Radiation rids arteries of re-narrowing for up to five years
...de the artery to prevent restenosis, a potentially fatal renarrowing of the vessel. Restenosis occurs in about 20 percent of heart patients undergoing procedures such as angioplasty or stenting. Such patients require another procedure or bypass surgery. Stents are metal mesh tubes placed in a blood vess...Mayo Clinic researchers find useful test for identifying patients
...ing fainting spells, seizures or even death from a fatal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation. Long QT syndrome affects approximately 1 in 5,000 people. Those at risk for long QT syndrome include: those who experience fainting spells due to emotion, exercise or exertion; some relatives of those wit...Whitewater death inspires students to create safer helmet
... backward and exposed his forehead. He sustained a fatal blow to the center of his forehead. The incident l...ries are unreliable, but we do know that among the fatal cases, the mechanism of death tends to be a combination of impact to the head and drowning. The whit...UNC researchers show passengers boost risk of young driver accidents
...-old drivers transport passengers, their risk of a fatal or injury-causing crash grows significantly. We found that when a young driver carries one passenger, the risk of such a crash is somewhat higher about 33 percent, said Dr. Robert D. Foss, research scientist at the UNC Highway Safety Research Cente...New synthetic antithrombotic drug could reduce dvt risk after hip surgery
...tional therapy in reducing the risk of potentially fatal blood clots associated with hip-replacement surgery. Between 16 and 30% of patients who undergo Hip-replacement surgery have a risk of developing deep-vein thrombosis (DVT)-even when anti-clotting agents such as heparin and warfarin are used. DVT...Studying smallpox without smallpox
...ous pathogens. Variola attacks only humans, and is fatal in 30 to 40 percent of cases. The only current defense against smallpox is containment, supportive measures, and vaccination. Mild and severe side effects were seen in healthy patients in the era of vaccination. Then, pregnant women and patients with...Magnesium sulphate halves risk of eclampsia for pregnant women with pre-eclampsia
... who have pre-eclampsia developing the potentially fatal condition of eclampsia. The striking findings and low cost of magnesium sulphate ($5 per patient) could result in a significant change in the clinical management of pre-eclampsia worldwide. Up to 8% of pregnant women develop pre-eclampsia (pregnancy-...Screening families with a history of high cholesterol is most cost effective way to cut heart deaths
...d treatment, over half of these people will have a fatal or non-fatal coronary heart disease event by the age of 50 (men) or 60 (women). Using computer modelling, the research team assessed the costs and benefits of different screening strategies in the UK. They found that screening family members of peopl...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, June 4, 2002
...temperature, which makes users more susceptible to fatal cocaine overdose. Researchers discovered why cocaine raises body temperature (Article, p. 785). They found that a low dose of cocaine impaired the bodys ability to dissipate heat through sweating and flushing. It also impaired the ability to sense a ...Research presentations at scientific meetings often receive unwarranted media coverage
... to live up to their early promise; in some cases, fatal flaws emerge. Press coverage at this early stage may leave the public with the false impression that the data are in fact mature, the methods valid, and the findings widely accepted. As a consequence, patients may experience undue hope or anxiety or ...New approach to post-transplant lymphoma shows promise
...ay in treating one of the most difficult and often fatal complications of organ transplant, PTLD, or post-t...These results appear promising for what is often a fatal disease, says Porcu, noting previously described treatments have been only half as effective, genera...Vaccination delays onset of prion brain disease in mice
...engineered prion, a protein that causes a group of fatal brain diseases, including mad cow disease, delayed...chers. Mad cow disease belongs to a group of fatal diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. These diseases are characterized by progr...Cholesterol-lowering drugs should revolutionise treatment of heart attack and stroke
...l heart attack or coronary death, for non-fatal or fatal stroke, and for coronary or non-coronary revascularisation. Simvastatin was well tolerated with no major side-effects, and its benefits were additional to those of other cardioprotective treatments such as aspirin, - -blockers, and ACE inhibitors. H...Treatment guidelines for HIV infection announced by international panel of AIDS experts
...ral therapy has shifted HIV disease from a rapidly fatal disease to a chronic disease, much recent attention of researchers and clinicians has focused in finding ways to improve quality of life and minimize drug side effects in patients treated with antiretroviral drugs," says Patrick Yeni, M.D., chair of ...American Heart Association updates heart attack, stroke prevention guidelines
...cause many first-ever heart attacks or strokes are fatal or disabling," says Thomas Pearson, M.D., Ph.D., who chaired the consensus panel that worked on the update. The updated guidelines incorporate new findings and expert opinion that have emerged since the American Heart Association published the r...Dog collars could prevent parasitic disease in children
..., clinical symptoms of the disease, which is often fatal if left untreated, include fever, swollen liver and spleen, and anaemia. Clive Davies from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues from the University of Tabriz, Iran, fitted deltamethrin-impregnated collars to domestic dogs...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for August (first issue)
...tion was associated with significant reductions in fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular disease and coronary ar...s only 5.4 percent in the usual care group.The 149 fatal events, approximately 25 percent of which were caused either by coronary heart disease or other card...Worrying rise in deaths from alcoholic liver disease
...se requires further public emphasis on the risk of fatal liver disease from excessive alcohol consumption, they conclude.......off," often triggering devastating and potentially fatal side effects. Now, a Cornell University biochemist has learned how to make tumor cells up to 1,000 times more sensitive to RA so that much smaller doses would be required to flick the "on" and "off" switch (a process known as the induction of gene e......eafarers were over 25 times more likely, to have a fatal accident at work than other British workers. Both occupations were much more hazardous than construction, manufacturing, and other industrial jobs. Stephen Roberts comments: "These results show that trawler fishing and merchant seafaring are still t...