New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
...im the guideline authors. Poor management includes failure to identify or act on risk at the beginning of pregnancy or to recognise and respond to signs and symptoms after 20 weeks. Their guideline recommends a straightforward system of early risk assessment and referral to ensure that pregnant women with pr...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
... parents who took his claims seriously, but with a failure of leadership by health professionals, lack of support for them from policy makers (including the prime minister), and mischief made by journalists. The solution is not to affect distain for the bearers of false news but develop two-way communication...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...y when it is shown to be counterproductive because failure to do so engenders alienation and dangerous workarounds in addition to persistent errors; substitution of technology for people is a misunderstanding of both. (4) Pursue errors' 'second stories' and multiple causations to surmount the following barri...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...dy is the first to show a correlation between this failure and mortality. "We owe women heart attack patients a full examination of the factors that might lead them to receive fewer of the proven drugs and lifestyle tips than men receive," says Eagle. "Now that we know that they get just as much mortality b...Decreased levels of 'good' cholesterol in children with Progeria may cause premature heart disease
... die between the ages of 6 and 20 years from heart failure or stroke," said Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, lead author of the study, Medical Director of the Progeria Research Foundation (PRF), and assistant professor, Tufts University School of Medicine. "Studying heart disease as it relates to children with Proger...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...to enlarged hearts (hypertrophy), subsequent heart failure and increased risk of death. "The work also suggests a biological route for potential therapies that could block or reverse obesity's harmful effects on the heart," says lead investigator and cardiologist Lili Barouch, M.D., an assistant professor ......tation of data and information, or when there is a failure to fully integrate a hospital's multiple computer and information systems. Examples of these errors are when a physician orders the wrong dose of a drug because the CPOE system displays pharmacy warehouse information that is misinterpreted by the p...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...t electrical changes in the heart leading to heart failure can occur long before a patient exhibits any clini...iver. Nearly 5 million Americans suffer from heart failure and more than 250,000 die annually from the condition, Hahn said. The incidence and prevalence of th...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...should help convince physicians who care for heart failure patients to pay close attention to their patients'...e these patients may be helped by aggressive heart failure and/or antidepressant therapy. Jiang presented the results of her study March 7, 2005, at the annual...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...timize the cardiac function of patients with heart failure have provided new insights into which patients mig...e of Cardiology in Orlando."When you talk to heart failure patients, many times their perceptions of how they feel do not match with their actual clinical stat...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
...sed in the body in stress situations such as heart failure and mitral regurgitation-are toxic to the heart muscle. Beta-blockers keep catecholamines from acting. "For the first time, our large observational studies show that beta-blockers may have large benefit in CHF and severe MR patients with normal eject...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...ysicians had a major impact on mortality of heart failure patients," says Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, associate c...E trial during a poster session on Monday. Heart failure is a major health threat in this country, resulting in 1 million hospital admissions each year. "Th...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...r lives." Currently, about 70 patients with kidney failure nationwide are treated with NxStage System One, a ...ration, or ultrafiltration to patients with kidney failure or fluid overload. The system is compact and weighs about 70 pounds. It's portable because of its fr...New data on Orqis Medical's Cancion CRS to be reported at ACC
...diac recovery system for treating congestive heart failure will be presented at the Annual Scientific Session... patients with acutely decompensated chronic heart failure may benefit from the first-of-its-kind Cancion therapy. Based on Orqis Medical's proprietary discove...Telemedicine revolution is 'disappearing' from the NHS
...ls is often blamed, but the real reason is often a failure to think through the organisational problems involved in integrating new technology into everyday NHS activity. Telemedicine lets doctors deal remotely with patients over a live video-conferencing link where a face-to-face consultation may be diffic...Potential treatment for Fragile X Syndrome demonstrated in fruit fly model
...tural defects in certain neurons, enlarged testes, failure to maintain proper day/night activity patterns; attention deficits and hyperactivity, and defects in behavior-dependent learning and memory. "Our thinking was that since so many of the behavioral and physical phenotypes in the fly model were similar...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...evidence of a pernicious gender bias and a general failure to treat women in a proactive manner that extended over a decade." Her study examined the common reasoning behind the discrepancy by using patient information from the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1988 and 1998. The common explanations ar...Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
...Jude study was to determine whether the success or failure of chemotherapy for ALL was linked to any of 16 co...s, including GSTM1 and TYMS were linked to risk of failure in the lower-risk group. The researchers concluded that GSTM1 and TYMS, are likely linked to resist...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
... surgery. Thirteen patients developed respiratory failure requiring ventilatory support, 9 contracted pneumonia, 5 had collapse of lung tissue (atelectasis) requiring bronchoscopic intervention, and 1 suffered a collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity causing the lung to collapse. One patient who ha...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...two-and-a-half times more likely to die from heart failure than are Caucasians in the same age range. However...ty and that these statistical differences in heart failure between African Americans and Caucasians over 64 nearly disappear. Duster bolsters his conclusions ...