Intestine Transplant Results Reported At American Society Of Transplantation Meeting
...transplants. In addition, these modifications have significantly improved survival forpatients transplanted in the last four years, for whom there is a cumulative 65percent survival rate. Thirty-five patients are alive and able to maintain good nutrition for more thanthree years, and 22 are beyond the five-year m...The 'Break Even' Cost Of Kidney Transplants Is Shrinking
The cost of a kidney transplant has dropped so significantly that University ofMaryland School of Medicine researchers say it is cheaper to have a transplantthan to stay on dialysis for more than two and a half years, even among thesickest patients. "We found that the break even point was 2.7 years for all of ...Children Benefit Most From Sun Safety Interventions
...ction predict children's practiceswell but are not significantly associated with parents' practices. Fewer than half of the children "usually or always" use sunscreen whenoutdoors in the sun. But more than 80 percent of the children use sunscreenbefore going to the beach. Half of the children wear a shirt with ...Impulsive Children More Prone To Injuries
...alth problems where annualmortality rates have not significantly decreased over the past severaldecades," says David C. Schwebel of the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Aspublic health workers have sought to develop programs to prevent childhoodinjuries, researchers have begun to explore the psychological factors t...Depression May Lower Your Sex Hormones
...wer testosterone concentrations during daytime and significantly lowerconcentrations at night and across the 24-hour period. Similar concentrations of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) andluteinizing hormone in both groups, but the LH pulse was lower in depressedmen. Cortisol concentration 68 percent higher in ...Low Cholesterol Extracts A Price
...nd triglycerideconcentrations and found them to be significantly linked with depression andanxiety. "The findings add important information in helping us to understand biologicalaspects of depression and anxiety. Furthermore, the findings may be relevant toobservations of increased non-illness-related deaths [s...Stress speeds passage from HIV to AIDS, support retards it
...related causes. Major depressive episodes were not significantly related to AIDS progressionin the study itself, and few men were depressed at testing times. But therewas a trend for men who developed AIDS to be twice as likely to have havehad one or more major depressions before the onset of AIDS than those whod......blocked arteries and restore optimal blood flow in significantly more patients." Study Design TIMI-14 was a randomized, open-label, multi-centered, international trial involving 888 heart-attack patients who arrived at the hospital within 12 hours of experiencing chest pain. Patients were treated with one of th...Cocaine triggers heart attacks within one hour
...ournal of the American Heart Association. "Cocaine significantly increases the risk of heart attack in individuals who areotherwise at low risk," says Murray A. Mittleman, M.D., Dr. P.H., of theInstitute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at Beth Israel DeaconessMedical Center in Boston, who headed the resea...Medical tip sheet for June 4 (a)
...NTED ORGANS A therapeutic approach that appears to significantly reduce the rejection riskof transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinicaltrials but already has been adopted as an effective tool by most majortransplant centers throughout the country. The therapy was developed atCedars-Sin...Men at highest risk least likely to comply with post-heart-attack exercise program, UB study finds
...erides and a higher depression score. Smokers were significantly less compliant than non-smokers. Dorn said the findings may indicate that this program asked too much,too soon. "The preliminary sessions were low intensity, but the actual program wasbased on getting the heart rate up to a predete...Soy foods reduce risk of coronary heart disease
...ompared to the low-fat control diet, the test diet significantly lowered totalcholesterol levels, LDL cholesterol and the ratios of good to bad cholesterollevels. "Dietary strategy needs to be broadened to include high soluble fibreand soy protein foods which are also low in saturated fat." These cardiovascular be...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
..., patients who received a clot-busterearly on were significantly less likely to be disabled than patients who did n... survival rates nor recurrent stroke ratesdiffered significantly between the t-PA and placebo groups 12 months afterstroke. Stroke or brain attack occurs whe...Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
...e follow-up reports, the high risk groups reported significantly morealcohol, marijuana and other drug use than oth...Surprisingly, the only drug whose use was found to significantly predictlater violence, when contrasted with other drug use predictors was marijuana. In the study th...No link between oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction
...infarction: reassuring new findings) There is no significantly increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) in women who use oral contraceptives, say researchers in this week's BMJ. The team led by Dr Nicholas Dunn from the Drug Safety Research Unit in Southampton studied 2176 aged between 16 and 44 y......eeing." Why the quinaprilat-treated rabbits showed significantly greater vessel growththan those given captopril also remains uncertain. However, Isner suspects thetwo drugs act somewhat differently in the body. Although 10 percent of thebody's angiotensin circulates in the bloodstream, the other 90 percent exis...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
... go undetected foryears. Assuming that PSA testing significantly improves life expectancy, Etzioni andcolleagues estimate that for PSA testing to wholly explain the observedmortality decline, the average lead time in the population would have to bequite short - three years or less. Prostate cancer, however, typica...