Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...ounty's Office on Aging contacts clients who have experienced problems in the past. Those who cannot cope with the heat are given a screening medical evaluation, then transported to an air-conditioned shelter." "At the first sign of an increase in heat-related emergency department visits, efforts to rea...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...This also likely explains the ebb and flow of tics experienced over the course of Tourette Syndrome and its overlap with obsessive compulsive disorder. "While we know that genetics plays an important role in transmission of Tourette Syndrome, the fact that identical twins show differences in symptom severity sug...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
...cent. Only 11 percent of patients given tacrolimus experienced progressive deterioration of the transplanted kidney. These results indicate that overall, tacrolimus therapy may reduce the 10 to 15 percent of kidneys that are lost to repeated or uncontrollable rejection to only two to four percent, a significant ...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...blished studies show that AIDS patients treated by experienced careproviders have shorter hospital stays, better outcomes and lower cost. "The AIDS capitation program focuses on what has been a flagship effortat Hopkins for high quality, cost-effective care for AIDS patients," says JohnD. Stobo, M.D., chairman...Childhood Sex Abuse Impacts Adult Relationships
...n fondled or touched against their will; 9 percent experienced attempted intercourse and 10 percent had experienced oral, vaginal or anal intercourse. Twenty-two percent had been subjected to exposure, which the res...Early Menopause Stress Related In Developing Countries
... women who said they were menopausal, had actually experienced a menstrual period within the year," says Holman..... However, just as the follicles in their ovaries experienced atresia before they entered puberty, the follicles continue to degenerate even though they are not ...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...and industry standards. “North Carolina has experienced an explosion in the growth of HMOs and managed-care companies,” said Pam C. Silberman, a lawyer who is research associate at the Sheps Center and a member of the institute. “Between June 1994 and November 1996, the number of licensed full-s...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...ct, McCann cites case reports that some users have experienced psychiatric disorders, which, she points out, tend to be under-diagnosed in clinical practice. Studies also document that fenfluramines increase the risk for developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare, but incurable and life threatening illne...Planning Researcher Finds Best Neighborhoods Aren't Always Best At Preventing Infant Mortality
...ountry,"he explained. Other areas of the city also experienced higher infantmortality rates, but these were all in areas where it would beexpected because of socioeconomic and, perhaps, environmentalfactors. These include: Walnut Hills (28.2) Lower Price Hill (22.6) Mt. Auburn (30.1) Evanston (29.3) South Fai...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
... As a result of the amiodarone treatment, patients experienced less discomfort and the length and cost of hospita...lower maximum ventricular heart rate than the rate experienced by the placebo group. Hospital costs were several thousand dollars less per case. In ad...Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
...ents. For individuals who have not experienced coronary artery disease orstroke, aspirin therapy is not recommended unless there is a strong positivefamily history. "If one or both individual's parents or siblings have had aheart attack before 50, I would consider giving a baby aspirin (81 mg) a...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
... opened. The children in the chronic noise group experienced modest but significantincreases in blood pressure and significant increases in stress hormones(epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol) while the children in the quiet areasexperienced no significant changes. Eighteen months after the airport opene......medications together, rather than separately, they experienced furtherimprovement in controlling their blood glucose levels, according to a new studyconducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the HowardHughes Medical Institute at Yale. "The medications that we studied-metformin an...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...he group with the clinical pharmacist intervention experienced threedeaths and one rehospitalization, while the non-intervention group reported fivedeaths and 11 rehospitalizations. While differences in deaths were notstatistically significant, there was a significant reduction in the number ofre-admissions to ...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...pital, "heart transplant patients receiving Neoral experienced significantly fewer infections and a reduced number of rejections requiring antibody therapy." This two-year, double blind International Study compares the safety and effectiveness of conventional Cyclosporine A (Sandimmune) with Neoral in 380 heart...Preventing Stroke: The Choice Between Aspirin And Warfarin
... year, onlyslightly higher than the 1 percent rate experienced by the general population inthis age range. However, for patients with hypertension, but none of the fourother risk factors, the rate of strokes or embolism was significantly higher -- 3.6percent. The rate of disabling stroke, however, was low in b...Widely Used Therapy May Not Be Effective In Treatment Of Acute Stroke
... well. About 75 percent of patients in each group experienced a positive outcome at 3 months, a higher rate than that reported in other similar stroke trials. Patients reached a good outcome if they received a good score on two scales: a score of I or II on the Glasgow Outcome Scale and a score of 12 to 20 (out...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
... by patients." Men and women in the U-M study both experienced benefits from the asthmaclinic's self-management principles, but women consistently benefited more---aphenomenon the researchers intend to investigate further. Bria is scheduled to discuss the program and the evaluation of its results atthe 1998 conf...... another anti-prostate tumoragent, hydrocortisone, experienced significant pain reduction, for a longerperiod of ...t of patientsreceiving suramin with hydrocortisone experienced a reduction in pain, incontrast to 28 percent of those with hydrocortisone and a placebo. Moreover,...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...nine out of ten patients with recurrenttumors have experienced tumor regressions of greater than 50 percent to da...ctions in tumor mass. The oneremaining patient has experienced a 40 percent tumor regression. To date,all of the patients continue on treatment with no evidence of...