Study: ER docs can give stroke clot-busters safely, but patients need to get to ER faster
...ot-busting drugs to appropriate stroke patients as quickly and safely as dedicated stroke teams, if they foll...hey must call 911 and get to the emergency room as quickly as possible, he says. And, once theyre there, they should ask the doctor to give them clotbusters, i...Stress leaves blood vessels tightly wound
...the mental stress task, subjects had to respond as quickly as possible to colored lights by pushing a button of the corresponding color. Researchers found a significant decrease in blood-vessel dilation after mental stress. The mental stress test increased average arterial blood pressure from 83 to 96 milli...Depression predicts quality of life for lung transplant patients
... them to breathe faster and shallower it can then quickly become of vicious cycle," Blumenthal said. "Anything we can do to lessen the degree of anxiety for lung patients should be of benefit to their perceived quality of life." Duke performed its first lung transplant procedure in 1992. In the ensuing 10 ...New guidelines for managing women with abnormal pap smears
...r a repeat doctor visit. The test quickly reassures women who are HPV negative they are unlikely to have cervical cancer and that they simply need regular annual Pap tests and it identifies those women who are HPV positive and need further evaluation. For most women with more serious abnorm...Sepsis on the increase in U.S., according to Emory University and CDC study
... care. Physicians must be able to recognize sepsis quickly in order to treat it. "Studies show that if you wait even four to eight hours to begin antibiotic therapy, the mortality from sepsis worsens considerably," notes Dr. Martin. "And antibiotics must be appropriate. Patients with severe sepsis are in ...Mentally fatigued persons switch to automatic pilot
...es. The fit trial subjects sought purposefully and quickly learnt from their mistakes. The mentally fatigued persons also scored less well in two standard psychological tests than the fit persons. For example, fatigued persons needed more time to carry out the first manoeuvre in a mind game. Furthermore, it ...Ginseng berry extract shows promise for diabetes, obesity
...es on a glucose tolerance test, which measures how quickly the mice could remove excess glucose from the blood. The extract caused diabetic mice, which were also obese, to lose more than 10 percent of their body weight in 12 days. Untreated mice gained five percent of their weight in 12 days. The treated m...While-you-wait implantable heart assist device appears effective
...f 812 days of support. All problems were resolved quickly with no adverse consequences. Frazier says the Jarvik 2000 is so different from the other LVADs currently available that the others should be reclassified. The Jarvik 2000 represents the only true left ventricular assist device because it allows the...New drugs could markedly alter Alzheimer's, but disease will not go away
... Medicine said the prevalence of Alzheimer's rises quickly after age 85. Persons beyond that age have 14 times the incidence of the disease compared with those aged 65 to 69. "The U.S. population in the next decades is expected to have so many people over 85 that the growth rate of people with Alzheimer's di...Drug prescribing by nurses in the UK - Editor of the Lancet urges caution
... responsibilities. To extend the burden of risk so quickly is reckless." The additional training of nurses required for drug prescribing is highlighted as a crucial issue, yet there exist major inconsistencies within current nursing curricula, Horton observes: "If prescribing rights are extended to all drug...Nitric oxide crucial to respiration
...id, is that individual red blood cells can respond quickly and locally to the oxygen needs of cells in the body's tiny capillaries, or microvasculature. Hemoglobin, the molecule to which oxygen binds in red blood cells, occurs in two shapes, known as the R and the T shapes, that differ in their affi...NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
... and spiral CT system, enables oncologists to more quickly and clearly see the metabolic intensity and exact location of many types of cancer by directly and precisely registering the anatomical information from a CT scan with the biologic information from a PET scan. In addition, Siemens will install six r...Medicare shortchanges initial doctor visit, SFVAMC study says
...ey are not performed, the patient may decline more quickly and need more services later on," she said. "Typically Medicare reimburses more for doing things to the patient, such as a procedure or addressing a disease like heart failure. As a physician you can get more money from Medicare for cleaning out e...Gene linked to testicular cancer
... more aggressive than seminomas and in most cases, quickly spread to the lymph nodes. Lin found that in seminomas, the reproductive stem cells expressed the hiwi gene at an unusually high rate. The cells then divided and multiplied at an equally high rate, which, Lin said, is an indication of the developme...UF research: For stroke recovery, two therapies better than one
...minute's time. Reaction time was determined by how quickly they responded to a buzzer. Sustained muscle contraction force was charted by EMG. During therapy, surface electrodes were attached to the forearms of people in both the bilateral- and unilateral-training groups that monitored their muscles' electri...A helping hand: Healthy arm helps retrain stroke-impaired arm
...were asked to react to a buzzer sound by moving as quickly as they could and then relaxing. "We wanted to compare how fast they turn on' their muscles before and after rehabilitation," Cauraugh says. Again, the stimulation/bilateral group had faster reaction time 227 milliseconds (ms) vs. 255 ms for the u...NIAID expands vaccine testing network
...t and retain volunteers. Through the VTEUs, NIAID quickly designed and implemented a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the feasibility of diluting existing smallpox vaccine. Together, the VTEUs enrolled and vaccinated 680 volunteers in less than three months. Initial findings of this study were recent...Does your brain shutdown with Alzheimer's?
...ions flooding in, negative chloride ions flow out, quickly draining the cell of its negative charge, just like a battery going dead. Ingram, Barbara Blanchard and Veena Thomas added a special dye to cultures of human and rat nerve cells. The dye allows the researchers to measure the flow of ions, and hence...Intensification therapy studied in head and neck cancer
...ancer. We want to go after it as decisively and as quickly as possible, says Dr. David E. Schuller, director of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, and thats what intensification therapy allows us to do. Schuller, who is also deputy director of The Ohio State Univ...New analysis shows early intervention with Actonel reduces first vertebral fracture risk
...d a slow developing disease, can actually progress quickly once a fracture occurs. The ability to prevent a first fracture is crucial for clinicians in the fight against osteoporosis. This is extremely important since osteoporosis affects more than 10 million people in the U.S.," said Robert Heaney, MD, of...