Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...ihood of recovering consciousness within the first year of injury. Preliminary findings indicate that this prognosis can be provided with up to 86% certainty. Systematic tracking of recovery from coma improves medical and rehabilitation strategies, pg 19 This study, the second of a two-part series, ill...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...dy of 144 kidney transplants found that at least a year after surgery, success rates were comparable, rega... limited number of kidneys that are available each year from deceased donors. "There is a critical shortage of kidneys for transplantation, which puts us in...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...earch. "We are very hopeful that during this five year commitment we are able to build on the momentum we have generated and spur the creation of an Institute at Harvard Medical School devoted to the biology of aging, to which the Glenn Foundation has expressed possible additional support," said Mr. Coll...Growth hormone treatment improves symptoms of metabolic disorder in postmenopausal women
...en investigated the effect of GH treatment for one year on insulin sensitivity in postmenopausal women with abdominal adiposity. They also studied the effects of the hormone on abdominal fat, hepatic fat content and size of the thigh muscle area. The team discovered that the GH treatment in postmenopausa...Drug that hinders blood vessel growth under study in ovarian cancer
...000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year and about three-quarters of those new patients hav...ients in remission today may opt for an additional year of chemotherapy, which may delay recurrence but does not always translate to a longer life, Dr. Gham...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
...IADR General Session in Baltimore. This is the 8th year the award has been presented. IADR Honorary Mem...Award for Dental Caries Research. This is the 14th year of the Borrow Award, which consists of a cash prize and a plaque. The IADR David B. Scott Fellows...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...t of heart attacks could save thousands of lives a year worldwide and prevent thousands of repeat heart attacks and strokes, according to new research presented today (Wednesday 9 March) at the American College of Cardiology annual conference. The study also established that giving the beta-blocker metopr...Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
... an electronic health record (EHR). During fiscal year 2004, 78 percent of all inpatients had medication administration documented online and 94 percent of Internal Medicine inpatients had the EHR available. In 2004, Northwestern Memorial also began implementing computerized provider order entry (CPOE)...New scale predicts recovery of consciousness from coma after brain injury
...that predicts recovery of consciousness up to one year after injury, with up to 86 percent certainty. Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, assistant research professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and her colleagues described the measure, called D...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
... effort began had a better chance of being alive a year after their hospital stay ended. But women didn't ...ulted in a 25 percent lower risk of dying within a year of leaving the hospital among heart attack patients whose doctors and nurses followed standard natio...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
... thousand people are newly infected with HIV every year in the United States, but Ryan White has seen virtually no increase in funding for several years in a row." "Ryan White has been an extremely valuable program for people living with HIV/AIDS," says Dr. Stansell. "Now, it needs to be updated to deal ...Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
...Q:VEGF) announced today the publication of the two year follow-up results of the Corautus' earlier Phase I...previous findings showed positive results, the two year follow-up of the Phase I data demonstrate that VEGF-2 therapy may be associated with prolonged clini...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...Paralysis is a relatively frequent pathology (each year there are nine new cases per 100,000 inhabitants), its origin being diverse such as, for example, obstetric, congenital, pharmacological, auto-immune, traumatic, surgical, and so on. Its surgical repair treatment can be carried out by static or dynam...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...ctures involved in recalling an emotional memory a year later have found evidence for a self-reinforcing "... emotional aspects of the images they saw. Then, a year later, the researchers showed the same subjects a combination of images they had previously seen and...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...ith almost 20 percent of patients dying within one year of initial diagnosis, and over 80 percent within e...d fall of 2004. Since 1993, about 40 students each year have received PURA grants of up to $3,000 to conduct original research, some results of which have b...Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
... Society, more than 60,000 Americans will die this year from colon cancer. In the state of Illinois alone, it is estimated that nearly 7,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and more than 2,500 will die. Colon cancer screenings lag far behind screenings for other cancers such as breast,...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...d cardiac death were significantly lower after one year in patients managed by PET. The number of angiograms, balloon angioplasty with stenting and coronary bypass surgery also was significantly lower in the PET-managed patients. The average cost to manage a patient with coronary artery disease in this...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...ry. Of the 60% of women who return to work in the year after delivery, two thirds return to work within three months. The data from the study could ultimately affect public policies such as work leave for mothers-to-be. While the association between exercise and significant health benefits for pregnant ...Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
...ear. From 1998 to 2001, there were 30 admissions a year on average. Overall, motorbike-related injuries increased about 50 percent during the entire study period. "Most injured children did not wear a helmet and sustained multiple injuries," says Dr. Pomerantz. "The severity and increased frequency of the......within two weeks of implantation and mortality one year later. "This approach may play a significant role in targeting a subset of heart failure patients for whom we need to be more aggressive if we don't see early improvement in heart rate variability," Gilliam said. "We would expect that as their heart...