To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...linked with crashes, the researchers report,is the length of time people go without a seizure before they return to driving:the shorter the interval, the greater the likelihood of an accident. Those whodidn't drive for a year or longer had a 93 percent reduced risk compared withpeople behind the wheel after......ransplants between January 1991and July 1994. Mean length of stay (from day of transplantation to day of discharge) was 21.2days and mean total resource use in (1995) dollars was $203,434. Room and careaveraged 26 percent of total resource use, diagnostics, which included imaging,laboratory and pathology w...Intensive Care Before A Major Op May Improve Survival
...ld be offset by the reduction in complications and length of hospital stay. Contact: Dr Jonathan Wilson, Consultant, Department of Anaesthetics, York District Hospital, York jonathan@critbase.demon.co.uk...Growth-Hormone Deficient Babies Are Normal Length At Birth, UB Study Finds
...ital growth hormone deficiency(CGHD) are of normal length at birth and don't begin to experience growthprobl...ne treatment. "This study shows that birth length is not helpful in detecting infantswho have congenital hypopituitarism," MacGillivray said. "Instea......chance of having a premature baby is linked to the length of time betweenpregnancies in Latina women, according to a new study. Research findings by a University of California San Francisco team show thatLatina women with short interpregnancy intervals--18 months or less between thedelivery of one infant a...New Method Assesses Risk Of Advanced Cancer After Prostate Removal
...r before or after two years post-surgery); and the length of time it tookthe PSA level to double (either greater or less than 10 months). A man in the lowest risk group (with a moderately severe tumor, PSArecurrence after two years post-surgery, and PSA doubling time greater than 10months) has a 95...The 'Break Even' Cost Of Kidney Transplants Is Shrinking
...S. The major cost saving comes from shortening the length of hospital stay from anaverage of 10 to 7 days after the transplant, and eliminating the use ofexpensive anti-rejection drugs that were given intravenously in the hospitalfollowing the operation. Better oral anti-rejection medications are nowavailab...Angina sufferers find significant relief with noninvasive technique
... able toexercise on a treadmill for about the same length of time, the EECP-active groupwas able to do so for longer periods without provoking abnormalelectrocardiograms, the researchers reported. Use of nitroglycerin in the active group was lower, but not by a statisticallysignificant degree. In an editor......ifically, theymeasured in-hospital deaths, average length of hospital stay, and average totalhospital charge...volume hospital. Differences in average length of patient hospital stay after surgeryamong the hospital groups were similarly compared. The averag...Early to rise: Research offers clues to older people's sleep habits
... 67.4 years,respectively. In order to measure the length of the circadian period,investigators used a number of carefully designed techniques to minimize thefactors which can inadvertently reset the circadian clock, including the use oflight. "Previous studies showed the duration of the human circadian per...Moooooove over, chicken! Study shows lean red meat can play a role in low-fat diet
...at lean white meats (fish or poultry) for the same length oftime. At study's end, subjects in both groups had nearly identical changes in theircholesterol levels. All saw an average decrease of 1 to 3 percent inlow-density lipoproteins, or "bad cholesterol"; an average increase of 2 percentin high-density ...Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...s toimprove productivity by increasing the maximum length of time that patients waitfor surgery to something like four weeks," Dexter said. "If you use informationtechnologies, it shouldn't really be necessary to have waits of three months toa year." By using Dexter's suggested four-week wait, the increase ...Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
...vasiveness of each procedure was ratedaccording to length of the procedure, amount of tissue damage and site of theprocedure. As expected, the newborns' heart rates increased significantly overbaseline in response to the preparation and the procedure itself but declinedduring recovery. The infants ...New strategy recommended to combat hepatitis
... physicians, the EUROHEP group chose to modify the length oftreatment based on the monthly measurements of hepatitis B virus in the blood. Janssen indicates that continuing therapy for up to eight months in patients whohave a considerable decrease in the virus during the early treatments leads to adoubling ...Double-edged effect of inflammatory response discovered after brain injury
...stent motordeficits until at least four weeks, the length of the study. Over the long term,the TNF knockouts also had more cortical tissue loss than the normal mice. "These findings bear out our hypothesis that in the acute period TNF isharmful to the brain, but in chronic stages TNF may play an importan...Cholesterol lowering in elderly reduces heart disease and strokes
...olesterol lowering can improveboth the quality and length of life for many older Americans." "Because most older Americans have cholesterol buildup in theirarteries, an elevated cholesterol causes more cases of CHD in the elderly thanin any other age group," said Dr. Scott Grundy, Director of the Ce......between condom use and socioeconomicstatus and the length of the relationship. "In addition, the scenario we used described one particular kind of sex afirst-time heterosexual encounter with a boyfriend or girlfriend," said Hocking."We don't know if the results would apply to other kinds of sex, such as ...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...one line. Water tends tomove more easily along the length of these cables. Using an MRI method that hashigh sensitivity to water movements, the researchers traced these cables byfollowing the preferred direction of water movement. The research team studied four volunteers and determined the wiringla...Early discharge appears safe for Medicaid newborns
CINCINNATI - A reduction in length of stay for newborns insured by Medicaidappears to...ength of stay varied considerably by region. Mean length of stay decreasedeach year in every region, with southwest Ohio showing the greatest change, adecrea......her trends have also been noted, such asdecreasing length of hospital stays and increasing hospital discharges toskilled nursing facilities. Ni says she took both factors into account whenlooking at the lower mortality rates and found those factors to be negligible. "At the same time that lengths of stay an...