Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
...oved in 11 infants. Seven of the 13 critically ill infants survived. Of those who died, three succumbed to their acute lung disease, and one from bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Two patients died of non-respiratory complications of prematurity. Clinical trials using PLV to treat children and adults wi...Training Urged For Mothers Of Children With Cancer
...ighthave a beneficial spillover effect on both her ill and her healthy child'scoping." They studied 170 mothers and healthy siblings of children with cancerfrom Houston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Rochester, and Salt Lake City, arepresentative cross-section of the U.S. population. When the m...Addicted Doctors Need Special Service
...an important cause of impaired performance through ill health. Contact: Professor John Strang, Professor of the addictions, National Addiction Centre, The Maudsley/Institute of Psychiatry, London t: 0171 919 3438 f: 0171 919 3426...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
...of the paper. "Although our study did not find any ill effects from the aspirin, this drugdoes have known potential side effects." Side effects of aspirin include irritation of the stomach and intestineand spontaneous hemorrhaging. During pregnancy, aspirin may increase the riskfor abruptio pla...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...re teamimproves the outcomes for these chronically ill patients. The Duke researchers said the broad use of clinical pharmacists in themanagement of heart failure appears to save money by reducing the frequency ofhospital re-admissions and allows cardiologists more time to devote to thenon-pharma...Antibiotic Prophylaxis Could Help Prevent Respiratory Infections in the Critically Ill
...ectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in critically ill adult patients: systematic review of randomised co...ds and overall mortality was reduced in critically ill patients. However, Liberati et al warn that these positive effects do not take account of potentia...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
... room visits,unscheduled office visits, days spent ill and days out of work. Those results,Bria says, show the promise of changes now transforming health care. "The era of hospital-centered care is over," he says. "The trend is now towardthe maturation of the health care system and more self-management...Lack Of Data For New Heart Drugs Is Causing Concern
...at it causesaround 1200 extra deaths in critically ill patients in Britain each year. Now one of the team, Alain Li Wan Po of Nottingham University, says dataon the safety of six drugs to treat high blood pressure, which have or are aboutto get licences in Britain, are inadequate. Li Wan Po has ...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...from our studies of chemotherapy that even in very ill patients these kinds of delivery systems can be very well tolerated."...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...t or nearsightedness for instance -- would have no ill effect on the other, normal eye. These studies, reported in the January issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science and the upcoming May issue of Vision Research add to the growing evidence that from infancy, visual development is influe......ric waiting room, where all but the mostcritically ill or injured youngsters (and their families) wait their turns forcare, is enlivened by storybook murals, and filled with child-friendlyfurnishings....Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...ce the need for liver transplants bygiving acutely ill patients with limited liver damage time to recover," saidMillis. "It could also open the window of opportunity a little wider for thosewho absolutely need a new organ to survive."The portable device uses a two-chambered, hollow-fiber cartridge filled...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...vaccine has a well-definedtarget population (those ill with the disease); and in this economic model,health benefits accrue more quickly with a therapeutic vaccine than a preventiveone. That some therapeutic vaccines appear cost-effective bodes well forvaccine strategies targeted to certain non-infectio...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
(Portland, Ore.) -- Terminally ill patients in Oregon are more likely thanpatients el...sity concluded that a highpercentage of terminally ill patients had written advance directives, that thesedirectives often helped avoid the use of life-pro......hout the disease. Patients classified as severely ill at the time oftransplant also were 40 percent more costly to treat. "Our data suggest that the recent policy change that places severely illpatients high on the waiting list could lead to a substantial increase inresources used for liver transplanta...Intensive Care Before A Major Op May Improve Survival
...h risk people produces large numbers of critically ill patients, but appropriate pre-operative care may help to reduce mortality, morbidity and even reduce total stay in hospital, say Dr Jonathan Wilson and colleagues from York District Hospital. They studied 138 patients undergoing major elective sur...Chronically Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
...he challenge of providing peer support toseriously ill teenagers with an Internet service, Hopkins Teen Central. HopkinsTeen Central's creators say the service shows potential for wide use inhospitals nationwide. Reporting on the project today at the 1999 Pediatric Academic Societiesmeeting in...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...thors to conclude that there is substantial sexual ill health among teenagers in England and Wales and they say that sexual health should be a priority for co-ordinated national and local health promotion among young people. Prof McKee suggests that the problem is wider than sexual health and cites teena...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...thod To Prevent Severe Rejection Six critically ill people on kidney dialysis have been able to receive a kidneytransplant and a new chance at life thanks to a procedure at the University ofMaryland Medical Center that cleansed their blood of harmful rejectionantibodies. The success of this innovativ...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...vailable. All patients were considered terminally ill at the time of thetransplant and had no other treatment options. In two patients the transplants were successful, both producing mixed chimerism- shown by the presence of both donor and recipient cells in their bone marrow -and long-term remission ...