Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...patients treated by experienced careproviders have shorter hospital stays, better outcomes and lower cost. "The AIDS capitation program focuses on what has been a flagship effortat Hopkins for high quality, cost-effective care for AIDS patients," says JohnD. Stobo, M.D., chairman and CEO of Johns Hopkins H...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
...tion is administered in an accelerated dose over a shorter period of time." That's important because heart surgery often must be performed quickly, without the luxury of a lengthy pre-operative treatment period. The required week-long treatment with amiodarone limits its widespread use for the preventi...Do Asthma Treatments Affect Childhood Growth?
...ion in their stature. Children in this group were shorter and lighter than their contemporaries, but social deprivation seemed to be the dominant influence. Contact: Mr C McCowan, Project Officer, National Asthma Campaign, Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Scotland c.mccowan@dun......he drug is cheaper than regular treatments and the shorter period of hospitalisation required. Contact: Dr P Olliaro, Manager, Steering Committee on Drugs for Malaria (CHEMAL), World Health Organisation, UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease, 20 Avenue Appia, Gen...New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
... in which theaverage length of a hospital stay was shorter in t-PA-treated patients, 10.9days, than in patients not treated with t-PA, 12.4 days. t-PA-treated patientswere more frequently discharged to their home than to inpatient rehabilitationcenters or nursing homes. The cost of t-PA treatment i...Cost-Effective Treatment Possible In Africa For HIV-Positive Pregnant Women If Drug Prices Lowered
...ral stepsmust occur, he noted, for this to happen: shorter therapy and other changes tominimize resource use; careful evaluation of treatment efficacy of modifiedtherapies; and reduction of high cost components, which in this case is drugprice. Directed by Thomas J. Coates, PhD, who also is a UCSF professor ......ral stepsmust occur, he noted, for this to happen: shorter therapy and other changes tominimize resource use, careful evaluation of treatment efficacy of modifiedtherapies, and reduction of high cost components, such as drug prices....Changes In Care Lower Costs Of Surgery To Prevent Stroke
...at the beginning ofthe study. "The lower costs and shorter hospital stays are mainly due to carefulpreoperative evaluation and, consequently, fewer complications. Doctors arealso getting better at determining who are the best candidates for carotidendarterectomy," she says. Researchers evaluated 757 patient...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
...fmicrowave exposure during the breast scan will be shorter than many phone callsand much, much less frequent." The discomfort of X-ray mammography will also be eliminated, Hagness said."Instead of compressing the breast between two plates, the microwave antennaarray will gently rest flat against the breast ......"CR2"), thesesubsequent remissions normally have a shorter duration than the prior CR (amedian of only 6 months in the case of CR2 patients). The objective of Maxamine Therapy is to treat AML patients in remission with thecombination of Maxamine and low doses of interleukin-2 (IL-2) to prevent relapseand p...Neutron Research To Help In Treatment Of Cancer Patients
...lpha particles is the diameter of a fewcells, much shorter than the path length of electrons. "Gamma rays often wanderaround in the healthy tissue," Grimes says. "Neutrons don't go very far oncethey hit matter." Neutron beams used in these kinds of experiments are created with amachine called an acce...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
...benecessary, especially for men whose vessels had shorter atherosclerotic lesionsnot involving the top of the artery that feeds the left side of the heart. According to the analysis, a simple angioplasty to clear the blockage appears towork as well as implanting a stent. "In 1998, more than 500,000 people r......ars. The compliant-pre-stress system (CPS) uses a shorter metal three inch titaniumstem fixed to the femur with five pins. Inside the implant is a series ofspring washers. When the surgeon tightens the implant to the bone, the washersact like a spring and generate a stress to the bone. This provides thes...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...ithout a seizure before they return to driving:the shorter the interval, the greater the likelihood of an acc...ed risk compared withpeople behind the wheel after shorter intervals. An interval of six months ormore meant people were 85 percent less likely to have an acc......ncebrought improved quality of life, and fewer and shorter hospitalizations." At the study's inception, all participants -- 104 frail elderly livingat home -- underwent a comprehensive assessment of their home environment andtheir functional abilities, using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM),......es fanning out at angles. Shown asecond set of two shorter lines at similar angles, the participants were askedto identify which lines in the original fan array matched the angles of theshorter lines. One verbal intelligence task involved extrapolations of wordrelationships. Some examples: "sailor is to navy...E-mail Is A Powerful Tool In Doctor-Patient Relationship
...y can respond to more questions from patients in a shorter time." The author concludes that despite some reservations from doctors that email would further increase their workload, there is great potential to allow email contact with patients under appropriate circumstances....... percent of the athletes reported menstrual cycles shorter (less than 26 days)or longer (more than 32 days) than the normal range. Only 19 percent of thenon-athletes reported abnormal cycle lengths. Williams notes, "What was surprising was that when a representativesubgroup of the athletes were stud...... the liveconductor. Lightning strikes have an even shorter duration, only lasting up to afew milliseconds. Most of the current from a lightning strike passes over thesurface of the body in a process called "external flashover." Both industrial shocks and lightning strikes result in deep burns at point ofcont......ounds and mini-incisions," he said. "It offersmuch shorter hospitalization time, much reduced need for pain medication, asignificant reduction in the need for blood products in the perioperativeperiod, much faster return to work and, most importantly, a greater willingnesson the part of individuals to consid...