Added Benefit Found For Aspirin Use In Patients With Vessel Disease
...beneficial in making them work correctlyagain, say researchers in a study published in today's Circulation: Journ...toother potential problems. In this study, researchers found that when aspirin was given to 14patients with atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction, th...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...ed by the AmericanPsychological Association. The researchers looked at 217 third- and fourth-grade children in rural areas 22miles from Munich, Germany, before and after the opening of a new airport. About half the children live in an area under the flight path of the newinternational airport; the others, w...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
...ndinterviews with hospital staff and patients. The researchers began their work in1994, approximately six months after a series of critical articles abouthospital billing led to a surge in inquiries to the three hospitals. "Citizens are becoming more educated about hospital billing and taking theresponsibility...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
...2 New England Journal of Medicine, wasconducted by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Huma...th negative findings are not. In all, the researchers studied 2539 women at high risk of preeclampsia. The women were between their 13th and 26th week of ...X-ray Microscope Designed To Study Jet Engine Components Now Probes Tooth Dentin
...e NationalLaboratory for the Department of Energy, researchers at the UC San FranciscoSchool of Dentistry are pro...c components used in jet engines, allowsthe dental researchers to observe structures in the dentin as small as twomicrometers -- about the size of a human cell. ......amountof health services for patients. A study by researchers at the University ofWashington School of Public He...l, this doesn'tappear to be true." For the study, researchers examined 60 medical groups in Washington state toidentify 865 primary care (internal medicine, famil...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
GAINESVILLE --- A team of University of Florida researchers is trying tocome up with definitive predictions of...ol officer at Shands hospital at UF and one offour researchers heading the project. "If the parent asks what the riskwas, nobody can give a quantitative answer." ...... development, according to a new study reported by researchers fromthe University of California San Francisco in ...n and more intensepain. For several years researchers have known that the neurotransmitterglutamate is important in signaling pain. But Cao, along with r...... age or HIV transmission riskcategory. The researchers analyzed data over a 42-month period from each ofapproximately 1,250 HIV-infected patients in each of four levels of increasingintensity of prescribed antiretroviral therapy: no antiretroviral therapy;single therapy; combination antiretroviral thera......ucose levels, according to a new studyconducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the HowardHughes Medical Institute at Yale. "The medications that we studied-metformin and troglitazone-act indifferent ways in the human body and were equally effective in loweringpatients' blood glu......f. To conduct the retrospective study, the researchers used the NationalRegistry of Myocardial Infarction 2, a data base maintained by Genentech.The researchers identified 21,718 patients who had acute heart attacks andwho arrived at the hospital with cardiogen...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...r these chronically ill patients. The Duke researchers said the broad use of clinical pharmacists in them...ompliancewith medication and dietary regimens, the researchers said. "This is the first randomized trial to measure the effects of a clinicalpharmacist in ......heart disease drugs, Duke University MedicalCenter researchers have found significant differences in heart attack... heart attack actuallyoccurred. The Duke researchers said these differences, which occurred in up toone-fifth of the cases, increased the perceived benef...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...choose between food and medication." Duke researchers Lai Choi Lam, Nancy Clapp-Channing, Barbara Lytle, Drs.Redford Williams, John Barefoot, Ilene Siegler, and Daniel Mark also contributedto the studies....First Trimester Screening For Down Syndrome Possible, NICHD-Funded Study Finds
...nataldiagnostic centers in the United States. The researchers then analyzed thesamples for various substances of...h Down syndrome. Among the substances for whichthe researchers tested were: human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG); a portion ofthe hCG molecule, known as the free bet...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...less than 25 percent in thosewho did. The researchers also found that the older patients typically were notgiven plasmapheresis, and if they were, not quickly enough -- within the firstthree days of symptoms or admission to the hospital. The younger patients werenearly twice as likely to get plasmaphere...Keeping Score On Doctors: Report Says Flaws In Counting Must Be Addressed To Ensure Accuracy
...rankings are as accurateas possible." The researchers analyzed the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Contain...kings will be realistic,"Jollis said. The researchers say before such ratings systems are adopted and resultsmade public, they should be subject to peer r...New Research In Battling Alzheimer's Impact On Memory
... DISEASE With the aid of high-powered instruments, researchers at Case Western ReserveUniversity may have found the first step in the formation of toxic plaquebelieved responsible for the destruction of neurons in the brains of Alzheimer'spatients. According to Michael G. Zagorski, Ph.D., this information could...Adding Progestins May Negate Heart Protection From Estrogen Replacement Therapy
...king the ERT plus progestins for about threeyears, researchers tested blood vessel reactivity. The test involves inflatinga blood pressure cuff on the forearm to block the blood vessel. After aboutfour minutes, the cuff is deflated and images of the blood vessels are recordedby ultrasound as the blood rushes i...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...equip police or membersof the public." The researchers suggest that implementation of PAD in an urban cen...economically attractive," says Nichol. The researchers state in their report that the implementation of PAD forthe lay public could save greater than 4,000...