Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...mild to moderate disability. Five of the 11 trials reported an economic analysis. All concluded that savings from fewer hospital-bed days were greater than the cost of the ESD service. Professor Langhorne concludes: "An appropriately resourced and coordinated ESD team can offer a further effective service op...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...rld's first phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial are reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Although the vaccine was ineffective in preventing HIV infection, the trial represents a landmark in the fight against HIV and offers the scientific community a foundat...Blacks in the South have greater risk of dying from stroke
...African American men living elsewhere, researchers reported today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2005. Scientists already know that blacks' risk of death from stroke is greater than whites'. Studies also have shown that people who live in the southeastern states that co...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...range of patients with ischemic stroke or TIAs and reported the use of and improvement in eight secondary preventive measures. In terms of prevention, they monitored the percentage of discharged patients who received anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation; treatment with aspirin-like drugs or anticoagulant...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...n average, 123 a month on CAM. The maximum monthly reported amount was 4,140. However, more than half paid not...tiveness rating was 5.04. Fourteen patients (4.4%) reported side-effects, mostly transient and all related to herb use. Of the patients who did not use CAM, 43%...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...his study, light smokers were defined as those who reported smoking less than a pack a day on average, while heavy smokers used more than a pack a day. Wealth included home values, cash savings, stocks, bonds, and auto values, among other assets. Outstanding debts were subtracted from that total. The particip...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...Noting that treatment for substance abuse has been reported to improve outcomes, the researchers said "access ...omeless persons with psychotic disorders have been reported to have greater difficulty obtaining and maintaining entitlement benefits than non-psychotic homeles...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...primary care clinicians about clinical information reported as missing during patient care visits. The survey ...en missing. The researchers found that clinicians reported missing clinical information in 13.6 percent of visits (nearly 1 in 7 visits); missing information i...New research could help physicians tailor asthma therapy in children
...uced the most favorable response. The researchers reported on the percentage of children who improved lung function by 7.5% or greater based on a standard test. They found: 17% of the children reached the goal when taking both medications 23% of the children reached the goal when taking only the inhaled c...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...es of care, according to a new study. Findings are reported in the February 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in an article titled "Malignant Glioma Patterns of Care." UCSF Medical Center neuro-oncologist Susan Chang, MD, lead author, says the information gathered from this s...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...and of skin degradation. Other research teams have reported that electrical pulses with low frequencies, about 2 to 20 cycles per second, help control incontinence by calming involuntary bladder contractions, while higher-frequency pulses do not help. The new research demonstrates that the higher-frequency p...Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer
...intriguing wrinkle to this study is the previously reported presence of sequences highly homologous to MMTV Env protein in the DNA of as many as 40% of human breast tumors, although a human homologue of MMTV has yet to be found....Progesterone therapy could prevent thousands of preterm births
... from the promising findings of the clinical trial reported by Paul J. Meis, M.D., et al. for the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 12, 2003. These study results led to the 2003 Committee Opinion issued by the American College of Obstetrician'...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...g College of Arts and Sciences, and two colleagues reported the discovery of ADDLs in 1998. "Detection of plaques in patients may be too late," said Klein, an author on the PNAS paper who last year demonstrated that ADDLs specifically attack and disrupt synapses, the nerve cell sites responsible for informat......ged between 15 and 44 in 1971, who lived alone and reported being permanently sick, increased at each census from 0.4 per cent in 1971 to 12 per cent in 1991, due largely to ageing. Up to the age of 34 the likelihood of reporting permanently sick was extremely low, but after 35 it grew steadily. There was als...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...e brain to the rest of the body. The new findings, reported online today (Jan. 30, 2005) in the journal Nature Biotechnology by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are important because they provide critical guideposts for scientists trying to repair damaged or diseased nervous systems. Motor...Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned
...y life-threatening form of high blood pressure, as reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. The researchers reported that they were not able to detect human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), also known as the Kaposi's sarcoma vi...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
...tisfied with the Workers' Compensation process and reported higher levels of post-settlement disability." Higher disability carries a cost, he notes, which is disproportionately borne by African Americans and those who are poor. In addition to the work by Chibnall and Tait, other recent studies have agreed...Article highlights confusion about Homeland Security safety symbols
...study conducted at North Carolina State University reported significant confusion in correctly ordering the colors and words attributed to the different threat levels of the HSAS system. Based on previous human factors research, much of the confusion about the symbols was predictable and could have been avoid...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
...ps, the reason being that none of the three groups reported undue distress, according to Domar. "Virtually none of the participants experienced pain or anxiety," she says. "We were quite surprised at the outcome." Based on these results, the investigators plan to design a similar study to be tested on a more ...