Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
...ASIK just 2 weeks ago with the new technology, and reports an improvement in nighttime vision compared to the difficulties he had seeing at night with his contacts. 2. Secondly, the Ohio University study suggests that patients over the age of 40 were less satisfied with LASIK results. Dr. Filatov does not...New low-cost vaccine offers better protection against cholera
...for children, an international team of researchers reports in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. The team, headed by Professor Dang Duc Trach at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi, concluded that the vaccine was "safe and immunogenic" and "could elicit...MEMPHIS, TN, February 19, 2002 A new study reports that patients who suffer from breakthrough pain in cancer, which affects as many as two-thirds of cancer patients, require increased medical services that result in higher medical costs than cancer patients without breakthrough pain. The research, p...Asthma researchers present new results, new perspectives on the disease
...physician feedback intervention, involves periodic reports to the childs doctor about the status of the childs asthma. These reports, generated from bi-monthly phone interviews with parents, recommend changes in the childs treatment regimen if warranted. The second method, called an environmental intervent...Study shows weight loss with an antidepressant medicine in combination with lifestyle intervention
...s required to avoid accumulation. There have been reports of hypertension, in some cases severe, in patients receiving bupropion alone and in combination with nicotine replacement therapy. GlaxoSmithKline provided funding for this research. GlaxoSmithKline, one of the worlds leading research-based pharmac...Younger age explains why smokers more likely to survive heart attacks
... strong association of smoking and premature age," reports lead author Steven G. Gourlay, Ph.D., of Genentech Inc. and the University of California at San Francisco. The researchers observed other differences between the two groups, including a lower incidence of disease associated with high cardiac risk, s...Study details costs of providing care inconsistent with patient wishes
...ted. "This is the first study to confirm anecdotal reports that many seriously ill persons who want their care to focus on comfort believe they are receiving care contrary to that preference," said Joan M. Teno, M.D., lead author of the study. "The findings have implications for health care costs and length...New awards, expanded focus for Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group
...n. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 4,219 cumulative cases of AIDS among adolescents, or children ages 13 through 19, were reported through June 2001,(1) and the number of adolescents living with HIV is estimated to be much higher. Because the average length of time between HIV ...Suicide the leading cause of death among young adults in China
...n an unrepresentative sample and because different reports adjust crude rates in different ways. Michael Phillips and colleagues from Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, China, aimed to present accurate information about suicide, based on conservative estimates of suicide rates in different population groups in ...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...anic Americans, and Native Americans, according to reports from clinics around the country. Although there are no national, population-based data, studies in Cincinatti, Charleston, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and other cities indicate that the percentage of children with newly diagnosed diabetes who are clas...Food the center of celebration and subject for concern
...sciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. There are reports about 'mad-cow disease', Salmonella, and other potential contaminants infiltrating the food supply. Is our food safe? And who makes that decision? Advances in biotechnology now permit new combinations of genes to be introduced into our foods. These...Stringent regulation of traditional medicines is urgently needed
... to patients and also in the patients urine. After reports of an association with pulmonary hypertension, fenfluramine was withdrawn even as a prescription only medicine in 1997. Its use as described is obviously illegal, say the authors. This case is now under investigation by the Medicines Control Agency, ...Screening the controversy continues
...creening service next year. It was clear that the reports that Switzerland was holding back were biased, as ...Wolf. A recent seminar in Sweden, attended by the reports co-author Dr Gtzsche, concluded that none of the so-called flaws had any relevance to the outcome of...... subject of the new study is a middle-aged man who reports that he has had the condition since early childhood. WO sees letters, numbers and individual words printed in black-and-white in vivid color. If the characters are printed in different colored ink, he can see that color as well, says Thomas J. Palmer...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 19, 2002
...nt Caused Liver Damage to Seven Californians (Case reports to appear in April 16, 2002, Annals of Internal Medicine are posted on www.annals.org today because of public health implications. See page 2.) * * * Very Early Lyme Disease Rash is Red Throughout, Not a Bull's-Eye. A study of 118 people with ...Undersize infants score higher on IQ tests if breast fed exclusively
... Technology. The study is consistent with earlier reports that full-term infants who were of normal size for their age scored 3 points higher on IQ tests at five years of age when breastfed exclusively for the first six months than did infants who either stopped breastfeeding before six months or had supple...Eliminating health disparities requires community involvement
...ular disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and immunization, reports the journal Health Promotion Practice in the April issue, devoted to the subject of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Based on this collection of articles, the most successful interventions to narrow the gap in health disparities buil...Doubling of life expectancy over past two decades for people with Downs syndrome
...population study in this weeks issue of THE LANCET reports how life expectancy of people with Downs syndrome has doubled since the early 1980s. The study also highlights the unexpected finding that Downs syndrome appears to reduce the risk of many forms of cancer. Downs syndrome (characterised by three copi...Doctors need training courses in communication skills
...ective findings matched the doctors own subjective reports on how they perceived changes in their communication style with patients. These findings are important because there are many examples of positive benefits for patients when doctors adopt a patient-centred approach to treatment and care. Patients ar...From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...east endoscopy has been tried before with sporadic reports in medical journals over the last decade, but the endoscopes have been too large. Advances in fibre optics have produced endoscopes less than 1 mm across - ideal in size but with poor picture quality because they contain very few glass fibres. So the...