Baylor team discovers reason for heart transplant failure
...ant patients should be biopsied routinely with PCR evaluation performed each time. They believe these results could lead to new therapies and preventative measures, such as an anti-viral vaccine for use prior to transplant....Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
...g tests, and referring those who test positive for evaluation and treatment," says Lok. "And since primary care is a two-way street, patients need to know whether they might be at risk, and volunteer that information to their doctors so they can get help and find out how they can keep from spreading the disease...Nutritional screening may predict risk for hospitalization of elderly
...ion concerns often rank far too low on the list of evaluation and treatment priorities" in hospitals, nursing homes and the community....SNM reaction to OMB position on nuclear byproduct materials
...ements, and encouraged the NRC to undertake a full evaluation of the benefits and costs of the various requirements of Part 35, and to consider alternatives such as third-party accreditation and increased reliance on State regulations and professional standards. ACNP and SNM, which expressed support for OMBs po...Excess iron intake increases risk of intestinal infections, study suggests
...ation. They recommend periodic evaluation of the iron status of individuals, particularly women in the reproductive period of their life cycle. If an individual exhibits iron deficiency, therapeutic iron can be administered by injec...Statisticians seek clues to what causes disease clusters
...rman emphasized, is to be honest and fair in their evaluation of data. "Statisticians should use proper and creative methods to tease out what we can learn from the data," Sherman said. "We cannot be influenced by what other people may want to see in the data; we are interested in finding out what the data are ...Acupuncture calms nerves, improves heart function
...ailure patients referred for heart transplantation evaluation into three groups. One group received acupuncture at traditional acupuncture sites. The second received non-acupoint acupuncture in which needles were placed at sites not traditionally believed to be useful in acupuncture. Finally, the third group...Underage smokers respond to threat of legal penalties
.... Livingood, Ph.D., director of health, policy and evaluation research with the Duval County Health Department i...community partnerships, education, enforcement and evaluation and research. Since enforcement of underage smoking laws requires a complex coordination of police o...First report on sublethal effects of smoke available from NIST
...s to fire smoke on people in the United States; an evaluation of the best available lethal and incapacitation values for smoke; the first methodology for relating smoke lethality data for laboratory rats to incapacitation data for people; a look at how various sizes of fires may produce smoke yields leading to ...... percent increase on that measure based on another evaluation method known as the ENRICHD Social Support Instrument compared to an 18 percent improvement in the others. Despite the treatment groups depression and social support improvement, essentially no change was seen in heart disease survival, Catellier sa...New depression and anxiety treatment goals defined
...hole person and that the journey includes improved evaluation of illness severity, greater acceptance of remission and recovery as the desired outcome for patients, and better consideration of patients culture, age, gender and quality of life. In addition to the need for mental health professionals to communica......mes Knickman, PhD, vice president for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, estimated the number of Americans in 1996 suffering from long-term health problems and divided them into three categories; chronic problems, functional limitations,and disabilities. The researchers determined th...Drug-free therapy gives patients reprieve from panic disorder
... session and again six months later. The evaluation rated individual feelings of panic and anxiety, any disability in function that the patient believed had been caused by the disorder, and the patient's level of depression. ......ded home births, but the authors recommend ongoing evaluation of rare, but serious, adverse outcomes, including hemorrhage, death and the need for ventilator support. In a related commentary, Rgis Blais praises the study for providing valuable information about the safety of home births. Blais also recommends c...Dartmouth research examines the value of cancer screening
...buted to other causes. For example, if an invasive evaluation causes a patient to have a fatal heart attack, the death may be attributed to a heart attack rather than to the disease being tested for. This misclassification tilts the disease-specific mortality results in favor of screening. Both forms of bi...Misclassification of death may influence perceived value of cancer screening
...buted to other causes. For example, if an invasive evaluation causes a patient to have a fatal heart attack, the death may be attributed to a heart attack rather than the specific disease being evaluated as a result of the screening test. This form of misclassification biases the disease-specific mortality resu...Direct contracting health plan cuts costs, not quality
...2 issue of Health Affairs, is the first scientific evaluation of the direct contracting health plan and suggests the plan may be a successful health care delivery model for the future. For the study, the researchers examined the Choice Plus plan formulated by the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG), a coali...Stroke teams double access to fast care without higher costs
...n stroke treatment and faculty on 24-hour call for evaluation and treatment of stroke patients. Thrombolytics were administered 12 times (about once each month) in the year without a stroke team; tPA use increased to 25 times (about 2.1 times each month) in the year with the specialized team. Having a dedicat...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...hers reviewed consecutive head CTs obtained during evaluation of acute stroke patients at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Two neurologists with specialized stroke training were allowed three minutes to analyze each of 54 acute stroke head CT scans to determine if the patients had suffered ischem......this investigation. The findings of the eight-week evaluation mirrored the results of the first phase of this study -- a four-week double-blinded, randomized study that involved more than 200 women. The results of the study are published in the current edition of Oncology Nursing Forum. The clear message is tha...