Antibiotics help heart patients
... angina or a nonfatal heart attack, or to suffer a fatal heart attack, than those who took a placebo. "I...ntibiotic treatments reduce the risk of angina and fatal and nonfatal heart attacks? "The difference between the two antibiotic regimens is that azithromyci...Lipid abnormalities linked to Lou Gehrigs disease
...called Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS is a progressive, fatal neurological disease affecting as many as 20,000 Americans, with 5,000 new cases occurring in the United States each year. Patients usually die within five years of diagnosis. ALS occurs when specific nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that con...Drug improves survival in primary pulmonary hypertension patients
...fectiveness of epoprostenol in treating this rare, fatal disease. Awareness needs to be raised among clinicians seeing patients with symptoms that could be PPH," says lead researcher Vallerie V. McLaughlin, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago....Molecular mechanism underlaying anthrax infection described by UCSD School Of Medicine researchers
...tually into the bloodstream, ultimately leading to fatal systemic shock if treatment fails. In order to understand how anthrax was evading the immune system, the research team led by Michael Karin, Ph.D., UCSD professor of pharmacology and American Cancer Society Research Professor, used a variety of lab t...Immediate cholesterol drop after heart attack guards against stroke
... the statin group and two in the placebo group had fatal strokes. There were three instances of hemorrhagic stroke, which is caused by bleeding into the brain rather than by a blocked blood vessel. All three hemorrhagic strokes were in the placebo group, helping to dispel a concern that statin treatment ...Drug shows promise in treating severe, often-lethal complication of stem cell transplants
...nrolled in the study. VOD is a type of potentially fatal liver damage that can result from the high doses of chemotherapy given prior to a transplant. The findings, which will be published in the Dec. 15 issue of Blood, have been posted as a "First Edition Paper" on the journal's web site ( www.bloodjourna...Bladder cancer returns sooner with each recurrence, study shows
... recurs in more than half of those patients and is fatal 20 percent of the time. "Little is known about the biology of multiple sequential recurrent tumors or about which patients are most at risk for sequential recurrence," says Yan, who also is a member of the cancer prevention and control program at the...New procedure kills liver tumors without surgery
...but require immediate removal of their potentially fatal tumors. For some, it is a cure; for others it extends the length and quality of life. While surgery is still the accepted method for removing liver tumors, doctors say RFA is proving to be a successful alternative because it can be done quickly, wit...Hospital costs much higher for motorcycle crash victims who dont wear helmets
...eted riders are 40 percent more likely to suffer a fatal head injury and 15 percent more likely to sustain a nonfatal injury than those who wear helmets, NHTSA reports. Despite the evidence supporting helmet use as a means of reducing injuries, deaths, health care costs and disability, three U.S. states h...One in one hundred babies in the US are involved in a car crash while in the womb
...5 and 1990 the number of women drivers involved in fatal car crashes have soared by more than 60 percent, primarily because women are driving more. Given the tens of thousands of babies involved in car crashes and the possible impact of these crashes on fetal development and subsequent child health, Dr. We...Many drunk drivers not problem drinkers
...impaired driving in the three years prior to their fatal crash; 19 percent of the drivers with very high BACs had such a conviction in their driving records. "In addition to programs focused on repeat offenders or problem drinkers, countermeasures such as sobriety checkpoints should target the broader gro...Viagra for alleviation of pulmonary hypertension?
...in the pulmonary artery), a severe and potentially fatal condition causing respiratory impairment. Lung fibrosis (scarring of the lungs due to inflammation of the alveoli) can be complicated by pulmonary hypertension. Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani and colleagues from University Hospital, Giessen, Germany, di...New data suggests chemotherapy patients benefit from heart failure treatment
...rect injury to the heart, which can be potentially fatal or result in the need for heart transplantation an...ients without concern for developing a potentially fatal condition as a result of their cancer treatment." M. D. Anderson researchers have proposed conductin...New test predicts pregnancy problems long before they happen
...may progress to eclampsia, a series of potentially fatal seizures. In cases where the condition does not progress to eclampsia, children born to mothers with preeclampsia may be born prematurely or have low birth weight. Preeclampsia is still one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. Known risks ......By contrast, none of the normal mice experienced a fatal arrhythmia. Study Significance Kir6.2, a protein...tion, to those Kir6.2-deficient mice prevented the fatal arrhythmias in five out of six. Thus, the Mayo Clinic study shows that Kir6.2 is crucial to survival...Researchers develop calculator to better determine prognosis for patients with melanoma
...r patients newly-diagnosed with melanoma, an often fatal cancer of the skin, and the potential benefits for such patients of receiving interferon therapy after surgery -- appears in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The calculator is developed by Mayo Clinic researchers Charles Loprinzi, M.D., ...Bridge Medical shares expertise at Washington Patient Safety Conference
...pect for its courage and integrity in disclosing a fatal medical error committed almost a decade ago. The error and its consequences have been the focus of numerous reports, from Bridge Medical's award-winning "Beyond Blame" documentary, which premiered in 1997, to a Dateline NBC special that aired Jan. 1,...MRI can predict risk of heart attacks
... Regardless of other risk factors, MRI can predict fatal and nonfatal heart attacks in patients whose left ventricle pumps out less than two-thirds of the blood a normal heart ejects; Someone whose damaged heart wall moves better at rest than when stressed also has an elevated risk; and The location in...New compound holds promise for lupus and related diseases
...s and tissues. The result is harmful and sometimes fatal inflammation in various tissues and organs, particularly the kidneys. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lupus affects 1.4 million Americans, and more than 22,000 have died as a result of the disease over the past 20 years....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October (second issue)
...reased risk for the development of severe and even fatal infections.) German researchers analyzed data from 527 patients in the largest prospective clinical trial conducted to date designed to investigate antibiotic prophylaxis in critically ill patients. As contrasted to placebo, the total number of inf...