NIEHS issues additional awards to continue 9/11 follow up
...ist attacks, along with the creation of a national registry of trained construction personnel for immediate response to terrorist activities. NIEHS responded to the needs of the New York City residents immediately after the 9/11 attack. Its Worker Education and Training Program delivered 3,000 respirators ...NIAID initiative addresses primary immune deficiency diseases
...uding a cell line repository and Web-based patient registry to which all researchers will have access." The registry will build upon a 1998 NIAID-funded registry of the Immune Deficiency Foundation that includes clini...Prostate cancer screening interval of 4 years misses few cancers, study shows
... The researchers checked the Dutch national cancer registry annually for cases of prostate cancer among the study participants. During the 4-year screening period, 18 "true" interval cancers were diagnosed in men in the intervention group and 135 cancers were diagnosed in men in the control group, suggestin...Small changes in hospital practice bring significant benefits to rectal cancer patients
...n procedure. "We started the Swedish rectal cancer registry for quality assurance and control. All rectal cancer patients are registered and now we have five years follow-up indicating that rectal cancer surgery has changed dramatically in Sweden during the last ten years. Rectal cancer patients are now rea...Major new center at UIC to study racial/ethnic disparities in health
...te Cancer Registry and invited to participate. The registry was established and is maintained by the state to support research on the causes of cancer and ways to improve survival among those diagnosed with the disease. Other partners in the study are the UIC Midwest Latino Health Research and Policy Center,...Method to keep track of cancer comorbidities is successful; may help cancer research
...o incorporate this program into its current cancer registry system throughout the United Kingdom. The program also will be used in the five-year Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS) project, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. This project will enroll 10,000 patients wi...Transplanted kidneys from living donors survive longer with Neoral compared with tacrolimus
...cipients registered within the US organ transplant registry United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and aimed to compare organ survival over three years in patients receiving one of the two most commonly used immunosuppressive regimens: Neoral or tacrolimus, both in combination with mycophenolate mofetil and ...Starting beta-blocker before discharge in patients hospitalized for heart failure increases usage
...nts with Heart Failure), a hospital- and web-based registry program that hopes to enroll up to 50,000 heart failure patients at approximately 500 hospitals across the United States. The goal of this initiative is to improve the management of heart failure patients. OPTIMIZE-HF will determine whether or not ph...Hospitals that don't follow heart attack care guidelines have significantly higher death rates
...state of acute heart attack care in the U.S. "This registry includes all patients with heart attack, unlike most clinical trials that only enroll specific types of heart attack patients," Peterson said. "This represents what is seen in the real world every day." Additionally, Peterson said this study demonstr...Life-saving properties of beta blockers extend to more patients
... reviewed 2,096 patients (702 randomized and 1,394 registry patients) enrolled at 85 sites in the United State...ockers 314 in the randomized group and 485 in the registry group. Of patients who didn't receive a beta blocker, 388 were in the randomized group and 909 were...USC consortium receives $15 million NCI grant to determine causes of colon cancer
...d with colorectal cancer. Overall, said Haile, the registry has upwards of 15,000 colorectal cancer patients o...mittee, which does all the decision-making for the registry and provides its scientific leadership. "Over the next five years, the emphasis is going to be more ...Research, physician training combine to put care for opiate dependence in hands of family doctor
...ext few months, SAMHSA will establish a nationwide registry of physicians holding this waiver to assist health care workers and patients identify qualified treatment professionals for detoxification (weaning off heroin) or maintenance (keeping off heroin) of as many as 30 patients. It is estimated that there...More than 70 percent of adults with cancer use alternative therapies
...n's Cancer Surveillance System, a population-based registry of cancer incidence in western Washington that is part of a nationwide cancer registry funded by the National Cancer Institute. One limitation to the study, Patterson noted, is that use ...Drug improves survival in primary pulmonary hypertension patients
...he National Institutes of Health established a PPH registry in 1980 describing clinical manifestations and survival rates. The registry demonstrated that the disease is difficult to diagnose and deadly. The average time from the start ...International Congress of the Transplantation Society beginning Sunday
...ransplant Procurement Management, an international registry on organ donation and transplantation (www.tpm.org), Spain had a rate of 32.5 donors per million population (DPM), followed by Austria (23 DPM), Belgium (21.6 DPM), the United States (21.4 DPM) and Portugal (20.2 DPM). Some of the donation rates in o...Dementia before or after stroke increases risk of death
...rt Association. An analysis of data from a stroke registry compiled in Spain indicates that patients who have...important in these patients, she says. The stroke registry included data from 324 patients admitted to a Madrid hospital for stroke treatment between May 1, 19...Misclassification of cause of death in cancer patients
...cer patients, Welch and Black used national cancer registry data to find out the reported cause of death in patients who, between 1994 and 1998, died within 1 month of cancer-related surgery to remove a solid tumor. Among the 4,135 deaths within 1 month of diagnosis and cancer-related surgery, 41% were attrib...Prostate cancer incidence trends reveal extent of screening-related overdiagnosis
...h 1998, Etzioni and her colleagues compared cancer registry data on observed prostate cancer incidence with a computer-based projection of the increase in incidence of prostate cancer that would have been expected in the absence of PSA testing. The computer model was based on a hypothetical cohort of 2 milli...Breast cancer rising among Asian-American women
...Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP). The registry records cancers throughout Los Angeles County, the most populous and probably most ethnically diverse county in the nation. Breast cancer rates in Los Angeles are similar to rates nationwide. Researchers found that the breast cancer incidence rates f......ty of cancer care. However, the validity of cancer registry data has not yet been proven. In this study, Jenni...fornia at Los Angeles, and her colleagues compared registry data regarding cancer care with medical records from 304 breast cancer patients. Malin and her coll...