Many uninsured adults do not receive needed medical care
...reported forgoing needed care, including about two thirds of those in poor health and half of those in fair health," the authors assert. "These findings challenge the views of a growing proportion of Americans - from 43 percent in 1993 to 57 percent in 1999 -- who believe that uninsured people are able to ...California labor market is strong, but workers in poor health don't benefit, UCSF study reports
...Californians report holding more than one job. Two thirds of California's households with two or more adults..., almost half of these workers are men. Almost two thirds are in their prime earning years of 25-54, and more than a third have at least some college educatio...Bexxar highly effective as first-line treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...oped human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA). About two thirds of these patients experienced flu-like symptoms lasting less than one week. Virtually all patients - 74 of 76 - responded in some way to treatment. An impressive number of patients (58) achieved a complete response. About 70 percent of those patients...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
...rsity of Chicago and co-author of the paper. "Two thirds of node-neagative patients will never develop metastases, even with out chemotherapy. As we find more and more biomarkers that can predict which patients those will be, we can eliminate the unnecessary morbidity caused by treating patients who are we...No evidence to suggest breast cancer is linked to stress
...y that stressful life events are common (about two thirds of women with a breast lump experienced at least one severe life event or difficulty in the five years before). They conclude that women with breast cancer can be told that life stresses are unlikely to have played an important part in the developme...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
... diabetes forHispanics and African-Americans, two- thirds of the families to be recruitedwill be Hispanics and one-third African-Americans. She said the average participant in IRAS was now in his or her 60s,which would put their parents in their 80s and their children in their 30s or40s. The study ......contraception the researchers found that about two thirds of all girls who had used this method had used it only once. The team also investigated levels of sexual activity among the adolescent girls and found that 13.3 per cent of 14 year olds, 28.8 per cent of 15 year olds and 51.5 per cent of 17 year olds......tored bone mass to its original level innearly two thirds of the women participating in the trial, UC San Franciscoscientists reported today. The new drug treatment -- a synthetic version of part of a natural human proteincalled parathyroid hormone (hPTH 1-34) -- was three times more effective atreversing b......rthday. Among children born in 1965 or later (two thirds of all children in the study) it was possible to make comparisons with cancer rates in the general population of England and Wales. No unusual cancer patterns were evident. Roman et al also found that the leukaemia rate in children whose fathers had......t attacks. This trendis responsible for about two thirds of the decline in deaths. The reportattributes the other third of the declining 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 appr...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...ithout transplantation.In some studies, nearly two thirds of acetaminophen-damaged livers haverecovered without transplantation. The secondary goal is to extend the patient's ability to wait for a suitableorgan for transplant. Patients in complete liver failure have only a few days towait before irreversi...Tobacco Will Kill One Third Of Chinese Men
...oke, ischaemic heart disease and tuberculosis. Two thirds of men now become smokers before age 25; few give up and about half of those who persist will be killed (about half of all persistent cigarette smokers in Britain and America are eventually killed by tobacco). Tobacco currently causes 13 per cent o...Understanding Why Antibiotics May Be Over-prescribed For Patients With Sore Throats
... about the appropriate use of antibiotics, and two thirds of patients gained satisfaction from receiving information and reassurance from their GPs. Doctors were divided about the possible benefits of a national campaign to educate the public, but saw the value of educating patients individually. Contact: ...About The Care Of Patients Before They Are Admitted To Intensive Care
...se whose care was managed well). In addition, two thirds of the 54 patients who were not treated adequately were admitted late into intensive care. The authors discovered that the problems lay in suboptimal management of oxygen therapy, airway, breathing, circulation and monitoring before admission to inte...Secondary Prevention Of Heart Disease Should Be Improved
... or aspirin. They also discovered that nearly two thirds of patients had two or more high risk lifestyle factors that would benefit from change, such as exercising, giving up smoking or a eating a better diet. The authors also found that practices which ran nurse led clinics to promote secondary prevention...Antibiotic Prophylaxis Could Help Prevent Respiratory Infections in the Critically Ill
...s of respiratory tract infections fell by over two thirds and overall mortality was reduced in critically ill patients. However, Liberati et al warn that these positive effects do not take account of potential antibiotic resistance if such a practice was undertaken on a widespread scale and suggest that f...Cardiac Arrests Outside Hospital - Survival Could Be Improved By Better Public Awareness Of Symptoms
... 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" defibrillators b...Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
...senceof red blood cells. "In two thirds of patients, 200-300 milligrams of aspirin wasinsufficient to block platelet clumping in the presence of red blood cells,despite the fact that aspirin abolished thromboxane synthesis," says Marcus."Insufficient blocking of this thrombosis-promoting p...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
...3 patients, or about 5 percent of the sample. Two thirds of this group were women, with a mean age of 65 years. Findings showed that 40 percent of patients with calcification had the finding in both carotid arteries. While most of these patients had no stroke symptoms and only three had a history...