Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...heart attacks and valve problems. An estimated 4.7 million Americans suffer from the condition, with 400,000 new cases reported each year. Roughly one-half of patients die within five years of diagnosis. Although there is no cure, drugs can improve the strength of the heartbeat (digoxin), relax blood vessels...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...ajor health threat in this country, resulting in 1 million hospital admissions each year. "These findings illustrate that not all heart failure is created equally heart failure accompanied with hyponatremia is especially dangerous. Levels of serum sodium may prove a useful and easily accessible risk asses...UCSD-Utah team develops mouse model to test therapies for macular degeneration
...nt or cure for the disorder. AMD affects about 11 million Americans, with dry AMD accounting for about 90 percent of all AMD. STGD strikes about 30,000 children and young adults in the U.S. Macular degeneration is caused by the deterioration of the central portion of the retina, the inside back layer of t...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
... at Columbia University have received more than $3 million in funding from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Founda...inception, the Foundation has funded more than $15 million in research initiatives, formed a number of partnerships with biotechnology companies, reduced barri...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...aunch of The Lancet Neonatal Survival Series Three million of the four million newborn babies who die worldwide each year could be saved by low-tech and low-cost interventions, co...Daily supplement may boost birthweight of babies in the developing world
...n 2500g) underlies many of these deaths. Around 25 million low-birthweight infants are born every year. Maternal nutritional status is closely linked with foetal weight. Increases in macronutrient consumption during pregnancy can lead to increased birthweight. David Osrin (Institute of Child Health, UK) and...York study tests enhanced care for depression patients
...ew method of organising care for some of the three million adults in the UK who suffer from clinical depression. The innovative regime known as 'collaborative care' has been developed over the last decade, principally in the USA, but it has never been used in the UK. It involves a case manager, supervised by...Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
...numbers of people with brain aneurysms -- 10 to 15 million people in the U.S. -- and the incidence of aneurysms rupturing in a relatively small fraction of those people. Doctors knew some aneurysms were more prone to rupture, but didn't know why. They suspected genes played a role, but lacked convincing stud...Mayo Clinic study sets threshold for valve repair surgery
...he aging population. It is estimated that 2 to 2.7 million Americans are afflicted by this condition and that this number will rise to 3.8 to 4.8 million Americans by 2030. The Mayo Clinic researchers used Doppler echocardiography ultrasound images of t...New substance that improves the photodetection of bladder cancer gains market approval
... the United States. In the US alone, more than 2.5 million screenings take place every year. If caught early, the five-year survival rate from this disease is an encouraging 90%. This drops to 50% when the cancer is locally metastasized and to about 10% for distant metastasis. Catching and treating bladder c...Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
...ch in significant cost savings, most recently $130 million at HP and $600 million at Motorola. Operations Research, known as the "science of better," is the discipline of applying ad...Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
...the visual detail. Each machine costs between $1.5 million and $2 million. A single test costs approximately $700. Fellow cardiologist and Hopkins chief of medicine Myron L. Weisfeldt, M.D., a professor and past president of the American Heart Association, notes that the time between new generations of imag...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...nnounced today it will receive a major grant of $4 million from The Carls Foundation, which will advance the ...ith the building project. The grant brings to $9.6 million the total funds raised through the Mott capital and program campaign, led by U-M Regent David Brando...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...AFTER NONTHORACIC SURGERY Of the approximately 45 million North Americans who will undergo nonthoracic surgery during the next year, over 1 million will experience a postoperative pulmonary complication, an event which could have enormous implicati...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
...5 billion, which doesn't take into account the 144 million work hours lost to the average six-week recovery time. Billie Williams of Grapevine had been considering having one for years, but major surgery and a long convalescence didn't fit with her plans. She eventually opted, however, for a new procedure ...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...sociated with accuracy. They studied more than 1.2 million mammograms paired with data from statewide cancer ...n. They studied 209 physicians who interpreted 1.2 million mammograms from January 1, 1995 through December 31, 2000 including 7143 that were associated with b...Patient knows best when it comes to ulcerative colitis, U-M study finds
...lammatory bowel disease that affects more than one million Americans and causes inflammation and bleeding of the colon and rectum. Since none of the scales have been rigorously tested, experts in the field, especially those in clinical research, tend to use multiple disease activity indices, including those ...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
... that by the year 2030, there will be more than 70 million people over the age of 65 in the United States. "We know there's a shortage of trained geriatric specialists in the United States," says co-author Gregg Warshaw, MD, professor of geriatric medicine and family medicine at UC's Academic Health Center....Penn study will compare heart failure management technologies
...ity of Pennsylvania (HUP) have been awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Agency for Health Care Resea...linical and financial outcomes. "An estimated 4.8 million Americans have heart failure, with an estimated 400,000 new cases arising each year," explains Dr. G...NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
... Medical Center has won a highly competitive, $9.8 million NASA Specialized Center of Research (NSCOR) grant ...aboratory and Loma Linda University. For the $9.8 million "Lung Cancer Pathogenesis and HZE Particle Exposure" study, data will be obtained from new human cel...