Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...white and female. The median age at baseline, the year of RA diagnosis, was 57. Working with a team of cardiologists, rheumatologists, and nurses, the researchers reviewed the medical records of every study participant, with attention to personal and family hi...Government approach to cutting hospital stays may be misleading
...ase in total admissions and bed days over the five year period. The 65 to 74 age group had an admission rate 20 times greater than the general population of the same age in 1997-8, but this ratio fell to 5.2 in 1998-9 and by 2002-3 it was 1.7. The entire group, comprising 2.9% of the total population of E...Least protection offered to those most at risk of sudden cardiac death
...are conversely the lowest. 100,000 people die each year from sudden cardiac death in the UK. Most of these deaths occur when the heart's rhythm suddenly goes out of sync, causing the heart to stop. But an 'inverse care law' is effectively in operation in England, say the report's authors, with areas wit...Stat5 protein inhibits spread of breast cancer cells
...s of this study support related research done last year by Rui and his colleagues: In a study that was published in the June 1, 2004 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the team identified Stat5 as a biomarker of a type of breast cancer that is associated with a favorable prognosis in patients. I...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
...s of NIH research. The question we all must ask: A year from now, will the world have changed? Will this same patient have free access to all NIH-funded studies on cancer soon after publication? "This is a big 'if' for all of us," Terry added. "If six months after enactment, we see a flood of NIH-funded r...Blacks in the South have greater risk of dying from stroke
...hic differences in stroke mortality. In the third year of the study, REGARDS will develop a study group of 30,000 people to better understand the stroke mortality risk factors for those who are both African American and southerners. "Once we understand the causes for these differences, steps can be take...Highest average rate of US road deaths on Independence Day
...pendence Day, July 4, than on any other day of the year across the whole study period. Alcohol tended to be involved in a higher proportion of the Independence Day deaths than on other days. New Year's day racked up the highest number of pedestrian deaths from car crashes and ranked fifth for the highest ...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...wealth gap grows by about $410, or 4 percent, each year that a person continues to smoke, said Jay Zagorsk...were between 33 and 40 years old in 1998, the last year of this study, Zagorsky said. By that time in their lives, they had not accumulated much wealth. The...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
... if physicians followed national guidelines. Last year the American Heart Association, in collaboration with two dozen other government and professional organizations, released joint guidelines for cardiac preventive care in women based on a woman's risk level (high, intermediate and lower). In this ...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...rade III glioma is 3 to 5 years and is less than 1 year for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (grade IV glioma). Current treatment for patients with malignant glioma includes maximum safe resection (surgical removal), radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. Susan M. Chang, M.D., of the University of Cali...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...ot very common about 9,000 patients diagnosed per year and are associated with a poor prognosis. Treatme...s right after surgery who've been told they have a year to live, so it's understandable why they get depressed, and I really think that can have an effect o...Sunlight reduces risk of lymph gland cancer
...Institute. The number of new cases of lymphoma per year has tripled over the past 40 years, and the reasons are largely still a mystery. One hypothesis is that frequent exposure to the sun might increase the risk of developing this kind of cancer, especially the more common non-Hodgkin's form, but also th...Balancing care decisions for gravely ill patients
...(33 percent versus 17 percent), their survival one year later did not differ much from those without documentation of unrealistic expectations (11 percent versus 6 percent). Nearly all survivors were severely disabled at discharge and at one year. "Perhaps the best way to avoid vast expenditures of resour...Testosterone supplements for elderly men
...f the male hormone testosterone fall by about 1% a year in men over 40, leading to decreases in muscle size and strength, increased body fat and thinner bones. The changes are also associated with decreased sexual interest, fatigue, mobility problems, depression, increased risk of falling and a general s...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...e to put bladder control implants in humans by the year 2010," said Grill, who plans to carry out human experiments at Duke to follow up the research with cats. Today, people with SCI typically manage their bladders with catheters or an implanted device that empties the bladder by stimulating sacral ner...ASGE announces grant recipients in annual research awards program
...he institutions receiving ASGE grants in this 20th year of the program include: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; Indiana University School of Medicine, Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis; Legac...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...st be willing to visit a clinic at Moffitt twice a year for the four-year study duration. Giuliano is M...spond to antibodies," she explains. "We are only a year or two away from having a vaccine for women licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. We do...New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...sts. Consequently, over one million patients each year undergo magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRI) for sciatica and many are told there is no obvious cause for their pain. Now, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Institute for Nerve Medicine ...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
..." said Klein, an author on the PNAS paper who last year demonstrated that ADDLs specifically attack and disrupt synapses, the nerve cell sites responsible for information processing and memory formation. "In the last three years, there has been a big effort in Alzheimer's research to identify and detect b...UC Irvine's undergraduate research programs receive $900,000 funding boost
...y expand undergraduate research opportunities this year at UC Irvine. A three-year $275,000 grant from th...es Program, which serves 1,700 undergraduates each year with advising and funding, and allows students to publish and present their research among peers thr...