Breast cancer program for low-income women suggests importance of access to screening
... truly asymptomatic women in whom you have already excluded women with breast cancer, you wouldn't find such a high breast cancer rate," Vetto said. "Unfortunately, this is the first time we could go into the community targeting women who have difficulty accessing care with a large-scale, funded screening pro...SWHR: Report findings affirm health of women hinges on reform of clinical research
...esearch on coronary heart disease (CHD) has either excluded women entirely or included them in limited numbers...ears, the diagnosis and treatment of CHD has often excluded or underrepresented both women and minorities, and as a result, the tests and therapies used to trea...Transplanted kidneys from living donors survive longer with Neoral compared with tacrolimus
...en patients who died with a functioning organ were excluded from the analysis of organ failures, patients treated with tacrolimus had a 25% higher risk of losing their organ (hazard ratio of 1.25). transplanted kidneys in patients who were taking Neoral were expected to survive for four years longer on aver...Landmark antidepressant analysis demonstrated significant efficacy of Effexor®/Effexor XR
...), based on data from 32 of 33 trials. Researchers excluded one trial with just 148 patients from all HAM-D remission calculations because it did not use this scale. The second poster, focusing on the treatment of the physical symptoms of depression in 31 trials, documents that EFFEXOR®/EFFEXOR XR yielded...Breast cancer patients suffer through communication failure
...clusion of a large number of older patients (often excluded from clinical trials) It was prospective i.e. patients were asked how they felt at the time rather than asked to recall how they felt years before It recruited patients in routine care from over 50 hospitals and there were none of the exclusion cr...Schools culture of testing and targets squeezes support for 'at risk' youngsters
...And Government initiatives to avoid children being excluded from primary schools will have limited success unless changes are made in how support agencies work together, warns Dr Sheila Macrae, of the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's College, London, who led the study. The findings f...Study shows faceguards, safety balls cut number of Little League injuries
...ition level increased, he said. Data on girls were excluded since there were too few for meaningful analysis in this study. Likewise, too few injuries occurred among special needs children to include them in the analysis either. "Our work shows that safety balls and faceguards do reduce the risk of injury," ...... with high blood pressure at year 0 or year 2 were excluded from the study sample. The remainder was followed for 13 years (from year 2 to year 15). Only 6 percent of the participants gave positive responses in all areas, which placed them at the highest level of TUI. Their 13-year incidence of hypertensio...Non-traditional tests may be dynamic duo in predicting heart problems
...t six and a half years. People with diabetes were excluded because calcium scores have not been shown to predictive. Fifty people had a heart attack or cardiovascular death and 104 had a cardiovascular event of some kind in the follow up. These people also had higher calcium scores and CRP levels than peop...Elderly getting left out of critical cancer research
...om around the world say elderly patients are often excluded from important clinical trials and are not being offered the same treatment options as younger patients. The experts, attending the 7th International Conference on Geriatric Oncology, have called for equity in access to treatment options and additi...Equation rivals ultrasound in calculating birth weight
...er between August 1998 and August 2000. Women were excluded if they delivered prematurely, smoked cigarettes during pregnancy or had medical complications Characteristics used to estimate fetal birth weight included thegestational age at delivery, maternal height, maternal weight, third-trimester weight gain ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September--first issue
...asthma, or wheezing within the last 12 months were excluded from the population at risk. The data showed that having a cat at home provided a significant protective effect against incident cases of physician-diagnosed asthma. For children with a family history of the disease, owning a cat provided a signifi...Rutgers researcher finds brain connections may reorganize in Parkinson's disease
...rons changed their responsiveness and were thereby excluded from their original clusters. Some remained isolated and others became affiliated with nearby clusters. "For example," he continued, "a fore-limb cluster neuron could become affiliated with a hind-limb cluster and act like a regular hind-limb neuron...Study disputes link between increased birthweight and reduced blood pressure later in life (p 659)
...sure and birthweight, 48 further studies that were excluded from previous analyses, and seven studies on ident...on, as only around a half (25 of 48) of previously excluded studies reported an association between lower birthweight and higher adult blood pressure. Rachel ...High mental stress linked with increased risk of cardiovascular death
...men and 643 among the women. Iso and collaborators excluded data on participants for whom there was not a valid lifestyle questionnaire and subjects who had a previous history of stroke, coronary heart disease, or cancer. The researchers report that 8,656 women and 6,891 men reported high mental stress. Afte...The majority of hand cuts don't need stitches
....5 sutures to achieve wound closure. Patients were excluded from the study if: their cuts were larger than 2 cm; they came to the emergency department more than 8 hours after the time of their injury; bleeding could not be stopped after 15 minutes of direct pressure; cuts were associated with neurovascular, ...Socioeconomic factors affect blood pressure
...lacks have already developed hypertension and were excluded from our study."...Drug combinations reduce HIV levels in untreated patients
...retroviral treatments for more than two weeks were excluded from the study. Each patient in the study was prescribed two medications: abacavir (trade name Ziagen) and lamivudine (Epivir), both from the "nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor" class (NRTI) of antiretroviral treatments. The NRTI class of...Low-cost reminder helps prevent infections for heart patients
... instructions compared to 65 percent whose reports excluded comment. The researchers conclude that including an echocardiographic report statement about endocarditis risk and the need for preventive antibiotics is a simple, low-cost intervention that improves compliance with American Heart Association recom...Women with ovary disease may also have high risk for heart disease
...ependent of any other risk factor. The researchers excluded women who smoked, had reproductive problems or cardiovascular disease, or were taking drugs such as contraceptives or aspirin that can affect artery function. "Hopefully this study will inform cardiologists about an important risk factor for cardiova...