Atrial fibrillation hospitalizations triple since 1985, will continue climb
...sah notes. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the loss of organized and coordinated contractions between the chambers of the heart atria (upper) and ventricles (lower). The atria quiver instead of beating or contracting effectively. Thus, blood isn't pumped completely out of them, so it may pool and clot. A clot ...Report urges Congress to increase medical research
...director of the Alliance for Aging Research, which organized the Task Force. "We are jeopardizing the quality of life for aging Americans by seriously under-funding research and training programs following five years of unprecedented growth," added Perry. The Task Force report was made possible by an unrestri...Competition among Medicare health plans not a cure-all
...e many reasons to pursue the development of a more organized care system, but realistically, large and rapid cost savings to underwrite desired policy change is not one of them," she says. Under a competitive model, segmentation of the market by income, race, and ethnicity likely would grow, she concludes, par...Emory gathers global experts to address business and legal challenges of HIV/AIDS fight
...tellectual Property)agreement? The event is being organized by the Emory International Law Review, and sponsored by Emory Law School and Care International. "The combination of prohibitive costs and rigorous drug regimens often places drug therapies beyond the reach of many developing nations," says Peter Fis...Study shows faceguards, safety balls cut number of Little League injuries
...er of injuries to children and adolescents playing organized baseball, a major new University of North Carolina... very important." About 5 million U.S. youth play organized league baseball each year, the scientist said. About half of those belong to groups affiliated with ...Primary care in the United States in crisis
...d the health care system: 1. Health care must be organized to serve the needs of patients. Much of the current organization of medical care is structured to accommodate incentives in the reimbursement system and the preferences of providers, often with patients' needs included only as an afterthought. 2. The...Millions of Americans are failing to get recommended health care
... of the study. "In many ways, physicians are still organized to practice medicine the way they did 100 years ag...found that physician groups are more likely to use organized processes to improve care when they have clinical information technology in place and are given exte......cs, and places where drug users gather. The first organized syringe-exchange programs in the United States wer...ge exchange are compared with nonusers. The first organized syringe-exchange programs in the United States were established in Tacoma, Washington; Portland, Ore...NIAID releases 20th anniversary edition of Jordan Report on vaccine research
...itional contributions from outside researchers, is organized according to disease type and name. Each section begins with a brief overview, followed by a detailed description of the state of relevant vaccine research. The report contains appendices on the status of all vaccines in development and the current r...Study estimates cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening strategies
... country with high rates of cervical cancer and no organized infrastructure for Pap testing. The researchers then compared the costs and benefits of 42 combinations of seven different screening strategies using one or more of the three screening tests performed at various intervals. The screening strategies in...Team care improves stroke outcomes
Randomized trials have shown that organized care of stroke patients by a coordinated multidisciplinary team working together in a stroke unit improves outcomes. In this issue of CMAJ, Dr. Stephen Phillips and colleagues describe the Acute Stroke Unit at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences C...Hopkins researchers study heart defect that kills athletes
...ion of the right ventricle proceeds in a rapid and organized fashion. But in the ARVD patient, the presence of abnormal tissue makes it possible for a potentially life-threatening "short-circuit" arrhythmia to occur. The disorder, which affects one in 5,000 people, accounts for up to one-fifth of all cases o...Re-emerging field contributes to 10,000 patents yearly
...elecommunications. 2002 is the 50th anniversary of organized operations research in the United States. 1952 was the year that the journal Operations Research and the Operations Research Society of America, one of the founding societies of INFORMS, were born. The INFORMS website is at http://www.informs.org ....Rutgers researcher finds brain connections may reorganize in Parkinson's disease
...erlapping areas that control leg and arm movements organized similarly to rats, which means it is possible for connections to get switched in the human brain just as in the rat brain." West's results are also consistent with previous studies that have shown that loss of dopamine in humans and animals causes th...Ecstasy may be drug of choice for those trying to cope with lonelienss, study finds
...owth that often comes with active participation in organized focused groups or from receiving professional help and support), 3) Social Support network (re-establishing friendships which can help one feel connected to and valued by others), 4) Distancing and denial (denial of loneliness and the pain that comes...Occupational therapy is cost effective, significantly improves quality of life for seniors
...design program; an active control group engaged in organized activities, but did not receive occupational therapy; and the third group received no intervention. "What is particularly important is the significant quality-of-life improvements that the occupational therapy group reported were achieved without in...Time, trust key to successful teen-doctor relationship
... of patients. They also liked doctors who appeared organized and careful in their record keeping. "They may worry less about physical harm or disease transmission when they know their provider is competent," Ginsburg says. The youths also considered confidentiality to be "critical to the provider-patient relat...Eficiency, feasibility of antiretroviral therapy in Africa demonstrated in IRD-coordinated surveys
... of these projects which help strongly to build an organized system (development of clinical monitoring procedures, and tools for facilitating compliance with courses of treatment). These highly promising results open up prospects for longer-term therapeutic strategies which would be accessible to a greater n...Annals of Internal Medicine: 75 years of medical history
... examining the peer-review process. Annals editors organized meetings that led to the World Association of Medical Editors and a system for international discussion of editorial issues among members via the Internet. Annals of Internal Medicine was first published by the American College of Physicians in 1927....UNC Center for AIDS Research database collaboration with SAS also helping patient care
...l and research data about our HIV patients into an organized form," said Dr. Joseph J. Eron, Center for AIDS Re...roviders now have their information in a much more organized format." "This project is an example of the tremendous possibilities that result from combining powe...