Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...rt catheterization between blacks and whites, this study takes a closer look at a wide range of recommended...nts compared to white patients," Sonel said. Other study findings included: 29.2 percent of black patients received glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors within...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
... men with less than a high school education. This study did not examine the reasons for these disparities,...or CVD appear to be increasing." Co-authors of the study are Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D.; Earl S. Ford, M.D., MPH; Kurt J. Greenlund, Ph.D.; and Janet B. Croft, Ph....Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...ients they perceived as being high-risk. "In our study we found that health care report cards, as they ar...s Affairs Medical Center. "One implication of our study is that report cards work in ways that are more complicated than we assumed, and some physicians may...Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
...an increased risk of heart failure, according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. Experimental and ep...ilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues conducted a study to evaluate whether long-term supplementation with vitamin E decreases the risk of cancer, cancer de...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...as angioplasty and bypass surgery), according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. According to backgr...ng the lowest rates of both was 6.2 percent." "Our study confirmed that clinicians were more likely to provide invasive treatments to lower-risk than higher-...Most hospital executives have substantial concerns about mandatory error reporting systems
... and increase the risk of lawsuits, according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. Since the early 199...neral Hospital, Boston, and colleagues conducted a study to elicit the views of hospital executives with regard to mandatory state reporting systems and clos...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...s among elderly home care patients, according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. Use of potentially ...Prague, Czech Republic, and colleagues conducted a study to determine from a large sample of European home care elderly patients the prevalence of potentiall...Risk of cardiac death after radiotherapy for breast cancer has declined, study finds
...decreased in the last 25 years, according to a new study in the March 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. In 2002, about 42% of women with breast cancer received adjuvant radiation therapy after surgery. Adjuvant radiation therapy decreases a woman's risk of local recurrence of her ...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
...rcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a new study in the March 16 issue of the Journal of the Natio...0 people infected with HIV. People with HIV in the study had a highly elevated risk of Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. They also had an increased ri...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
... In the largest and most comprehensive prospective study of its kind, researchers at The University of Texa... over the last quarter century, according to a new study published in the March 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. This study offers s...Other highlights in the March 16 JNCI
...spirin Chemoprevention of Colorectal Cancer A new study has found that, among women with a common variant ...ton, and colleagues conducted a nested casecontrol study of 1,062 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study. They found that among the women with varia...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
...loodstream infection over approximately a 20-month study period. According to the authors, bloodstream inf... ICU infections. In this study, 10 percent of the study population had documented ICU-associated bloodstream infections during their ICU stay. Of the 269 p...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...uman cancers including pancreatic. The Mayo Clinic study shows that in pancreatic cancer, the activity of NF Kappa B is regulated by GSK-3 Beta. Researchers determined this by showing that if they could decrease GSK-3 Beta protein or inactivate it using small molecular inhibitors, they could likewise decr...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...ams were conducted at the beginning and end of the study to assess changes in each individual's risk factors. The researchers also used the Framingham Risk Score, an estimate of the likelihood of developing major heart problems, such as a heart attack, within 10 years. Roughly half (196) of the participan...Study shows acrylamide in baked and fried food does not increase risk of breast cancer in women
...d, (9 percent of dose). Comparing the women in the study who had the lowest daily acrylamide intake, the re... not find an increased risk of breast cancer among study participants who had greater intakes of specific foods known to contain acrylamide. Lorelei Mucci, ...Fixing of the lumbar column aided by simple radiological techniques
...sed on intraoperatorial anatomical references. The study has been applied to 44 patients attending the University Hospital. The insertion of pedicular screws into the lumbar vertebral column is suitable for the treatment of fractures, problems of instability due to degenerative illness, tumours, etc. It in...Balance and better interactions between primary-care and specialist physicians improve US health
...en compared to other industrialized countries. The study is published as a Web exclusive on Health Affairs'...aid Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and a University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management a...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
..., Mar. 15, 2005 -- Initial results from an ongoing study evaluating the benefit of prostate cancer screenin... the March issue of the Journal of Urology . The study is part of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial being conducted ...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...ng to the U.S. recommended schedule. According to study results: In both treatment groups, > 99.9 pe...in adolescents and adults. In fact, in a clinical study involving 442 adolescents and adults who had a cough-related illness for more than seven days, appro...Neuronal death and processing of Tau protein in Alzheimer's disease
...occur "in vivo" in AD brain as an early event. The study shows the apoptotic properties of tau fragments in cultured hippocampal neurons, a neuronal subpopulation precociously affected by AD pathology. According to the authors, neurodegeneration would be perpetuated by an "autocatalytic process" in which ...