Changing approaches to treating gum disease
...iously would havebeen considered "hopeless" can be saved from extraction, and as many as 75percent to 80 percent of patients may be spared the discomfort of periodontalsurgery, says Loesche, who also spoke on this topic at a dental symposium inJoinville, Brazil, this month. In his review article, Loesche n...Over 400 heart attacks every year in young women smokers could be prevented
...ck] per year could beprevented and about 112 lives saved if smoking ceased." Heart (formerly the British Heart Journal) is a leading international clinicaljournal that keeps cardiologists and others in touch with advances that have themost impact on the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. ...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...ad use of the current injected measles vaccine has saved the lives of millions of children, the disease is far from being eradicated in the developing world because a window of vulnerability exists among infants from 5 to 8 months of age. Newborns are protected against measles by antibodies passed to them...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
..., and hundreds or even thousands of dollars can be saved for every symptomatic infection prevented. Additionally, preventing this common hospital-acquired infection will reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and thus may decrease the chance that bacteria will develop antibiotic resistance." Cathet...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000
... Many soldiers who die in battle could perhaps be saved if outfitted with a sensor system that could capture and identify noises generated within the chest. While the majority of combat casualties are the result of injuries that cannot be treated, a significant number die from the presence of air, gas or ...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 17, 2000
...doscopy, paid for colonoscopy, more lives would be saved and possibly at reduced cost, the editorial says. Smoking is associated with kidney damage A study of 7,476 nondiabetic people found that smokers had higher levels of a protein, albumin, in the urine and more abnormal kidney function than non-smoke......even times more years of life by 2020 than will be saved through mammography screening of a similar-sized p...(JAMA). Their study projects more than 4,000 lives saved from coronary disease and 3,500 heart attacks averted over 20 years at a reasonable cost simply by p...New definition may make number of heart attack cases soar
... cost may be greatly offset by the number of lives saved due to preventive care. "We already know that inadvertent missed diagnoses of heart attack may have grave consequences, including death," Mehta says. "Using troponin levels allows us to identify more high-risk patients and give them the care they n...UC Davis study: fewer Californians dying of lung cancer, pulmonary disease as smoking decreases
...int to lives lost from continued smoking and lives saved by reducing smoking in California." The results follow the adoption of Prop. 99, which increased taxes on cigarettes by 25 cents a pack to pay for anti-smoking advertising and smoking cessation programs. Prop. 99 went on the state ballot in November...Mayo Clinic study finds radioactive drug samarium hopeful new treatment for osteosarcoma
...in a majority of patients the affected limb can be saved with limb-sparing surgery. Patients typically also receive eight to 12 months of chemotherapy as part of their treatment plan. In about ten percent of patients, surgery or chemotherapy cannot adequately control osteosarcoma. For these patients, samar...Maryland's 1990 'Saturday night special' ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows
...the findings translate into an average of 40 lives saved per year between 1990-1998. Jon Vernick, co-author of the study and also Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, explains, This is the first comprehensive evaluation of a law banning Saturday night specials in one state. ...Analyses of Violence Against Women Act suggest legislation saved US $14.8 billion
...n for various prevention programs over five years, saved $14.8 billion in net social costs that otherwise w... cost $15.50 per U.S. woman, the team concluded it saved $159 per U.S. woman in averted costs of criminal victimization. Using minimum possible costs for the...Accidental overdose with Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) carries a greater risk of death
... of this study believe at least $500, 000 could be saved in their hospital alone if patients, who have overdosed deliberately, with no history of alcohol abuse, were managed on medical floors. However they maintain that cases of accidental poisoning and in situations if the case history was in doubt should...Meningitis C vaccine is cost effective
...$180m) and 241m ($343m) and the cost per life year saved is estimated to be 6,259 ($8919). School based vaccination was more cost effective than routine vaccination of infants because delivery costs are lower and fewer doses are required, conclude the authors....Swift switch from CPR to AED may save lives
...the most efficient time to shock delivery seconds saved can mean improved survival....Study quantifies cost-benefit of family interventions to prevent teen alcohol use
... interventions revealed that the ISFP intervention saved $9.60 in future costs for each dollar invested, and that the PDFY intervention yielded a benefit-cost ratio of $5.85 for each dollar invested. The premise behind each intervention was similar: to focus on intervention during the critical period of...USAID-supported research leads to new formula of ORS that will save millions of lives
... USAID supported the development of ORS, which has saved countless lives of children over the years and is proud to have supported the research that led to the development of this new improved formulation of R-ORS. Use of ORS was first researched in the 1940s but it was twenty years later before the idea w...Insurers should pay for children's costly cancer treatments
...0 per child. Yet the average cost per year of life saved is just $2,700, assuming 70 percent of children live for 50 years. [Life-span data compiled by an NCI-sponsored program called SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program).] The problem is that insurers have little access to the types ...New breast cancer therapy trials show dramatic results
...e signs of the tumor. In others, the treatment has saved women's breasts from surgical removal. In every case, it has halted the tumor from growing, said Blackwell, a Duke medical oncologist who runs the protocol with a team of a dozen colleagues. The results are far more dramatic than any of the team en...UCSF health economists urge global AIDS fund to finance prevention first
...sure of health benefit that reflects years of life saved by an intervention adjusted for the quality and socio-economic value of each life-year saved. The $350 cost is based on the lowest available discount price for the standard three-drug combination therapy for one person for one year that has been o...