American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2003 (second issue)
...OR EXACERBATIONS Describing results that contrast sharply with those from several prior observational studies by other biomedical scientists, investigators found that, in a large cohort of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there was no significant effect from inhaled corticosteroi...Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US
...howed the percentage of IDUs infected with HIV was sharply lower in cities where black tar heroin use predominated compared to cities where powder heroin use predominated, a pattern that was not mirrored in the percentages of HIV-infected gay men. Using ethnographic, clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
...epressed. Finding depression associated with such sharply higher risks of stroke and vascular dementia, the researchers called for studies to see if antidepressive treatment will reduce this later risk. 4 p.m. Abstract P347 Many missed opportunities for secondary stroke prevention. In a statewide s...Almost half of rural North Carolina Adults report using 'home remedies'
...e widespread rural use of home remedies contrasted sharply with the use of alternative therapists such as acupuncturists, chiropractors and herbalists, which was estimated at only 8.6 percent. "That people are using home remedies and they're not using the alternatives that end up being talked about in the p...Not guilty! Evidence exonerates 328, but many still falsely imprisoned
...by other sorts of evidence. Exonerations increased sharply from about 12 a year through the early 1990s to an average of 43 annually after 2000, the U-M study found. The study did not include at least 135 additional innocent defendants who were framed by rogue police officers and cleared within the last five...News briefs from the journal Chest, June 2004
...creased until 1997, whereby the number of services sharply declined through 2001. The number of total health services followed a similar trend. In addition, age-adjusted rates of newly diagnosed asthmatics showed an initial increase in patients under age 65, followed by a plateau between 1995 and 1997, and...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...en were more clearly displayed and structures more sharply defined on DBT images. To reach the goal of clinical in vivo imaging, some practical issues need to be studied, such as the effect of breast compression and making sure pre- and post-injection images are properly aligned with one another so that the ...Physics World Digest August 2004: Eye surgery sharpens up
... this transparent membrane to ensure that light is sharply focused on the retina. The information is currently obtained by reflecting a narrow strip of light that is shone into the patient's eye. The new technique, developed by Jos Almeida, Sandra Franco and colleagues at the University of Minho in Portugal,...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...eadily downward for hospitalization, and one going sharply up for vaccination, starting in 1996, the first full year of the vaccine's availability. When the hospitalization curve is broken down into ages 0 to 4, ages 5 to 9, ages 10 to 19 and age 20 or older, the sharpest decline is among 0 to 4 year olds, ...OHSU study: Testosterone deprivation makes men forget
...ence in San Diego, found that word retention drops sharply after only two minutes among men undergoing testosterone deprivation therapy. However, initial learning of the words, or encoding, was the same for testosterone-deprived and healthy men, according to the study titled "Androgen ablation impairs hip...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for November 2004 (first issue)
...ve sleep apnea syndrome. Those figures contrasted sharply with data associated with the normal civilian population that showed a 24 percent sleep-disordered breathing rate and a 4 percent sleep apnea level. (For the study, sleep-disordered breathing was defined as 5 temporary pauses (apneas) or more in bre...Heavy, lifetime alcohol users may be toasting metabolic syndrome
...arly group peaked drinking at about age 2030; then sharply dropped as they age. Among women, the former early-peak-drinkers have a 52 percent higher risk of metabolic syndrome than current low-level drinkers. "A history of heavy, episodic drinking carries a greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome, rega...Study clarifies impact of age on safety of warfarin treatment for atrial fibrillation
...increased in patients with INR levels over 3.5 and sharply rose after 4.0. But even among older patients, achieving an of INR of less than 2.0 did not reduce risk below that seen at an anticoagulation level of 2.0 to 3.0. "Our study emphasizes that physicians should aim for an INR range of 2.0 to 3.0 when ...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
...cers with short-term treatment, however, contrasts sharply with clinical experience with cancer patients, say Penn researchers. This suggests that tumors often become resistant to therapy by finding a way around the genetic blockade. Using a model for breast cancer, researchers in the Abramson Family Cancer...Study casts doubt on increased mobility among US population
...rs, whereas long-distance moves have declined less sharply or have even remained relatively unchanged....Lead in the environment causes violent crime, reports University of Pittsburgh researcher at AAAS
...ous other products. Such measures have resulted in sharply lower levels of lead in children born today, compared to those born 30 years ago. Yet, Dr. Needleman's latest research shows that even very low levels of lead found in bone, as measured by a technique called X-ray fluorescence, can affect brain devel...