Mayo Clinic discovers one more downside to alcoholism
...ansplant patients, usually showing up in the first month after surgery. As liver transplant due to alcoholic-liver disease has been on the rise in the United States, the study investigators wanted to determine whether alcohol had an impact on brain complications following transplant. Dr. Wijdicks cites alc...Exercise may not lift spirits of women with eating disorders
...en. Those are among the conclusions presented last month by researchers Jennifer Gerlach and Dorothy Espelage at the American Psychological Association annual convention in Chicago. Gerlach, the principal researcher on the study, is a doctoral student in educational psychology at the University of Illinoi...9/11 one year on: Bridging the worlds divisions
...single-session debriefing had been done within one month of the traumatic event, and to studies that involved the use of widely accepted psychological measures to assess behaviour. Seven studies were reanalysed, which included data about five CISD interventions, three non-CISD interventions, and six contro...Angioplasty or medical therapy immediately after heart attack?
...e of heart attack, or disabling stroke, within one month of treatment); although there were trends suggesting increased risk of heart-attack recurrence and stroke among patients given fibrinolytic therapy. As expected, it took longer to administer angioplasty (just over three hours on average) than fibrino...Group offers guidelines on qualifications
... 10-page consensus paper that is being mailed this month to the director of every state radiation control program and radiologic technology licensure board. "The consensus paper provides guidelines for how the states should regulate personnel who operate PET-CT units, as well as guidelines for employers ...Repressing anxiety may protect against stress disorders
... is diagnosed when such symptoms occur more than a month after the traumatic event. The researchers visited the patients seven months after their hospitalization to test for PTSD. The researchers also gave study participants a test to determine if their coping style was repressive, in which the individual ...Antibiotic could offer promise for treatment of cystic fibrosis
...ed side effects. Mark Rosenthal Comments: "A 4-6 month trial of azithromycin is safe, comparatively inexpensive, and could greatly benefit the lung function of patients who do not respond adequately to conventional treatment for cystic fibrosis. The mechanism of benefit remains unknown."...Treatable depression often accompanies even mild memory loss
...gnitive impairment had psychiatric symptoms in the month before examination. Among the patients with dementia, 75 percent had had psychiatric symptoms such as apathy, depression and agitation/aggression in the previous month. The researchers also noted that effective drugs are available for treating most ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, October 1, 2002
...han other elderly heart attack patients during the month following hospitalization (Article, p. 555). One-year death rates for those with moderate kidney disease were 66 percent and for those with mild kidney disease was 46 percent, compared to 24 percent for those with no kidney disease. People with moder...'Prehabilitation' prevents functional decline of at-risk frail elders living at home
...to live independently. A new study shows that a 6 month at-home "prehabilitation" intervention to improve ...uch as walking, dressing, and bathing than was a 6 month health education program. At the end of 12 months, the "prehabilitation" group showed a 37 percent r...Most definitive study of its kind shows that sleeping on the stomach increases infant SIDS risk
...fe, with most of these occurring between the first month and the third month. Consistent with other studies, most of the SIDS infants had died in the fall or winter--64 percent. The percentage of stomach sleeping for the infant's last sleep was similar in all of the SIDS infants--58 percent among African ...Bridge Medical shares expertise at Washington Patient Safety Conference
...e and highly participatory Symposium convenes this month at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will feature an interactive environment where healthcare leaders can explore the latest programs developed to reduce adverse patient outcomes and improve care. The meeting opens Oct. 14, w...Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association moves to Web-based rapid access weekly publication
...ASAP articles will appear online approximately one month before print publication. Original clinical and basic science manuscripts accepted for publication in Stroke will be published online within four to nine days of the author's return of corrected proofs to the publisher, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,...Women report chronic pelvic pain not taken seriously, survey shows
... cycle in the same way as the uterine lining: each month the tissue builds up, breaks down, and sheds. But, unlike normal uterine tissue that leaves the body during menstruation, this tissue outside the uterus has no way of leaving the body, and often results in severe menstrual cramping, pelvic pain, int...Preliminary study shows high-dose coenzyme Q10 slows functional decline in Parkinson's patients
...se, or for a maximum of 16 months. By the eighth month visit, the scores among the four groups had clearly separated and established a pattern of the groups taking the lowest and intermediate dosages (300 and 600 mg/day) being similar and lower than placebo and the scores for the group receiving the high...Emory researchers find more expensive heart treatment not so costly in long run
... They examined the initial hospitalization and six month follow-up costs (including expenses associated wit...nce in costs seems small relative to the total six month costs (which are over $21,000 for both strategies), health economic decisions are made by considerin...Drinking during pregnancy: Information may not be enough
...ked, "that alcohol consumption of a few drinks per month or even per week, as opposed to daily intake, may be harmful in pregnancy? If there is no consistent data to suggest that an occasional drink is harmful, it is possible that a large proportion of pregnant women and health personnel will not be convi...A quick-change artist: Tiny protein folds faster than any other
...s amino acid code. The results, reported last month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, caused a stir in the scientific community because the simulated Trp-cage was extremely close in size and shape to that of the actual observed protein. If such a computational method ever could be ...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...ational Cancer Institute (NCI) study launched last month to determine if screening people with either CT scan or chest x-ray before they have symptoms can reduce deaths from lung cancer. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) will enroll 50,000 current and former smokers. Study participants will be ran...Enzyme replacement therapy found to effectively treat patients with Fabry disease
...oughout the country and Europe, was presented this month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, Maryland by William Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., a medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai. The findings show that patients receiving enzyme replacement therapy for a near-two-year per...