Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...t over the past five years. Other procedures being excluded from coverage are breast reduction and some breast...unity to appeal. At least one national company has excluded breast reduction surgery as a covered benefit. Breast reduction and breast reconstruction procedures...Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
...s," said senior researcher Lana Watkins, Ph.D. "We excluded patients whose left ventricle the main pumping chamber -- was pumping at less than 30 percent of its capacity. "Given that we saw such a strong association in a relatively healthy population of heart attack patients suggest that depression can be a ...Hyperactive kids three times as likely to be removed from their families
..."Yet their outcomes are poor. Many will fail or be excluded from school. Others will suffer the social consequences of their impulsive behaviours in secure units or prison."...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...n with disabilities that precluded employment were excluded from the study. Unemployed women reported the worst physical health, with 28 percent having high blood pressure and 6 percent, having either a self-reported heart attack, chest pain or stroke. Employed women had the best physical health with only 1...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...e treatment for some liver cancer patients who are excluded from surgery, according to two studies appearing in the March issue of the journal Radiology. "I believe that this treatment will soon enter into the guidelines for the clinical management of liver cancer patients," said the first study's lead author...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...phase 1 trials in oncology that have traditionally excluded patients with brain tumors should be made more widely available to those with malignant glioma ," the editorialists write. "There are few proven risk factors for the development of brain tumors. It is difficult to imagine advancing cures unless the g...Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men
...l behavior did not matter: when groups of men were excluded from the analysis based on ethnic or religious characteristics, the difference in probability of infection related to circumcision status did not change. In addition to the results on circumcision, another significant result of the study was the hig...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...o are fatally injured. Some of the 313 cases were excluded because of incomplete information. Overall, the researchers found that 11 percent (25 cases) had positive BACs, and 6 percent (15 cases) had BACs above the legal limit of 40 milligrams per deciliter (0.04 percent BAC). Alcohol was listed as a cont...Location of body fat may be important in disability risk
...of participants, who were ages 45 to 64. The study excluded people who had chronic disease and were likely to already be disabled. Then, an average of nine years later, the researchers surveyed participants on their ability to perform daily tasks to determine whether overall body fat or abdominal fat may lead...Diabetes among older adults imposed an estimated $133.5 billion cost in 1990's
...to diabetes of nearly $120 billion. Researchers excluded people who were already disabled at the start of the study due to diabetes. When the cost of the already disabled was added, the economic toll of the disease mounted to $133.5 billion over the entire lifetime of this group. Since the analysis was lim...Elderly cancer patients are significantly under-represented in cancer clinical trials
...ient characteristics. Elderly patients tend to be excluded from studies with stringent eligibility criteria because of health limitations and concerns about their ability to tolerate chemotherapy, researchers noted. "Additional concerns for older patients including health care costs, lack of social and home...Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement
... agents that had not yet received FDA approval and excluded those involving radiation therapy or treatment of leukemia or lymphoma. This strategy narrowed the study group down to 213 trials, enrolling aproximately 6,500 patients. For these studies, the researchers analyzed how often participants died from dru...Smoking increases risk of colon polyps
...eview of patients who underwent colonoscopy. They excluded patients with a history of colon cancer or colon surgery. Their study included 177 patients with a median age of 65 years. Of the group, 57 percent had polyps located on the left side of the colon. When analyzed for all ages, left sided polyps...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October 2004 (second issue)
...no clinically relevant lab findings. Smokers were excluded from the study. The research appears in the second issue for October 2004 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine....Highlights of Washington University Alzheimer's Research at National Conference
...with both Alzheimer's and depression typically are excluded from Alzheimer's research studies. However, in light of their compelling findings to the contrary, the research team at Washington University already has begun incorporating these patients into their clinical trials....Update on cholesterol guidelines: more-intensive treatment options for higher risk patients
...anted in older persons, these people should not be excluded from the benefits of LDL-lowering treatment just because of age," said NCEP Coordinator James Cleeman, M.D. A comparison of the key modifications in the update with the ATP III recommendations follows: ATP III: The goal for high-risk patients is a...Beneficiaries with chronic conditions still face high costs under new Medicare drug law
... million individuals under 150% of poverty will be excluded because of the asset test, and another 700,000 will receive lower subsidies....Interventional procedures significantly improve quality of life for obese patients
...etween March 2001 and October 2003. Patients were excluded from outpatient surgery for a BMI greater than 55 in one institution, greater than 70 in the other; cardiac disease; and sleep apnea requiring c-pap (continuous positive airway pressure, one of the most common treatments for severe apnea). Twenty pa...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...lation, but screening recommendations have largely excluded men," said lead author Dr. William C. Miller, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology. "The marked differences in these sexually transmitted infections across racial and ethnic groups are disturbing," Miler said. "Our results provide compell...Researchers identify novel method of distinguishing Alzheimers disease from other types of dementia
...dentified Alzheimer's, and you have simultaneously excluded the frontotemporal dementias. "The dementing diseases are becoming a very important socio-economic problem, in addition to being a group of scientific problems of incredible difficulty. The prospects are quite hopeful now that effective treatments fo...