Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...ol consumption. None of these patients had serious medical complications as a result of their alcohol intake, and no significant differences were found in terms of graft evolution (i.e. liver function) when compared to those who did not resume alcohol consumption. Survival rates for 1 and 5 years were simila...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...made available in certain circumstances, including medical audit and research. Researchers studied the feasibility of obtaining signed consent for submission of patient identifiable information to a national clinical audit database (PICANet). Their analysis involved patients admitted to five paediatric inten...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...s the cardiovascular outcomes associated with this medical condition. Simple snoring is not a significant cardiovascular risk factor."...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
...roducts. These are in addition to health promoting medical care and the usual health behaviours. 'Familias en Accion' in Colombia transfers cash to poor families. To qualify, families must ensure their children receive preventive health care, enrol in school, and attend classes. The results are encouragin...Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
Facilities that provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections could reduce syringe sharing among users, concludes a Canadian study published online by THE LANCET. Public-health officials in Vancouver opened North America's first medically supervised safer injection facili...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...nal Cardiac Societies. Women at Heart is aimed at medical professionals, to highlight the growing burden and...omen, not only in the women themselves, but across medical audiences as a whole. CVD is seen as a 'male disease' by the general public and, since women's symp...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...athore, the study's first author and a second-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine, is also concerned about the feasibility of regionalization. "Proponents often compare regionalization of acute coronary syndrome care to trauma, because trauma care is regionalized," Rathore said. "That's an un...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
HOUSTON, March 17, 2005 New medical devices have to be tested on human subjects, but p...oring the FDA critical pathway for approval of new medical products while protecting human subjects, co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration and the U...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...to look death in the face and take its pulse. The medical research team will make the first ever measurement...ockfalls and avalanches, the group will be risking medical complications such as high altitude illness, frostbite, hypothermia and brain damage. Details of th...Specialist care gives better rate of survival
...er health because they have more contacts with the medical community, Dr. Armstrong said. "There are more opportunities for deterioration in status to be detected, for medications to be altered, and for therapies to be reinforced. Congestive heart failure is suffered by up to two per cent of North American a...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...cially rapidly, the investigators note. Thus far, medical treatment has had little success in offsetting thi...tal Boston today is the nation's leading pediatric medical center, the largest provider of health care to Massachusetts children, and the primary pediatric tea...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
Sixteen per cent of people who use cannabis for medical reasons say that their doctor suggested it, accord.... 947 people in the UK reported using cannabis for medical purposes, with more than a third (35 per cent) saying that they used it six or seven days a week. Th...Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...cing some adults and children to live with painful medical conditions or disfigurement. This restrictive acce...es have denied coverage, it was based on a lack of medical necessity; however, patients could appeal the denial and with proper scientific literature and evide...Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
...ic surgeon for an evaluation and discuss your full medical history to determine the most appropriate treatment. Choose an ASPS Member Surgeon: Why? ASPS Member Surgeons are qualified, trained, properly certified, experienced in your procedure, and only operate in accredited facilities. To ensure plast...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...nstitutions in Baltimore. "A mainstream model of medical care may not be the answer for eliminating disparities in this population," she said. The study included 364 people who had brothers or sisters with a history of premature coronary disease (before age 60), placing the study group at high risk for hea...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
... male, 72 percent were white, 72 percent graduated medical school before 1985 and 58 percent practiced in a setting in which less than a quarter of the patients were racial or ethnic minorities. Results indicated that physicians who were female, or black, or who treated a large number of minority patients in...Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
...r 2003 in Atlanta, Ga. "Meeting attendees reviewed medical literature to uncover the extent of known disparit...re deeply rooted in our society and are not merely medical issues," Bonow said. "Thus, health care professionals and scientists alone cannot solve them. But ...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...he country, elderly patients who receive intensive medical treatment may have comparable survival as those wh... The authors continue, "Noninvasive, inexpensive, medical management, including aspirin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors [ACE inhibitors], and beta-b...Most hospital executives have substantial concerns about mandatory error reporting systems
...Since the early 1990s, much has been learned about medical errors in health care settings, and about their impact on illness, death, and costs, according to background information in the article. Although a number of approaches to reduce errors were proposed, a key strategy involved the use of reporting syst......ing with a control group of men undergoing routine medical care. In a new study, Gerald L. Andriole, M.D., of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and colleagues report findings from the initial round of screening. The final results of the trial are still several years away. Of the more...