Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
...advantage for minorities disappeared. Over 300,000 patients admitted to non-federal California hospitals in 1999 were part of this study. Over 25,000 of these patients had DNR orders. Women were 19% more likely to have DNR orders than men and non-Hispanic whites were ...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...ore powerful treatment advantage than expected for patients with HER-2-positive breast cancer, say researchers... Clinical Oncology. After only 34 of a planned 164 patients had completed therapy, the trial's Data Monitoring Committee stopped the clinical trial because of t...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
...el of metabolic syndrome, a condition common among patients with chronic kidney disease that includes symptoms... to create a pulse. "Vascular stiffness happens to patients with end-stage kidney failure when they go on dialysis, and it leads to many dangerous cardiovascula...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...a related medication that will likely be tested in patients suffering from a common, disease-related form of m... Endocrinology . "We've all seen AIDS and cancer patients who lose their appetites and suffer from involuntary weight loss. They lose muscle mass and become v...Cultural and social factors influence prostate cancer treatment
...redicted treatment. Caucasian, black, and Hispanic patients were equally likely to receive curative treatments over "watchful waiting" but while Caucasian and Hispanic men were more likely to choose prostatectomy, black men were more likely to be treated with radiation. Independently, marriage was also an im......ich found higher serum uric acid concentrations in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) compared with controls. Since then, measurement of serum uric acid has been suggested as a predictor of CHD. But many of the studies on serum uric acid are epidemiologic studies and have come to different conclusions...Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
...ety, found that age-dependent survival rates among patients with sarcomas - except Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) - corre...ll ages overall as well as among younger and older patients have shown vast improvements over the past 25 years, the same has not been shown for patients betwee...Suppressing the cells that trigger cat allergy
...e been made. Investigators have previously treated patients with related molecules, either peptides derived from the allergen itself, or much smaller peptides produced synthetically. Although therapy with peptides seems to reduce allergic responses, the mechanism of the response to treatment has not been clea...A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
... mouse with human melanoma and in a small study of patients with tumors including melanoma, suggests that the marker is truly reflecting the in vivo level of the integrin. Hence the marker could be used to identify tumors that express this marker, assess the degree of new vessel formation in tumors, and help ...Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...inician behaviors: educating patients; identifying patients due for screening; enabling patient compliance; monitoring patient compliance; and notifying patients of their test results. American Cancer Society staff visited practices and found areas for improveme...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...sicians correlated with physicians whowere rude to patients and families, and who did not show respect to the ...t remember that we accepted the duty of caring for patients when we entered medicine, and we must continue to practice with professional attitudes and behaviors...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...nformation. "We are concerned that when potential patients read these ads, they may not realize that the underlying motivation may be to attract patients, not necessarily to promote the health of the public," said Larson. While the authors stress that they are not against advertising by academic medical cent...Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
...these adult stem cells could be used to treat deaf patients in the future, said Dr. Hashino, an associate prof...ells that are often missing from the inner ears of patients with profound hearing loss. "Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid are molecules found in embryonic tissu......riptions for statins each year. However, commonly, patients on statins have elevations of liver enzymes. Curre.... This recommendation may concern physicians whose patients also have known liver conditions, including elevated, though asymptomatic, liver enzymes. Naga Chala...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...t health-related quality-of-life difference in HCV patients so researchers and physicians can better monitor patient outcomes, and better inform patients choosing a management strategy. The authors examined 32 studies published between January 1990 and ...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...dentify the characteristics of coronary plaques in patients with various cardiac symptoms. The report from re...first study to examine the structure of plaques in patients with cardiac disease. The study enrolled patients scheduled to undergo cardiac catheterization for ...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
... of injecting adult stem cells at varying doses in patients who have recently suffered a heart attack. An ...ck within 10 days of enrollment in the trial. All patients will have been stabilized before acceptance to the trial, and have undergone cardiac catheterization...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...s the most complete follow-up of the same group of patients of any published CT lung screening research. Betwe...nd 732 women, age 50 or older (median age 59). All patients received an initial low-dose, helical CT examination, with annual screenings over the next four year...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
...dely accepted code of medical ethics that protects patients who take part in trials is not necessary for studies conducted abroad, states a comment in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The 2000 Declaration of Helsinki, produced by 82 national medical associations, states that: "At the conclusion of the study, ...... lead clinician," he writes. "Clearer ownership of patients should minimise oversights generated by ever expanding teams and should improve continuity of care. Healthcare systems must minimise errors and should require an approach that is as evidence based as our approach to prescribing," he concludes. "How ...