Hospital gowns' benefits outweigh costs in intensive care unit
...among infection-control specialists because it can live for up to eight weeks on hard surfaces such as bedrails or telephone handsets. Scientists also believe VRE can exchange genes with Staphylococcus aureus, which is considered a more serious health threat than VRE. The genetic swap can worsen Staphyloc...UMHS study links gonorrhea, prostate cancer in men
...population-based study of black men ages 40-79 who live in Flint, Mich. The research will be presented May 9 at the American Urological Association annual meeting in San Francisco. The Flint Men's Health Study looked at African-American men as part of an effort to determine why black men are twice as like...Rx pain medicines hard to find in pharmacies serving minority neighborhoods
...ers to be sensitive to, when treating patients who live in areas with large minority populations."...New data shows Seroquel achieves remission in bipolar mania
...cebo (p 1 "Patients with bipolar disorder want to live a normal life without manic symptoms such as racing thoughts, reckless behaviour and decreased sleep, since many are highly functioning individuals. These results suggest that treatment with quetiapine contributes to remission of these debilitating ...Depressive symptoms in middle-aged inner-city African-Americans higher than expected
Middle-aged African-Americans who live in the inner city have a higher than expected level of depressive symptoms which can lead to additional health problems, according to research from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. To better understand de...Chemical brain scans may help reassure brain tumor patients
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Brain tumor survivors live with the constant worry that their cancer might come back. And even if they have a brain scan every few months to check, doctors often can't tell the difference between new cancer growth and tissue changes related to their treatment with radiation or...Enoxaparin prevents stillbirth in pregnant women with clotting disorder
... Of the women on the drug, 86 percent had a normal live birth. In addition, no significant side effects we...aparin is associated with a much greater chance of live birth and a normal-weight baby, without adverse side effects." "The studies reported by Dr. Gris an...Mayo researchers invent targeted imaging probe to aid early Alzheimer's diagnosis
...roduce high-resolution MRI images in the brains of live mice -- and ultimately, in humans. If continued testing goes well, this procedure would enable physicians to obtain an early diagnosis in living patients, and to easily follow the progression of the disease. Currently, definitive diagnosis of Alzhe...VELCADE (Bortezomib) receives European marketing authorisation
...o or more treatments, potentially helping patients live longer. In a study of 202 patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma and who progressed after initial treatments, 35% responded to VELCADE and 10% had a complete remission. This pivotal study was the basis for an accelerated review of ...Mexican Americans at greater risk for stroke than non-Hispanic whites
...st majority (95 percent) of the county's residents live in Corpus Christi. They selected Nueces County for its high concentration of Mexican Americans (56 percent), high quality of medical care, and because it is more than 150 miles from the nearest major city where a stroke victim might otherwise be trea......eaturing an address by ESA astronaut Andr Kuipers, live from the International Space Station. Over the ye...tive sensors to monitor astronauts' bodies as they live and work in space. These can be used on Earth to monitor babies, the elderly or patients. To combat ...Improving eye patient care with telemedicine standards
...can provide fast, affordable service to people who live in isolated areas or are unable to travel. The standards and associated guidelines are related to images of the eye that help doctors decide what problems exist and how to treat them. The standards cover how to "capture" the images, which is sim...2004 Spring Allergy Capitals(TM) identified
...w.allergyactionplan.com . "Allergy sufferers who live in a Spring Allergy Capital TM should plan ahead," says Dr. Derek Johnson, an allergist at Temple University Medical Center and a medical advisor to AAFA. "An allergy sufferer can create their own Allergy Action Plan by visiting allergyactionplan.c...Study shows opioid growth factor safe for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...c cancer will die from it, and only 4 percent will live more than five years. In laboratory studies, Zagon and his team discovered that OGF, which is involved in suppression of pain in the nervous system, also controls the production of some cells, both healthy and abnormal. Pancreatic cancer cells have ...Study finds certain compounds in beer, wine effective in slowing breast cancer cell growth
... blue (0.4 percent). The colorant is excluded from live cells, and so the method allows simultaneously qua...feration) and cytotoxicity (ratio between dead and live cells). In other experiments, 3H-thymidine incorporation was evaluated in each time and treatment c...Prescription of opioids for back pain needs improvement
...y to take opioid drugs for their back pain if they live in the South, hold public insurance, are less educated and have low income. Moreover, the use of a powerful opioid drug, oxycodone, doubled from 1996 to 1999, found the researchers. The study, published in the April 15, 2004, issue of the journal Sp...HIV-positive U.S. military personnel accidentally vaccinated against smallpox
...eakened immune systems, there is a chance that the live virus in the smallpox vaccine, rather than immunizing them, can result in an infection that gets progressively worse. People who are known to be HIV-positive would not typically be given a smallpox vaccination because of this potentially fatal risk. ...New study looks for ways to delay disability in older adults
... help people remain independent longer so they can live in their own homes and participate in the day-to-day activities." Study participants will be randomly assigned to one of two health programs. One group will attend classes and demonstrations promoting successful aging that will include topics l...New drug prevents arrhythmias that cause sudden cardiac death
...progression of heart failure and allow patients to live their lives more normally, not in and out of hospitals," Dr. Marks says. "Our idea is to take a pill instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on implants and heart transplants."...Older people recover from disabling events at higher rate than previously thought
... newly-disabled older people regain the ability to live independently within 6 months of their disability episode, a higher recovery rate than previously reported, according to a study by Susan E. Hardy, M.D. and Thomas M. Gill, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine. The study was conducted at Yale's C...