Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
...sthma Study, a multicenter study comprising seven medical centers including UT Southwestern and a statistical center. Centers included the University of Arizona College of Medicine; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University/Jacobi Medical Center; Boston University School of Medicine; Mount ...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...S. population. "Despite remarkable improvements in medical therapy, the prognosis of patients with heart fail...ogram. After graduating in May, he plans to attend medical school. "I hope to primarily be a clinical physician," he said, "but I definitely would love to have...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...ed into the study, Castro and colleagues looked at medical records and measured the children's oxygen saturation levels during RSV infection. The lower the oxygen saturation, the more serious the infection. Later, they went to the children's homes and vacuumed up dust and allergens to see whether those produ...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
..."but we feel that many are done unnecessarily when medical management could be an alternative. "The problem ... stress management -- are essential for successful medical management," Merhige added. "For some patients, surgery seems like a quicker option, when it actuall...Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...rcher for the study. However, after studying the medical records of almost 2000 women, only 1 in 4 were found to have had this important documentation. Researchers found that "less than 1 in 7 of African-American and Hispanic women less than 40 years of age, a group in which the early identification of ri...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
...party insurance administrator in the international medical insurance field. It provides healthcare insurance ...ecure online health information tools, including a medical library, personal health assessment, nurse advice line, and weekly health tips. The website address ...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
... of depression, they said. The researchers, led by medical psychiatrist Wei Jiang, M.D., believe that their findings should help convince physicians who care for heart failure patients to pay close attention to their patients' psycho-social status, since these patients may be helped by aggressive heart failu...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
...tal, Rottendam, the Netherlands, assessed the PICU medical records of all children with LTA who received IV sodium biocarbonate between January 1999 and November 2003. Under hospital protocol, children with LTA who had a pH of less than 7.15 and remained in respiratory distress following treatment with cont...Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
...ed were white, from urban areas and had commercial medical insurance coverage. From 1995 to 1997, there was an average of 20 hospital admissions a year. From 1998 to 2001, there were 30 admissions a year on average. Overall, motorbike-related injuries increased about 50 percent during the entire study period...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...rnal Medicine. Co-author is Lucinda England, MD, a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Reproductive Health at the CDC....Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
...mary care clinics associated with three university medical schools, serving a diverse patient population. "The combined cognitive-behavioral and pharmacotherapeutic [medications] intervention resulted in sustained and gradually increasing improvement relative to treatment as usual," the authors state. The p...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
...cause there are no data on the survival benefit of medical therapy in CHF or severe MR patients with normal ejection fraction. CHF with normal ejection fraction, popularly referred to as diastolic heart failure, makes up nearly 50 percent of all CHF patients-and these patients have very similar mortality and...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...in those showing no improvement. "Currently, the medical community is not paying much attention to serum sodium levels in heart failure patients. However, serum sodium appears to be a modifiable target that can be treated," says Dr. Gheorghiade. A paper authored by Dr. Gheorghiade and published in JAMA ...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
...ctions to SES were received by the FDA through the medical device reporting system, the FDA issued a warning in the fall of 2003," says Emory Heart Center Interventional Cardiology Fellow Fadi Alameddine, MD. "We studied the frequency of hypersensitive reactions to SES to see whether they were linked to ma...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...raus, M.D., the study's principal investigator and medical director of IU's Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis and Acute Dialysis Units. Dr. Kraus says patients treated with the System One therapy have more stable blood pressure and all of them have reduced or completely stopped their blood-pressure ...Breast implant Website launched by leading plastic surgery societies
...e also extensively covers the history of implants, medical research, safety information, clinical trials, links to other informative Web sites and more. "Deciding to have plastic surgery, takes careful consideration," said Scott Spear, MD, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. "With www.br...Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
...d have their heart rhythm monitored closely, since medical approaches to treating depression can often take weeks to be effective. Other Duke colleagues on the study included James Blumenthal, Ph.D., Michael Babyak, Ph.D., Anastasia Georgiades, Ph.D., Andrew Sherwood, Ph.D., Amy Keeler, and Michael Sketch, M...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
... Foundation has forged collaborations with leading medical institutions and industry in the United States and internationally. Since its inception, the Foundation has funded more than $15 million in research initiatives, formed a number of partnerships with biotechnology companies, reduced barriers in the dr...Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
...ands of lives each year and drastically reduce the medical costs associated with kidney disease." The goal of the conference is to develop consensus among experts about criteria, operational standards, ethical issues and coordination of a national program. Several transplant professionals who pioneered paire...