Millions of Americans are failing to get recommended health care
...y to apply new technology and biomedical knowledge safely and appropriately. The IOM reports blame a lack of organized processes rather than shortcomings in individual physicians for the quality gap. The reports call for the federal government to lead efforts to improve treatment safety and quality. They s...New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab
...e mixed in water. They hypothesized that the drug, safely encapsulated in microscopic micelle "vehicles," could be injected into a cancer patient and travel through the bloodstream without any side effects. At an appointed time, a physician could apply ultrasound to a tumor and release the drug to that tum...Muscle cell transplants repair damaged heart tissue
CHICAGO, Nov. 17 Researchers safely transplanted 16 patients' skeletal muscle cells into their own severely damaged hearts in the first human testing in the United States, according to a study reported today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2002. "We have been a...Scientific task force to examine usefulness of testosterone replacement therapy in older men
...re any clinical trials of this intervention can be safely and prudently conducted," Dr. Hodes said. The task...hallenge we face in designing clinical trials that safely and ethically explore this question," said Stanley Slater, M.D., deputy director of the NIA's Geriat...Prenatal stem cell transplants may open door to organ transplants, treating genetic diseases
...ity to use prenatal interventions to help the body safely tolerate treatments for genetic diseases." Dr. Flake's team used a prenatal procedure called in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (IUHSCT). Hematopoietic stem cells develop into red blood cells, white blood cells and a variety of immune c...New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure issued
...the ability of herbal and botanical supplements to safely lower blood pressure is unproven, and these unregulated products can interact adversely with medications. Developed by a distinguished panel of experts convened by the NHBPEP Coordinating Committee, the advisory reflects the latest scientific eviden...New Parkinson's surgical procedure shows lasting benefits, according to Emory researchers
...acias, M.D., presented material showing they could safely lesion the subthalamic nucleus on one side of the brain, called unilateral subthalamotomy, that could later be followed by a second procedure on the opposite side. Now these investigators have taken the procedure a step further by lesioning the subt...Clot-busting stroke therapy appears safe for menstruating women
...t buster tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) can be safely given to women who are menstruating. However, it must be used with caution in those with a history of dysfunctional uterine bleeding, according to the first report of its kind published in the October issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart A...'Prehabilitation' prevents functional decline of at-risk frail elders living at home
...he participants were able to perform the exercises safely and effectively without supervision. The physical therapist reviewed participants' daily exercise calendars at each visit and called participants monthly for 6 additional months. The program also included environmental home modifications to facilitat...New drug may help recovering cocaine addicts, study shows
...aine abstinence, enabling addicts to gradually and safely withdraw from the drug," said Alan P. Kozikowski, PhD, professor of neurology and director of Georgetown's Drug Discovery Program. Pending the outcome of final toxicology studies, Nocaine is expected to begin Phase I clinical trials in early 2003. (...Artificial liver trials show progress, as transplant candidates wait
...t by the inability to grow liver cells quickly and safely enough. "Filtering devices, on the other hand, have also failed to give consistent results and have often taken the 'good' out of the blood with the 'bad'." The albumin dialysis approach seeks to avoid these limitations, using human albumin. In healt...New procedure kills liver tumors without surgery
...idn't have enough liver tissue left for doctors to safely remove his new tumors and leave him with adequate liver function. As an alternative, Harris' oncologist referred him to Rendon Nelson, M.D., a Duke radiologist who has performed more than 100 radiofrequency ablations on solid organs since May 1999. ...Duke researchers develop method to make safer drugs
...ty Medical Center believe they have found a way to safely turn on and off the effects of drugs, or in this case, reverse the blood-thinning process. Researchers believe they have developed a method to create a class of drugs with the intent of creating a matching antidote that could neutralize, or countera...Popular long-acting contraceptive linked to vascular dysfunction
...er, DMPA is an effective contraceptive that can be safely used by women who are otherwise healthy and who have no cardiovascular risk factors, Pennell says. DMPA is a very effective birth control method for women who have limited access to health care or for women who have difficulty complying with oral bi...Pill-splitting can yield cost savings on common prescription drugs, Stanford researchers find
...n, which the researchers determined could be split safely and effectively with significant cost savings (see chart). The average potential savings for each drug, over varying dosages, ranged from 23 to 50 percent. A patient taking a 10-mg tablet of lisinopril daily, for example, would have annual medication...A 'first' for Parkinson's disease sufferers
...e? What medicines can Parkinson's disease patients safely take to treat other conditions? What new medicines are available to treat Parkinson's? What new research is currently under way on Parkinson's Disease? Dr Salek's work on medicines evaluation and quality-of-life issues for Parkinson's Disease patien...Herbal dietary supplement alters metabolism of chemotherapy drug
...hn's wort] and that the two agents cannot be given safely in combination without compromising overall antitumor activity," the authors write. They note that their results may have implications for other anticancer drugs metabolized by CYP3A4, such as the taxanes (paclitaxel). Combining these drugs with St....An SSRI antidepressant is safe and effective for depressed, hospitalized heart patients
...ith depressed heart patients to know that they can safely treat the depression."...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
... more confident in their organization's ability to safely deliver today's myriad, complex and powerful medications. "The 'MedPoint Five Rights Check' verifies that the drug, patient, dose, time and route of administration all match the medication order before the drug is administered. MedPoint then takes me......estive heart failure and erectile dysfunction (ED) safely used sildenafil (Viagra) to improve sexual function in a study reported in today's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The popular medication may even make patients more likely to take their heart failure dru...