Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awards UT Southwestern $12 million to continue Dallas Heart Study
...nlargement, which can lead to heart failure. Heart failure is the No. 1 cause of mortality in the United Stat...eart, which may lead to new drugs to prevent heart failure Discovery of genes that protect the body from bad cholesterol and gene defects associated with earl...New class of compounds promises to revive failing hearts
...iovascular system from further damage during heart failure and in restoring function to organs affected by th...tial to lead to alternative treatments for cardiac failure in humans. But we are still in the very early testing stage." Toscano's research partner, Nazareno P...Study indicates why hospitalists improve hospital efficiency
...conditions such as pneumonia, liver disease, heart failure or diabetes complications. The team analyzed 1,706 patient admissions in 2000-2001 to the four general internal medicine services at UI Hospitals and Clinics. One service was staffed solely by hospitalists and the three other services by non-hospita...New survey reveals surprising insights into parental attitudes toward teenage sexual behavior
...hosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure and death, in some cases. According to the survey, although more than 90 percent of parents were aware of hepatitis B, most of these parents (80 percent) were not very familiar with the disease, its effects and modes of transmission. Of those aware...Listening in on the whispering heart
... rapidly: a condition that can often lead to heart failure and stroke, making AF a major cause of hospital admission. Similarly, another disorder of the heart's rhythm, ventricular fibrillation (VF) can be just as bad for your health. Biomedical engineer Kityee Au-Yeung of Duke University, in North Carolina,...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...s none of these questions. Why is there this utter failure of scientific rigour? For an answer, one has to look no further than the make up of your commission. Only two of your 14 commissioners have daily front-line responsibilities for patient care. It is hard to respect your commission's judgments when you...Friedman School of Tufts: Policy Points
...tudied in order to address the obesity pandemic. A failure to examine this supply side, says author Jim Tillotson, professor of food policy and international business at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, will limit the future success of policy and public health initiatives. ...Study: Dementia often undiagnosed in clinical settings
... complications and costs. As the study showed, the failure to recognize cognitive impairment appears to be associated with increased medical complications such as medication errors, missed appointments and unnecessary emergency room visits." A dementia diagnosis also can be a weight off the shoulders of the ...Study: Too few doctors ask teens about smoking
...ve smoking status recorded. "We also saw a failure to address tobacco status at more than one visit," Sims says. "This coupled with their reluctance to ask younger adolescents about smoking status means that physicians were unlikely to identify early experimenters--another missed opportunity." ...Lifesaving potential of mammograms lost due to underuse
..."the data reported here reveal that the widespread failure of many women to attend screening regularly occurs to a degree that is likely to reduce the life-sparing potential of screening."...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
...tient may develop kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure and respiratory distress. "The overall goal of our UCSD program is to enhance Peruvian research capacity in all facets of biomedical research, including research in the lab, in the field and with human subjects. We'll also cover research ethics and h...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
...locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer after failure of prior chemotherapy, and patients with unresecta...ectable locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC after failure of prior platinum-based chemotherapy. On May 19, 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grante...COX-2 inhibitor could be safest anti-inflammatory drug for older people
...elecoxib may have a lower risk of congestive heart failure compared with other non-steroidal anti-inflammator...pectively the risk of hospital admission for heart failure for around 14,500 people using the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib, around 19,000 using the COX-2 inhibito...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...lated diseases such as stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney disease. 4 BENICAR and BENICAR HCT in Treating to Goal An open-label, multicenter clinical study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension was designed to replicate the way physicians treat hypertension in clinical pra...Quality patient care not met by blanket screenings, warns UCSF/SFVAMC physician
...ith metastatic prostate cancer and end-stage renal failure increases the risks of colorectal cancer screening, which include perforation of the colon and cardiac complications. In her view, the decision by the SFVAMC physicians not to screen such patients represented good quality care, even though the decis...Antioxidant component of green tea blocks new but not established arterial plaque in mice
...sappointing. This has led researchers to wonder if failure in clinical trials might be due to the short duration of treatment, the use of the "wrong" antioxidant, or other factors such as the timing of the introduction of antioxidants. Theoretically, antioxidant therapy might be effective in human trials if ...New early warning system can predict life-threatening events in hospitalized children
...ldren in the hospital, including infections, heart failure and lack of adequate oxygen," Dr. Duncan said. "The PEWS score will likely go higher and higher as a child's vital signs become more abnormal, and this alerts the nurse to the child's deterioration." Experienced nurses often can tell that a child is ...The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania evaluates heart failure treatments for landmark study
(Philadelphia, PA)-"Heart failure is a leading cause of death and nearly 5 million p...educe death and hospitalization for advanced heart failure patients. Results from the three-year, multi-center Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing and Defib...Blood pressure control poor in elderly, says Northwestern researcher
...events (such as heart attack) and congestive heart failure were substantially higher in the oldest age group compared with those in younger people with high blood pressure. Lloyd-Jones said there are several major public health implications to be drawn from the study: The elderly have the highest pr......g. Only two children in the study's zinc group had failure of treatment with the initial standard antibiotics compared to 11 in the placebo group. "The zinc supplement was safe and substantially reduced the effects of acute pneumonia in young children. It could be especially beneficial in the developing worl...