New research results: 'Heart jacket' shown to be effective
...ar improvement in the size and shape of the heart, returning it to a more normal configuration," says Paul Hauptman, M.D., a SLUCare cardiologist and associate professor at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "It's a potentially revolutionary approach." Heart failure is a condition in which the heart...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...nal three weeks. They were treated as outpatients, returning each day to their normal home environments, subject to all the environmental "triggers" for their addictive behavior. Twice weekly they gave urine samples, which were tested for cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, and alcohol. Visual tests w...Ovarian cancer does have early warning signs, Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center find
...s, physicians' failure to follow up, and women not returning for follow-up. Brigitte Barrette, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gynecologist and study investigator, found the commonality of urinary leakage symptoms among the ovarian cancer patients particularly interesting. "My surprise with our findings was at the uri...Fair decisions more important when hospitals face crisis like SARS
...tions and other areas of hospital operations began returning to normal. Doctors wrestled with questions of the order in which patients should go into surgery. The study group suggests a number of areas where the hospital could improve its priority setting procedures: Patients and families need...Timing appears essential to combining antiangiogenesis and radiation therapy
...(oxygen starvation) almost eliminated on day 5 but returning by day 8. To better understand the mechanism behind these changes, the researchers conducted several detailed analyses of the tumor tissue. They observed a shift toward more normal blood vessels that were smaller and less disfigured after DC101 tre...Some US soldiers returning from Afghanistan should be screened for malaria
Nearly 40 U.S. Army Rangers returning from Afghanistan in 2002 may have contracted malaria because of inadequate use of preventive measures, according to a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA . War and conflict have had a long historical partnership with malarial outbreaks, according ...Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
...vernments have been totally wiped out. He will be returning to Indonesia this spring following a previously scheduled trip to Nepal. "The thing that surprised me the most was the extent of the devastation in human loss and to the physical loss in homes, boats and buildings. It never subsided. Every time I ...Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
...rock has poor coupling with the baseplate, and the returning signal is low-quality because receivers cannot be placed satisfactorily. Coupling cannot take place on uneven ground. And with soft ground, the baseplate may just sink, or the soft ground may just absorb high frequencies at the receiver end to reduce...World-first living donor islet cell transplant a success
...nternational trial of the Edmonton Protocol before returning to Japan. Dr. Shapiro first suggested the idea of starting a living donor islet transplant program in Kyoto while lecturing there three years ago. Cadaveric organ donors are scarce in Japan, and living donation has very established roots in liver and...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...whose lives were saved by body armor, but who were returning with severe damage to limbs and eyes," he says. "A...e a real difference for a new generation of troops returning home with nerve damage. We need to support our troops in actions, not just words, and I am glad tha...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...and overweight males, have a problem with pressure returning to normal because of reduced ability to eliminate sodium. Dr. Kapuku wants to know if this impaired ability to regulate sodium also increases the risk for the early changes in the heart's ability to fill. He'll look at a cross- section of teens to de......ss our share of the crisis in health care today by returning and holding fast to these long-held values." (Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 607 608. Available post-embargo at www.archinternmed.com .) Related Articles: Negative Physician Attitudes Toward HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users To contact corresponding ...