Federal forum reports Americans aging well, but gaps remain
...revious generations, but these gains have not been equal among todays older Americans. In 2003, there were almost 36 million people age 65 and over living in the United States, accounting for just over 12 percent of the total population. Most of these older Americans reported better health, greater wealt...NCI scientists create model that predicts follicular lymphoma survival
...llowed NCI scientists to divide patients into four equal groups with disparate average survival rates of 3.9, 10.8, 11.1, and 13.6 years. For the 75 percent of patients with survival rates 10 years or longer, "watchful waiting is appropriate," Staudt said. "These patients would benefit from knowing that ...HHS awards $10.4 million to fight AIDS on three continents
...tries that have a Gross National Income per capita equal to or less than U.S. $5,000. Since the first awards in September 2001, 33 grants have been made to researchers in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Central and South America. More information on the CIPRA program is at www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/cipra ...Cocaine addicts show reduced brain structure that underlies judgment
... two sides of the brain was normally approximately equal in volume. Also, the researchers found that the smaller amygdala volumes in the addicts were different than in manic-depressive illness and Alzheimer's disease, in which both the hippocampus and amygdala show a loss in volume. The researchers cited s...Gastric bypass works for GERD and obesity in patients with prior surgery, says Pitt study
...2 to 26.8 kg/m2." "This degree of weight loss is equal to that experienced by patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery primarily for obesity, and is enough to impact dramatic improvements in obesity-related co-morbid medical conditions." said Anita P. Courcoulas, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, ...Sexual quality of life lower for the obese
...said they avoided sex. But the response was nearly equal in one category 28 percent of treatment seekers and 30 percent of non-treatment seekers said they sometimes, usually or always did not enjoy sex, compared to 3.9 percent of normal weight people....Penn addictions expert, Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD, receives prestigious, international honor
...lues learning and believes everyone should have an equal chance in bettering themselves," says Dr. O'Brien. "Addiction is a modern problem facing the whole world. It's wonderful to have an opportunity like this to actively share what you know with people who want to learn it. We all have the capacity to...Elderly cancer patients are significantly under-represented in cancer clinical trials
... approaches that will ensure Native Americans have equal access to the best possible care." In addition, researchers noted that they hope findings from the Native American project can serve as a model for improving access to clinical trials and quality cancer care among the many underserved populations in ...Women with arrhythmias may also benefit from an ICD
...l conditions. The researchers tried to recruit an equal number of men and women, but only about 29 percent of patients in the treatment group were women, and only approximately one-fourth of those in the registry were women. "This indicates that the disease may be more common in men," Kadish said. The re...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
...ack and white adults of all ages, and now is about equal in both groups. Overall, smoking by blacks declined from 34 percent to 26 percent, and by whites from 29 percent to 26 percent. Smoking prevalence was higher in black men than white men (33 percent versus 28 percent), but lower in black women than ...New Crestor data in African-American patients with high cholesterol
...atin (CRESTOR) compared to atorvastatin, comparing equal doses of each." ARIES is a six-week, randomized, controlled, open-label, multi-center trial designed to evaluate the efficacy of CRESTOR and atorvastatin in African Americans with elevated cholesterol. After a six-week dietary lead-in, 774 African-A...Study of Big Ten football injuries shows NCAA rule change did not reduce injury rates
...fect of reducing the spring injury rates to levels equal to or lower than those of fall practices. In 1998, in light of evidence that injury rates for collegiate spring football practice were significantly higher than injury rates for fall practices, the NCAA legislated a decrease in the number of scrimmag...Advanced, precise radiation may boost limb-sparing therapy for sarcoma
...ic Radiology and Oncology in Atlanta. The results equal that of a similar trial done at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Oscar E. Streeter Jr., M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at the Keck School and USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared results of the team's study with coll...Smoking increases risk of colon polyps
... regularly consumed vitamin C supplements at doses equal to or more than 1000 milligrams a day and none of them had polyps. Smoking and Polyp Location for Patients over 50 At Mercy Catholic Medical Center, researchers conducted a retrospective review of patients who underwent colonoscopy. They excl...Drug combination shows promise in treating hepatitis C
... than patients treated with Peg-Intron® and an equal dose of ribavirin. Pegasys and Peg-Intron are type...Pegasys and Peg-Intron when each are combined with equal doses of ribavirin. Pegasys is the most recent form of pegylated alpha interferon approved by the Fo...Will email consultations improve patient care?
...he policy goal of the NHS is generally accepted as equal access, based on need, he writes. Poor and elderly people are the most needy and the least likely to use the internet. Using email for communication may offer choice but probably at the expense of access. He believes that full research into the impac...NIH awards 1,400 new student loan repayment contracts
..., state, or local), and have educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20% of their institutional base salary. U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or U.S. nationals may apply. The online application closes on December 15, 2004 at 8 PM EST. "The NIH Loan Repayment Programs is one of our nation's most si...Increased investment in radiotherapy will improve cure rates for European cancer patients
...tion needs to be taken if all patients are to have equal access to optimal care". In very few EU countries do the number of linear accelerators (machines used to deliver radiotherapy) match the number known to be required to adequately provide treatment. In those few countries with national guidelines to g...Long-term study demonstrated ADDERALL XR is an effective option to treat adolescents with ADHA
...hort was comprised of adolescents weighing over or equal to 165 lb who met DSM-IV- TRTM ADHD criteria for ADHD. Subjects received randomized doses of ADDERALL XR or placebo once daily for four weeks. At study endpoint, mean ADHD-RS total scores from the primary cohort receiving ADDERALL XR were significa......desirability of the two choices should be rendered equal by the actions of his opponent. Glimcher and Dorris reasoned that if the economic theory was sound in terms of producing behavior, then there should be corresponding neurological findings in the posterior parietal cortex. In fact, when Glimcher and ...