Swift switch from CPR to AED may save lives
...charge and deliver a shock is called the hands-off interval because cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) chest ...orway. To determine the link between the hands-off interval and survival, researchers studied 634 hands-off intervals in 156 patients with ventricular fibrillat...Long-term survival results favor chemotherapy before surgery for locally advanced breast cancer
... radiation therapy - within 32 weeks, with minimal interval between modalities," he said. The 62 women studied all had locally advanced primary breast tumors greater than five centimeters, with skin or chest wall involvement, or with extensive involvement of the axillary (armpit) lymph nodes. The median age...Mayo Clinic researchers find useful test for identifying patients
... electrical recharging process (measured by the QT interval on the ECG) is longer than normal. Usually, patien... get an electrocardiogram because the prolonged QT interval is often detected by the test. Patients with long QT syndrome can lead normal lives with some restri...Cancer drug proves effective in treating sickle cell disease
...e, future studies will concentrate on reducing the interval between doses to increase the levels of fetal hemoglobin and increasing the length of time patients are on the drug to ensure that harmful side effects do not emerge with time. An oral form of decitabine is in development. Sickle cell disease is foun...Can longer consultations really save time and resources?
...al health questionnaire. Although the consultation interval increased by 50%, consultation length increased by only 12%. This raises the question of what the doctors did with the extra time, say the authors. When the doctors had longer booking intervals, they performed more tests and asked more patients to ma...Longer delays associated with better survival
...t effect between delay and survival is seen in the interval between referral and the first hospital visit suggests that general practitioners communicate information related to presentation in some way to consultants, they add. This communication ensures that consultants respond faster to patients who are at ...New drug boost for asbestos-related lung cancer sufferers
...a drug called raltitrexed (Tomudex). Because the interval between exposure to asbestos and developing Mesothelioma can be 30 40 years, the incidence of the disease is still on the rise, as a result of industrial exposure to asbestos in the 70s and 80s. Currently there are about 1,700 cases per year in the ...Growing evidence that commonly used medicines may delay or prevent Alzheimers disease
...e and nizatidine). Three years later they obtained interval medication histories and identified 104 participants with Alzheimer's disease among the 3,227 living participants. "Our results suggest that long-term NSAID use may reduce the risk of AD, provided the use occurs well before the onset of dementia," s...Schizophrenia drugs linked to increased risk of heart attack
...y have a greater effect than haloperidol on the QT interval as recorded on an electrocardiogram (ECG). The QT interval is defined as the time between the Q wave (when the heart's ventricles contract) and T wave (when th...Mayo clinic proceedings study supports shorter waiting period for driving privileges after a seizure
..."Our study suggests that reducing the seizure-free interval from 12 to three months did not produce a signific...a seizure-free interval. In the United States, the interval ranges from three months to 18 months. Including Dr. Drazkowski, those involved in the study include...Estrogen replacement increases risk factors for arrhythmia and sudden death
...d in fractions of a second. Prolongation of the QT interval is associated with an increased risk for arrhythmi...ing childbearing years -- than men and that the QT interval varies over the course of a woman's life. It is believed that QT length may be controlled, at least ...Short gaps between pregnancies linked to complications
Women with a very short interval between pregnancies are at an increased risk of co...g second births in Scotland in 1992-8. Women whose interval between pregnancies was less than six months were much more likely to have had complicated first bir...18F-FDG PET better predictor of post-therapy Hodgkin's relapse than CT
...o likely to experience a much briefer disease-free interval than those with positive CT scans a median of 79 days as opposed to 1,143 for CT. The study found that positive 18F-FDG PET results in Hodgkin's patients who have completed chemotherapy is a strong predictor of relapse, while negative results are a...Study shows increased risk of cancer for stressed women
...riods, age at which they had their first baby, the interval between the two, and their age at menopause." Dr Helgesson and his colleagues from the Sahlgrenska Academy followed 1,462 Swedish women, aged between 38 and 60, for 24 years. The women had a physical examination and answered a simple questionnaire i...Are hepatitis A vaccine boosters unnecessary?
...ntinued without restarting, even after an extended interval before the second dose. Additional studies are needed to explore the long-term efficacy of a single dose. To date, no data lend support to the need for booster doses of HAV vaccine in immunocompetent individuals who have received a full vaccination c...Sudden cardiac death: New risk factor first identified in Illinois family by SLU cardiologist
...cardiac death. The risk factor - a dramatic, short interval in the heart's electrical impulses - was originall...been well-known for many years that a prolonged QT interval can lead to sudden cardiac death," says cardiologist Preben Bjerregaard, MD, professor of internal m...Prostate cancer screening interval of 4 years misses few cancers, study shows
A 4-year screening interval was adequate to detect most cancers in a large Eur...r in Rotterdam, Netherlands, looked at the rate of interval cancers (i.e., cancers detected between screening visits) among 17,226 men ages 55 to 74 who were en...Cancer risk calculated with Pap test every 3 years; found comparable to male breast cancer
... can safely extend their cervical cancer screening interval to three years, according to a new study published...ted if such a woman elects to extend her screening interval to three years," said lead author George Sawaya, MD, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology a...Lesser amount of patching effective for treating lazy eye in children
...pia may respond just as well to a shorter six-hour interval of patching therapy of the good eye as those children who previously required full-time patching." Dr. Dankner, MD, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Baltimore and an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University and the University of...Updated data compares DOXIL (R)/CAELYX (TM) (doxorubicin HCl liposome injection) to Topotecan
...g platinum-sensitive patients (those who had a PFS interval of greater than six months after first-line, platinum-based chemotherapy), the median survival of patients receiving DOXIL was 112 weeks versus 77 weeks for patients receiving topotecan (HR 0.63 [95 percent CI = 0.47 to 0.85]; p = 0.002). DOXIL pati...