Slightly increased risk of Ischemic stroke found with tamoxifen
...ng tamoxifen," Bushnell said. "The overall risk is equal to approximately five women in 10,000. From my estimates, 313 women would need to take tamoxifen for five years before a stroke occurred in any of them. "The mechanism of stroke risk with tamoxifen is a puzzle," she said. "There wasn't enough detail ...Denver physician patents minimally invasive technology for hair transplantation surgery
...ge to hair follicles) average 5.6 percent. This is equal to or better than transection rates for traditional hair transplant surgery which average less than eight percent and transection rates for FUE, which in my experience can be up to 20 percent. " ...New system would vastly improve heart defibrillation
...ical activity. A joule is a standard energy unit equal to one watt of power generated or dissipated for one second. "We thought: Why don't we just affect the important part of the heart that sustains arrhythmia?' Efimov said. "Instead of shocking the whole heart, let's shock just the tornado activity ...Short term memory's effectiveness influenced by sight, sound
...team devised studies to put sign language tests on equal footing with hearing-designed tests. To their surprise they found that even when signs were faster to pronounce than spoken language, signers recalled only five items. Even more surprising, when the team tested hearing individuals who were fluent in ...Training may increase nurses' anxiety about death in the short term
...am, EOL participants reported death anxiety levels equal to those of a control group of nurses who attended a non-EOL program. At all other times of measurements, the control group demonstrated levels of death anxiety higher than those of the research group. Kurz and Dr. Evelyn Hayes, her research co...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...s more damaging to the body than a single x ray of equal energy, the researchers' preliminary calculations indicate that an accurate test for breast cancer could be performed at a dose similar to that of a current mammography examination. As an intermediate step towards this goal, the group next plans to ...LSUHSC neurosurgical team discovers novel therapy for intractable hiccups
...edge database, the overall incidence of hiccups is equal between males and females; however, protracted and intractable hiccups occur more frequently in men (82% of cases.). Although hiccups occur less frequently with advancing age, intractable hiccups are more common in adult life. The LSU Health Science...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
...f adherence, and the impact of co-pays, was nearly equal for patients who just had high cholesterol and for those patients who needed statins even more, because they had already survived a heart attack, been diagnosed with diabetes or clogged blood vessels, or had surgery or angioplasty to open blocked art...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...ers than in male cigarette smokers. However, given equal smoking rates, men and women have a similar susceptibility to lung cancer, according to a new study in the June 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Once thought of as a disease that mainly affected men, lung cancer rates in women...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...ore aggressive blood pressure goal of less than or equal to 130/85 mm Hg. The second, presented at the ann...ng patients to goal blood pressure of less than or equal to 130/85 mm Hg. Patients who met entry criteria began treatment with BENICAR (20 mg) once daily. ...Study finds lung transplants increase survival of cystic fibrosis patients by more than four years
... were alive while waiting for a transplant, and an equal percentage were alive after having a transplant. After two years, 67% of those waiting for a transplant were alive, compared with 76% who had a transplant. After five years, 55% of transplant patients were alive. Though transplantation had a signific...Breakthrough therapies treat Crohn's disease
...ponse (a decrease in CDAI score of greater than or equal to 100 points) or remission (CDAI score of less than or equal to 150), as well as the safety profile, and analyzed results for the patients who received two infus...New era of colon screening emerging
...cers and polypoid lesions (polyps) greater than or equal to one centimeter in diameter (significant lesions...he three imaging tests for lesions greater than or equal to 10 millimeters were 0.48 (ACBE), 0.59 (CTC) and 0.98 (C); the differences between ACBE and CTC we...Jefferson researchers announce recommendations on when to test blood pressure in young children
...r diastolic blood pressure that is greater than or equal to the 90th percentile, but less than the 95th percentile in children. By adolescence, a blood pressure reading of greater than 120/80 is considered to be prehypertension. "We know that elevated blood pressure levels in children and adolescents can ...University of Pittsburgh approach has lung recipients taking far fewer drugs
...lobulin patients had rejection episodes greater or equal to Grade 2, compared to two of the first10 Campath treated patients. There were no opportunistic infections or related complications in the patients treated with Campath; a small percentage of the Thymoglobulin patients developed either cytomegalovi...Recent research finds boys have more literacy problems than girls
...fter some studies found that reading problems were equal for boys and girls, but this thorough large-scale study with should put that controversy to rest." Dr Carroll, added: "Clearly, there is a higher percentage of reading-disabled males, which is consistent with most earlier studies. As reading disabili...Mayo Clinic led study: Minimally invasive surgery safe, effective for patients with colon cancer
...es made surgeons think the technique could provide equal benefit for removal of colon cancer. In 1990, surgeons began performing minimally invasive surgery for colon cancer, but stopped in 1994 because of concerns about: increased recurrence of cancer at the surgery wound site whether laparoscopic su...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
...y. Children with a systolic or diastolic pressure equal to or greater than the 90th percentile but less th... to be defined as a systolic or diastolic pressure equal to or greater than the 95th percentile. The new guidelines describe hypertension and prehypertensio......duration of the 'ae' and 'er' sounds may be nearly equal with both having strong energy, rather than just the first syllable. "We hope to develop a diagnostic tool for childhood apraxia of speech by automating existing measurements of the speech signal, developing new measurements and combining these diffe......e factored in, the impact of epilepsy worldwide is equal to the impact of breast cancer in women and lung cancer in men." The restrictions on daily activity and years of disability would be bad enough, but they are made worse by the stigma that is still attached to epilepsy. "Even today a surprising number...