Tiny device blocks 'useless' part of heart, prevents blood clots
...ice to block the left atrial appendage can be done safely and with relative ease, Sievert says. It may became a valuable alternative for patients with chronic, non-rheumatic AF in whom standard anticoagulation therapy is contraindicated or poorly tolerated....UCLA scientists discover African strain of AIDS in two American infants
...s. The good news is that HIV-infected children can safely take these complex drug combinations, said Dr. Paul Krogstad, UCLA associate professor of pediatrics and pharmacology and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute. The bad news is that U.S. medical lab tests may be overlooking evidence that overseas viral...Human Factors/Ergonomics contributes to combating terrorism
...gency personnel (specifically firefighters) arrive safely to do their jobs. Citing statisics about accidents involving emergency response vehicles, the authors propose a number of remedies aimed at reducing such accidents, including improved training for emergency personnel, better awareness and responsiven...New data on overcrowding crisis finds critically ill flooding emergency departments
...ng ambulances to other hospitals because they cant safely take another acutely ill patient, which has become a nationwide public health problem. Dr. Derlet said critically ill patients occupy emergency department beds longer and require more intensive care so fewer patients are able to move through the syst...Use of invasive heart procedures decreases after the age of 75
... symptoms of heart disease, and these patients are safely receiving such invasive procedures as bypass surgery and angioplasty," Alexander said. "Interestingly, the usage of these procedures declines markedly at the age of 75. We don't know why, or whether it is necessarily right or wrong, but the trend is ...Decision rules and physician judgment
...been widely adopted because of their potential for safely reducing a patients exposure to costly and unneces...ankle rules in terms of sensitivity and ability to safely reduce the number of radiographic examinations....Prozac is effective for depression...and hot flashes too
... often prescribed for treatment of depression, can safely and significantly relieve hot flashes in women who have been treated for breast cancer. In this eight-week study, women experienced a 50 percent decrease in the frequency and severity of their hot flashes while taking Prozac for the first four weeks ...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
...ys peripheral nerves, in this case, the ankle, can safely repair the damaged cells in the brain and spinal cord that result in neurologic disability in patients with multiple sclerosis and other disorders of myelin. In multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the brains nerve fibers and strips away th...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...pe 2 diabetes in children and to treat the disease safely and effectively in those who do develop it. The prevention trials will focus on developing cost-effective interventions that can be widely applied in schools and communities across the country. "For children who already have type 2 diabetes, it's c...New book aims to keep elderly drivers on the road
...d help 2 million people with impaired vision drive safely again BOSTON Losing ones driving privileges oft...ute aims to help people with impaired vision drive safely and as long as possible. The book, "Driving with Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving with Low V...Medical experts unite to raise awareness of risk, threat of blood clots
...strategies that allow us to treat DVT more easily, safely and effectively. Weve had FDA-approved ways to prevent DVT, but we have to recognize the problem. ClotAlert Resource Center The Council for Leadership On Thrombosis Awareness and Management is launching the ClotAlert Resource Center, a series of educ......s, very few kidney recipients have been able to be safely weaned off immunosuppression. We think this is because the kidney contains less of the types of cells that are immunoprotective. It is presumed that the blood stem cell transplant will introduce enough of these good immune system cells to protect the...Research shows way to boost morphine's pain-killing benefits
...pment of new drugs or new drug combinations -- to safely reduce tolerance to morphine for people suffering from severe chronic pain. A conventional test of analgesic effect is to test a laboratory rats heat sensitivity to a few-second exposure to a beam of non-burning laser light directed at the tail. Norm...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
...cost of $8,000, the nations 5,000 hospitalists are safely reducing inpatient costs by approximately $2.4 billion per year. Thus far, there is little to suggest that hospitalist-generated savings come at the expense of quality, said Wachter. He explained that most studies found no change in quality measures....Safe effective treatment to stop seizures can be delivered outside of the hospital
A new study shows that paramedics can safely and effectively treat patients who are suffering from acute and prolonged seizures with injections of benzodiazepines, a mild form of tranquilizers. In 59 percent of patients who received lorazepam, and in 43 percent of patients treated with diazep...Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
...at the vast majority of heart failure patients can safely tolerate higher doses, which have been proven to r...tudy shows that a vast majority of patients can be safely titrated to these doses," Massie said. However, the higher doses of ACE inhibitors aren't right for...New discovery may revolutionize treatment for pain related to surgery, illness and injury
...nically suitable method using nerves as a means of safely delivering high doses of painkillers to achieve a therapeutic effect. They announced their research findings at the Society for Neuroscience conference on Nov. 8 in New Orleans, La. UCLA neurosurgeon Aaron Filler and his colleagues used a method ca...Doctors use novel methods to more effectively treat lung cancer
...eases lung density and has allowed doctors to more safely treat patients at higher doses than ever. The approach is used when free breathing with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy does not allow for safe treatment at a high dose. It requires the patient to hold his or her breath for 10 seconds......able drug form. We have now achieved this and can safely and dependably reproduce the superoxide fighting effect in numerous animal models, enabling us to address a myriad of therapeutic areas", said Dennis Riley, MetaPhore's Vice President of Research & Development. In October 1999, Science Magazine pub......sfer of a therapeutic gene can be successfully and safely introduced into the brain of young patients, with some positive effects. Researchers at Jefferson Medical College, who led the 1996 trial in New Zealand - a prelude to a larger study at Jefferson in 1998 and 1999 of 14 such patients - say the report...