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... ultrasound imaging. This is the first large-scale prospective study to do that," said Dr. Katherine Hartmann, the study's principal investigator. Hartmann also is assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology as well as epidemiology in UNC's schools of medicine and public health. "Fibroids are very common,...Sleep problems in early childhood may predict substance use during adolescence
...nter of Henry Ford Hospital, concurs. "In adults, prospective survey data do indicate that sleep problems are predictive of later alcohol-use problems while controlling for depression and anxiety disorders," he said. "Some of my own laboratory studies that have assessed sleep and alcohol drinking, for example,...Proven at last - alcohol consumption increases risk of gout
...is published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. A prospective study of nearly 50,000 men showed that beer drinking was more likely to be associated with gout than spirits; whereas moderate wine consumption was not linked to a risk of the disease. Alcohol consumption causes hyperuricaemia (increased production o...Heart transplant survival: Results may be key to rejection prevention, detection, treatment
... outcomes for heart transplantation Outcomes of a prospective multi-center trial (Abstract #192) Protection from transplant disease (graft vasculopathy) with use of sirolimus from time of heart transplantation Results from a two-year study (Abstract #193) Worldwide, approximately 4,500 cardiac transplants ...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
... and Neck Surgery, the team reports results from a prospective study of 36 patients with the adductory form of spasmodic dysphonia who were treated with Botox up to six times. Nearly all showed dramatic and reproducible improvement on a standardized questionnaire that measured their V-RQOL. On a scale of 100, wi...Calorie restriction drastically reduces risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes
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...liver and kidney transplants. "While there are no prospective data in heart and lung transplantation, this is an area that merits careful investigation," said Jay A. Fishman, M.D., Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. "Recent data suggest that transplantation c...Insights from intravascular ultrasound explore treatment benefits
...4-patient study conducted in 54 centers worldwide, prospective analysis of the IVUS-population (matched analysis, n=149) was performed. This study, using rigorous IVUS techniques, revealed that the early findings of attenuation of development of intimal thickening by using everolimus remained even on analysis of...First randomized trial of adult stem cell injections in heart failure patients shows benefit
...e heart failure, according to results of the first prospective randomized trial of the experimental therapy presented today at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Amit Patel, M.D., from the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a faculty member of the unive...Migraine with aura, cholesterol increase risk of stroke in women
...his question, Dr. Kurth and colleagues performed a prospective analysis of almost 40,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Study, an ongoing trial examining the effects of aspirin and vitamin E on cardiovascular disease and cancer. During an average of 9 years of follow-up, women who had migraine with aura ha...Parkinson's drug effective in treating restless leg syndrome
...Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain). This prospective study, conducted from September 1998 through July 2000, consisted of two phases: a double-blind, parallel, randomized six-week comparison of pergolide versus placebo; and a long-term extension in which responders to either pergolide or placebo in pha...Elastic nails help children with broken legs recover faster than traction and body casting
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.... Chalub, is to build on this initial study with a prospective study that includes a greater number of patients and that evaluates more specific numbers of bone bruises and exact locations and sizes of the bruises and that could possibly be correlated with medical follow-up and surgery results. The study will b...MRI 'excellent choice' for evaluating causes of abdominal and pelvic pain in pregnant women
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... a second radiologist review the mammograms, a new prospective study shows. CAD improves the cancer detection rat...t dramatically increase the patient recall rate. A prospective study of 4,341 consecutive screening mammograms found that CAD increases the cancer detection rate b...Carotid artery surgery could substantially reduce stroke among high-risk patients
...tomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST) is a ten-year prospective study involving 3120 patients from 126 hospitals in 30 countries. Half the patients were allocated to CEA, the other half to no intervention. Many of the patients were receiving medical therapy (anti-hypertensives, anticoagulants, and cholesterol-low...UNC study may help predict premature infants at risk of total blindness
...s in this study need to be confirmed with a larger prospective study, if that is possible, given that stage 4 ROP is not a very common condition. For now, this study provides guidance to the ophthalmologist monitoring infants who received laser treatment for severe ROP as to when surgery may be necessary to prev...