Heart disease kills more women annually than all cancers combined
...e of 45 in the United States is heart disease. The statistics are not new--heart disease has been the number one killer of women for 100 years. It kills 65,000 more women than men, taking the lives of younger women (under 45) as well as older women at alarming rates. "We thought hormones have a protective effe...Government psoriasis research funding down over last decade while NIH budget up 148%
Portland, Ore., May 17, 2004 Armed with statistics showing psoriasis research funding languished as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) enjoyed record budget increases, the National Psoriasis Foundation released its 2004 legislative agenda today as its members gathered in Washington, DC to meet w...Celebrities are root cause of rush to dentist
...t in Britain and Australia suggests. Even though statistics show younger generations enjoy better oral health than ever, a study by an international team of researchers led by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and the University of Adelaide in Australia, has revealed they are more likely to complain ...When it comes to cancer prognosis, it's not just the tumor that matters
...uis. "We therefore need to incorporate comorbidity statistics into cancer registry records to make our data more accurate and, by extension, to help clinicians determine the best treatments for cancer patients." In 1995, Piccirillo and his colleagues trained cancer registrars to record comorbidity information d...Generics slow rising cost of prescription drugs in 2003
...plan sponsors and their members. Express Scripts' statistics show that for every 1% increase in generic drug use, prescription benefit plan sponsors save 1% off their cost for drugs in providing the benefit. In addition to the release of new generic drugs, the greater use of generic drugs can be att...National study shows 82 percent of U.S. homes have mouse allergens
...d to be a representative sample of U.S. homes. For statistics derived from the 831 homes, the contribution from ... home was weighted as necessary to ensure that the statistics are representative of the U.S. population. Dust samples used in the study were collected from kitche...July/August 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...s more than 50 percent. As the authors point out, statistics show that disadvantaged patients, including racial and ethnic minorities, patients of low socioeconomic status and those who are uninsured or insured by Medicaid are more likely to have poor cancer outcomes, possibly in part to lower use of screening...UCI's Brain Imaging Center chosen to help advance nation's Roadmap for Medical Research
...r), brain circuitry (Fallon), data mining (Smyth), statistics (Stern) and virtual reality and visualization (Falco Kuester, engineering researcher) from UCI and geneticists from the University of Toronto (Drs. James Kennedy and Fabio Macciardi) will integrate brain imaging data with the genetic information reve...Under the surface, the brain seethes with undiscovered activity
...escribe the pattern statistically, and match those statistics of how the ferret responded to the film with the statistics of the actual visual aspects of the film. Weliky found two surprises. First, while the neurons of ad...MRI can measure early benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs and plaque reduction
...ng properties," said Lima. According to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association, in 2001, there were more than 72,100 deaths directly related to atherosclerosis, and it causes many more deaths from heart attack and stroke. Overall, atherosclerosis accounts for nearly three-fourths of all deat...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
...long way to go," Chen said. The latest tobacco use statistics for Asian Americans in California reveal dramatic variations from one Asian American subgroup to another. For example, 36 percent of Korean American men and 32 percent of Vietnamese American men smoke cigarettes, according to Hao Tang, a research sci...Breast cancer in Asian Americans is rising faster than in any other ethnic group
... from 1988 through 2001, the latest year for which statistics are available. "We're encouraged by these data, but we hope that this report will serve as a clarion to urge Asian American women, who are the least likely to seek cancer screening such as mammograms, to look out for their health," said Moon S. Chen,...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
...e how it works in people." According to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association, in 2001, there were an estimated 565,000 new cases of heart attack in the United States, plus an additional 300,000 cases of recurrent heart attack. Almost 185,000 of all heart attacks were fatal. The AHA also e...Infection puts extremely low birth weight infants at risk for developmental delays
...ighing less than 1000grams, or 2.2 pounds. Yearly statistics are not compiled on ELBW infants. Study co-author Rosemary Higgins, M.D., of NICHD's Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, estimated that as many as 50 percent of newborns below 1500 grams may fall into the ELBW category. The study enrolled infants wei...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...led than African-Americans. Tait notes that these statistics reflect the effects of both race and socioeconomic status. Even when socioeconomic status is held constant, disparities remain: The typical tab on medical treatment for African-Americans studied is more than $4,000 less than for Caucasians. Th...Generic drug use varies widely by state, study reveals
...r plan sponsors and their members. Express Scripts statistics show that for every 1% increase in generic drug use, prescription benefit plan sponsors save nearly 1% off their cost for drugs in providing the benefit. Express Scripts' overall generic dispensing rate increased to 51% in the third quarter of 2004. ...USC researchers highlight disparities in cancer rates among racial and ethnic groups in California
...gh as those among South Asian groups, according to statistics from the California Cancer Registry and researchers at the Los Angeles Cancer Surveillance Program at USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Cancer incidence and mortality rates differ so much among California ethnic groups that black men are act...Size of myocardial infarct measured using MRI
...ced on a display screen. According to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association, in 2001, there were an estimated 565,000 new cases of heart attack in the United States, plus an additional 300,000 cases of recurrent heart attack. Almost 185,000 of all heart attacks were fatal. The AHA also e...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...ness and death in the United States. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), liver and biliary (gallbladder) disease, including liver cancer, accounts for about 46,000 deaths each year and ranks ninth in overall causes of death. Because of the high rates of liver dis...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
... the number of alcohol-related infractions is low, statistics compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration indicate that about one person in 200 of the tested flight crew had BACs above the legal limit. In the 1960s, more than 30 percent of pilots who were killed in plane crashes had elevated BACs. Some st...