New treatment for spinal disorder proves effective in UCSF study
The pain and stiffness suffered by a quarter of a million people with the inflammatory spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis can be significantly relieved with a drug already approved for rheumatoid arthritis, according to results of a clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Me...Poor hearing common among elderly people in the UK
...30 (42%) a little or a lot of difficulty. Around a quarter of participants given the whispered voice test failed the test (3795 [26%]), the proportion increasing sharply with age. Nearly half the participants who wore a hearing aid at the time of testing failed the whispered voice test (998 of 2180 [46%]). M...Nations only National Healthcare Outreach Mapping Center established
...by the newmapping center will identify and track a quarter century of NLM outreach efforts. Eventually it will assist researchers to accurately target health outreach activities because they will be able to pinpoint exactly where the information is needed, according to McGowan. In addition to providing infor...Neonatal autopsies yield valuable information
...tal autopsy rates BMJ Volume 324, pp 749-50 Over a quarter of neonatal autopsies yield important new informat...tal autopsy rate over the 10 years studied. Over a quarter of autopsies yielded important extra information, and in 3% of cases this information was crucial fo...Millions of migraine sufferers could benefit from better use of medical care
...with over-the-counter (OTC) medications alone, one quarter treated pain with prescription medications only, and one quarter used a combination of OTC and prescription medications. The prescription-only group was more likely...The Pill may increase the risk of breast cancer according to a large study of younger women
...iday 22 March. The womens risk rose by just over a quarter (26%) compared with women who had never used the Pill. Women who were still using the Pill had an increased risk of just over a half (58%) compared with never-users. The highest increased risk was amongst women aged 45 or over who were still using ...First European trial for new breast cancer vaccine
...growth factor.* HER-2 is overexpressed in about a quarter of all breast cancers and has become a key target for new treatments, such as the monoclonal antibody therapy Herceptin.But, the development of a vaccine by Danish pharmaceutical company Pharmexa represents an entirely novel treatment paradigm, accor...Hormone therapy for breast cancer - the treatments of the future
...umours expressing the growth factors HER2 (up to a quarter of breast cancers) and/or EGFR (about 20% of breast cancers). "This means that we need to try to find a new generation of SERMs lacking this oestrogenic activity in breast cancer and it provides a rationale for ICI 182780 (Faslodex) a pure anti-oestr...Parents can help black teen girls talk about condom use
...school health classes, in Birmingham, Alabama. One quarter of the teens reported have a past sexually transmitted infection and more than half had been or were currently pregnant. The majority of the girls, 82 percent, reported having sex solely with a steady partner over the previous six months. Parents who......d that about half reported no problems at all; one quarter said the dentures didn't work quite as well as their natural teeth did, and another quarter were absolutely miserable. Gray and colleagues had thought that the patients who reported the most ...Mayo Clinic study finds heart disease burden shifting toward women, elderly
...ained essentially unchanged for those over 75. "A quarter century ago heart disease was seen as primarily a mens disease," says Veronique Roger, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and lead author of the study. "Given the trends observed in this study, that is clearly not the case now. The burden of heart dise...Younger age explains why smokers more likely to survive heart attacks
... the largest previously studied group. More than a quarter million cases included in the second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction during a three-year period were analyzed. Of the 297,458 patients included, 24 percent were smoking at the time of their heart attack, while 76 percent had either quit sm...Testicular cancer - cure rates now so high patients may be more at risk from treatment
... with increased risk of cardiovascular disease). A quarter had developed high diastolic blood pressure after chemotherapy. Nearly a quarter had hearing loss. Over a third had problems with nerve damage. However, none of the patients had dev...Most child care is provided by 'informal' providers, study finds
...N) care. About 295,000 adults provide this care, a quarter of them for more than 30 hours a week. Yet fewer t...he UWs Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. A quarter of the caregivers work as many hours as a full time job; they face many challenges and they are aski...One in seven prisoners in western countries may need psychiatric treatment
...risoners (average age 29 years, 81% men). Around a quarter of prisoners were violent offenders in the 27 surveys with appropriate data. About 4% of men had psychotic illnesses, 10% major depression, and 65% a personality disorder, including 47% with antisocial personality disorder. 4% of women had psychotic ...Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
.... The Ohio University study suggests that nearly a quarter to a third of patients who underwent LASIK reported problems seeing at night, however, this study fails to show that these night vision problems were an actual result of LASIK surgery. Having conducted a similar retrospective study at Massachusetts E...UF study: Grandparents celebrated instead of reviled in children's lit
... percent they were wise, Beland said. Less than a quarter of the books (23 percent) depicted grandparents with disabilities, yet for the most part, the disability had no bearing on the characters positive image, he said. In Grammas Walk, for instance, one of Donnies favorite activities is to take an imagi......ly member will be a victim of terrorism. Almost a quarter of the women polled report that their personal economic situation has, in fact, worsened since the attacks and believe this was partially or completely a result of the terrorist attacks (78 percent), rather than economic factors that were in place pr...... in heart attack patients, Catellier said. About a quarter of such patients are either depressed or have low social supports after their attacks, she said. Those who have either one of the risk factors face a two to four times greater risk of premature death than those who feel reasonably content and have f...New study provides mixed report card on informed consent to cancer clinical trials
...nd the primary purpose of the research, nearly one quarter of the participants do not realize that clinical trials are conducted mainly to benefit future patients, not themselves. In addition, many patients are unaware that these experimental treatments are not yet proven to be better than available alternat...