HIV 'higher than expected' among London's drug users
...have recently increased, say the authors. Possible explanations for the rise include changes in patterns of injecting drug use and injecting risk behaviour in newer drug users than those injecting in the early to mid-1990s. In addition, there may have been increases in the number of injecting drug users over and ...Generic drug use varies widely by state, study reveals
... for fewer than 40% of all prescriptions. Possible explanations for the variations in generic fill rates include variations in prescribing patterns, state regulations, differences in disease prevalence and varying use of drug benefit designs that encourage greater use of generics. A copy of the study is available...Supporters of NIH policy see publishers' gambit as possible diversion
...e scientifically savvy. Although well prepared lay explanations are always welcome, the proposal fails to respect all patients' direct right to know or their power to comprehend." "We worry about any attempts to confuse an overdue outreach effort by journal publishers with enlightened public policy," Johnson adde...Rutgers-Newark researchers link early movement, brain development
...hese kicks mean much more than those light-hearted explanations and may hold the key to how an infant's brain develops in its earliest stages. In a paper published in the journal Nature, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Professor in Neuroscience, Rustem Khazipov, a Visiting Professor from INSERM, Marseille, France, and their tea...Aspirin underused to reduce heart disease risk in diabetic women and young adults
... young than 50 years. There are several possible explanations for low use of aspirin among women, the researchers said. Physicians may not counsel women with diabetes to use aspirin if the physicians underestimate the women's risk for cardiovascular disease events. "However, even though women are at lower r...New insight into link between homocysteine and stroke
... socioeconomic status may therefore be alternative explanations for the finding. The authors comment that even if it is established that homocysteine concentration increases risk of stroke, it may not be wise for doctors to prescribe long-term vitamin B therapy to a broad group....Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...earn, PhD (Penn State University), caution against explanations of racial health disparities that are based exclusively on either genetic or environmental explanations. They emphasize the co-action and interaction of genes and environments in health and offer example of twin-studies and quantitative genetic appro...2001-2002 survey finds that many recover from alcoholism
...ersons previously dependent. "There are no obvious explanations for why this might be the case. Data from Wave 2 of the NESARC should provide valuable information to address this issue," they said. The NESARC is a longitudinal study now entering the first stage of followup that should shed light on pathways to re...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...d the National Institute of Mental Health. Popular explanations of the racial gap in violence - "constitutional" differences in IQ test scores and impulsivity or hyperactivity - accounted for only 6 percent of the racial and ethnic disparities in violent behavior, the researchers found, while family poverty accou...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ed from 52 to 46 years. They offer three plausible explanations for the dramatic decrease, including: 1) earlier onset of type 2 diabetes, 2) improved recognition and earlier detection of the disease by clinicians, and 3) increased public awareness and education about the disease. Changes in Age at Diagnosis of ...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...incidence of atrial flutter, but there weren't any explanations as to the mechanistic basis or the need for concomitant disease." Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly and severely reduced or cut off, causing the muscle to die from lack of oxygen. In the ...Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned
...dy results into question, there are other possible explanations for the divergent data. For example, the pathogenesis of primary pulmonary hypertension in Japan may be different from that in the United States. The sensitivity and methods of the tests used in each study may also have differed. "We hope that our re...Least protection offered to those most at risk of sudden cardiac death
... being denied the treatment. They found three main explanations - overall funding issues, a lack of staff to perform the procedures, and that eligible patients are not being identified or referred. All of the centres also expected to see increasing demands for ICDs in the future. Better planning and greater reso...Mother's depression associated with increased risk of child's antisocial behavior
...rticle. Researchers have identified three possible explanations for the association between a mother's depression and antisocial behavior (ASB) in their children: 1) depressed women are likely to have antisocial personality traits related to depression, 2) are likely to bear children with antisocial men, 3) and t...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
...rt remains unknown, but there are several possible explanations that will be the subject of additional studies," says study co-investigator and cardiologist Hunter Champion, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor at Hopkins and its Heart Institute. "The chemicals may cause spasm in the coronary arteries, or have a ...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...atory care and prevention. There are many possible explanations for these findings, and perhaps most plausible, write the researchers, is that doctors' "toolkits" are created during training and may not be updated regularly. Older physicians seem less likely to adopt newly proven therapies and may be less recepti...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...nsitive ways of peering into the brain to seek out explanations for brain disease. In most cases these technologies are good news for patients, bringing new ways of understanding health and treatment options. However, standards defining ethical ways of moving forward with the new technology are needed in order to...'Artery clearing' system does not provide benefit for patients undergoing PCI
...eperfusion therapy cannot be recommended. Multiple explanations may be proposed as to why distal microcirculatory ...y, discuss the findings by Stone et al. "Numerous explanations may be given for the surprising lack of efficacy of the distal protection device used in this study....Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...tal Discharge Survey for 1988 and 1998. The common explanations are: 1) women do not have the appropriate diagnos...greater risk of mortality for women. None of these explanations was supported, suggesting that the real explanation may be a gender bias. Controlling for primary di...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...p solve part of the problem, but still missing are explanations of the cultural and social factors underlying the inequities and what actions are necessary to achieve parity in health status. "The next step has to be a sincere dialogue with the black community as to what they need to resolve health inequities. M...