New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...cts of asthma management during pregnancy, such as identifying and limiting exposure to asthma triggers. Similarl... woman can reduce how much medication is needed by identifying and avoiding the factors that make her asthma worse, such as tobacco smoke or allergens like dust mi...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...r describes a staining method the team refined for identifying markers in RA patients' lung tissues. The results establish two key points never before fully documented in the laboratory: Certain specific T cells of the immune system, whose normal job in healthy people is to attack disease organisms that invad...Doctors must consider potentially inappropriate medications when treating elderly
...ation using the Beers criteria and other tools for identifying potentially inappropriate medication use can enable providers and insurers to plan interventions . . . " that would decrease the ill effects of these drugs on the elderly and improve their care....Faces must be seen to be recognized
...new insight into the process. They have found that identifying a face depends on actually seeing it, as opposed to merely having the image of the face fall on the retina. In one set of experiments, the researchers took advantage of a phenomenon called "binocular rivalry" to present face images to subjects in cir...Surgical treatment of migraines reduces sick days and increases employee productivity ASPS study
...y, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. "By identifying the trigger areas for migraines and performing targeted surgical procedures, we significantly reduced or eliminated their migraines and the amount of time missed from work." Patients in the study were injected with Botox to help determine which muscl...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, Dec. 21, 2004
...xisting clinical prediction rule was successful in identifying low-back-pain patients who are most likely to benefit from spinal manipulation (Article, p. 920). An editorial writer says that these studies and larger ones are needed (Editorial, p. 957). "If public and private insurance plans are to cover these t...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
.... Our research findings speak to the importance of identifying them as substance abusers -- either for a brief intervention or to refer them to substance abuse treatment as appropriate. The emergency department visit itself can represent a teachable moment for a patient." The researchers estimated that 27 perce...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...NKDEP is asking labs to streamline the process for identifying kidney disease. "The GFR calculator is a great tool, but it's still one more step for busy doctors' offices. We are really pleased that several major labs have agreed to automatically report estimated GFR whenever creatinine is measured, removing a p...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
...surgical site infections caused by MRSA increases, identifying MRSA early and having alternatives to vancomycin becomes extremely important since any patient undergoing surgery is at risk," said Dr. John Weigelt, lead investigator of the study and professor and vice chairman of the department of surgery at the M...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...growth, but our work provides a starting point for identifying more partners of CSPGs and for finding targets to try to counter these proteins' effects in nerve regeneration." Semaphorins, including 5A, are a family of proteins that help direct growing nerves as they extend toward their eventual targets, largely...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
...ate impact on health issues through better ways of identifying promising drug therapies for diseases like SMA." Spinal muscular atrophy is a group of inherited and often fatal diseases that destroys the nerves necessary for voluntary muscle movement, such as crawling, walking, head and neck control and even swa...USC researchers highlight disparities in cancer rates among racial and ethnic groups in California
...ds in cancer rates by race/ethnicity is the key to identifying how successful our cancer control efforts are, and tells us a lot about the causes of cancer, and how to prevent it," says Myles Cockburn, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. A sampling of tr...Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
...es, nurses and administrators, including skills in identifying and managing symptoms and communicating with families; improve physician training, including giving medical residents experience in following patients as they leave the hospital to enter a nursing home; increase reimbursements to nursing homes to b...New study shows early ritalin may cause long-term effects on the brain
...many children with ADHD, accurately diagnosing and identifying the correct treatment regimen for the disorder is ...viduals such as teachers and coaches can assist in identifying children with the disorder, an experienced health care professional is best-trained to make the fina...Strokes: Dental x-rays reveal more than cavities
...y are also a beneficial adjunct screening tool for identifying patients at risk for stroke." Patients already at risk should share their medical history with their dentist and ask the dentist to be aware of any signs of calcifications that may show up during their regular dental check-ups. "Dentists are concer...Elderly with advanced chronic diseases burdened with symptoms
...ith advanced chronic diseases would be enhanced by identifying and alleviating the range of symptoms they experience," said principal investigator Lisa M. Walke, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine/geriatrics at Yale School of Medicine. Published in the November 22 issue of Archives of Internal Me...Add an 'E' to the alphabet for identifying melanoma
...eraser. The ABCD rule has been helpful in identifying early melanoma. But now the original group of NYU dermatologists who devised the rule, along with some of their younger colleagues, recommends expanding the rule to recognize that early melanomas frequently change in appearance. This is especially t...Marine snail study gives insights into human brain
... functions in long-term memory. Glanzman's team is identifying important genes and proteins, and their functions in learning and memory. What does the marine snail learn? "The marine snail has to process information about its environment, and it has to make associations between different stimuli, ...Got heart disease? The answer may be in your fingertips
... and that the fingertip test was very sensitive in identifying patients with early heart disease." The study comp...t pain, the noninvasive test was very sensitive in identifying those with early heart disease," says Dr. Lerman. "The next step is to extend the research to broade...Ongoing transfusions needed to avoid strokes in children with sickle cell disease
...per in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1992 identifying the painless transcranial Doppler as the first non-invasive method for identifying these children before their first stroke. The finding led to the original STOP study, which found t...