UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...e most frequently reported community services were giving talks on health-related and other topics, working with community groups on local issues including health-related ones and participating in local health events. "If these data represent the range and hours of volunteer community service done by indivi...Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
...; in fact, they can be released the same day, thus giving rise to considerable savings in health costs. Suitability There are a number of methods used in the percutaneous treatment of congenital cardiac defects. Specifically, a number of years ago, the Cardiological Intervention Unit incorporated the "Amp...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
... notable figures will be in attendance, as well as giving presentations on topics such as the use of unapproved devices, bioterrorism and space research. Included in this prestigious list is Charles F. Sawin, the chief NASA scientist serving as chair of the Committee for Protection of Human Subjects and ch...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...ling patients to select high-quality providers and giving providers benchmarks and incentives to improve the quality of care they provide. Recent evidence suggests that after CABG report cards were released, surgeons began to avoid patients they perceived as being high-risk. "In our study we found that h...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...eral factors. PSA and DRE tests can be inaccurate, giving both false negatives and false positives. In addition, neither test indicates how aggressive a man's cancer is. Furthermore, because prostate cancers grow slowly in many cases and treatments can have unpleasant side effects, treating the cancer may b...Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
...ssure down. The researchers demonstrated this by giving another group of subjects an intravenous medication, phenylephrine, to raise blood pressure about as much as they saw when spit tobacco was used. In response, those subjects' heart rates decreased by more than 10 beats a minute and the activity of th...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
... detect complex molecules in addition to elements, giving more complete forensic information. They also hope that their work will lead to a smaller, portable MXRF device that can be easily carried by forensic investigators to quickly test samples directly at the crime scene. More studies are planned, they s...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
... for 24 hours after the procedure rather than risk giving their infant an unsafe amount of the drug by way of their milk. Michael J. Avram, associate professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Martin Nitsun, M.D., assistant professor, and colleagues from Evan...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...ight to an extent based on their oxygen content -- giving the researchers a reliable indicator of cerebral oxygenation. Researchers place a fiberoptic probe against the skull of the fetus to measure the changing oxygenation levels of blood circulating in the brain, Reynolds said. Reynolds said that the incr...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...annual conference. The study also established that giving the beta-blocker metoprolol as an emergency treatm... for every million patients having a heart attack, giving this simple additional treatment for about two weeks would save 5,000 lives and prevent another 5,00...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...ses, March 9-11, Newport Beach, Calif. Is your job giving you a heart attack? The International Commission of Occupational Health (ICOH) conference this week in Newport Beach, Calif., helps answer that question, and more. The UCI Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is hosting this conference, d...How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
... in women is increasing. Many mothers may also be giving herbal supplements to their children to treat or prevent various illnesses, including asthma, hyperactivity, colds, and respiratory infections. A study in the March issue of The Journal of Pediatrics reviews the medical literature to provide infor...Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
...l treatment," Mohanakumar says. "We want to see if giving patients the DNA vaccine can prevent or eliminate breast cancer or at least slow its growth."...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
... not they smoked cigarettes either before or after giving birth. And they asked mothers about their own problems with allergies and asthma. The idea was to learn about several potential risk factors to determine why RSV affects some children so severely. "What we're trying to study isn't the likelihood of g...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...onization therapy with defibrillation) devices are giving cardiologists a new view of subtle changes in a key measurement of heart health -- heart rate variability. Patients with little variability -- whose hearts are unable to appropriately react to external stimuli by regulating their beating action -- ar...Proteins found in urine of pregnant women could help diagnose preeclampsia
...results can be confusing, placing women at risk of giving birth prematurely. The current treatment is delivery of the fetus regardless of gestational age. These results provide scientists with a better understanding of the mechanisms of preeclampsia. Coauthors are Errol R. Norwitz, M.D., Edmund Funai, M.D.,...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...needed on top of the $2.0 billion spent currently, giving a total of $6.1 billion in the 75 countries with the highest mortality. The additional cost is less than $1 per inhabitant per year. The paper outlines five points of action on a national level, which include, by the end of 2005, publishing national...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
...tive Health Care. "This technology has assisted in giving us better results more often with a very low rate of complications." While many women could benefit from the hysterectomy, those who have very large fibroids, cancer, a history of cervical abnormalities or multiple previous abdominal surgeries are no...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...among young adults has risen by nearly 40 percent, giving those between 18 and 24 the unfortunate distinction of being more likely to smoke cigarettes than any other age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What's more, low quitting rates among young-adult smokers underscore t...... women completed a questionnaire eight weeks after giving birth to a single infant at full term. Postnatal depression was also assessed using a recognised scale. There was no evidence that elective caesarean section altered the odds of postnatal depression compared with planned vaginal delivery. Among plann...