NIAID forms network to tackle potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
...atory activities, and developing and maintaining a registry of AD patients.The six institutions in the ADVN Clinical Studies Consortium and the principal investigator at each are: National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Donald Leung, M.D., Ph.D. Oregon Health and Science University, Jon Hanifin, ...Women's health research registry aims to improve women's health for future generations
... 10,000 participants over the next five years. The registry has been established in an effort to close the gap...now very little about their health and aging. The registry will allow qualified investigators to identify potential participants for their studies and, in the ...New initiative to focus on growing problem of cardiovascular disease in diabetics
...r findings, the consortium we are building and the registry we will create will serve as a foundation upon whi...s will also recruit 2,000 patients to be part of a registry to be used to for analysis that will broaden the scope of the trial to the population of diabetic pa...Mycophenolate mofetil superior to azathioprine: Slows vascular disease progression after transplant
...ne year later. "These findings support published registry data that show significantly increased survival ra...compared with AZA-treated patients, ISHLT and UNOS registry studies have shown that CellCept-treated patients have statistically significant improved three-year...Embryonic stem cells induced to develop into bone marrow and blood cells
...cells from a sibling or an unrelated or cord blood registry often fail to develop tolerance to the recipient or patient into which they are infused an often-fatal complication after bone marrow transplantation that is known as graft-versus-host disease. But in the study, after embryonic stem cell transplant...Aggressive heart therapies still underused, despite blood chemical status
...eletal muscle. In their analysis of a heart attack registry of almost 30,000 patients, the researchers found t...CC and American Heart Association Guidelines). The registry collects data on outcomes and usage of proven drugs like aspirin, beta-blockers, heparin and anti-pl...Inpatient cardiac risk management program promotes lifestyle changes
...strategies benefit patients with coronary disease, registry data and literature reviews suggest that a majority of the patients are still not in compliance with the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines. The STARR program offers inpatient strategies to implement these guidelines...Hospitals following heart attack guidelines have better outcomes
... and AHA Guidelines). CRUSADE maintains a national registry of data collected from more than 400 hospitals nationwide and then reports back to each hospital every three months on their adherence to the guidelines. CRUSADE is coordinated by the DCRI. "CRUSADE patients are the "real world" patients that physici...Community hospitals do not transfer high-risk heart patients for aggressive therapy
...rticipating in CRUSADE, which maintains a national registry of data collected from more than 400 hospitals nat...s for the 57,039 patients currently in the CRUSADE registry are as follows: hospital without catheterization laboratory -- 9.6 percent; hospital with diagnostic...Blood clot risk not treated preventively, study finds
... Less than 30 percent of patients enrolled in the registry received preventive blood thinning drugs within 30 days prior to their diagnosis of DVT. Of the 2,726 patients who developed DVT while in the hospital, 42 percent failed to receive prophylaxis within 30 days prior to diagnosis, the team reported. ...Drug-coated stents effective in 'real world' patients
...ted stents "were a very select group, whereas this registry is an attempt to look at in an unselected populati...luated At Rotterdam Cardiology Hospital (RESEARCH) registry show that 9.7 percent of patients who received the drug-eluting stents had a major adverse cardiac e...HRT and breast cancer: better prognosis more likely due to frequent screening than hormone use
...d End Results, or SEER, program, a national cancer registry operated by the National Cancer Institute. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention served as the study's data-coordinating center. Study sites were located at the CDC (Atlanta), Wayne State University (Detroit), University of Southern Californ...Atkins-Type dieters report new cases of serious illness
...oblems reported by registrants to PCRM's web-based registry for people harmed by high-protein diets. For example, 42 percent of registrants describe a loss of energy; 22 percent report reduced kidney function, stones, or severe infection; and 20 percent report heart problems or elevated cholesterol. Victims ...Newer formulation of heparin improves outcomes for suspected heart attack patients
...id. Of the 10,087 patients included in the CRUSADE registry between January 2001 and June 2003 and treated with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors within 24 hours of hospital arrival, 61 percent received unfractionated heparin and 39 percent received a LMWH. Of those receiving unfractionated heparin, 5.6 percen...Drug proven to benefit heart attack victims vastly underused
... from a Duke University Medical Center-led patient registry have found that almost two out of three patients d...the medical data of 56,264 patients in the CRUSADE registry who received GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors between January 2001 and June 2003, the researchers found that o...Heart failure care inconsistent
...urE national REgistry) is an ongoing observational registry of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of acute heart failure. The registry includes 250 hospitals across the United States. About 100,000 patients from community, tertiary an...Income important in tracking health status
...ally invisible." Anderson proposes that the cancer registry and other tracking systems include insurance status and income level as indicators of poverty. "Decades of research on how social class links to health outcomes have shown that a lack of health insurance, living in impoverished neighborhoods, and ...Alcohol use increases the risk of hormonally sensitive breast cancers in postmenopausal women
...n's Cancer Surveillance System, a population-based registry of cancer incidence in western Washington. Those who served as controls were identified through Health Care Financing Administration records. The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, was designed to help researchers understand the causes...New guidelines on unrelated marrow transplants: A roadmap for physicians
...d their names on the National Marrow Donor Program registry indicating willingness to be an unrelated marrow d...on the new guidelines call for searches within the registry to be conducted by histocompatibility specialists and for patients to be HLA typed to a high degree ...U.S. blacks five times as likely as whites to progress to kidney failure
...ments are tracked through a comprehensive national registry (the U.S. Renal Data System), early-stage kidney disease can go undetected for years, making its onset and progression difficult to detect. In order to determine the prevalence of the earlier stages of disease, Hsu and his team turned to a national h...