Early seizures after epilepsy surgery predict more seizures
...usness. Many epilepsy patients can be successfully treated with medications that prevent the formation of the "electrical storms" in the brain that cause seizures. "About 20 percent of patients have epilepsy that does not respond to medication, and perhaps a third of these may be suitable for surgery," said ...More studies on risks and benefits of COX-2 inhibitors published in Archives of Internal Medicine
...hemorrhage is similarly heighted in warfarin users treated with either selective COX-2 inhibitors or nonselective NSAIDs. physicians and pharmacists who care for elderly patients taking warfarin should be aware of the potential risks of concomitant therapy with NSAIDs or COX-2 inhibitors, particularly beca...Study naming hospitals in top 5% for clinical quality released by HealthGrades
...better patient outcomes despite the fact that they treated more and sicker patients Methodology In its 200...e data, to compare on equal footing hospitals that treated sicker patients. Hospitals with risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates that scored in the to...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...ed detailed data from 5,823 black and white adults treated at the U-M Multidisciplinary Pain Center over eigh...that assessing depression symptoms in people being treated for chronic pain is complicated by a sort of "chicken and egg" problem: depression itself can cause ...Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood may increase HIV risk
... a personal or individual attribute that should be treated with medication or psychotherapy. However, the results of this study suggest that depression may be due in part to living in stressful, disadvantaged neighborhoods. Needle exchange programs, neighborhood revitalization projects and assistance with ob...Steroids increase death risk from traumatic head injury
...ies combined. The large study found that patients treated with corticosteroids were 18 percent more likely to die from their brain injury than those who did not take the drugs. Among the patients who received steroid treatment, 21 percent ,or 1,052 of the 4,985 treated, died, compared to 18 percent who rece...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
...ving a total of more than 31,000 patients who were treated in randomized clinical trials and more than 20,000 patients who were treated outside of them. "The bottom line is that the effects of treatments appear most of the time to be s...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
... compared to mice that were not fed the drug. The treated mice also had smaller hearts and improved heart function, whereas the untreated hearts were dilated with weakened function. For all mice with hypertrophy, the condition was surgically produced by constricting the main artery carrying blood from the h...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
...he best follow-up strategy for women who have been treated for early stage breast cancer, according to a new review of recent research. 1 The report suggests that more intensive lab tests like liver scans and molecular tumor markers do not improve the chances of detecting a recurrence of cancer or increase s...Study confirms ICDs more effective in preventing sudden cardiac death than medical therapies
...r-defibrillators, have a better outcome than those treated with medical therapies," according the Dr. Kadish....nts in all areas of cardiovascular care. Patients treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital benefit from a timely response to referrals and a multidisciplinar...CPR performance does not follow guidelines
...adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated by paramedics and nurse anesthetists in Stockholm, Sweden, London, and Akershus, Norway, between March 2002 and October 2003. The defibrillators were modified to measure chest compressions and ventilations, in addition to standard event and electroca...Adding radiation therapy to chemotherapy improves survival in patients with high-risk breast cancer
For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of ...Editorial urges 'black-box' warning for Bextra and Celebrex
... an analysis of two studies revealed that patients treated with Bextra after heart bypass surgery tripled the...nclear to what degree the risk extends to patients treated with lower doses for arthritis because studies of sufficient size and duration have not been reporte...Jump-starting T cells in skin cancer
...st deadly form of skin cancer, can be successfully treated in some cases by vaccinating patients with tumor proteins. How these vaccines work and why they are only effective in some patients remains unclear. Pierre Coulie and colleagues now show, in two articles in the January 17 issue of the Journal of Ex...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...kenings due to asthma, and better lung function in treated patients as compared with two fixed dosing regimens that were also tested. The study was conducted at 246 centers in 22 countries. Patents were randomized to one of three treatment groups: budesonide/formoterol (bud/form) twice a day plus the same ...Mobile surgical units prevent delays in treating wounded combat patients in Iraq
.... Ninety patients--30 U.S.M.C. and 60 Iraqis--were treated in the FRSS between March 21 and April 22, 2003. T...teams, with 21 patients identified as critical. Of treated injuries, 77 percent were penetrating and 64 percent occurred in patients' extremities. Seven U.S.M....Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...lications for patients at high cardiovascular risk treated with aspirin and a coxib." FitzGerald adds: "The clear emergence of a cardiovascular hazard from COX-2 inhibitors in patients, the weak rationale for a study of their protective properties in the first instance, and now this evidence from mice would ...New rights to access, but for most transparency is still as clear as mud
...n, in other countries, he says, commissioners have treated all requests for information in the same way, whereas, in reality, governments routinely discriminate against sensitive inquiries from MPs and journalists. He says that commissioners should similarly give special rapid responses to complaints about d...Heart patients treated by non-cardiologists less likely to receive medications
...itor and other recommended medications if they are treated by a non-cardiologist, according to a study written by pharmacists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and published January 15 in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. Beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and aldosterone antagonists have been sho...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...ccording to hospital records, almost half of those treated are indigent or uninsured. To keep up with the demand, Hall said, patients must be transferred without delay from emergency room triage to ancillary services, such as radiology departments, for x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and other diagnostic tests, or o...