New drug linked to fewer deaths among kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis
...tients who are given a new drug that helps prevent excess phosphorus from accumulating in the bloodstream."T...go hemodialysis, a process that removes wastes and excess fluid from the bloodstream by passing it through a membrane in an artificial kidney machine. Althou...American Thoracic Society news tips for November (first issue)
...-reviewed journal. (Sepsis is a disease involving excess bacteria in the bloodstream that, if not treated early, can lead to other severe infections at various sites throughout the body.) The biomedical scientists performed a retrospective analysis of 22 published clinical studies and 38 pre-clinical anim...Evidence supports two types of heart failure
...that it is associated with a substantial burden of excess disability and death in older Americans. This disorder should be the focus of intensive research." With the more widely known type of congestive heart failure systolic heart failure the heart doesn't contract strongly enough. With the newly recogni...Northwestern receives $5 million to study polycystic ovary syndrome
... problems. Other symptoms of PCOS include obesity, excess hair on the face and body, male-pattern baldness and severe, chronic acne. Many women with PCOS are insulin-resistant, a condition that raises the level of insulin circulating in the body and is a precursor to type 2 diabetes. In fact, women with PC...Targeting bone metastasis and hypercalcemia
...ncer patients, namely elevated calcium levels. The excess calcium comes on the one hand from increased breakdown of bone, and on the other from increased retention of calcium by the kidney. Hypercalcemia occurs in an estimated 10-20% of cancer patients and is the most common life-threatening metabolic abnor...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January (second issue)
...n the blood were blunted, while their responses to excess carbon dioxide in the blood were preserved. They ...ere performed under either normal or conditions of excess oxygen availability in the blood. However, when only inadequate amounts of oxygen were available in...Outpatient setting very safe for skin cancer surgery
...dy period, the majority involved difficulties with excess bleeding. None of the patients required hospitalization or consultation with another physician. The researchers note that outpatient settings may be not only more comfortable and accessible to patients than hospitals, but that they also may be a more...Alcohol makes auto crash injuries worse for drivers and passengers, study finds
... their data should be taken into account. "Because excess injury results even at alcohol levels below 0.10 percent, previous analyses of alcohol-related injury costs may have underestimated the true cost of alcohol in motor vehicle crashes," they write....Minimally invasive esophagectomy results in improved survival and shorter hospital stays
...erwent MIE compared with typical hospital stays in excess of 10 days for patients who underwent open procedures. The study also found that mortality occurred in 1.3 percent of the MIE cases compared with typical mortality rates of up to 5 percent or higher as reported for open procedures. MIE is a video-as...Clear public health message on cannabis needed
...could calculate that if cigarettes cause an annual excess of 120,000 deaths among 13 million smokers, deaths among 3.2 million cannabis smokers would be 30,000, assuming equity of effect, they write. Even if the number of deaths attributable to cannabis turned out to be a fraction of that figure, smoking ca...High percentage of N.C. children suffer undiagnosed asthma, new study shows
...re mild, such figures on health effects are far in excess of what healthy children experience, the scientist said. Yeatts is lead author of a report on the study in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, an American Medical Association Journal. Co-authors are Dr. Carl Shy, pro...A global strategy for reducing catastrophic health-care payments
...'s financial contributions to the health system in excess of 40% of household income remaining after subsistence needs had been met. The proportion of households facing catastrophic payments from out-of-pocket health expenses varied widely between countries, from less than 0.01% in Czech Republic and Slovak...Research suggests how steroids cause diabetes and hypertension; liver plays critical role
...le who get overweight have many of the symptoms of excess production of glucocorticoids."...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for July 2003
...ers specialized testing and treatment for androgen excess and insufficiency, as well as their underlying disorders. CHILREN MORE VULNERABLE THAN ADULTS IN THE EVENT OF A CHEMICAL SPILL OR CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK Children are more vulnerable than adults in the event of a chemical spill or chemical weapons ...The trojan clot-buster: Drug-coated red blood cells destroy blood clots from within
... free-floating tPA and decreases the likelihood of excess bleeding, according to a new study. "The idea of coating red blood cells with tPA was to create a Trojan Horse, a vehicle for sneaking tPA into the bloodstream that could not only add to the drug's longevity, but would also allow it to be incorpora...Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men
...small cigarettes popular in Asia) smoking. Of this excess mortality among smokers, most involved respiratory disease (chiefly tuberculosis) or vascular disease (chiefly heart attack). Smoking also caused similar excesses of respiratory and vascular mortality in the rural study area. Vendhan Gajalakshmi co...More sprawl means more weight and less walking
...ould be severe, say the researchers, who note that excess weight and physical inactivity may account for more than 300,000 premature deaths each year....Organ transplant recipients face serious kidney-failure risk, study finds
...nding related to anti-rejection drugs was that the excess risk of developing chronic kidney failure was greater among liver transplant recipients who took cyclosporine than among those who took tacrolimus. Sirolimus was introduced toward the end of the study period; only 1 percent of patients in the study t...Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...and stays elevated in the skin of those exposed to excess amounts of sunlight. When JNK-2 stays elevated, skin cancers are more likely to develop, they say. In laboratory studies using mouse models of skin cancer in which the mice were exposed to ultraviolet light, the researchers demonstrated that topical ...... damage and death to cells, as they are exposed to excess levels of highly reactive oxygen species. Like a second-wave of attacks, these "superoxides" can continue causing brain cell damage and cell death for days and weeks after the initial stroke. Both groups of cells were then exposed to varying concent...