St. John's wort amplifies effect of blood thinner Plavix
...lthy people who had been selected for their body's low response to clopidrogrel's blood-thinning properti...ected from a pool of screened volunteers for their low response to 450 milligrams of clopidogrel, as measured using a platelet-aggregation test. First, the...Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
...has some genetic basis that may involve abnormally low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Once again, gene polymorphisms appear to influence individual variance. Specific components of aggression in 58 participants appeared to relate to the U allele (variation) of a gene called TPH (tryptophan hy...New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
...al is anticipated in the majority of patients with low grade tumors who are treated with surgery and IPHC...val rates even with this treatment. High grade and low grade refer to the stage of malignancy. A study of patients with advanced ovarian cancer showed tha...Jefferson Lab medical imager spots breast cancer
...en normal surrounding tissue, which in general has low uptake of FDG," Dr. Rosen says. For the study, Duke physicians recruited patients with suspicious mammograms who were scheduled for biopsies. "We recruited 23 patients that had 23 lesions that were highly suggestive of malignancy. PEM showed 20 lesi...A shallow hip socket predicts osteoarthritis of the hip
...iated with a high-stress mechanical workload and a low BMI. Based on this study's findings, Dr. Reijman concludes that acetabular dysplasia, at any measurable depth or degree, is a strong, independent indicat...The impact of cruciate ligament rupture on osteoarthritis of the knee
...ong as 30 years, providing one explanation for the low recall of significant knee injury in our study." On the strength of their common occurrence among older people with advanced OA of the knee, this study suggests that complete ACL tears play a major, under-reporte...Some HIV patients at risk of exhausting treatment options
...re in danger of becoming exhausted. New drugs with low toxicity, which are not associated with cross resistance to existing drugs, are urgently needed for such patients, they conclude....Sunflower seed oil can protect low birth weight babies from infection
Massaging low birth weight babies with sunflower seed oil is a low cost intervention that can protect them from infections, concludes a study published online by THE L...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
... likely to die of infection than a baby in a rich, low mortality country. Neonatal tetanus, which has bee... especially in poor rural areas. In countries with low coverage of skilled clinical care for maternal and child health, the staff, infrastructure and suppo...Daily supplement may boost birthweight of babies in the developing world
...fference of 77g and reduction in the prevalence of low birthweight by 25%. The length of pregnancy was 1.5 days longer in the intervention group than in the control group but that result was not significant. The difference in the mean birthweight was more marked in female infants (108g compared with 44g...Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
...990 was due to a combination of increased rates of low birthweight and preterm deliveries with improved care of neonates. This information presents new challenges for the local and national policymakers, because in order to reach the Millennium Development Goal for child survival, strategies will have to...Orthodontists must brace against back pain
...ng for 18 years--showed that long hours of bending low and working in patients' mouths put heavy strain on the lower back and neck--burdens that translated into weights of up to 138 kilograms in males and 93 kg in females. The total duration of daily work would amount to an hour's continuous load on the ...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
...nd hours of work, be well-paid but have relatively low pay expectations." Professor Green continued: "In Britain, all of the fall in overall job satisfaction between 1992 and 2001 could be accounted for by people having less personal responsibility and use of initiative in their work, combined with an in...Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
... enable clinicians to identify patients at high or low risk of relapsing, according to Mary Relling, Pharm.D., chair of St. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences and senior author of the Blood report. "Therapy for ALL usually lasts two to three years," Relling said. "So over such a long period, even small changes...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
... In these illnesses, mechanical ventilation with a low tidal volume strategy here has been shown to improve survival in these patients. OVERWEIGHT IS SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ASTHMA IN FEMALES In a cohort of New Zealand children who were followed from birth to age 26, overweight, expressed as high...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
...of follow up, survival rates for both cancers were low between 12 and 20 percent. However, three facto...uite common among infants born prematurely or with low birth weight," noted lead study author Magnus Kaijser, MD. After following more than 3,000 individu...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
...in giving us better results more often with a very low rate of complications." While many women could benefit from the hysterectomy, those who have very large fibroids, cancer, a history of cervical abnormalities or multiple previous abdominal surgeries are not candidates. For more information about the ...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...s for Disease Control and Prevention. What's more, low quitting rates among young-adult smokers underscore the need to find ways to help young adults quit, Bricker said. "Overall, these findings suggest that helping parents quit smoking should be considered in future public-health interventions that targ...Dual testing better for monitoring new cases of HIV
...n depress viral counts in patients to undetectably low levels, which also lower the antibody-to-HIV concentration in the blood. This creates confusion for those responsible for monitoring new infections and spread of HIV. According to the researchers, large numbers of artificially "new" cases also have...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
... palliative care units. Among 257 families who had low expectations before admission, 101 (39%) reported that the care was much better than expected, 76 families (30%) said it was better, while only 12 (4.7%) reported that care was worse. An accompanying editorial by Betty Ferrell, PHD, FAAN, research s...