Opportunity missed: TIA patients receive less aggressive attention than those with stroke
... Transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients receive less aggressive diagnostic testing, treatment and educa...er in Melbourne, Fla. "TIA is perceived as a much less serious condition than stroke by the public and by professionals." About one-third of people who ha...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
...er, is often recommended to patients before trying less invasive and less expensive treatments. Is surgery always the best course for carpal tunnel syndrome's sufferers? A ...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...matology.org/publications/ar ). They are also much less likely to complain of chest pain. The increased h... have an unrecognized heart attack. They were also less likely to have had a history of chest pain, compared to those without rheumatoid arthritis. After th...Best treatment for mild or moderate depression unclear
...ment of moderate to severe depression, but what is less clear is the appropriate treatment for mild to moderate depression, write Gene Feder and colleagues. They say that the study on which the guidelines are based identifies evidence supporting problem solving therapies and counselling, but evidence on o......elfare work-to policy in a region where pay is 20% less than the national average, most jobs are poorly paid and of short duration, and support services are in short supply. Is the current benefit system adequate to meet the problems of entrenched poverty or is something different needed? Can benefits b...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
... (light gray vs. dark gray), younger subjects took less time to see the direction of motion. But when the bars were large, and high in contrast (black vs. white), older subjects outperformed the younger subjects. "The results are exciting not only because they show an odd case in which older people have ...Stat5 protein inhibits spread of breast cancer cells
...tat5 was active, breast cancer cells were not only less invasive, but also aggregated into clusters, resembling healthy breast cells. Conversely, loss of Stat5 stimulated invasive tumor cell activities. "The apparent suppressive role of Stat5 in breast cancer is surprising in light of the tumor promoting...New study finds kelp can reduce level of hormone related to breast cancer risk
...ly have fewer periods over a lifetime, which means less time is spent overall in the phases where hormone levels and breast and endometrial cell proliferation are at their highest," said Skibola. During the early part of a woman's menstrual cycle, estradiol levels remain relatively constant. Almost halfw...Suffering from fatigue, abdominal discomfort or bloody diarrhea?
...y component to determine disease activity and that less expensive, noninvasive indices may be reasonable alternatives for measuring disease activity for ulcerative colitis, says Higgins. "Our data support a common clinical practice of following the self-reported symptoms of patients with ulcerative coliti...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...ng clinics. They found that teens were 1.9 percent less likely to smoke and drink when cigarette and alcohol taxes were higher. Among the regions surveyed, the researchers report that doubling the number of communities with laws that prohibit teenagers' access to cigarette vending machines, would lower te...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...smokers were defined as those who reported smoking less than a pack a day on average, while heavy smokers ...out $50,000. While it was obvious that smokers had less wealth, Zagorsky said smokers also tend to come from lower socioeconomic categories, which may influ...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...rican Americans. Latinos and Asian Americans were less likely to be homeless.* "Homelessness is an increasingly important public health issue, with seriously mentally ill persons most at risk for homelessness," said the study's senior author, Dilip Jeste, M.D., UCSD Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...owing distance an effort to compensate for paying less attention to road conditions and took 17 percent ...as elderly drivers. "Older drivers were slightly less likely to get into accidents than younger drivers," Strayer says. "Why? They tend to have a greater ...Cardiac imaging is underused in women to diagnose disease
...isease (CAD). Women at risk for CAD, however, are less often referred for the right tests, according to a consensus statement from the American Heart Association. The statement was published in today's special women's themed issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, and presented ...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...e guidelines recommend LDL or "bad" cholesterol be less than 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), HDL or ...holesterol be more than 50 mg/dL, triglycerides be less than 150 mg/dL, or non-HDL (a combination of all bad forms of cholesterol) be less than 130 mg/dL. "...New way to block pox shows promise in lab study
...ble, he says. Virus-directed drugs tend to become less effective over time as the constantly mutating vir... structures that send and receive signals--are far less likely to mutate than viruses themselves, making it improbable that drugs will lose their potency," ...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 1 Women are less likely than men to receive recommendations from th... save lives in both men and women." Furthermore, less than one in five physicians (8 percent of PCPs, 13 percent of OBGyns, and 17 percent of cardiologist...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...ients with grade III glioma is 3 to 5 years and is less than 1 year for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (grade IV glioma). Current treatment for patients with malignant glioma includes maximum safe resection (surgical removal), radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Susan M. Chang, M.D., of the Univer...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...mes more likely). Missing clinical information was less likely in rural practices (48 percent less likely) and when individual clinicians reported having full electronic records (60 percent less like...Two studies find evidence that sunlight may have beneficial influence on cancer
...gher levels of sun exposure or skin awareness were less likely to die. In addition, both solar elastosis ...lternative hypothesis is that sun exposure induces less aggressive melanomas by inducing melanization and increasing DNA repair capacity, both of which migh...