Transplantation Society reiterates position against selling organs
...l consideration of financial profit." In addition, prospective members must agree with the society's recommendation that "all countries should enact legislation forbidding all commercial trafficking in tissues and organs." "No transplant surgeon/team shall be involved directly or indirectly in the buying or sell...Kidney disease in diabetics relates to insulins effectiveness, say Pittsburgh researchers
... of Diabetes Complication Study (PEDCS), a 10-year prospective investigation based on a cohort of adults with type 1, or childhood-onset, diabetes. Of the 658 subjects in PEDCS, 485 did not have nephropathy at baseline and were followed for the current study. Fifty-six of the 485 subjects developed nephropathy d...Higher nocturnal blood pressure predictive of kidney disease in diabetes
...on that is predictive of kidney disease. In their prospective study, the investigators used 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in 75 adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes who had normal blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion levels at enrollment. Over a follow-up period of five years......ase-control studies. The results of existing large prospective studies and controlled trials should substantially advance our understanding of the role of diet in cancer during the next few years. At present, prudent advice is to maintain a healthy weight, restrict alcohol consumption, and select a conventionall...Operating on a beating heart shows benefit in elderly
...off-pump group needed fewer blood transfusions. A prospective randomized study is under way in their center to confirm these findings. "Even though the design of this study isn't perfect," Perrault says, "the results are hard to ignore. If some centers are not believers in off-pump bypass surgery, these findin...Psychological distress may predict hypertension
...view study is the first major quantitative look at prospective research focusing on psychological predictors of high blood pressure....Duke and federal government partner to create innovative health care model
...erica is delivered. The initiative aims to create prospective health care for patients -- or customized health p...randomized, controlled trial is part of the larger prospective health care initiative at Duke that emphasizes early detection and disease prevention methods rather...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October (second issue)
...ers analyzed data from 527 patients in the largest prospective clinical trial conducted to date designed to investigate antibiotic prophylaxis in critically ill patients. As contrasted to placebo, the total number of infections among the 256 treated patients was much lower (141 infections versus 274). The auth...New approach required for obtaining informed consent in less-developed countries
...red the understanding of the consent process among prospective participants about to enter an HIV-1 research programme in Haiti; 15 potential participants were given conventional (western-style) explanations from one physician;30 further participants were given three explanatory sessions with the help of a couns...Analysis finds drug improves odds of complete stroke recovery
...results we have obtained are replicated in a large prospective trial, the neuroprotective drug, citicoline, may r...s and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of four prospective randomized clinical trials in which six weeks of citicoline treatment was compared to placebo in pat...USC consortium receives $15 million NCI grant to determine causes of colon cancer
...n to being a retrospective study, it will become a prospective study." One of the immediate goals of the USC consortium, said Haile, is to begin looking at a set of genes known as the mismatch repair genes. The mismatch repair genes are responsible for the repair of DNA when they are in their normal form; when t...Womens stroke symptoms differ from mens, often arent 'traditional' signs, study finds
...searchers will try to validate the data by doing a prospective study designed specifically to look at symptoms in women and men. If such a study were to reach the same conclusions, he says, it might be time to add to the list of stroke symptoms. Until then, he urges women to become more familiar with the traditi...American Thoracic Society news tips for November (first issue)
...es and 38 pre-clinical animal trials, along with a prospective large confirmatory animal investigation. The researchers were testing their hypothesis that anti-inflammatory agents were more efficacious in sepsis patients who had a higher risk of death and harmful in those with low risk. They believe that the c...Maternal fever in early pregnancy not associated with fetal death
...n or fetal death, it is hard to imagine a feasible prospective study design that would be superior to that by Andersen and colleagues in addressing the risk associated with maternal fever. However, it is difficult to categorically conclude from this study, as do the investigators, that pregnant women need not fe...Emergency angioplasty OK without surgical back-up
... more hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery, a prospective analysis of results using national databases will be necessary....Preventive Medicine 2003 to feature research findings, plenary sessions on disease prevention
...ical fitness testing program. The results of a prospective study on the association between body size parameters and the risk of developing prostate cancer. An assessment of the attitudes, perceptions, and practices of house staff and nursing personnel regarding medical error reporting. A review of adve...Breast cancer patients suffer through communication failure
...nts (often excluded from clinical trials) It was prospective i.e. patients were asked how they felt at the time rather than asked to recall how they felt years before It recruited patients in routine care from over 50 hospitals and there were none of the exclusion criteria e.g. age or disease state, that affe...Racial differences in pain treatment found
...een and her team are now conducting the first-ever prospective study of chronic pain in African Americans under 50 years of age, following them for six months after they first visit the pain clinic. Funded by a grant from the Aetna Foundation, they hope to finish recruiting participants this summer and report re...Study showed the number one prescribed Alzheimer's treatment beneficial in vascular dementia (VaD)
...etails The research is a post-hoc analysis of 12 prospective studies, including two 24-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled studies of 1,219 patients with probable or possible VaD and 10 studies of 2,376 patients with probable AD. VaD patients were eligible for enrollment based upon research cri...Rush researchers find effects of Alzheimer's disease may be influenced by education
...m the Religious Orders Study (ROS), a long-running prospective study of aging and cognitive function in Catholic clergy, offers important new evidence that formal education may provide a cognitive "reserve" or a "neuroplasticity" that can reduce the effect of AD brain abnormalities on cognitive function in later...