Hopkins study shows combined hormone therapy increases muscle, decreases fat in postmenopausal women
...us androgen for the next four months. After four months on the combined medication, the women had an average 2 to 4percent reduction in body fat and an average 4 to 6 percent increase in musclemass. By contrast, estrogen alone yielded slight increases in both fat andmuscle. "Postmenopausal women often ex...Low birth weight affects 50% of all children in South Asia
... supplements providing 600 calories perday until 5 months after the birth of their children. The program expectsthat supplementation during pregnancy will result in significantimprovements in birth weight.......l women with osteoporosis by 76 percent afterforty months of treatment. The final results of the Multiple O...lots among women who received raloxifene. After 40 months offollow-up, 38 cases of venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein) and 17cases of pulmonary emb...Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost
...unctional impairment; multiplehospitalizations six months prior to their participation in the study or a hos...s for services ifneeded. The study showed that six months after the patients were discharged, 20.3 percent of the group working with advancedpractice nurses w...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
... status of the stroke victimcan only be determined months after the event, and is then compared with othervictims who have not had the treatment," he added. "Of course we love to do beautiful mathematics, but here we want to do soundmath and statistics for a problem that's clinically important," Horowitz sa...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...oups received follow-up interviews at 3, 6, and 12 months regarding generalhealth behaviors including alcohol use. Family members were contacted at 12months to corroborate patient reports of health behaviors. Patients in the intervention group experienced a 34-percent reduction in 7-dayalcohol use, a 74-pe..."Baby check" information for parents does not affect frequency of contact with family doctors
...of Baby Check on use of health services in first 6 months of life Baby Check can improve the quality of a consultation Baby Check is a booklet designed to help parents know when their babies are ill and when to visit the doctor and aims to reassure parents about minor illness. A randomised trial cond...Risk from getting pregnant too soon after a stillbirth
... first baby. The women who conceived less than 12 months after the stillbirth were significantly more anxio...pregnancy, there may be an advantage in waiting 12 months before the next conception." Women who conceived more than 12 months after the loss of their stillbo...Low doses of aspirin and surgery better for stroke prevention
...325 mg of aspirina day for three days before and 3 months after carotid endarterectomy (CE)surgery had less risk of stroke, heart attack, or death 30 days and 3 monthsfollowing the surgery than did patients given 650 or 1300 mg a day. The studywill appear in the June 26, 1999, issue of the journal The Lanc...No need to treat "simple" febrile seizures in young children
...nts of both sides of the body) seizure in achild 6 months to 5 years old following a rapid increase in body temperature. The recommendations are not intended to apply to children who have meningitis orencephalitis at the time of the seizure. "Seizures are frightening events, especially for parents w...Surgery for severely obese improves more than just weight
... surgery and again three to 12 months after surgery andagain afte... plateau (usually 18 ormore months after the operation.) Patients were candidatesfor surgery if they had a body ...Breast cancer patients face increased depression
...conductedinterviews regularly for an average of 18 months after beginning treatment withchemotherapy and/or ...) developed majordepression, most in the first six months of treatment. The patients included 15 women who had not yet experienced menopause at the timeof dia...Tobacco chewers quit after "teachable moment" in dental chair
...nd phone with these patients at threemonths and 12 months after their session with the dental hygienist. Of the 469patients who responded, 60 percent had been treated by hygienists using theintervention protocol and 40 percent were in usual practices. "Giving brief advice and materials during the dental hy...Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...ouldn't really be necessary to have waits of three months toa year." By using Dexter's suggested four-week wait, the increase in productivity woulddecrease the cost of each surgery by $150. "When you think of the millions of elective surgical procedures performed in theUnited States each year, a savings of ......rteries are still taking chest painmedications six months later despite the fact that chest pain is oftenalleviated by the angioplasty procedure. The study was published in a recentissue of Annals of Internal Medicine. In the paper, Mayo Clinic researchers reviewed more than 3,800 cases. Theyfound that o......he big picture, two shots for hepatitis A over six months is a minorinconvenience compared to the possibility of hospitalization, the possibility ofan entire family being infected, and the possibility of death. These vaccinesare very safe and very effective, and there will probably be a combinationhepatitis...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...efully and recommend they come back to us everysix months for examination. But we believe that for some patients it clearly hasthe potential to reduce the risks of aneurysm repair."...Losing hostility makes heart patients healthier
...eduction programs. A final follow-up occurred two months later. Patients who attended the full, eight-sess....2, versus the control group average of 94.4. Two months later, thedifference was even greater, 81.8 versus 95.0. Reductions in hostility were positively cor...Cholesterol-lowering drugs provide double protection against heart disease
...nd. The team measured blood flow again eight to 15 months aftermedication and/or dietary therapies were given. Myocardial blood flow at rest as measured by PET was similar in thehigh-cholesterol patients and those with normal cholesterol levels, both at thebeginning and end of the study. However, when peopl...... indicates that continuing therapy for up to eight months in patients whohave a considerable decrease in the virus during the early treatments leads to adoubling of the beneficial response. It was also demonstrated that theunfavorable side effects of alpha-interferon treatment, such as fatigue,muscular pai...