Children with sickle cell anemia often don't receive antibiotics to prevent deadly infections
...ce groups, including Medicaid, place limits on the length of prescriptions. While this makes sense for some medication, it may not be best for medication that is needed for everyday use to prevent infections," Sox said. Perhaps because of their illness, children with sickle cell anemia visited a doctor a me...Treatment interruption shows no benefit in drug-resistant HIV infection
...r of volunteers who participated in the study, the length of follow-up and the fact that there was a randomized comparison with a control group. These features allowed the researchers to study the overall impact of structured treatment interruption, including the effects on AIDS-related illnesses, HIV viral...Study assessing once daily Abacavir (ABC) in a once daily ART regimen
...in the blood cells of patients is a measure of the length of time in which ABC remains active," he said. ABC is a member of the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) class of anti-HIV drugs. In the study, 20 HIV-positive patients, aged 18 to 55, who were already on a stable treatment regimen t...Ultrafiltration device shown safe, effective and reduces hospital stay for heart failure patients
...ents with heart failure, and also reduces hospital length of stay by almost two days when compared to the na... in patients with heart failure shortened hospital length of stay by two days compared to the national average observed in the ADHERE 1 study," added Dr. Mit...Successful prostate surgery: It's quality of surgery not quantity that matters most
... could determine quality. The parameters used were length of surgery, blood loss, postoperative continence, the pathological status of the resection margins and the rate of undetectable PSA (prostate specific antigen) after surgery. The survey related the results from over 230 radical prostectomies to the a...Sudden cardiac death: New risk factor first identified in Illinois family by SLU cardiologist
... can track impulse wave patterns and determine the length of time between the impulses. Electrical impulses within the ventricles of the heart are designated by the letters "QT." A QT interval can indicate how effectively the heart is contracting in its lower chambers and how much blood is moving throughout...Stanford computer model shows bypass surgery more cost-effective than stents
...ge, while bypass surgery replaces a more extensive length of artery and therefore better protects against disease progression. "Stents are not the curative procedure that people think. If people choose stent procedures they should be prepared to come back," she said. "If your house has a major plumbing prob...Pfizer's ZYVOX(TM) more effective than vancomycin in treating complicated SSTIs caused by MRSA
.... ZYVOX significantly reduced patients' hospital length of stay in both the clinically evaluable populatio...s plus failures. The study also compared the mean length of stay, defined as the total number of initial and readmission inpatient days during the study peri...Heavy alcohol consumption linked to colorectal cancer
...hich uses a long, thin scope to examine the entire length of the colon. Cancer or suspicious polyps were found in the left colon of 6.1 percent of the nondrinkers and of 17.4 percent of those who drank at least 9 glasses per week of spirits for more than 10 years. After adjusting for age, sex, family histo...Dads and cads: U-M study tests female preferences for partners
...tendency to choose cads over dads increased as the length of the hypothetical relationship decreased. According to Kruger, the findings imply that the dad versus cad distinction is intuitive to women and remains a key element of contemporary mating strategies. Women's preference for cads for short-term rela...Modified lung donor standards decrease mortality
...gories, including hospital and intensive care unit length of stay, length of intubation, readmission to the hospital, 6- and 12-month lung function tests, and 30-day mortalit...Wound healing gel wins Medical Futures award
...mpact on treatment and recovery times could reduce length of hospital stays and result in substantial savings to health services. Dr David Becker, of UCL's Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, who led the project, said: "An estimated 95 million people worldwide suffering wounds each year, and y...Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer
...les that are embedded in muscle fibers measure the length and speed of muscle stretch, while other sensors in the skin respond to stretch and pressure. When an individual is paralyzed by injury or disease, neural signals from these sensors cannot reach the brain, and thus cannot be used to control motor res...Stents combined with clot-busting drugs effective in limiting impact of deadly form of stroke
...eatment due to the large size of the clots and the length of time they were in place before treatment began. Acute vertebrobasilar ischemic strokes, caused by clots in the major arteries located in the skull behind the upper and lower jaw, respectively, are often fatal or the cause of severe brain damage. ...Age-related outcomes, immune response in patients with brain tumors linked to thymic cells
...ong been associated with a patient's prognosis and length of survival in the battle against brain tumors and other cancers. Older patients typically respond less favorably to treatment and have comparatively poorer outcomes than their younger counterparts. Physicians and researchers who treat and study canc...Mental health of asylum seekers deteriorates with longer detention
...ses in these symptoms were directly related to the length of time that individuals were detained. Participants assessed after release from detention had marked reductions in all psychological symptoms, but those still detained were more distressed than at initial assessment. Allen S. Keller (Assistant Prof...Gardens have the potential to improve health, research shows
...wer doses of costly strong pain medication and the length of stay is shorter for some patients. Increased patient mobility and independence, higher patient satisfaction with facility and increased staff job satisfaction are also potential advantages. The belief that nature is beneficial for people with illn...Three months is too soon to judge a CML patient's response to Gleevec, researchers find
...rience disease progression. Interestingly, the length of treatment needed to reach a complete response had no effect on survival. Survival without disease progression at 24 months was 96 percent for patients with a complete response within the first three to six months, and 93 percent for those who achi...Alefacept effective in treating patients with psoriasis
... psoriasis and suggests a relationship between the length of response to alefacept and alterations in the memory T-cell population," the authors write. ......ractice of deciding treatment options based on the length of remaining time a patient is expected to live, rather than his age. The study examined the charts and records of 347 randomly chosen prostate cancer patients from across Ontario, and showed that older men who are healthier and expected to live for ...