Heart patients treated by non-cardiologists less likely to receive medications
...merica (HFSA) to treat CHF, which affects nearly 5 million Americans. Prescribing differences were demonstrated for several key medications, including: ACE inhibitor (prescribed for 61 percent of patients upon discharge by cardiologists versus 35 percent by non-cardiologists) Beta-blocker (prescribed fo...Researchers develop way to track quality of home health care
...t (RAI), a federally mandated survey. More than 15 million RAI assessments of elderly nursing home residents ...0 providers deliver home care services to some 7.6 million individuals who require services because of acute illness, long-term health conditions, permanent di...Complementary & alternative medicine use
...s reporting usage in 1997 to 18.6 percent -- or 38 million adults -- in 2002. The practice of yoga increased... from 3.7 percent in 1997 to 5.1 percent-- over 10 million adults-- in 2002. Use of CAM therapies such as acupuncture, biofeedback, energy healing, and hypnosi...Information fusion research simulates disasters to manage emergency response
...n one year. The project, funded with a $2.5 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, consists of theoretical research on information fusion coupled with design of a large-scale simulation of a disaster modeled after the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California. The goal i...First new treatment for alcoholism in ten years, now available Campral(R) (acamprosate calcium)
...lling 800- 678-1605. About Alcoholism Nearly 8 million Americans are alcohol dependent(5), but only 2.4 million have been diagnosed(6) with the disease and just 139,000 receive medication to treat it.(7) Left unt...Elevated glucose levels and diabetes are associated with increased risk for cancer
New research involving more than one million people indicates that having high fasting serum gl...e article. Recent data show that approximately 150 million people have diabetes mellitus worldwide, and this number may double by 2025, especially in developin...New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...ts work together to do so." Asthma affects over 20 million Americans and is one of the most common potentially serious medical conditions to complicate pregnancy. Maternal asthma is associated with increased risk of infant death, preeclampsia (a serious condition marked by high blood pressure, which can cau...National Academies advisory: Report assesses health implications of perchlorate exposure
...ave been discovered in 35 states, and more than 11 million people have perchlorate in their drinking water at concentrations of 4 parts per billion or higher. As it considers a first-ever national standard for acceptable levels of perchlorate in drinking water, EPA has issued a series of draft risk assessme...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
...n and care, it is predicted that there will be 3.7 million new HIV infections and 2.6 million adults dying of AIDS in this region each year within the next two decades. The authors predict that ...Conference to examine effects of dietary supplements in patients taking blood thinning medications
... blood-thinning medications which are used by four million Americans to ward off heart attack or stroke. Experts from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration will join academic, patient advocacy and industry representatives to assess current knowledge, identify strategies for c...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...n Liebig Center has awarded a total of nearly $1.8 million to 39 projects led by Jacobs School faculty. Once again, the Center received a large number of competitive applications in response to its latest solicitation. All of these applicants went through a rigorous screening process, which included reviews...Orqis receives FDA approval to expand clinical trial of Cancion CRS therapy to 40 centers
...the major organs. According to the AHA, some five million Americans have heart failure and an additional 550... acutely decompensated heart failure, represents 1 million primary and 2.5 million secondary hospital admissions annually. About The C...FDA approves Pfizer's Lyrica for the treatment of the two most common forms of neuropathic pain
...ch as diabetes or shingles. Nearly half of the 18 million Americans with diabetes will develop some form of diabetic neuropathy over the course of their disease and about one in six diabetes patients will experience painful diabetic neuropathy. The pain of DPN is often described as burning, tingling, sharp...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...imated 1 percent of the U.S. population, about 2.1 million Americans, according to the Arthritis Foundation, http://www.arthritis.org . Of these, nearly one-half may have some abnormal lung function. Up to one-fourth -- about 500,000 Americans-- develop RA lung disease. In RA lung disease, the air sacs of t...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...onitoring performed on 80 to 90 percent of the 3.2 million babies exposed to labor in the United States each year. Typical heart rate monitoring includes putting an ultrasound unit on the mother's abdomen or an electrode on the baby's head via the vagina to pick up fetal heartbeat, which is translated into a...Weight loss strategies work in people with pre-diabetes
...etes," Norris says. Pre-diabetes affects almost 12 million overweight people ages 45 to 74 in the United States. Norris and colleagues examined nine studies on weight-loss interventions among overweight and obese people with pre-diabetes. All of the studies were randomized control trials, the "gold standard"...New therapeutic vaccine for HIV/AIDS eliminates needles and excessive toxicity
...gramme on HIV/AIDS, there are currently about 39.4 million people worldwide who are living with HIV/AIDS. Of that number, 4.9 million were newly infected with HIV just this year. Globally, just under half of all people living with HI...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...ancer research. The SPORE grant will provide $10.8 million to Mayo Clinic to support research geared toward significantly reducing brain cancer deaths and disabilities. Mayo Clinic neurologist Brian O'Neill, M.D., is the overall principal investigator for the SPORE. Dr. O'Neill and Robert Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D...Outlook is bleak for the smallest premature babies: 80 percent have impairment
...2003, the March of Dimes launched a five-year, $75 million Prematurity Campaign that includes more funding for medical research, services and education for women and their providers, and help and hope for families in crisis. It includes March of Dimes NICU Family SupportSM, a national project that provides ...Study determines commonly used contrast agent safe for 'universal use' in CT
...ent iopromide, which has been used on more than 70 million patients worldwide, can be used for all types of CT imaging, regardless of the volume or dosage required, according to a new study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. For the study, researchers a...