Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
... were sick enough to needsurfactant got it, and it saved the same number of black and white babies." The mortality rate for all infants is about 2.5 times higher forblacks than for whites. After the introduction of surfactant, theresearchers found that black premature infants were three times more likelyto...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...improvingsurvival by 5 percent. The cost per life saved is around $30,000." According to the researchers, even though a standard EMS system has alower cost per patient, PAD is still an economically viable solution and itseffects are likely to be additive to the results of a standard EMS system. Im...ACE-Inhibitors Score High In Reducing Heart Attack Deaths
...or every 1,000 individuals treated, five liveswere saved after 30 days, says Maria Grazia Franzosi, Ph.D., ...ter in high-risk individuals: About four liveswere saved per 1,000 low-risk patients compared to 13.6 lives saved in veryhigh-risk individuals," Grazia Franz......ular ejectionfraction, 1,800 lives could have been saved in the first year alone," saidAndrew D. Michaels, MD, a clinical cardiology fellow at UCSF and an author ofthe study. "The encouraging news is that doctors are listening to the results of thenumerous large scale clinical trials that have indicated th...Better Survival For Women With Breast Cancer -New Evidence On Chemotherapy
... real, improvement in survival - ofabout 2-3 lives saved per 100 - for women in their 50s and 60s whose cancer waseither node-positive or node-negative. Professor Rory Collins from Oxford University said: "We already knew thatchemotherapy improves the chances of survival for a young woman with breastcance...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
...of supercomputers indesigning the microwave sensor saved several years of development time," Bridgessaid. "On the Cray supercomputers, we were able to simulate embedding a tumor withinrandomly oriented veins and mammary ducts and lobes in the breast," saidHagness, who is now an assistant professor of elec...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...nces. Whatever is not spent on health care will be saved by employees for retirement,predict two Cornell University heath-care experts. These so-called medical savings accounts (MSAs), they claim, not only would saveemployees, employers and society billions of dollars each year but also wouldprovide employ...Comprehensive Effort Needed To Prevent And Treat Traumatic Injuries
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of lives could be saved each year if a greater nationaleffort were mounted to prevent and treat traumatic injuries, according to a newreport from a committee of the Institute ofMedicine. The report calls for a new national policy to reduce injuriesfrom firearms that buil...USC Researcher Lights Up The Immune System To Help Heart Transplant Recipients
...apy. "Some of our patients have clearly been saved by this therapy," he said...."Super" Aspirin Does Super Job In Fighting Heart Attacks
...e the drugs. This meant that oneperson's life was saved for every 1,000 treated, says Kong. There were almost 30 fewer deaths, heart attacks, or need for repeat angioplastyor bypass for every 1,000 patients treated, and the benefits were statisticallysignificant through six months. "Using the drugs saves ...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...he city's Department of Public Health-"undoubtedly saved many lives," Kalksteinsays. If conditions threaten human health, Philadelphia officials distribute mediaadvisories, activate telephone hotlines, alert neighborhood volunteers, openair-conditioned shelters, expand outreach to the homeless, coordinate ...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...letion opens the door for dozensmore infants to be saved each year, meaning that a full genetic match is nolonger required for successful transplant. A half-matched donor will do. "Until 1982, SCID was invariably fatal unless the patient had a brotheror sister who was an exact genetic match to the ...Space Research May Accelerate Development Of Flu-Fighting Drug
... "NASA'ssupport for this research project probably saved considerable time needed todevelop this new drug." Called "structure-based drug design," this research focuses on howmolecules of a virus fit together. Researchers built diagrams of the flu'sunique shape to design drugs that block the undesi...Updated Results On Heart Assist Device Presented At International Transplant Meeting
...waiting for hearts. "Assist devices have literally saved patients' lives who could have easily beencounted as another death statistic. And unless we are able to produce enoughorgans to meet the supply, we will need to depend more and more on this type oftechnology," commented Dr. Kormos, who is also presi...Further Evidence On The Effect Of The UK Cervical Screening Programme
...p until 1997). They estimate that 1300 lives were saved in 1997 by screening in previous years. Contact: Dr Peter Sasieni, Senior Scientist, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London comms@icrf.icnet.uk Further Evidence on the Effect of the National Cerv...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...d me a chance to get that kidney transplant and it saved my life. I hadthe transplant on June 4th and I will be forever grateful," says Peters, whoadds that she feels good and leads an active life. "We hope that our success with this procedure will encourage other transplantcenters to offer it for their pa...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
...r patients diagnosed by this test and subsequently saved by implantable defibrillators, this will be a huge advance."...... be avoided and approximately $2.5 million couldbe saved for every 1,000 patients referred from a minimal-volume provider to ahigh-volume provider," says Gordon. Gordon attributes the more favorable outcomes by the high-volumehospital to a variety of factors, including greater surgical experi...For-profit hospital ownership means higher costs, Dartmouth-VA study finds
...it hospitals, we estimate that Medicare would have saved over $5billion in 1995 alone," Fisher says. "If the trends we observed continuethrough the year 2010, the excess Medicare costs associated with for-profithospital service areas would equal the estimated cost of the President'sproposed Medicare drug ...Emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery saves lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock
...nts treated...more than double the number of lives saved bythe administration of thrombolytic therapy withi...se under 75 years old. This equaled 20 more lives saved for every100 patients with heart attack complicated by shock who were treated withemergency bypass o...