Exanta - pivitol data from largest ever phase III stroke prevention trial announced at ACC
... this indication, which is on track for the fourth quarter of this year. "We are very pleased to see the potential for Exanta in stroke prevention among patients with atrial fibrillation demonstrated in the SPORTIF III study. This highlights the important practical advantages that this unique first-in-class...New study estimates 85 newborn killed or left to die per year by parents, usually their mother
... had other children, and another was that almost a quarter were known to have received at least some prenatal care," she said. "Their average age was 19.1 years, and more than half were 18 or older." A widely held belief is that most mothers who kill or abandon their newborns are younger, single teenage girl...Vaccine shortage study exposes nations 'patchwork' system
...y interviews, in October and November 2001, only a quarter of practices had cut the number of injections per child to two or limited the vaccine to high-risk children. "We've never had a shortage like this before, and this one has persisted," says Freed, who as director of the Division of General Pediatrics ...Internet porn-blocking software neednt block health information, study finds
...ting. But at highly restrictive settings, almost a quarter of health sites were blocked, though there was little improvement in porn blocking over the least restrictive settings," says lead author Caroline R. Richardson, M.D., a lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Health System and a res...Study suggests that tomboys may be born, not made
...d taken between weeks 8 and 24 of the pregnancy; a quarter of the women had the samples taken between weeks 5 and 7, and the remainder after week 25. The samples were analyzed for levels of testosterone and a hormone that limits the ability of testosterone to act, called sex hormone binding globulin. Once ea...Jefferson researchers find uterine artery embolization may negatively affect future pregnancies
...cle that grow in the uterus and occur in up to one quarter of women of childbearing age. Fibroids can cause abnormal bleeding, pelvic pain and infertility. Uterine artery embolization is often effective. It is a minimally invasive radiologic procedure that blocks the arteries that supply blood to fibroid tum...Endovascular coils beat neurosurgery for treating brain haemorrhage
...e relative risk of dependency or death by nearly a quarter and the absolute risk by nearly seven per cent com...rtion of patients either dead or dependent[3] by a quarter one year after the procedure. One-year follow up data were available on 1,594 patients. Overall, 27...Delay in diagnosis for AS patients can lead to permanent spinal damage
... ten years before they were diagnosed. Almost one quarter (24%) of those surveyed saw five or more health professionals in pursuit of a diagnosis. Three out of ten (29%) said that when their AS pain was at its worst, they were incapacitated and could not move. There is hope for people with AS"When ankylos...Stigma of breast cancer in developing countries costs lives
...s, half (49%) in the middle tier and less than one quarter (22%) in the lower group. Literacy or ignorance plays an important part in how people manage their illness. There is less stigma attached to women from better-educated sectors. Treatment is unaffordable for many people. Only one-tenth of the pop...Finding the right way to tell the family about cancer
...ir partners would participate as well. Almost one quarter of the patients did not know whether their partners would participate. "These data indicate that a communication workshop for patients and their partners should be initiated and subsequently evaluated for its effect on the quality of life of cancer ...New information scheme reassures patients
...an anonymous questionnaire. "Globally, nearly one quarter of the patients reported moderate to severe levels of anxiety or depression. Almost all of the patients reported to be highly satisfied with the health information provided by the staff," said Dr Passalacqua. A few centres did not succeed in startin...Preliminary study suggests endomitriosis could contribute to infertility
...frequency of cilia beating was reduced by around a quarter from the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis. Ovrang Djahanbakhch comments: "We have shown that the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis significantly reduces ciliary beat frequency in comparison with peritoneal fluid from fertile co...UNC study uncovers increasing shortage of pharmacists with growing population
...Governors and Office of the President. Almost a quarter of North Carolina's counties saw their age 65-and-older population increase by 22 percent or more over the past decade, Fraher said. That aging population has increased the demand for pharmaceuticals beyond what would be expected from simple populati...Blood pressure medication preserves cognitive function in older African-Americans
...ional Center for Health Statistics approximately a quarter of Americans between the ages of 20 to 74 years are hypertensive. More than three-quarters of women age 75 and older in the U.S. have hypertension as do 64 percent of men in the same age range. The prevalence of hypertension is 60 percent greater in...UK researchers develop novel treatment for fibroids
...ve medicine journal, Human Reproduction.* Around a quarter of women have fibroids benign fibrous tumours in their wombs. Many have no symptoms but others suffer heavy or prolonged periods and pain, and sometimes face reproductive problems including infertility or miscarriage. In the UK last year there were...Job satisfaction among senior doctors generally high
... the medical workforce has changed. In 1974 only a quarter of graduates were female and women were less likely than men to become consultants. The majority of medical school entrants are now female and in the future many more senior posts will be filled by women. The study concludes that senior doctors have...Patients often miss out on nutrition counseling, at cost to health
...ntake or nutrition during the examination. About a quarter of patients received nutrition counseling during their doctor visit, according to the study data. Patients who were seeing their doctor for an acute illness were less likely to receive it (17 percent) than patients with chronic diseases (30 percent)....World Heart Day spotlights cardiovascular disease pandemic
...se by 500 million throughout the world in the next quarter century. Underscoring this alarming trend, the authors note, is the reality that excess mortality from cardiovascular disease and stroke is two- to three-fold higher among smokers than non-smokers. The World Heart Federation reports that 90 countrie...UCLA seeks thousands of current and former smokers for landmark lung cancer screening trial
...e chest and can detect abnormalities the size of a quarter or smaller using radiation exposures that are among the lowest in medical imaging. With low-dose spiral CT, the patient moves on a table through a doughnut-shaped structure that acquires views from all angles. These views are combined to produce a th...Angioplasty or medical therapy immediately after heart attack?
...e) than fibrinolytic therapy (two hours). Around a quarter of patients randomised to receive fibrinolytic therapy underwent subsequent emergency "rescue" angioplasty....