Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...eli Center and study leader. "The Western world is waiting for a clear scientific basis for using acupuncture, and we hope that this research ultimately will lead to the integration of ancient healing practices into modern medical treatment." The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of Applied Phy...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...sure is on now," said Hersman. "The world has been waiting long enough for a diagnostic procedure for lung health, so we're scrambling to provide that." Hersman developed his technique for polarizing xenon, the most effective in the world, with previous NIH funding. The new grants will fund research to furth...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...olving," explains Professor Silber, "We are always waiting for the next study and development. Following each new study, we need to re-evaluate our thinking and clinical practice". With the wealth of recent landmark studies and developments in the field of PCI, the ESC feels that it is the appropriate mome...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...people with end-stage liver disease die every year waiting for a suitable donor liver, according to background information in the article. In 2000, there were almost 17,000 candidates awaiting liver transplant and only 5,000 transplanted. In an effort to expand the donor pool, organs from donors that are not...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...t 50 percent of the more than 60,000 people on the waiting list for kidney transplants are age 50 or older. Wake Forest Baptist and other centers are grappling with how to best use the limited number of kidneys that are available each year from deceased donors. "There is a critical shortage of kidneys for tr...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...ne HIV medical providers are calling for an end to waiting lists for essential anti-AIDS drugs that patients ...ding has, furthermore, forced some states to start waiting lists for anti-AIDS drugs," notes AAHIVM Board of Directors chairman John Stansell, MD. "This is co...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
...t having to go to the doctor's office and sit in a waiting room. The service is saving money for corporations, associations and insurance companies, as well as their employees and members. The Morgan White Group, eDocAmerica's largest international client, recently selected eDocAmerica for its business cl...New patient magazine from American Academy of Neurology to launch in April
... The magazine will be available to patients in the waiting rooms of neurologists across the United States and also by subscription for home delivery. In focus groups sponsored by the AAN, neurologists said they needed more time and effort spent on patient education and public awareness. Neurology Now was dev...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...o come by, and, as a result, numerous patients die waiting for a life-saving organ. Nonetheless, many patients prefer to remain on the national waiting list, preferring not to put someone they know through a living-donor operation, which involves a sma...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
...nts completed the Tai Chi program, and there was a waiting list to join. "Tai Chi has been widely practiced in China for centuries, and is a popular form of exercise there," said Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, a doctoral candidate in the School of Nursing at UCSF. "The exercise program was provided at a communit...Component of green tea protects injured livers in mice
...ivers are afflicted with fatty changes, but longer waiting lists are forcing practitioners to consider using these organs. A previous study found that rinsing livers with a solution containing green tea extract prevented failures in transplants using fatty livers. The current study examined whether (-)-epiga...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
... of the MELD score to predict risk of death on the waiting list. Led by Andres E. Ruf, M.D., of the Liver Unit of the Fundacion Favaloro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the study included 262 patients with cirrhosis who were listed for liver transplantation at Fundacion Favaloro between June 1995 and January 200...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...imited, and tumor progression during the prolonged waiting period results in a high dropout rate. Consequentl...at 47 liver cancer nodules in 24 patients who were waiting for liver transplantation. After transplantation, pathologic examinations of the diseased livers wer...Age should not be a factor in determining heart transplantation eligibility, researchers say
...ons will generally be placed on a heart transplant waiting list. Some common contraindications include a smok... say that if you meet all the criteria [to go on a waiting list], age shouldn't prevent you from a getting a new heart that would save your life." Wang added...Induction at 32 weeks possible action for expectant moms with premature membrane rupture
...ed for induction at 32 weeks pregnancy rather than waiting for spontaneous labor. In addition, hospital stay for the newborn was considerably shorter in cases where the mother was induced. "After 32 weeks, it's unusual for a baby to have lifelong problems," says Dr. Brost. "If thebaby is infected due to the...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
...duced in 1990, today many hospitals have five-year waiting lists for these sessions and they continue to grow in popularity thus inspiring producers at PBS to create Mini-Med School TV. "The fact that Mini-Med Schools are flourishing and thousands of people across the country are registering, demonstrated t...Rotary blood pump shows promise for pediatric patients
... tens of thousands of patients each year die while waiting for a heart transplant. The development of VADs was derived from the first successful clinical use of the heart-lung machine. Researchers actively set out to discover other ways to support a failing heart to allow more time for recovery. The article...Macular degeneration patients benefit from self-management training
...lectures on tape, and a group that was placed on a waiting list but received no intervention. All patients were assessed for emotional and functional status; about 24 percent of the patients had major or minor depression. The 86 patients who participated in the self-management program attended six two-hour ...Penn study may lead the way for first medication to treat cocaine addiction
...ation, this could be the breakthrough we have been waiting for," says Charles Dackis, MD, Chief of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Presbyterian, and the study's principal investigator. "Cocaine is capable of destroying not only the lives of those addicted, but also those around...Doctors must consider potentially inappropriate medications when treating elderly
...physician originally prescribed a drug rather than waiting for the reimbursements for the drugs to signal drug prescribing, but that would have been a more expensive approach," says Fick. "With the fax backs however, we do not really know who is receiving them or if the physician ever actually sees them." ...