Study shows promise in identifying kidney failure
... effective preventive and therapeutic measures are widely available, but rarely administered in a timely manner due to the lack of early biomarkers of kidney failure," Dr. Devarajan said. The Lancet study used as its model children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, 10-40 percent of these children w...Cultural and social factors influence prostate cancer treatment
... incontinence, impotence, and bowel urgency. It is widely assumed that men make treatment decisions based on medical considerations, such as age, other existing conditions, and the grade of the tumor. Investigators led by Thomas Denberg, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Science...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
...Administration (FDA) has proposed that observing a widely accepted code of medical ethics that protects patients who take part in trials is not necessary for studies conducted abroad, states a comment in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The 2000 Declaration of Helsinki, produced by 82 national medical assoc...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...contact. The level of pneumococcal carriage varies widely between communities, and Harvard Medical School researchers hypothesized that one influence might be the extent of child care use. Using data from 742 children in 16 Massachusetts communities, they created a theoretical mathematical model that indica...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
...ter receiving inactive treatments, compared with a widely accepted figure of about 30 percent for other conditions. Because the placebo effect seems to be strongest in diseases with highly subjective symptoms, some medical professionals believed it could be as high as 50 percent among CFS patients. The rev...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...onsent for all admissions was difficult and varied widely across units. The gaining of consent was unrelated to ethnicity or level of deprivation but was better for those who had a longer hospital stays and was worse for older children. The extremely low refusal rate suggested that parents were willing to s...Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
... the detection of the JAK2 mutation could become a widely used diagnostic test. Professor Green concludes: "For more than a quarter of a century, the myeloproliferative disorders have been known to be clonal haematological malignancies, but the identity of underlying target genes has remained elusive. We h...Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
...s in appropriately designed trials before they are widely used for presumed health benefits."...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
... myocardial infarction (AMI) [heart attack] varies widely across the country, elderly patients who receive intensive medical treatment may have comparable survival as those who undergo invasive cardiac procedures (such as angioplasty and bypass surgery), according to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. A...Does the college experience damage your brain?
...sness, and Cognition, and one of the nation's most widely published researcher on meditation and brain functioning. Dr. Travis's studies have appeared in Biological Psychology, Psychophysiology, Consciousness and Cognition, and International Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Psychophysiology, and Psyc...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...atal disease. The bacteria that cause tetanus are widely found in soil and the manure of many animals. Almost all reported cases of tetanus are in persons who have either never been vaccinated, or who completed a primary series, but have not had a booster in the preceding 10 years. Infants of unvaccinate...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...e blood cell count is a stable, well-standardized, widely available and inexpensive measure of systemic inflammation. Karen L Margolis, M.D., M.P.H., of the Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, and colleagues used data from a total of 72,242 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years who participated ...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...y 1990s around the time that potent therapy became widely used if this was the case. Instead, we see little correlation between widespread availability of treatment and reduction of transmission. This is highly pertinent to the recent increase again in new HIV-1 diagnoses within the UK. "Our study also con...Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
...y sites for the presence of 11 oral bacteria--four widely regarded to be involved in causing periodontal disease, and the other seven serving as controls. Then, for evaluation of their cardiovascular health, the participants received a carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) measurement and provided a blood sa...Sex selection popular among infertile women
...x-linked genetic disorders in children and are not widely used for nonmedical purposes. "Sex selection is a topic that's almost taboo for physicians to talk about. Yet it's important to understand patient interest in nonmedical sex selection and adequately address the ethical and social implications before ...2005 Craniofacial Biology Research Award
...e techniques and approaches he developed have been widely applied in craniofacial biology, and his eminence has already been recognized by a variety of awards, including the highly prized Merit Award from the NIH....Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...ings from this study if implemented appropriately widely would make an important contribution to saving lives and reducing disability." Professor Rory Collins, co-chair of the study's steering committee and co-director of the CTSU, told the conference that giving three intravenous doses of 5 mg metoprolol...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...puterized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are widely viewed as crucial for reducing prescribing errors and potentially saving hundreds of billions in annual costs. Published studies have indicated that CPOE reduces medication errors up to 81 percent. Few researchers, however, have focused on the exist...How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
...dom from bronchitis symptoms. Valerian is the most widely recognized herbal sedative and has been used for children with hyperactivity and sleep disorders. One study assessed valerian's effect on boys with developmental deficiencies and hyperactivity problems. After the children were given nightly doses f...Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
...lergens and amounts of cockroach allergens varies widely in cities across the country, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher involved in a multicenter study. The National Institutes of Health study, which appears in the March issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , eva...