ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...the Guidelines and summarises the recommendations, whilst outlining the rationale behind their timing and their relevance to the European healthcare arena. ESC PCI Guidelines highlights One of the most pertinent points of the ESC guidelines is that thrombolysis for myocardial infarction can be administe...WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
... second group will undertake an exercise programme whilst in bed. The third will receive a nutritional supplement throughout the 60 days. For the 20 days prior to the bed rest period, the test subjects will take part in the collection of baseline data. During the 20 days following the bed-rest period they ...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...Europe, even more than in men (43%). Furthermore, whilst more men have strokes, women are more likely to die as a result of a stroke. As women tend to live longer than men, on average 5-6 years more, it is crucial to acknowledge the growing burden and implications of women's CVD across Europe. Professor P...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
...he latter part of the 1990s." His report adds that whilst there had been a small increase in people unable to find work to match their qualifications, this was far too small to account for the effect on job satisfaction. In Germany through most of the 1990s, the fear of job loss was increasing, unsurprising...Herbal extract as effective as commonly prescribed anti-depressant
...ok St John's Wort found their symptoms in decline, whilst only a third (43 out of 122) of those taking Paroxetine went into remission. Participants also suffered more side-effects by taking Paroxetine with 269 adverse effects being reported over the treatment period. Those taking St John's Wort reported 172......unched in 1999, is dedicated to magnetic research, whilst Germany's CHAMP mission (2000) measures both magne...tic storms can damage power systems and pipelines, whilst the changes in the magnetic field can mislead any navigational systems that use magnetic compasses. ...Overweight, boozy and depressed: Why we need healthy new year's resolutions
...rn in 1946 had breast feeding for a month or more, whilst 62 per cent of those born in 1970 had none at all. Fewer born in 1958 and 1970 smoked in their 30s than those from1946, but the number of men smokers had not dropped a lot. Better educated people are less likely to smoke 47 per cent of men born in ...Novartis announces collaboration with Bayer for EMSELEX
...tor, the primary mediator of detrusor contraction, whilst sparing the M1 and M2 receptors that are located in various body organs, including the brain and heart. EMSELEX has been shown to effectively reduce the number of weekly incontinence episodes by up to 77% versus placebo.1 Additional clinical trials c...University of Manchester uses crystals to help battle deadly diseases
...o probe the proteins in time with the neutron beam whilst the protein is actually in its functional state."...Can cabbage help prevent cervical cancer?
...trial will involve taking DIM daily for six months whilst waiting for your next smear. Clinics will be held in the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. At the moment only women with borderline or mildly abnormal smears are being invited to participate, however, if a positive result is seen the research...New WHO study asks, 'How happy are you with your lot in life?'
...ctly the same procedure on two similar people, but whilst one is back at work within a week, the other can become depressed and disabled by their situation. It is the patient's perception of how the operation affects them that is the greatest influence on the difference," said Skevington. "In a nutsh...Imperial to lead the way in developing vaccines against bio-weapons
...nderstanding new and emerging infectious diseases, whilst we carry out fundamental research into immunology. This fundamental research will also help to develop much more effective diagnostics and treatment which can be used for a variety of diseases." Working with colleagues from the University of Newcastl...New radiotherapy regime benefits young women with breast cancer
...roviding optimal care with acceptable side effects whilst taking into account the availability of resources....n the overall local recurrence rate would be 6.5%, whilst treating all patients with a boost would result in a recurrence rate of 3.6%. A policy limiting the ...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...ully stimulated the parvocellular-ventral pathway, whilst ignoring or under stimulating the magnocellular-dorsal process," says Dr. Davis. "This has led to results that show improved performance for single object, multi-feature displays. By reassessing our experimental design to equally stimulate the two pa...Teenage smoking still 'worryingly high': Girls twice as likely as boys to puff away
... 61 per cent). The previous study also found that whilst the figures for regular smoking were very similar for boys and girls at age 11-12, by the time they were 13 or 14, girls were twice as likely to be smokers (16 per cent compared with eight per cent). In the latest work, this pattern was found to be c...HeartScore(R): New tool for cardiovascular disease risk prediction and management
...tion can be made more applicable and user-friendly whilst both relevant and adaptable to the European clinical context. The result of such discussions has been the development of HeartScore (Ref. 3), a new computer-based tool for CVD risk prediction and management, to be launched by the ESC on 2 April 200...Timely surgery dramatically reduces stroke risk for people with carotid stenosis
...s who would have benefited have their major stroke whilst waiting for surgery." The need for urgent investigation and treatment stems from the high risk of major stroke in the first few days and weeks after a TIA or warning stroke. Dr Rothwell adds: "There is therefore a need to educate the public about t...Losing consciousness can stop you getting posttraumatic stress disorder
... that losing consciousness could be protective, as whilst you are unconscious you cannot form any memories. The difference in the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder could not be accounted for by differences in patients' age at the time of the accident, their current memory function or the severity o...Patients are less satisfied with better company doctor
...ance with the guideline 'psychological complaints' whilst providing this counselling, the shorter the period of absenteeism. Although the patients are satisfied with this counselling, this satisfaction decreases as the company doctor's compliance with the guideline increases. It was also found that the cou......s reported the degree of low back pain experienced whilst lying in bed and rising in the morning, as well as their degree of disability, before and three months after the start of the study. Overall, people who used medium-firm mattresses in the study were twice as likely to report improvements in low back ...