Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
...tive at all," says Rosamond. "Fifty percent don't even get to thehospital within four hours. Then you must add in the time it takes forevaluation and diagnostic tests, like a computer tomography scan, to allowphysicians to determine if the stroke should be treated with a clot-buster. Strokes caused by b......fother problems that exist in users' lives, or may even create furtherdependence, according to the study's authors. The study, a 59-item questionnaire, was conducted over a 7-week period duringMarch and April of last year. The questionnaire was posted on the MSNBC Website and was completed by 13,529 i...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
...st." Although Chlamydia pneumoniae was not even identified as a separateorganism until 1986, it is now known to be the third-leading cause of pneumoniaand bronchitis. It is responsible for about 10 percent of all cases ofpneumonia, but millions of people also carry it for long periods in a dorman...New Book Says Cross-Train Your Brain To Increase Mental Function
...ic evidence shows that the brain canrewire itself, even in adults, Katz said in an interview. "It was not appreciated for a long time how, even quite late in life,the brain has quite a lot of residual capacity for reorganization." Basi...Patients May Not Be Receiving The Highest Quality Of Care
...managed care plandid not order the endoscopy. But even under a fee-for-service plan, 39 percentof physicians failed to recommend the procedure. "Because there has been concern in the medical community that financialincentives in managed care will lead physicians to withhold necessary services,we wanted t...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...at language was lateralized to the left hemisphere even inchildren as young as 7 years old," said Lee, an ... study and explaining what would happen, sometimes even doing atrial run so they knew exactly what to expect," Lee said. The investigators also made certain...Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
...l Hill, says that a woman has a survival advantage even ifher CHF is as severe as a man's and she has had the disease for the sameduration. The study is significant because it challenges previous researchfindings suggesting that the survival advantage of women with heart failure overthat of men mi...Brain Resolves Sensory Contradictions By Creating Its Own Reality
...d? Remember the feeling that you werestill turning even after you'd flopped down on the grass?Researchers ...d they felt like they were lying ontheir side. And even though they had stopped moving, they felt like they werestill rotating and their eyes continued to m...Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
...e main olfactory system. Theresearchers found that even with an odorant receptor, the neurons projectedtheir axons to another set of numerous glomeruli, in a complex and variablepattern. "These last two experiments suggest that the pheromone receptor is involved insetting up the wiring diagram, and strang......the progressionof their disease could be halted or even improved. "Concerning IL-6, the concept is correct, at least in animals. We're optimisticas we initiate clinical studies, but there's always concern when you take theleap from animal laboratory to the clinical setting," says Anthony J. Deme......inappropriate exercise may have no benefit and may even bedangerous, Gater said. Gater is enrolling both physically active and sedentary SCI patients inthe study. Gater measures the subjects' basal metabolic rate, oxygen consumption,lipid profiles, glucose tolerance and body composition at...Laser Pointer Helps Parkinson's Patients Take Next Step
...f the disease. The episodes can last forseconds or even several minutes. Some patients experience only mom...ser that emits a line instead of a spot might work even better. "We can learn from our patients," says Counihan. "It's a brilliant idea.It's not a m......and better drugs, organ rejection can still occur, even years aftertransplantation. Even if the drugs eff...nosupressant drugs, researchers wanted to promote, even hastenthis biological process with bone marrow. "We believe chimerism is a prerequisite for but not...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...stern scholars largely unaware ofthe material, and even had they known, the subject was far from the interests ofmost researchers in the field during those years. Not so for Furth, who in 1982 was already interested in the then-emerging fieldof gender studies, as well as being deeply involved in the histo...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...tone of the group often reflects negativevalues or even violence. Gangs, for example, are formed in this way," says Dr.Leader. Indeed, one of Wednesday's panelists will be a student who experienced feelingsof isolation that led to his joining forces with an older student who invitedhim to become involved ......nutes. These parameters, Dr. Keenan noted, are not even included in the guidelines. The test to determine expiration volume, which is included, was not predictiveat all, the results reveal. Further analysis of the 58 patients who received transplants at the UPMC foundnot one of the criteria in the interna...Intensive Care Before A Major Op May Improve Survival
...e care may help to reduce mortality, morbidity and even reduce total stay in hospital, say Dr Jonathan Wil... patients who did not. Wilson et al conclude that even though a formal cost benefit analysis was not performed, the cost of pre-operative investment in hig...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
...t of all tretinoinprescriptions were for acne, and even at age 40, 63 percent of prescriptionswere for acne. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, acne is the mostcommon skin problem in the United States, affecting up to 80 percent of peoplein their 20s and 30s. Given these r......and better drugs, organ rejection can still occur, even years aftertransplantation. The study included 31...unosupressant drugs, researchers wanted topromote, even hasten this biological process with bone marrow. In heart transplant patients, acute cellular rejec......eated morphine exposure and show enhanced activity even when they arepresented only cues associated with the drug. Kelley and graduate student Brock Schroeder have seen that the cues alone cantrigger neuronal activity-expression of the nuclear protein c-fos--in thenucleus accumbens, the prefrontal cortex ...