Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
... legal activity and prolongs disability, including failure to return to work. Claimants with unresolved disability may turn to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) system and never return to work, Chibnall says. In fact, Chibnall and Tait found that African-Americans were one-and-a-half times more...Stem cells given in minimally invasive procedure improve heart function
...PA, Jan. 25 Patients with severe congestive heart failure who had exhausted all other treatment options show... is feasible for the estimated 40 percent of heart failure patients whose disease is unrelated to coronary blockages and who therefore cannot benefit from bypa...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...n as hypertrophy, and is a common feature of heart failure that can be fatal," says study senior author and c... suffering cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and sudden cardiac death....Yale cardiovascular researcher named Bayer Fellow 2004-05
...s associated with disease states, especially heart failure and decreased blood flow, and their adaptive or maladaptive functional consequences. He joined the Yale faculty in 2000 after completing a cardiology fellowship at Yale. Work in his lab characterizes function and metabolism in the heart at the molecu...Study confirms ICDs more effective in preventing sudden cardiac death than medical therapies
...the second large-scale study to suggest that heart failure patients without coronary artery disease who recei...LV and aortic aneurysm repair Congestive heart failure surgery Ventricular assist devices Vascular Surgery Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm su...Discovery of pathway in learning impairment caused by liver disease may lead to drug treatment
... encephalopathy, and also a model of chronic liver failure in rats); rats with portacaval shunts that were gi...osis [shunts] or with hyperammonemia without liver failure show the same alterations in the function of the [glutamate-nitric oxide-cGMP] pathway, extracellula...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...he technique that his team have discovered. Their failure to do this is not due to an intrinsic inability of nerve fibres to grow, but to the disruption of the pathway along which the nerve fibres need to travel in order to reach their original destinations. This realisation has led to a completely new app...Quality of in-hospital CPR may fail to meet guidelines
...vival benefit. Conversely, interruptions in CPR or failure to provide compressions during cardiac arrest have been noted to have a negative impact on survival in animal studies. Consensus guidelines clearly define how CPR is to be performed, but the parameters of CPR in actual practice are not routinely meas...Grapefruit juice and medication can be a dangerous mix
...gency room. The patient ended up going into kidney failure and ultimately died. The only major change in the person's lifestyle had been that, upon arriving in Florida, he began picking grapefruit off a tree on the patio and drinking two or three glasses of fresh grapefruit juice every day. Karch, an expert ...Researchers identify the link between heart failure and weight loss
Congestive heart failure is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and...ety of conditions such as chronic congestive heart failure and chronic renal failure. In addition, the study provides a strong rationale for developing strateg...Heart patients treated by non-cardiologists less likely to receive medications
Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are less likely to be discharged from the hospital with a prescription for an ACE inhibitor and other recommended medications if they are treated by a non-cardiologist, according to a study written by pharmacists at Northwestern Memorial Hospit...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
...ry. Dr. McCarthy then introduces Doloris, a heart failure patient, and takes the Mini-Med Students through a procedure where she received a cutting-edge device called a biventricular pacemaker, or Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)....Rotary blood pump shows promise for pediatric patients
...r assist devices (VADs), blood pumps used in heart failure situations, now have the potential for use in additional patient groups. Scientists and clinicians gathered at the 11th Congress of the International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps in Germany last year to discuss past lessons learned and future direc...Some US soldiers returning from Afghanistan should be screened for malaria
...t repellent. "A major cause of malaria prophylaxis failure is patient nonadherence to prescribed treatment. Providing continuous education about the need to comply with prophylaxis medications and having leaders directly observe therapy and enforce personal protective measures may help safeguard soldiers fro...New study reveals treatment for 'silent killer' using diet, not drugs
...a reduced risk of stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure "Many people fear the side effects of blood pressure-lowering drugs, along with the expense. Our analysis of 80 scientific studies suggests that a vegetarian diet may be a simple, drug-free treatment for "the 'silent killer,'" says Dr. Berkow, lead a...Orqis receives FDA approval to expand clinical trial of Cancion CRS therapy to 40 centers
...rest-to-recovery" environment for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. Enrollment in the Multicenter tria... heart failure." Heart failure is the deterioration of the heart's ability to pump blood throughout the body and adequately perfuse...Potential cure for lymphoma in HIV patients
...rdiomyopathy (a weakening of the heart) and kidney failure due to treatment toxicities and died a few weeks after the transplant. Opportunistic infections, such as herpes zoster and cytomegalovirus infection, also occurred in a few Patients after the transplant, but were managed with appropriate therapy. Thr...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage 'plague'
...tients suffering from liver damage (cirrhosis) and failure may benefit from research by the Universities of E...e treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure than do of cancer of the cervix. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54...Heart failure patients treated for diabetes with insulin have increase in mortality
...hers for the first time showed that advanced heart failure patients with diabetes who are treated with insuli...aced a mortality rate four times higher than heart failure patients with diabetes treated with oral medications. IMPACT: The new study may help raise aware...Getting pregnant while on the pill: Yet another health hazard of being overweight
...fference or variation in the risk of contraceptive failure among women who fell into the first three quartile...ound the association between extra pounds and pill failure first surfaced among overweight women whose body-mass index was 27.3 or higher, which is equivalent ...