PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...t number-crunching device, used data from Medicare records totranslate information at the level of the individual into population-levelstatistics. Factors taken into account included the likelihood of annual PSA testing; thechances of cancer being detected by the test; the increase in life expectancy asa res...Database technology threatens liberty
...e foundations of freedom is being eroded. Medical records privacy provisions which have been added to the fi... technology used tomine medical data.) The medical records provisions of H.R. 10 undermine patient privacy and quality health care and should be deleted from t...Walking cuts risk of heart attack in elderly men
...ular daily basis. The study used data from medical records of 2,678 men ages 71 to 93 enrolled inthe HHP, which has monitored more than 8,000 men of Japanese ancestry living inOahu. Interviews conducted during examinations between 1991 and 1993 were usedas a baseline. The men walked daily anywhere from a q...New study shows abuse homicides more common than records reveal
...en ages 10 and under in North Carolina shows vital records poorly reflectthe number of child abuse deaths, ac...e number is more than three times higherthan those records indicate. Within homicide cases, most child abuse deaths in North Carolina couldnot be ident...Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
...factors, says Hogue. The researchers examined the records of1,900 men and 1,072 women age 50 and over who had undergone heart surgery atBarnes-Jewish Hospital from January 1990 through August 1996. All of thepatients had either bypass surgery, valve surgery or both. Co-authors were Suzan F. Murphy, R.N., B...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
...al screening process is in place to review medical records andperform physical assessments of potential candidates. For additional informationabout the procedure or to determine if this might be an appropriate treatmentoption for a patient, call the LDL apheresis center at (310) 967-1861....'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
... In the UF study, researchers examined the medical records of all newbornstreated for diaphragmatic hernia since 1983 at Shands Children's Hospital, partof the Shands at UF medical center in Gainesville. A total of 89 affectedinfants were identified, including 60 since 1992, when Kays, a specialist indiaphra...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...nancies failed and whose did not andcompared those records with subjects' blood lead levels. Thirty-six of 562subjects still participating at five months gestation already had lost theirbabies. "We did not find many infections that could cause spontaneous abortions,but we did find a dose response fo...Elderly heart attack patients fare well with managed care
... Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, reviewed the medical records of2304 elderly patients admitted with AMI at 20 urban community hospitals inMinnesota. The main outcome measures were, use of emergency transportation andtreatment delay; time to electrocardiogram; use of aspirin, thrombolytics, andbeta-blockers amo...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
...28 September 1999: Analysis of over 13,000 patient records has revealed that an alarming number of individual...e research reported today, investigators looked at records of 1.9 million patient visits between 1991 and 1997 and selected for study all individuals over 45 y...Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...ords. Permission was received and adequate medical records acquired more than 600women, and of those, 216 had confirmed gestational hypertension and 86 hadconfirmed preeclampsia. Information on those two groups was compared withsurvey-reported data on the almost 15,000 women in the original sample notreport...For early detection of Alzheimer's, loved ones know best
...searly 80s. But one spring, the banker shipped his records to an accountant. Thatwould be normal behavior for someone who had never prepared his own tax return. But the banker always had, so something was amiss. "It's important to alwaysrelate performance to what that person was once able to do," Morris says......esthesiologists. Bell reviewed the medical records of 2,493 mothers who gave birth atDuke University Hospital and whose height and weight was taken over a 16-monthperiod, and found that 833, or one third, received a C-section. Then shecalculated each patient's body mass index (BMI), which is conside...Media advisory: Mayo Clinic study shows increased incidence of migraines in women
...the same period. Thestudy is based on the medical records of 1,342 patients in Olmsted County,Minn., who received a migraine diagnosis from a physician for the first timeover a five-year period. The study will be published in Neurology on Oct. 22,1999. Video and Audio Feed: Interview segments with Walter ...Mayo Clinic study shows increased incidence of migraine headaches
...e same period. The study is based on the medical records of 1,342 patients in Olmsted County,Minn., who received a migraine diagnosis from a physician for the first timeover a five-year period. The study will appear in the Oct. 22, 1999 edition ofNeurology. According to the study, women age 20-29 years e...Annals Of Internal Medicine - tip sheet for November 2, 1999
...Not Getting Early Beta-Blockers Studying medical records of 58,165 elderly patients hospitalized with acutemyocardial infarction, researchers found that 51 percent of eligible candidatesdid not get early Beta-blocker (B-blocker) therapy (Article, p. 648). This groupalso had significantly higher in-hospital...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...he researchers compared national kidney transplant records from the United Network on Organ Sharing (UNOS) with Medicare claims for the same patients. All 27,050 had received an organ from a deceased donor between 1992 and 1997. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days to three years after transpl...... in smoking and education levels, as indicated by records of deaths from cancers of the lung and bronchus and corresponding degree of cigarette smoking, and percentage of high-school graduates. "The relatively strong correlation between mortality rates from CHD and cancer of lung and bronchus suggests...Wake Forest study finds both prevention and treatment needed to control heart disease
...D, and his colleagues looked at total cholesterol records in people born as long ago as 1887, using four major national health surveys totaling 49,536 people - the first dating from 1962 and the last completed in 1994. At lower levels of total cholesterol, only diet typically is needed to keep cholesterol ...New mathematical model explains changing patterns in epidemics
...en tested their prediction by examining historical records of births, vaccination and cases of measles. The team's research has implications for predicting the outcome of vaccination programs and how diseases might be eradicated through such programs. The findings: enable researchers to predict how e...