis is based on data from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a project of the National Institutes of Health's...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...s is to give environmental and geneticexplanations equal prior weights. He proposes new research methods and designs -- based on both molecular and behavioral genetic data to study race differences. These methods are discussed in relation to their potential to help evaluate the status of both genetic an...Innovative WSU graduate program deals with mental health, deafness
... deaf clients and providing these individuals with equal access to mental health services," he said. Basil, who has been working with deaf individuals since 1989 and is fluent in American Sign Language, said the training is multi-disciplinary. Participating students come from a variety of disciplines, incl...First new treatment for alcoholism in ten years, now available Campral(R) (acamprosate calcium)
...enal impairment (creatinine clearance less than or equal to 30 mL/min) and requires a dose reduction in patients with moderate renal impairment (creatinine clearance of 30-50 mL/min). (1) The recommended dose of Campral is two 333 mg tablets taken three times daily. (1) Treatment with Campral should b...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...y diagnosed sarcoidosis patients, together with an equal number of age-race-, and sex-matched control subjects. They were trying to understand what environmental and occupational exposures were associated with the disease. (Although it has no known etiology, sarcoidosis is an illness in which abnormal cl...Certain high blood pressure combination therapies elevate risk for death from cardiovascular disease
...previous research has indicated that diuretics are equal or superior to other high blood pressure medications as the first step as monotherapy, most patients with hypertension require more than one drug class to control hypertension. It has been unresolved as to which of the other drug classes added to diu...First blood test to diagnose paralyzing, blinding disease
...oximately 50 cases in the last three years, and an equal number of variants of NMO, such as recurrent transverse myelitis and recurrent optic neuritis. Ninety percent are women aged 30-60. By some estimates, one of four African Americans diagnosed with MS may actually have NMO instead. NMO is considerably...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...stigator of the study. "Even though patients have equal access to health care through the Workers' Compens...s disparity in a system that's supposed to provide equal access for everyone." Medical care expenditures for African-Americans with work-related back inju...System that regulates blood pressure may also affect aging
...y weight, despite the fact that the two groups had equal food intake. "ACE inhibition may prevent age-related decline in physical performance, perhaps through a reduction in total fat mass," said Carter. ACE and Cognition: Radiation is often the best treatment for brain tumors, but it can result in perm...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
...uced liver disease will be collected along with an equal number of patients who have taken the drugs safely (controls). The researchers will obtain clinical and DNA information from each patient. The prospective study will focus on enrolling patients who recently suffered an adverse liver reaction after ...