It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...ons, the researchers found the areas that have the greatest contrast are: New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut), the Mid-Atlantic region (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), South Central states (Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arka...New Approach To Multidrug Resistance
...rrentissue of Clinical Cancer Research. One of the greatest obstacles to successful cancer treatment is the developmentof multidrug resistance by tumors -- that is, tumors become better able towithstand the actions of a wide variety of unrelated chemicals. The anti-drugpump is a major tool in multidrug resist..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...Ohio, shows that the benefits of ReoPro™ are greatest in the highest risk patients with acute heart attack or medically unstable angina. "The Topol study suggests a remarkable 60 percent reduction in mortality at three years in this select group treated with ReoPro™ compared with th...Women Say Overwhelming Yes To Ultrasound In New Study
...friends as well as the cost of an ultrasound. The greatest influence for seeking an ultrasound was the patient's doctor or nurse, despite the fact that many had never before seen their health care provider. Kazerooni says the survey results are interesting, coming in the wake of 1993 study of 15,000 wo...Keeping Score On Doctors: Report Says Flaws In Counting Must Be Addressed To Ensure Accuracy
... they say, shouldfocus on the doctors who have the greatest influence on outcome, which for heartattack is the first physician involved, since early intervention is crucial inheart attack treatment. The Pennsylvania study didn't report the responsiblephysician that way. In addition, the Pennsylvania ...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
...tal responsibility acts. "Parents have the greatest amount of influence over these children andif we can do something to teach parents to be more responsible, we should doit," says Gordon, who holds an appointment in the College of Arts and Sciences."Parents need to learn how to manage their kids' pro......riptionsmost often were given to patients with the greatest expected benefit, includingthose with congestive heart failure. However, the researchers also report that less than half of the patients most inneed of the drug received it. "If the American College of Cardiology/AmericanHeart Association guidelin......se catalysts could solve whathe calls "some of the greatest challenges in material science today." Combinatorial chemistry has proven a powerful tool in the hands of researchers,Turner says, enabling them to develop compounds to meet specific needs, despitethe lack of initial clues as to what types of chemica...1998 AAPS Annual Meeting Abstracts Debut Online
...inerary for the meeting, selecting the sessions of greatest interest to them and planning which presentations to attend. The database includes all invited abstracts, in addition to the contributed papers abstracts and the full meeting program. The online, print and CD-ROM versions of the 1998 AAPS Annual Meet......rk with faculty members in the departments withthe greatest risk to develop better methods of training and prevention,"Papadakis said. Julie L. Gerberding, MD, formerly a UCSF assistant professor of medicine, isalso a co-author of the study. Gerberding now heads the Hospital InfectionsProgram of the National...Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
...erature variations at the five sitesmeasured. The greatest difference in site-to-site plaque temperatures occurredamong the heart attack patients, followed by those with unstable angina andthose with stable angina. No correlation was found between the amount of narrowing in the blood vesselsand the temperatu...... Following the acute phase of rehabilitation, the greatest risk formortality after a spinal cord injury is heart disease. Few clinicians prescribean exercise regimen for SCI patients because the parameters have not beendefined, and inappropriate exercise may have no benefit and may even bedangerous, Gater s......o be a lot smaller thanoriginally thought to be at greatest risk," said Dr. Steven Bloom, assistantprofessor of obstetrics and gynecology, who conducted the study with Drs. DonaldMcIntire and Brian Casey, assistant professors of obstetrics and gynecology, andDr. Kenneth Leveno, professor of obstetrics and gyn...New Model Shows How To Eradicate World's Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness
... the Middle East and parts ofAsia are areas of the greatest concentration. The infection is completely treatable with antibiotics and is the target of aplanned World Health Organization (WHO) project, "GET 2020" (Global Eliminationof Trachoma by the year 2020). The plan is to treat infected people with a p...Major Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury Identified
...the years 1983 through 1991. Homicidesclaimed the greatest number of lives. A listing of deaths by all categ...n. Infants born to NativeAmerican mothers were at greatest risk for motor vehicle-related deaths anddrownings, while the rate of death from choking was highest...Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
...performing those procedures in which they have the greatest expertise." This policy has already been passed in Florida. It is pending before themedical boards in 11 other states, including California, Arizona, New York, NewJersey and Massachusetts. Of the 1,557 cases the study looked a...Combination Therapy Improves Chances Of Surviving Esophageal Cancer
...ncer Society. Moreover, African American menare at greatest risk of getting this cancer. Cigarette smoking and long-term heavy drinking increase the risk of gettingesophageal cancer and a recent study found that chronic heartburn also raisesthe risk substantially. The new study, which involved man...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...Those symptoms seem to us clinically as having the greatest impact on patient'slives," says Dr. William E. Whitehead, professor of medicine and co-director of the UNC Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders. "Theysometimes result in patients secluding themselves, afraid to go out. It co...Federal agencies report on nation's children
...t all groups of children has declined,the drop was greatest for black children from ages 1 to 4. From 1996 to 1997,the death rate for black children fell from 67.6 to 59.2 per 100,000. Thisrate, however, remained at almost twice the rate for whites, which was 31.6 in1997.* In 1996, the death rate f......le option and then selecting theoption which is of greatest value. In contrast, biological studies of the mindhave relied upon Descartes' conception of the 'reflex', which, like theknee-jerk response to a physician's hammer, simply connects a single sensationand a single action. While this discrepancy betwee...