UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...tients as closely as they would like. Telemedicine reduces doctors' travel time and increases convenience for Choctaw tribal members because satellite hookups are available at several locations in southeastern Oklahoma. In 2004 UT Southwestern received a grant from the National Alzheimer's Association to lo...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
... patients, but researchers believe that HAART also reduces their infectivity. The results of the cost-effectiveness analysis were published Feb. 10, 2005, in the New England Journal of Medicine. "While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines are that routine screenings are effective in se...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...hat's why there was so much interest in Exanta--it reduces the risk of major hemorrhage by 26 percent and doesn't have warfarin's interactions or dosing problems." The current study was undertaken to provide physicians with a rational way to choose among the three potential therapies. "Since each drug has i...Sex hormone metabolite reduces stress, anxiety in female rats
...etabolism of progesterone, the female sex hormone, reduces the brain's response to stress, according to resea... that the progesterone metabolite allopregnanolone reduces the brain's response to corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a peptide hormone that plays an import...Contrary to previous findings, smoking is detrimental to patients with Alzheimer's
...revious animal studies had suggested that nicotine reduces the number of these plaques; however, this possible benefit is outweighed by the increase in tangles. The paper will appear also in the Feb. 22 print edition of PNAS. Alzheimer's disease is a slow, progressive disease and the most common cause of de...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...ke that happen. "Treating patients early with tPA reduces disability, which saves money. A cost-benefit analysis suggests that you save $4,000 for every patient treated with tPA," Schwamm said. Arthur Pancioli, M.D., an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) and vice chairman of the dep...Sunlight reduces risk of lymph gland cancer
... shows that, contrary to previous belief, sunlight reduces the chances of developing tumours in the lymphatic...t of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. "This reduces the risk of systematic error and increases the credibility of our study." The study was based on tel...Feb. 1, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...surgery to repair large abdominal aortic aneurysms reduces the number of deaths from ruptured aneurysm in men. 2. Study Finds One COX-2 Inhibitor Increases Risk of Heart Attack Even in People Who Have Not Had Heart Attacks A study of health records of 113,927 elderly people who had never had a heart att...Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
...ng Screening (UNHS), given four hours after birth, reduces the number of false positives and that providing outpatient retesting at the birth hospital improves the number who returned for follow-up. "Our study demonstrates that Universal Newborn Hearing Screening can be successfully implemented in a public ...Early seizures after epilepsy surgery predict more seizures
...ea where seizures commonly begin. It eliminates or reduces seizures in most cases. McIntosh and colleagues found that patients who experienced a seizure in the four weeks following surgery -- in the absence of surgery-related triggers such as trauma or swelling -- were eight times more likely to have persist...Type of weight loss surgery more effective at reducing insulin resistance
... diversion, which shortens the small intestine and reduces absorption of fats. Patients were restudied at 5 to 6 months and again at 16 to 24 months postsurgery. Dr. Muscelli concludes, "Bariatric surgery is increasingly considered for the treatment of morbidly obese patients who have serious comorbidity or...Routine use of nose-to-stomach tube slows recovery from abdominal surgery
.... Surgeons also commonly believe that the practice reduces the likelihood of vomiting and related aspiration pneumonia. This reasoning may look good on paper, says Nelson, but like many medical practices of the past it was based more on intuition than evidence. "When I was a resident every person who had a ...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
...o engage in good foot care and that good foot care reduces the risk of future foot problems were significantly correlated with daily foot care practices. In addition, psychological well-being was significantly related to foot care and smoking status. Pg. 481 Telerehabilitation for veterans with a lower-lim...Insulin resistance intervention after stroke focus of $33 million grant
...oke patients. The drug being tested, pioglitazone, reduces insulin resistance and is currently approved for use in diabetes treatment, but it has not been tested for prevention of vascular disease in non-diabetic patients. Over 400,000 Americans survive an ischemic stroke each year. Stroke is the third leadi...New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...eroids improves lung function during pregnancy and reduces asthma exacerbations--and other large, prospective studies found no relation between taking inhaled corticosteroids and congenital abnormalities or other adverse pregnancy outcomes," said Michael Schatz, M.D., M.S., chief of the Department of Allergy...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...hether monitoring ST segment activity during labor reduces the number of babies born with hypoxic brain damage as well as unnecessary Caesarean sections. "The umbilical cord, the brain and the heart are the particular aspects of the fetus that have to be conserved almost at all costs to maintain life," says ...Study suggests isolation of patients with MRSA does not reduce cross-infection in ICUs
...d or infected with MRSA in single rooms or cohorts reduces the transmission of MRSA, over and above the use of standard precautions, in an environment in which it is endemic." In an accompanying commentary also published online Friday January 7, Donald A Goldmann (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambr...Workers with carpal tunnel find relief with night-time splinting
...cally nocturnal splinting. Splinting, Werner says, reduces stress on the peripheral nerve in the wrist, allowing it to heal and avoids awkward wrist positions as a person sleeps. It is not recommended for active day-time use when workers are active because it may cause additional strain on the wrist. To det...Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
...l of randomized trials to look at whether hypnosis reduces pain and stress during medical procedures in children. Four or five patients undergo the stressful VCUG catheterization on any given day at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Many doctors wish that they could avoid putting children throu...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...he start of electrical stimulation-induced cycling reduces muscle fatigue This study evaluates the effect of experimental electrical stimulation-induced leg cycling patterns on cycling performance. Five men with spinal cord injury (SCI) performed several cycling sessions on a computer-controlled cy...