Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...ease in importance. "How alternatives will fare in competition with biomedicine in this era of health reform isan open question and one that should be studied by geographers and other social scientists,"Gordon said. "The question of equity has an ambiguous answer. We can see gains in overallavaila...Preventing Stroke: The Choice Between Aspirin And Warfarin
... atrial fibrillation, and a low-riskfor stroke who fare well by taking aspirin instead of warfarin to preventstroke. Previous studies have shown that warfarin can cut by two-thirds thestroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation who are at high risk forstroke. However, because treatment with aspirin......archers assumed the mice that couldmake IL-6 would fare worse, but in fact the opposite was true. The mice thatcould not produce IL-6 had more pathological and clinical evidence of cirrhosis,including fewer hepatocytes and higher bilirubin levels, and had a mortalityrate twice that of the IL-6-producing ...Circumcisions In Doctors' Offices As Safe As Those In Hospitals
... circumcised in a doctor's office fare just as wellafter the procedure as those who were circumcised in a hospital operating room. Researchers compared the medical and economic outcomes of...Study: moms' depression hurts kids' development
...3, children whose mothers are chronicallydepressed fare significantly worse on tests and other measures showing schoolreadiness, verbal comprehension and language skills than children of mothers whoare never depressed, a major new study concludes. Those whose mothers aresometimes depressed fall somewhere ...Diabetics at greatest risk of complications after re-opening arteries
...ed to the general population, people with diabetes fare worse following balloon angioplasty, in which a catheter tipped with a deflated balloon is inserted into a narrowed artery and the balloon is inflated to push open the clogged area and dilate the blood vessel. Van Belle says his study indicates that ...Newer form of 'gold standard' drug helps kidney transplant patients do better in long term
Kidney transplant patients fare better over the long term with newer form of "gold standard" drug, study finds ANN ARBOR, MI - A reformulation of the "gold standard" drug against kidney transplant rejection not only costs less and gets absorbed better - it also helps transplant r...Colic in infants linked to inability to digest apple juice, but not white grape juice
...e, so it makes sense that infants with colic would fare even worse when fed juice that is difficult to digest." The double-blind study looked at 30 infants, ages 4 to 6 months, 16 of whom had a history of colic. The babies with a colic history were divided into two groups; one group was fed one serving o...Drill and suction procedure holds promise for clogged arteries
...n coronary vessels and the better the patient will fare overall. ST-segment resolution was observed immediately after treatment in 83 percent of patients treated with suction plus angioplasty, compared with 52 percent of those who had angioplasty alone. Angioplasty, in which a balloon-tipped catheter is...Outpatient treatment is as effective as inpatient treatment for PID
...mild-to-moderate pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) fare just as well with outpatient antibiotic treatment as they do with more expensive inpatient treatment, with the same likelihood of pregnancy. These findings, by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, were published in the May i...Despite resources, at-risk infants in US fare no better, researchers find
...a common assumption that at-risk infants in the US fare better. Analyzing reproductive, prenatal and postnatal care in the US, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, Dartmouth Medical School pediatricians Lindsay Thompson, David Goodman, and George Little found little difference in national survival r...Better access to health care is key to higher survival rates for African-Americans with colon cancer
...he disease surgery followed by chemotherapy they fare equally well." Data for the study came from a clinical trial designed to measure the effectiveness of chemotherapy for colon cancer patients who had undergone surgery to remove cancerous portions of their colons. Fuchs and his colleagues compared s...Intensive care treatment may be bad for your health
...xample of research into how well or badly patients fare after they have left the intensive care unit is the study by Dale Rublee and colleagues. It examines the long-term effects of treating patients with sepsis with the drug antithrombin III. Antithrombin III affects the blood's clotting mechanism and is...Experienced surgeon reduces complications from minimally invasive 'stomach staple' surgery
...e study -- the first to evaluate how well patients fare from the surgery -- calls for more training of surgeons in the use of laparoscopy in surgery for the morbidly obese, as the minimally invasive techniques become more common. The study was presented at the recently held annual convention of the Americ...Emotional well-being in patients who make treatment choices
...tive attitude. As a result, the Canadians tend to fare better emotionally and socially, experiencing less depression than European women. Data from men in Canada with prostate cancer also shows that they want to take an active role in treatment choices and, like the women, had lower levels of anxiety wh...Studies offer new treatment option to prevent kidney rejection
...ut research now suggests that the majority of them fare as well as any other transplanted organ. But such kidneys may be more prone to ischemia-reperfusion injury, tissue damage that occurs when blood flow to an organ is stopped, then started again after a period of time. The injury is common in all kidne...Caliente chemistry for Cinco de Mayo
...food, fun and dance. And much of the Cinco de Mayo fare at these fiestas can be very healthy for you, according to research presented in meetings and journals of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Tomatoes What would Mexican food be without tomatoes? The primary ingr...Doctors focus on pupil size for safety of laser vision correction
...uld help doctors choose patients who are likely to fare well with the surgery, and to forego recommending treatment for others. In the earliest days of laser vision correction, some patients complained of worsened night vision after the surgery some reported significant glare from light sources such ...Research reveals no benefit of rapid MRI over X-rays in patients with low back pain
... "Today, individuals with regional back pain might fare less poorly by managing as best they can on their own, perhaps with some lay advice, than if they choose to be primary care patients."......ce status makes a huge difference in how well they fare if they have a potentially lethal aortic aneurysm....eagues found and those covered by Medicaid didn't fare much better than the uninsured. (The study did not include patients covered by Medicare, because tha...