Hib infections on the rise in adults despite child vaccination programme
...ecent years, despite a vaccination programme which initially proved successful, say researchers in this week's ...r adults the situation was more complex. They had initially benefited from 'herd immunity' say the authors, where the drop in infection rates among children res...Statins effective in long term, Nordic study suggests
... for 10 years, compared with the 2223 patients who initially received placebo (and only started statins 5 years ago after the 4S trial was completed and the results of statin benefit became known). Overall, there was a 17% reduction in cardiovascular mortality and a 24% decrease in coronary mortality for 10-ye...Seniors reduce or discontinue medications when faced with gap in drug coverage, UCLA study shows
...0 billion national Medicare drug benefit. Seniors initially pay only 25 percent of medication costs, but there's a "donut hole" between $2,250 and $5,100 when they have no coverage. Other studies estimate that 42 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, many of them with chronic diseases, will be affected by thi...Many drugs prescribed for elderly Americans are risky
...experts. In 1997, Beers updated the original list, initially intended primarily for institutional use, for use in any setting. The list named 28 medications or classes of medications considered inappropriate for use in elderly patients. The panel deemed 14 of those 28 medications to have potentially severe adv...Hospital standards for high-risk surgeries save lives
...at perform certain surgeries more often, the group initially set its standards to reflect surgical volumes only. New standards, revised in 2003, consider additional measures of quality, such as mortality rates. Researchers at UMHS evaluated whether patients would fare better after surgery if they were treated ...Study finds dramatic increase in thyroid cancer
...l-sized hole in the reactor vessel. This hole was initially missed by years of inspections, and would have resulted in a meltdown had it not been identified. At the time the hole was found, 95% of the steel protecting the reactor from meltdown had been eaten away by acid. In 2003 cracks were found in the ins...Researchers develop better understanding of tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer patients
...ntiestrogens from the onset of treatment, and many initially responsive tumors sooner or later become resistant. The Lombardi researchers studied a series of antiestrogen-sensitive and antiestrogen-resistant human breast cells using a variety of different microarray technologies. "The logical implication ...Psychological factors may be root of back pain, say Stanford researchers
...four-year investigation that followed patients who initially had no lower back pain, researchers studied their subjects' spines using both disc injection and magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. And they also got to know their research subjects through psychological evaluations. It turned out that psychological...Why youngsters try to do impossible things
...exactly what three co-investigators of a new study initially did when their own toddlers attempted to fit into a toy car, a miniature room and a doll's crib. Based on those personal observations, as well as their research as developmental psychologists interested in how young children understand symbols, the ...Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley receives Searle Scholar Award
...rimary visual cortex, the region of the brain that initially processes visual signals. "This grant will support my research on understanding what cues direct neurons to form functional circuitry during the development of the visual system and throughout development in general," said Crowley. "Such research ult...Dad's death helps national expert evaluate end-of-life care
... treating the underlying disease. While his father initially wanted any treatment that might help him live long...gh quality of life as long as possible. His father initially consented to a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order, but wanted all other treatments that would help him l......ll counts and delaying AIDS onset in patients that initially had a low level of virus in their body. Importantly, despite suppressing patients' immune response, prednisolone did not cause the HIV virus to replicate more vigorously. Prednisolone is a very inexpensive drug belonging to the class of glucocorticoi...Iron-deficient infants score worse on cognitive and motor tests as teens
...gh, medium and low. Those children who scored well initially tended to score slightly worse later, and those who scored worse initially tended to see their scores increase later---what is described by statisticians as regression to the ...Prevalence of HIV among childbearing women has declined in New York
...Editor's Note: Data collection for this study was initially partially supported with funding through cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Editorial: Successes and Challenges in the Perinatal HIV-1 Epidemic in the United States as Illustrated by the HIV-1 Se...Untreated postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
...t of 13 postmenopausal osteoporotic women who were initially fracture-free were likely to experience a spinal f...res in a population of osteoporotic women who were initially fracture-free. The model was based upon data from the placebo arms of Phase III fracture trials for...Preliminary results are promising in Alzheimer's gene therapy trial
...is itself safe and well-tolerated. The procedure initially was performed while patients were awake but lightly sedated. Two patients moved as the cells were being injected, resulting in bleeding in the brain. One of these patients died of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) five weeks later. Followi...Parkinson's drug effective in treating restless leg syndrome
...legs to relieve pain or discomfort. Though RLS was initially described in 1945, most affected individuals remain undiagnosed and untreated. "Previous studies have indicated the efficacy of pergolide in treating RLS," notes study author Claudia Trenkwalder, MD, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at Georg Au...CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...y. It has been available to patients for 10 years, initially through clinical trials and more widely since 1995, following licence approval as a key component of the maintenance immunosuppression used in patients at risk of organ rejection following kidney transplant. CellCept has also been approved for preve...ISSIR launches The Journal of Sexual Medicine with Blackwell
... community. The principal orientation of ISSIR was initially towards basic science of erection, defects in the erectile mechanism, and the clinical aspects of diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction. The orientation is now towards the whole field of human sexuality. More information on the society and...Aha! Cognitive neuroscientists reveal creative brain processes
...ual input, and suggested that this occurs to allow initially weak solution-related activity to gain strength, then burst into consciousness as an insight. "This is like closing your eyes so you can concentrate when you are trying to solve a difficult problem," said Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel. ...