Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
... extra costof stenting is not due to medication or length of hospital stay. It is inthe fixed price of the devices, which usually cost around $1,600 each, andthe extra angioplasty balloons, costing up to $600 each, that are neededto insert the stents. So now what was a "win/win" situation for patients and...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...s cost an average of more than $26,000. The longer length of initial hospitalization may be due to the fact ...ate use of aggressive procedures, and the shortest length of stay in the hospital (7.6 days, compared to 11.2 days in the Mid-Atlantic). The detailed cost ...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
...ment, patients experienced less discomfort and the length and cost of hospitalization was reduced. The research findings appear in this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine . In the double-blind, randomized study, 64 patients were given oral doses of amiodarone for a minimum of seven...New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
...e NINDS t-PA Stroke Trial,(2) in which theaverage length of a hospital stay was shorter in t-PA-treated patients, 10.9days, than in patients not treated with t-PA, 12.4 days. t-PA-treated patientswere more frequently discharged to their home than to inpatient rehabilitationcenters or nursing homes. ...Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...nly the symptoms most quitters experience, but the length of those symptoms and the extent to which they disrupt smokers' lives. Sympathetic to the plight of those who want to kick the addiction, she discusses the methods, the treatments, and the products that have proven most successful. While she cautio...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
...eliminatingduplication of studies and reducing the length of hospital stays for somepatients." A radiologist on one floor, for example, and a surgeon in the operatingroom can simultaneously view the same image. In fact, with no film to store orlose, there is no limit to the number of specialists who...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
... shortly after their operations andasked about the length of their menstrual cycle, among other questions. Prior to 1984, the patients who underwent surgery around the time they shouldhave been ovulating were twice as likely to survive than those who had surgeryat about the onset of menstruation, accordi...Studies Indicate An Effective Treatment For Steroid-Induced Osteoporosis
...atient's age, gender, underlying disease, dosageor length of time on steroid therapy. Increase in spine BMD was highest in post-menopausal women not taking estrogenwho received 10 mg of alendronate, the researchers noted. Post-menopausal womentaking steroid treatments are among those at the highest risk fo...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ion of complex defect structures on a hierarchy of length scales. For example, as an airplane wing is buffe...est and validate those models over a wide range of length scales. The ability to better understand and model materials will drive economic and technological ...Changes In Care Lower Costs Of Surgery To Prevent Stroke
...otid endarterectomy. By the end of the study, the length of time fromhospital admittance to surgery decreased from about two days to one day, and thetime from surgery to discharge shortened from about five days to three days.Co-authors are B. Bowyer, R.N.; D. Dowed, M.D.; R. Maggisano, M.D.; P. Oh, M.D.;an......atment, which can significantly impact quality and length of life,"he added. The research team compared the two types of HIV testing--confidential andanonymous--in seven states: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, NorthCarolina, Oregon, and Texas. In confidential testing, a person's name is linked to ...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
... according to Dr. McKenna. AtCedars-Sinai, average length of stay for lobectomy patients is about 11 dayswhen the procedure is performed the traditional way, compared to 3.9 days forthose done using the scope and small incisions. The conference will take place at ESI, EndoSurgery Institute, a trainingfacil......also had an almost threefoldreduction in the total length of stay. While the study involved 46 patie...ided care, the cost was $4,620. In terms of total length of stay inthe hospital, conventionally treated patients spent 3.8 days in the hospital;perfusion ima...... exposureremained at more than 10 percent over the length of the study, a signal thatmedical students in schools across the country run the same or greater risk ofexposure. The rate of exposures reported in specific years of the study dropped to 6.5percent of the students in 1996 from a high of 18 percent o...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...apability. As babies grow older, the eyes grow in length so that by age one in monkeys and age four in huma...bout a seven millimeter increase -- just the right length for normal vision with no refractive error. Refraction refers to the deflection of a ray of......serves are based on factors including the probable length of survival of thosecovered by the annuity. The length of one or both lives will indicate the numberof required payments and the amount of funds needed to ...Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...But Wu's techniqueyielded a curve that spanned the length of a project. It let researchers compareaverage growth figures for the children two months after birth, 23 months afteror anywhere in between. The curve produced by Wu and his partners is a very useful research tool, hesays. "The shape of growth ove...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
...play a role, includingpitch, volume, accent, vowel length and the speed at which the speaker deliverswords. Her program manipulates these and other elements in a commerciallyavailable speech synthesizer program, allowing it to project five emotionalstates: fear, sadness, anger, happiness and neutral...Neutron Research To Help In Treatment Of Cancer Patients
...a particles that damagesurrounding cells. The path length of alpha particles is the diameter of a fewcells, much shorter than the path length of electrons. "Gamma rays often wanderaround in the healthy tissue," Grimes says. "Neutrons don't go...Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
...omen in the type oftreatment they received and the length of time they had the disease. The only form of cardiovascular disease that is increasing dramaticallyin the population is congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heartcannot pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body. An es...