Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...ants with undevelopedlungs have a better chance of surviving today due to the advent ofsurfactant therapy, a liquid that allows babies' lungs to inflate. Afterthe Food and Drug Administration in 1990 approved the use of surfactant totreat potentially fatal breathing problems, the death rate of prematureinfants...ACE-Inhibitors Score High In Reducing Heart Attack Deaths
...ers high blood pressure improves aperson's odds of surviving after a heart attack, say researchers reporting on astudy of nearly 100,000 heart attack patients that appears in today'sCirculation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The drugs, called an ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors, inte...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
... patients survivethe first 30 days, the chances of surviving past six months or even a year arebetter if they receive lamifiban compared with standard treatment. "We don't know specifically how long before each individual patient isstabilized after a heart attack," says Moliterno. "Most deaths and second he......leto try to get more certain of a baby's chance of surviving to lead a reasonablyhealthy life." In most foreign countries, treating very premature infants is lessaggressive than in the United States, she said. By David Williamson Note: Doron, a mother who wor......eople seek treatment, the greater their chances of surviving andreducing damage to the heart," he says. According to the American Heart Association, the warning signs of heart attackare: uncomfortable pressure; fullness; squeezing or pain in the center of thechest lasting more than a few minutes; pain spreadin...New Drug Boosts The Power Of Traditional Cancer Therapies, UF Animal Studies Show
...to combretastatin. "The strategy is to kill those surviving tumor cells with conventional treatment, such as radiation therapy or chemotherapy," he said. Combretastatin also was able to kill off oxygen-starved tumor cells, which resist radiation and some forms of chemotherapy, Siemann said. Another study pub...U-M Researcher Addresses Changes In The Heart As It Ages
...a heart attack, it also can increase the chancesof surviving a heart attack, Boluyt said. "Regular exercise can delay or partially reverse some of these changes in theheart and improve the reserve capacity while reducing the risk of heart disease. Exercise can keep you and your heart younger. It won't ever be...Thymus May Hold Clue To Rebuilding Immune System After HIV
...ship in Infectious Diseases. "If youexpand the few surviving T-cells, you may not recover broad immunity to all infections. If T-cells programmed to fightcertain infectionshave been destroyed, they can only be replaced by new T-cells produced by thethymus." Using a marker for TCR-rearrangement excision circles...Comprehensive Heart Failure Program At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...ini. "AsAmericans live longer and longer, they are surviving such diseases as high bloodpressure and diabetes. As they grow older, the likelihood of congestive heartfailure increases. By working with primary care physicians and others in thecommunity, we hope to identify at-risk patients early, provide appropr......t aregoing to make the difference between possibly surviving and not surviving, or atleast having financial health and not having financial health. "Some people say we have too many specialists in this country, maybe weshouldn't have so many of these facilities. But here we're seeing in this casethe...Women Born With Birth Defects Run Small Risk Their Children Will Have Them
... defects were found to have a lower probability of surviving toadulthood, and once they reached adulthood, they were less likely than otherwomen to bear children. "Still, among those who do bear children, the vastmajority will have a healthy, unaffected baby," Wilcox said.......g death rate to an increase in thenumber of people surviving heart attacks. "Is the decline in deaths due to heart disease a result of improved medicalcare, including appropriate modification of risk factors, in people who have hadheart attacks?" asks Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., president of the AmericanHear...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...ther or not the donor marrow hadengrafted. The two surviving patients are still in remission up to two yearsafter receiving their transplants. Sykes notes that this less toxic approach to bone marrow transplantation mayopen the technique up to individuals - particularly the elderly - who could notwithstand th......t attack, you will have asomewhat better chance of surviving if the ambulance takes you to the nearestlarge-volume hospital rather than just the nearest hospital." The researchers reviewed results of treatment received by 98,898 Medicarepatients who were suffering myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) when ad...Immunology experiment aboard historic shuttle mission
... was so weak that spaceofficials worried about him surviving the stress of re-entry. With missions planned to Mars and aboard the International SpaceStation, scientists need to know what effects long-term space flight might haveon health, said Montana State University physicist and one-time astrona...Better psychiatric support needed for children who lose a parent
...an on the mental health difficulties they or their surviving parent, might be experiencing say the team. Led b...They found that both the bereaved children and the surviving parents showed more psychiatric difficulties than the team had expected. Their findings suggest tha...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...athappened in four of the DiGeorge infants. In the surviving infants, follow-upbiopsies showed normal appearing thymus tissue in their thigh muscle. As people age, their thymus glands shrink and become hard to locate nearthe heart, Markert said. That's because T cells already educated by the glandare i...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...n, D.C.-based American Chemical Society. The last surviving member of the original research team, biochemist Norman Heatley of Oxford University, will be a special guest at the ceremony, to be held at Fleming's laboratory in St. Mary's Hospital, London. While Fleming's identification of penicillin and its p...Illness severity, not age, predicts death in older sick people
...reach their 70s or 80s, they have little chance of surviving a serious illness and that younger patients have a much greater chance" Hamel says. "While it's true that age is associated with worse outcomes, the effect is fairly modest. It's important to look at patients as individuals and not make generalizati......ease in the number of profoundly disabled children surviving infancy into childhood, Hall argues that the demand for paediatric services will continue to increase. In his discussion paper the author highlights some of the implications for children living within an ageing society. He says that women are now ha...