Cardiac Arrests Outside Hospital - Survival Could Be Improved By Better Public Awareness Of Symptoms
...de by Ruston and Norris and in particular stresses that as two thirds of all cardiac patients die at home, basic life support training should be targeted at close relative and friends of patients with known coronary artery disease. The author also draws attention to the proposed use of "intelligent" de...New Research In Battling Alzheimer's Impact On Memory
....D., this information could beused to design drugs that might prevent either this initial step or itsconti...alled beta-peptide, is the major protein component that eventuallyaggregates and precipitates as plaque -- an insoluble amyloid deposit -- in thebrains of A...Adding Progestins May Negate Heart Protection From Estrogen Replacement Therapy
... "The study is important because it indicates that there is a differencebetween estrogen and estrogen...on the blood vessels,researchers performed a study that divided 100 postmenopausal women into twogroups; one received ERT plus progestins and the other rece...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...ediately. But in many states, legislative barriers that restrict the use of medicaldevices to re-start the...eart Association. The report's authors say that greater availability of public accessdefibrillation (PAD) -- which refers to a treatment for out-of-...Warfarin Continues To Be Underused As Stroke Preventive
Despite powerful evidence that the blood-thinning drug warfarin can preventstroke...stroke. Byleading to the formation of blood clots that may travel to the brain, thecondition accounts for about 80,000 strokes annually. Achieving more wi...Need For HIV Guidelines For Health Workers In Developing Countries
...h worker in the developing world. The authors note that the prevalence of HIV infection among patients that are cared for is very high in some poorer countries and that such regions tend to lack the resources...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...ide to start smoking. The Cornell researchers say that a 20-cent a pack tax increase would reduce the num...s than one-half a percentage point. They estimate that a $1.50 a pack tax boost would reduce the number by about two percentage points. Some researchers h...Fat: It's Not For Breakfast Anymore; Study Finds Fat Linked To Clotting
...ons in a blood-clotting factor, calledfactor VIIa, that has been associated with heart attack. Lou...lands,conducted the study to identify dietary fats that might raise the risk of heartdisease. "Factor VIIa increases after intake of dietary fat," says Men...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...nd her co-authors cited a Harvard University study that reported one-third of theadult American population...some type of unconventional therapy and a third of that segmentsought the treatment of an alternative practitioner. Alternative health care includes...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...Costello, from the Institute of Child Health, says that like the tobacco companies, the promotional activi...al claims for damages from consumers. He suggests that in the meantime countries and monitoring agencies can take four steps to prevent commercial pressure...Baby Milk Manufacturers Are Breaking The Rules
...ragency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring, reveals that baby milk manufacturers are breaking the internati...land, South Africa and Thailand. The author found that baby milk manufacturers violate the code by continuing to send free gifts to mothers or indirectly a...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
...n activelysupporting the important causes in China that improve the quality of life here. P&G has provided more than $5 million for education, health care, environmentprotection, disaster-relief and social welfare projects. These projects includepartnership with the Ministry of Health on oral health educ...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
Drugs that successfully carve away at cancers of the lung, br...ces, is the first to measure the size of the pores that line the bloodvessels surrounding a variety of solid tumors. As solid tumors shrink, so do themicros...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
...e brain during a stroke.Now, physicians have shown that clot-busting drugs(thrombolytics) can save the leg...ded the study. "This study shows conclusively that this drug minimizes theneed for surgery," says first author Kenneth Ouriel, a Universityof Rochester......lopment (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network suggests that thesteroid dexamethasone, which is commonly prescr... as possible. Dexamethasone is a therapy that neonatologists use because it improvesthe function of premature infants' lungs so that they get off ...Heart Laser Surgery: An Alternative To Transplantation
...chers at Temple University Hospital are indicating that the use of heart laser surgery may replace transpl... suffer from end-stage coronary artery disease and that number is growing by an estimated 20% each year. Many of these individuals can not have bypass surg......istant. An additional advantage of aminosidine is that it lowers the overall burden to the health system, owing to the fact that the drug is cheaper than regular treatments and the shorter period of hospitalisation required. Cont...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...sorption of the medication. These findingssuggest that Neoral has clinical advantages, which may translate into improved outcomes for heart transplant recipients. In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Neoral for theprevention of organ rejection. Based upon scientific registry data from..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
... trauma systems. The authors, nonetheless, caution that this first application was notnecessarily meant to be an evaluation of Maryland. Rather, it was more of aprobationary demonstration of TRAMAH's adaptability to any state. Furtherresearch, including the incorporation of Global Positioning Systems and ...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...ter in Dallas. In one report researchers found that the benefits of the popular statin drugs -- shown ...hed the lower levels. Even though the data suggest that there may be attenuation in the benefit ofcholesterol lowering below 125 mg/dL, Grundy stresses that...