Action needed to tackle drug related crime
Nearly a quarter (23%) of all violent crimes are committed by people who seriously misuse alcohol or drugs, finds a study from Sweden in this week's BMJ. Interventions to reduce the risk of violence in these patients would help to cut the enormous costs of drug relat...Tumor suppressor gene family may be key to new colon cancer drugs
...tations in a family of genes linked to more than a quarter of colon cancers, as well as several other common cancers including breast and lung. Their research, published in the May 21, 2004 issue of Science, reveals more options for creating personalized therapies tailored to counteract mutated gene pathway...Ganciclovir (Valcyte/Cymevene) reduces risk of cancer in kidney transplant patients
...Valcyte (valganciclovir) is a prodrug, were at one quarter the risk of early rejection ( Worldwide, around 50,000 organs are transplanted each year, of which 50-60% are kidney or kidney/pancreas transplants.3 Although acute graft rejection can occur at any time, the risk is highest during the first few month...Psychological factors may be root of back pain, say Stanford researchers
...iated with psychosocial problems, he noted. Only a quarter of the 300,000 spinal fusion operations that occur each year are done for obvious reasons, such as tumors, infections or deformities, and just a fraction of the rest - those with pain and ordinary age-related degeneration - have good results from the...New study: Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...r more frequent doses of caffeine, equivalent to a quarter of a cup of coffee, as the day wears on." Though many studies have measured caffeine's sleep-averting effects, most do not take into account that sleep is governed by two opposing but interacting processes. The circadian system promotes sleep rhythmi...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 56th Annual Meeting
...troke risk, with the figure for 2000 less than one quarter of that seen throughout the 1990s by more than 75 percent. [S04.005] The thrombin inhibitor ximelagatran is at least as effective as standard warfarin treatment for stroke prevention, and unlike warfarin, can be used in a fixed dose and without coagu...Electronic nose device proves effective for diagnosing pneumonia and sinusitis
...nia in 31 of 44 SICU patients (70 percent). One quarter of ventilated SICU patients develop pneumonia a serious complication that can threaten the patient's life, requires immediate treatment with antibiotics, and also increases their hospital stay three-fold, with average additional hospital costs of $1...Physicians, patients must work together on new electronic relationships
...ication than are their patients, with only about a quarter of practicing physicians reporting they had conducted e-mail conversations with patients and few encourage the practice as a matter of course. Despite early experiences that suggest e-mail interchanges can offset costs incurred by telephone calls, m...Improvements in prescribing medications for hypertension results in better outcomes and cost savings
...costs to payers in 2001 by $11.6 million (nearly a quarter of program spending on antihypertensive medications), as well as being more clinically appropriate overall." The researchers found that "calcium channel blockers had the highest average cost ($33.39 per prescription) and the highest total spending...Mental health symptoms common at Pentagon after 9/11
...er 2001 and January 2002. 4,739 individuals, or a quarter of Pentagon personnel contacted, participated in the survey. Most participants were male with slightly more than half being civilians. Most of the participants found to be at high risk for mental problems reported symptoms consistent with generalized...Community screenings uncover hidden diabetes risk
...y street corners of the Bronx reveal that nearly a quarter of those tested had previously undiagnosed diabetes or were at high risk for developing the disease, according to a new report. The number of newly diagnosed and high-risk individuals is in addition to the 11 percent of participants who previously ha...South African MRC hosts the African branch office of EDCTP Secretariat
...im for the office to start operating in the second quarter of this year"....Study reveals high suicide rates among young people in India
...00000 young women). Suicide accounted for around a quarter of all deaths among young men (an overall rate of 58 suicides per 100000 young men). Hanging and poisoning with pesticides were the commonest causes of death; possible risk factors for suicide included family conflicts, domestic violence, academic fa...Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care
...of barbiturate treated mice were only a third to a quarter the size of tumors from the controls. Nembutal reduced metastasis to the liver in the mice injected with tumor cells in the spleen. Only 20 percent of barbiturate-treated mice exhibited metastatic spread to the liver, whil...March/April 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...rrors and preventable adverse events in almost one quarter (23.6 percent) of their patient encounters. The researchers note the most frequently identified errors were office administration errors. The surveyed physicians further estimated that 23.7 percent of the errors and events led to minor patient harm. ...Erectile dysfunction has devastating effect on morale
...l relationships were badly affected, with almost a quarter of men thinking that they were "letting down their partners." Misery was generally suffered alone as many men felt unable to talk about it to their partners, friends, or colleagues. Most men had high expectations of sildenafil before taking it, large...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...py and hormonal therapy represents approximately a quarter of the government's cancer costs." Abstract no: 236 (14.15 hrs Thursday 18 March, Hall 8)...New drug may help fight some lung cancers
... cancers. Previous studies have shown that about a quarter of BAC study participants respond to Tarceva after one month or more of study treatment; and the drug appears to be more effective in participants who had never smoked. Because BAC is less strongly associated with tobacco smoke than other lung cance...Blood test heralds speedy stroke diagnoses
...in the brain, others by a ruptured blood vessel. A quarter of people who have a stroke die, and survivors are usually left with permanent brain damage. Diagnosing a stroke is often difficult because the symptoms vary widely and resemble those of various other conditions. CT scans are good at spotting bleeds...More older women are retaining 'young' breasts causing potential screening problems
...reening programme in the Netherlands showed that a quarter of women aged 50 to 69 had the 'dense'[1] mammogra... classified the mammograms as dense if more than a quarter of the breast was composed of dense tissue. If less than a quarter of the breast comprised dense tis...