ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...ucial to appropriate clinical practice, comprising specific recommendations on treatment methods, collated by senior European experts and opinion leaders in the field. For maximal relevance, Guidelines must be well presented, practical and relevant to the clinician on both a national and local level. The fo...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
... of the hospitals reported that QIOs had initiated specific interventions, most commonly providing educational materials, benchmark data, and hospital performance data. The majority of respondents, sixty percent, rated QIO interventions as "helpful" or "very helpful." The generally positive view of QIOs sug...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...ugh their infant mortality rates are low. When the specific causes of such anomalies are known, there is a strong basis for corrective action. Health improves when that action is taken, and health systems are run and financed more effectively."...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...is of the ESC Euro Heart Survey databases to yield specific data on women and CVD, such as comparisons of the differences between women and men in specific disease and treatment areas across Europe, to offer better understanding of women's CVD overall Wom......of the health benefits of red wine and perhaps the specific polyphenolic extracts with the described properties would be a great contribution to society," Sumpio said....Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...nd our EMS doesn't have experience recognizing the specific group of patients who will benefit from these treatments. It only seems reasonable that we should test for ourselves in the United States whether such a system works before we adopt it." Saif Rathore, the study's first author and a second-year medic...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...when an enzyme chemically "retypes" RNA letters at specific locations, changing adenosine (A) to inosine (I). Proteins responsible for fast chemical and electrical signaling in animal nervous systems are the main targets of this process. In a prior study, Reenan's group identified species-specific patterns of...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...he scanner mapped participants' neural activity in specific brain areas before, during and after the presentation of the visual target events. "Our goal was to see if the high-risk individuals showed normal brain activity during these executive tasks or whether or not they showed some of the pathology of ind...Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...n covered procedures and a new tactic of excluding specific procedures may be forcing some adults and children...new exclusion tactic simply eliminates coverage of specific procedures due to contractual (insurance plan) language with no opportunity to appeal. At least one ...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...amphetamine," says Janda, who believes that highly specific methamphetamine antibodies can be made in a laboratory and then used as a clinical treatment for addiction. In theory, antibodies to the drug could be mass produced and administered at therapeutic levels that are high enough to clear the drug from th...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...und, differences in overall health conditions, and specific regulatory measures. While regional preferences for some inappropriate medications need a more in-depth evaluation, these variations indicate amenability to intervention, particularly in Eastern Europe. Future efforts should be targeted to modifiable...Study shows acrylamide in baked and fried food does not increase risk of breast cancer in women
... appears to form as a result of a reaction between specific amino acids and sugars found in foods when heated ...mong study participants who had greater intakes of specific foods known to contain acrylamide. Lorelei Mucci, lead author of the study and a researcher in the ...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
...Epstein-Barr virus, the investigators found that a specific viral protein targets a molecule that normally reg...raction between this essential EBV protein and the specific pathway in human B cells is currently underway. Initial studies show that the growth of EBV-associat...New hand-held information system for emergency responders
... the range of substances that may be involved in a specific incident. As the emergency responder selects observed properties and symptoms, WISER looks in its database for chemical substances that have these characteristics. The list of candidate chemicals decreases as additional information is provided, and W...Genetics important in age-related macular degeneration
...tive roles of genes, common shared environment and specific (unique to the individual) environment. Of the 840...ity] and 28 to 64 percent of the variation in the specific macular measures." "In summary, based on what is, to our knowledge, the largest twin study of AMD t...Depression may explain higher risk of heart attack associated with antidepressants
...s). The authors also failed to find any link with specific antidepressants or with the class of drug, leading them to conclude that any increase in heart attack risk is more likely to be linked to the underlying depression rather than the drugs themselves....Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...hor of the study. "The increased activity might be specific for hypnosis or might be non-specific, but it defi...ght be going on and help researchers ask even more specific questions aimed at identifying the underlying mechanism," Schulz-Stubner said. "It is one piece of t...Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
... of chemical components, rather than looking for a specific group of compounds. "At this point in the study, w...uch as the lungs. It is unclear, however, what the specific causes of these reactions might be, and the only way to gain better understanding is to know what ch...Dental practitioners can be instrumental in preventing their patients' eating disorders
...or eating disorders, and fewer than 43% prescribed specific home dental-care instructions. Approximately 20% arranged a more frequent recall program, while only 20% of dentists and 17% of dental hygienists referred patients for treatment. Only 12.6% of dentists and 7.3% of hygienists reported communicating wi...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...1974, that money has predominately gone to disease specific research, such as Alzheimer's disease, or towards ...s DNA repair. As we learn to control expression of specific genes, we may be able to prolong healthy cell life without a complete understanding of the biochemic...