Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
...sides,if any. "Nevertheless, with emerging reports that there may be long-term effectsof early pain, we should do our best to protect babies and help ensure healthydevelopment for those who require medical interventions early in life," Portersaid....New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...90% of patients, Marstonsays, adding that clinical reports from Europe of similar repairs have notedacceptable success for longer periods of time. At UNC, a multi-specialty center has been developed to offerendovascular techniques combining the skills of surgical and interventionalradiology experts. ...SFU author examines mothers and illicit drug use
... laws, medical practices, social services andmedia reports single out women of color and poor women for the harshesttreatment. Her analysis and conclusions are based on interviews with 28 mothers from B.C.Alberta and Saskatchewan. The SFU criminology graduate also interviewed at least15 medical experts and ...Dartmouth researchers urge caution in communicating results to public
...ical study published thiswinter led to misleading reports and suggest ways to improve communications ofresearch findings to the public. The original study, which claimed to document evidence of sex and race bias inthe evaluation of chest pain, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine(February 25). ...Implanted defibrillators and anti-theft systems appear safe under normal circumstances
..., Zipes says. There were three recent reports of anti-theft systems causingdefibrillators to fire unnecessarily, but in each case the individual lingeredin the machine and in at least one instance the patient was holding on to thetransmitter pole. Previous studies were either too problem...... addition, social reward was linked with patients' reports of higher levels ofpain and a greater number of nonspecific medical symptoms, according to thestudy published in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. "We found that both social and economic rewards were associated with significantdifferences ...New imaging method in development to show Alzheimer's progression
...ts precisequantitation." In this paper, his group reports the synthesis of a group ofcompounds that have the solubility properties that are commonly associated witheffective brain imaging agents. "Our compounds are also shown to effectivelylabel amyloid plaques in tissue slices from postmortem AD brain," h...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ed risk ofdeveloping non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Holly reports that a person's B cells may bemildly suppressed by these immunologic stresses and by other behavior patternsassociated with mild immunosuppression. In addition, Holly says that a person with a history of allergies is likely tohave an immune system t...Study suggests potential new approach to glaucoma therapy
...of an enzyme that makes nitricoxide. "Having seen reports on nerve damage caused by excessive nitric oxide, wedecided to look for evidence of high levels of nitric oxide in human eyes withglaucoma," said lead author Arthur H. Neufeld, Ph.D., the Bernard BeckerResearch Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual S...Very low energy diets together with nicotine gum boosts smoking cessation rates
...ic results may not be practicable in primary care, reports Dr Kevin Jones in an accompanying commentary. For example, he points out that the women who participated in the Swedish study attended eleven 45 minute group sessions as part of their 16 week programme, which would not only be expensive but also nea...UI researchers discover that aggressive cancer cells may make their own blood vessels
...al ofPathology, a University of Iowa research team reports that highly aggressivecancer cells themselves may generate their own vascular networks independent ofangiogenesis. Because the researchers' discoveries call attention to analternative pathway that is responsible for aggressive tumor growth and spread...Selective and nonselective beta-blockers equally effective in preventing sudden death
...ecause of their side effects despiteclinical-trial reports that congestive-heart-failure patients who take them are43 percent less likely to die during the first two years following a first heartattack than those who do not take them. Side effects may include depression,worsening asthma, tiredness and sexual...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
...han any that have ever been created on Earth. Park reports that the therapy magnets he examined appear to be ...e thicker than the typical refrigerator magnet, he reports that it still failed to hold even 10 sheets of paper on a file cabinet. Ten sheets is just a millim...Turning off cancer shield may allow safer cancer therapy
..., aPleasanton, Calif.-based biotechnology company, reports finding a new drugcalled pifithrin-alpha that in mice protects vulnerable healthy tissues from thedangerous side effects of radiation therapy. Pifithrin works by temporarily blocking the action of a molecule called p53, thegranddaddy of a group of in...Fire ants can attack humans in homes or health care facilities
...ue of Annals of Internal Medicine carries two case reports of fire antattacks in two Mississippi nursing homes. Two elderly patients were foundcovered with ants, with ant trails leading from the floor to their beds. Onedied five days after the attack, the other 13 months later. Both facilities hadbeen treate...Annals of Internal Medicine 9/21/99 tipsheet
...sue of Annals of InternalMedicine carries two case reports of fire ants attacking elderly nursing homeresidents in their beds (Article, p. 424). Authors say that when a fire ant isfound indoors, both the buildings and grounds should be carefully inspected.Until the fire ants are eliminated, infants and bedri...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
...that are destroyed by HIV. One of the new research reports focused on the incidence of cytomegalovirus(CMV) retinitis, a serious eye disease that can lead to blindness. The secondlooked at development of drug resistance in the respiratory tract of HIVpatients who underwent prophylaxis therapy to prevent a b...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
A study by UC San Francisco researchers reports the total costs of cigarettesmoking to the Medicare program amounted to $20.5 billion in 1997. "This is the first study that documents the smoking-attributable costs toMedicare that are now part of the Federal lawsuit against the tobaccoindustry," sa......n. The authors say that, based on their findings, reports suggesting beneficial effects of HRT during menopause are likely to have been confounded by the pre-existing differences in the health of users as opposed to non-users - ie users of HRT tend to be women who are less at risk of cardiovascular disease ...... -- for patients and their bed partners. One study reports habitual snoring in 44 percent of men and 28 percent of women.Obstructive sleep apnea affects approximately four percent of women and ninepercent of men between the ages of 30 and 60 years. "Until proven otherwise, we should simply double the number...