Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...on that would be expected if all teams were evenly matched and winning or losing was the equivalent of flipping a coin. Thus, a higher ratio shows greater imbalance wins are more concentrated in certain teams. And so while another study shows that Major League Baseball's balance score averaged around 1.7 ov...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
..., animal products and cooked food. The groups were matched according to age, sex and socioeconomic status. In both groups, Fontana's team measured body mass index, bone mass, bone mineral density, markers of bone turnover, levels of vitamin D and inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein and insulin-li...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...pared to those from 27 Caucasian patients who were matched according to stage, grade and cell type. It was found that distinct and different patterns of gene expression may characterize advanced endometrial cancers in African-American and Caucasian women, and that these underlying molecular differences may...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...t, Spain) and colleagues recruited 264 healthy men matched for age and body mass index, 377 simple snorers, 403 with untreated severe disease and 372 with the disease and treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Participants were followed-up at least once a year for an average of 10 years. Pa...Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
...998 and 2001 and 360,000 randomly selected others, matched for age and sex. Analysis indicated an increased risk of a first heart attack with either the newer or older class of antidepressants within the first month of prescription. Patients who had been prescribed the older class of tricyclic antidepressant...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...d kidneys to recipients. In the past, kidneys were matched exclusively by blood and tissue type. Newer approaches to matching have come about as a result of a system implemented by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in October 2002 for allocating higher-risk kidneys that were once considered unsuita...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...with data from 2,159 patients who had PET and were matched by extent of coronary artery disease. Merhige also compared data from the 102 SPECT patients with data from a national multi-center trial to confirm that his outcomes were valid. Results showed that both the rate of heart attack and cardiac death w...Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
...ho is incompatible. A kidney from such a donor is matched to and transplanted into the recipient of a second donor-patient pair, and vice versa. The transplants are performed simultaneously. "The shortage of donor kidneys for patients who need kidney transplantation is a national public health problem," sa...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
... of this common condition with a carefullyselected matched control group. The study compared the medical records of 1,136 women treated at M. D. Anderson for breast cancer to those of 1,088 healthy women who came to the institution for breast cancer screening. "Thyroid hormone and estrogen both share similar...Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections
...researchers found that the E.coli causing the UTIs matched genetically with a sample of E.coli obtained from ...ausing bacteria and found that a sample from a cow matched well with the E.coli found in humans. The team also found that the E.coli causing the infections is...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
.... To address these complexities, the researchers matched compounds that together showed greater efficacy then they would individually and at levels in which their toxicity is lessened. In one test, the researchers combined Congo red (a dye that blocks the formation of toxic polyglutamine fibrils), cystami...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...each patient with RA, an individual without RA was matched for birth year, gender, and length of medical history. The majority of the subjects were white and female. The median age at baseline, the year of RA diagnosis, was 57. Working with a team of cardiologis...Survivors who stop taking aspirin increase risk of another stroke
...ndary prevention of heart attack and stroke. They matched these patients with 309 control patients who had a stroke or TIA more than six months before and were also taking long-term aspirin therapy. The average age of the entire study population was 71 years, and 62 percent were men. In each group about ...Study shows that diabetes increases risk of blood poisoning
...d with only 6 percent among the controls, who were matched for age and sex from the general population. Compared with non-diabetics, diabetic patients were more likely to have bacteremia caused by urinary tract infection, rather than abdominal infection. Death after bacteremia also occurred more often in dia...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
... 272 community controls (average age, 43.6 years), matched on sex and year of birth. The researchers found that increasing duration of contact with a younger sibling aged less than 2 years in the first 6 years of life was associated with reduced MS risk: 1-3 years of infant contact, a 43 percent reduced ris...Study estimates number of excess cases of coronary heart disease caused by Vioxx
...8 of which had sudden cardiac death. Each case was matched by age and sex to four controls to enable a comparison of coronary heart disease risk among people taking Vioxx and users of other NSAIDs. People taking Vioxx had a 34% higher chance of coronary heart disease when compared with people who used other...Cord blood transplantation now a viable option for adult leukemia patients
...and a half years. As is often the case, a suitably matched volunteer donor could not be found for these patients, and without an exact match, a transplant would likely be unsuccessful. Cord blood is more tolerant of differences between patient and donor, making it possible to perform cord blood transplants ...Study of CPR quality reveals frequent deviation from guidelines
...perfect CPR as for those where performance exactly matched the guidelines. Overall, 40 percent of the patients in this study regained spontaneous circulation after CPR and 10.4 percent were discharged from the hospital. "We do know," Becker insisted, "that CPR makes a difference and it only makes sense that...Likelihood of a large vCJD epidemic remains small claim researchers
...ite this, only one of the three samples positively matched tissues taken from those with clinical disease. The interpretation of the other two samples was less certain, and could indicate individuals infected with vCJD that do not go on to develop clinical symptoms so called sub-clinical infections. Dr Azra...Penn study may lead the way for first medication to treat cocaine addiction
... Drug Abuse. Cephalon Inc. provided Modafinil and matched placebo tablets, but had no participation in the design or implementation of the trial. Other Penn researchers contributing to the study are Kyle M. Kampman, MD, Kevin G. Lynch, PhD, Helen M. Pettinati, PhD, and Charles O'Brien, MD, PhD....