Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
... older, cold ischemia time of 12 hours or more and urgent recipient status were independent risk factors for...s for increasing donor age, cold ischemia time and urgent UNOS status on patient survival. "From these findings, we can develop preliminary models of pretrans...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
...suffering of persons living with HIV/AIDS are more urgent than ever," they write. "Continued study of cancer in people with HIV/AIDS will redound to give us clues about cancer etiology to the benefit of all."...Stroke warning signs often occur hours or days before attack
...s early as seven days before an attack and require urgent treatment to prevent serious damage to the brain, according to a study of stroke patients published in the March 8, 2005 issue of Neurology , the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Eighty percent of strokes are ischemic, caused...Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
...e found such a marker are so exciting: there is an urgent public health need for it." Significance of the Mayo Clinic Research The Mayo Clinic researchers conclude that they have found the first genetic marker to help doctors identify which cases of a condition known as sporadic brain aneurysm are at hig...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...y ill SARS cases." The Workshop report noted: "An urgent need exists for antiviral drugs to prevent and treat SARS. During the first global outbreak, various interventions were used in management, including antivirals like ribavirin, interferon, and protease inhibitors, as well as host immunomodulary agen...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...tigating stem cells that give rise to cancer is an urgent new initiative, as is identifying stem-cell treatments that might end the disease process. Jordan and Guzman are among only a handful of stem cell biologists nationwide who are specifically studying cancer stem cells. In recent years, scientists have...Violence in the media can lead to aggressive behaviour in young children
...emotional maltreatment of the child. "There is an urgent need for parents and policy makers to take an educational rather than censorial approach. Parents and teachers can view age appropriate violent material with children and help them critically appraise what they see, in terms of its realism, justifica...South Africa in denial over number of deaths from HIV/AIDS
...All". Without making HIV/AIDS his highest and most urgent priority, this motto will be nothing more than empty words."...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...These include such settings as outpatient clinics, urgent care clinics or emergency rooms in areas that have in the past been deemed low-risk for HIV. The researchers recommended expanded testing because of the success over the past decade of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in prolonging the qu...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
...debut of the Red Dress Collection 2005 delivers an urgent reminder for women to care for their hearts and to take action against heart disease, still the number one killer of women." Two years after the launch of the Red Dress symbol by NHLBI, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of He...IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...o see that leaders in Congress have recognized how urgent this problem is, and we stand ready and willing to work with them to ensure that the scope of the bill and its incentives sufficiently cover infectious diseases, particularly antibiotics research and development and pandemic influenza preparedness," ...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
One of the most urgent problems in HIV/AIDS policy is in deciding how best to allocate resources toward preventing new infections or treating infected individuals. An analysis by Joshua Salomon and colleagues in the premier open-access journal PLoS Medicine, published on...Prentiss Foundation awards $5 million to University Hospitals
...indling says. The new facility will address three urgent needs: Enable parents of a child experiencing a major psychiatric episode to focus on helping the child first, while simultaneously guiding parents through the other necessary steps in administering the treatment process. Provide critical access t...Obesity in middle age may drastically raise future medicare expenditures
... overweight and obesity afflicting all age groups, urgent preventive measures are required not only to lessen the burden of disease and disability associated with excess weight but also to contain future health care costs incurred by the aging population," Daviglus said. "Public heal...Health care charges higher for older adults who were overweight or obese when younger
... overweight and obesity afflicting all age groups, urgent preventive measures are required not only to lessen the burden of disease and disability associated with excess weight but also to contain future health care costs incurred by the aging population," the authors write....4 million more health workers required to improve global health
...in this week's issue of THE LANCET are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. The Lancet article is an executive summary of a fuller report about human resources...'Sit-down' rounds improve outcomes for kidney dialysis patients
... patient. The latter are brief and often focus on urgent issues, he says. "Our results provide evidence that time spent meeting to discuss each patient's progress is as important as direct patient care in chronic disease management, in that this rounding practice is associated with better outcomes," Powe ...HHS awards $10.4 million to fight AIDS on three continents
...IDS burden is highest, CIPRA grants help meet this urgent need." CIPRA grants are awarded to resource-limited countries. One eligibility requirement is that applications come from countries that have a Gross National Income per capita equal to or less than U.S. $5,000. Since the first awards in September 2...New study shows patients experience asthma variability, despite strict adherence to guidelines
... primary care physicians, asthma clinics or urgent care facilities than those in the low variability group.(1) Hospitalization, emergency room visits and clinic visit costs for treating asthma of high variability patients were estimated at $163 per patient per month, twice...Hepatitis C at epidemic levels among young injectors in London
...n the total number of HIV infections. There is an urgent need for new and comprehensive programmes to tackle this growing problem." For the study, the researchers recruited 428 injecting drug users, aged below 30 years or who had been injecting for six years or less, and followed them up one year later. T...