Medical research suffers under data protection law
...ny lives and a great deal of public money would be saved if a high court judge concluded that the novel demand for informed consent has no basis either in law or in established common practice, they conclude....Sleep apnea treatment could save lives & money by reducing auto accidents, according to researchers
Each year, potentially 980 lives could be saved and $11.1 billion in automobile-accident costs could be avoided if drivers who suffer from a disorder called obstructive sleep apnea were successfully treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), according to a study by researchers at the...Hospital gowns' benefits outweigh costs in intensive care unit
...,000 to an intensive care unit's annual costs, but saved the unit over $400,000 in annual hospital costs associated with potential spread of the bacteria. The analysis, conducted over two-and-a-half years at the medical intensive care unit (MICU) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, focused on patients ......rams and found it was rare that screening programs saved money. "A seemingly inexpensive test, if suggested for a large number of subjects, can rapidly become an expensive program," she wrote. "A more expensive test with better operating characteristics (fewer false negatives and false positives) may actua...E-patients are a valuable resource
...obtained better care, averted medical mistakes, or saved their own lives are common. Medical online support groups have also become an important healthcare resource, while the net friendliness of clinicians and provider organisations is becoming an important new aspect of health care quality, they add. E-...Heart disease kills more women annually than all cancers combined
...ms and many of those who die of it could have been saved with medication or angioplasty/surgery if the disease was caught at an earlier stage. "If you look at most of the women who die of heart disease, an identifiable risk factor could have been addressed," Dr. Keller said. Even women who are identified ...Studies identify risk factors for colon cancer
..."Colorectal cancer can be treated and lives can be saved if the disease is caught early," according to Stacy Menees, M.D., lead author of the study. "The preferred screening method for identifying colorectal cancer is colonoscopy. Our research shows that seventy-five percent of women report embarrassmen...Benefits of screening for lung cancer with CT are not proven
..., which holds that early detection translates into saved lives. While that may be true for some cancers, there is currently no evidence to support that notion with lung cancer, said Patz. Nearly 98 percent of all lung nodules detected on initial CT scans are not lung cancer, said Patz. Thus, finding a lung...Hospital standards for high-risk surgeries save lives
... five surgeries, an estimated 7,818 lives would be saved if all hospitals met the standards. The biggest benefit would be for patients undergoing open heart surgery. Standards require hospitals to perform at least 450 surgeries a year and have risk-adjusted mortality rates below the national average. If al...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The chicken pox vaccine has saved America hundreds of millions of dollars since its introduction in 1995 by preventing the kinds of severe cases that used to send children, teens and adults to the hospital, a new study finds. In fact, it's even more effective -- and cost-effective --...Increased use of CT in past decade results in decreased costs for hospitals
.... Novelline. The main focus of the study was money saved by the hospital, but the benefits also affect the patient, according to Dr. Novelline. "CT is more accurate and better depicts anatomy than an X-ray, so surgeons can better plan surgical treatment for the patient. CT is also faster, which is of great...Plastic surgeons honor 'Patients of Courage' overcoming difficult obstacles, inspiring others
...m her chest to her knees. Trauma center physicians saved her life and performed skin grafting which left her with significant deformities. After enduring multiple reconstructive plastic surgeries, Chesson, now 16, is excelling academically and recently finished as First Runner-Up in the Teen Miss Alabama c......in is that the available supplies will be strictly saved for the groups who qualify for vaccination. Somewhat disingenuously, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all those who do qualify will get the vaccine, because take-up is never 100% anyway.' The editorial concludes: 'There is a les...Fetal tissue restores lost sight
...s blinded four generations of her family. What has saved the sight in one of her eyes is a transplant of a sheet of retinal cells. The vision in this eye has improved from 20:800 to 20:84 in the two-and-a-half years since the transplant- a remarkable transformation. So far, six patients with either advance...Implanted defibrillators cut heart patients death risk, some more than others
...ic heart disease who received an ICD, one life was saved over three years. But those with certain pre-existing conditions were more likely to die within a year, despite the benefits of ICDs." In all, 20 percent of patients who didn't receive ICDs died of heart-related causes by the end of the first y...Low cost drug helps reduce deaths, repeat heart attacks
... an injection of this heparin-like drug. The lives saved in Canada and around the world would be dramatic." Mr. Murray Martin, President and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences of Hamilton, said: "Part of our mission as an academic teaching hospital is to advance health care through education and research. We ...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
...t of Case, "not only in terms of lives potentially saved but in the hope it will offer. This is another example of the impact that Case, The Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals of Cleveland can have when we continue to align our resources, talent and initiative." The National Center for Regenerative ...Simple intervention nearly eliminates catheter-related bloodstream infections
...ave prevented over 40 infections, eight deaths and saved nearly $2 million in additional health care costs during the four-year study at Johns Hopkins, says Berenholtz. Patients in ICUs have an increased risk of bloodstream infections because nearly half of them require catheters - tubular medical devic...Ending racial disparities in health care could save 5 times more lives than tech advances
WASHINGTON -- Lives saved by reducing the mortality rate of African-American... rate of whites are five times those that could be saved by improvements in medical technology. So said the authors of "The Health Impact of Resolving Racial...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...uld be dramatically improved and millions could be saved every year, but only if the world takes bold steps in 2005. This essay is the first in a series summarising key conclusions of the UN Millennium Project, a 3-year independent advisory effort initiated by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to identify pr...