Costs for surgical treatment of GERD not offset by savings on medications
...gh or when they want to avoid taking drugs for the rest of their lives. When surgery is successful, the one-way valve between the esophagus and stomach works and GERD symptoms reportedly improve. The researchers examined data from a national database of publicly and privately insured patients. The recor...New treatment strategies offer hope to women with breast cancer
...said. "However, we must keep an open mind for the rest of the data, although our results already indicate that any benefits that emerge from high-dose chemotherapy will be, at best, modest." Far from indicating a failure of the high-dose treatment regime, Dr Crown said, "I believe that these results show...Researchers discover 'doorways' into brain cells
...s such as receptors are enveloped right where they rest in the fatty membrane, to be drawn into the cell's interior. This uptake process, called endocytosis, is part of the constant cycling of receptors to and from the membrane surface. The balance of this cycling is the principal means by which neurons ...Keen ER identification could avert future strokes
...od to pool and clot instead of being pumped to the rest of the body. If a clot then leaves the heart and lodges in an artery in or leading to the brain, a stroke may result. However, regular treatment with blood-thinning agents particularly the drug warfarin can reduce this risk by almost 70 percent, ...Story tips from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nov 2002
...e amounts of lithium, beryllium and boron. All the rest was cooked up by thermonuclear fusion in stellar cores and spewed into the void when stars exploded. Scientists are working with sophisticated computer models of stellar flameout to ferret out the details of how the other members of the periodic tabl...Bread crust and stuffing rich in healthy antioxidants
...ay provide a much stronger health benefit than the rest of the bread. This is good news for those who like to complement their holiday meals with bread stuffing, which is rich in crust, but bad news for those who prefer to remove crusts from their bread, as they may be sacrificing healthful antioxidants....Exercise shown to have positive effect on cholesterol
...rolled at East Carolina University (ECU), with the rest enrolled at Duke. Joseph Houmard, Ph.D., led the ECU portion of the study. The results are based on the analysis of blood cholesterol changes in 84 sedentary overweight men and women with elevated lipid levels who were randomized to one of three diff...UF study: Adolescent girls who set goals too high may risk anorexia
...eet the unrealistic expectations they have for the rest of their lives," she said. Parents may find it difficult to spot warning signs of eating disorders in their teenage daughters because so many of the behaviors are secretive, such as purging. Mood changes in teenagers also may deserve closer attenti...Thanksgiving menu stuffed with healthy choices
...ay provide a much stronger health benefit than the rest of the bread. This is good news for those who like to complement their holiday meals with bread stuffing, which is rich in crust. The discovery of a cancer-fighting compound that is concentrated in the crust was made by German chemist Thomas Hofmann,...Bone marrow cell transplant treats clogged leg arteries
...collateral vessels in 27 limbs. Pain occurring at rest in the ischemic limbs diminished significantly in 39 of 45 patients, and the amount of time they could walk on a treadmill without pain was significantly improved (from 1.3 minutes at baseline to 3.6 at week four and 3.7 at week 24). Participants' is...Years to your health! Children of centenarians have less heart disease
...ave some cardiovascular health advantages over the rest of us, but Americans can still improve their health and age more successfully by not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly." Researchers compared 176 "c-children" (children of centenarians) with 166 controls, whose parents we...Statin drugs may help patients with heart valve disease avoid surgery
...e between the heart's main pumping chamber and the rest of the body. In aortic stenosis, this valve becomes narrowed and causes the heart to work harder. The only treatment for severe aortic stenosis is surgical replacement of the valve. A new understanding of the aortic stenosis disease process led to t...Disparity between rich and poor for hip, knee replacement
... low income to be 80 per cent less likely than the rest of the research group to have ever discussed joint replacement with their doctors. "If you've got low education and low income, it doesn't matter whether you're a woman or a man, you've got high need and low access," says Hawker. "However, if you've ...New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab
...gs on specific cancerous tissues, thus sparing the rest of the body from harm. Their method combines two, key innovations: packaging a drug in tiny molecules of water-soluble plastic so that the drug would not interact while passing through a person's bloodstream, then using ultrasound to release the dru...Newly approved psoriasis drug invented and tested at Univ. of Michigan
...immune-blocking action -- without undercutting the rest of the immune system and its ability to fight off infection. It relieves symptoms during treatment and may spur remission. The promise of a new tool against psoriasis, especially one that zeroes in on the immune response involved in the disease, is e...Stiffness of aorta predicts stroke deaths in hypertensive patients
...or artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body) to fatal stroke regardless of other stroke risk factors, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Aging, environmental and genetic factors decrease the elasticity of arteri...Kids carry bike helmet safety message into middle school
...further advertise sales of low-cost helmets to the rest of the school community that coincide with the fourth-grade program....Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
..., and that's a real form of recovery. The answers rest with understanding not the tapping itself, but the mechanisms behind the tapping."...Partners seek city's footprint
..."However, it relied heavily on proxy data from the rest of the UK, and our work along with a sister project in Gwynedd Councilwill help other Welsh local authorities to use the footprinting tool in the future." This more sophisticated study has been made possible by a 300,000 BiffaAward grant to a partn...New type of vaccine against nicotine addiction developed by TSRI scientists
...ause for concern in Southern California and in the rest of the nation. In a 2002 report, the CDC estimated that from 1995 to 1999, smoking killed more than 440,000 people in the United States each year and caused more than $150 billion in annual health-related economic losses....