Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
...h sickle cell disease pain events, dactylitis and acute chest syndrome predicted early death or stroke. R...rs result in higher risk. But they did find that acute chest syndrome damaged lung tissue marked by fever, chest pain and difficulty breathing did correl...National research network launched to seek better treatments for brain injury, stroke and seizures
...ur mission is to improve outcomes of patients with acute neurological problems through innovative research focused on patient care that starts in the ambulance and in the emergency department," Barsan says. "NETT will give us the framework to test medications, patient management strategies and other treatm...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...Ideally, confirmed cases "should be isolated in an acute admissions setting," the authors say, adding that XDR-TB patients should be quarantined separately from MDR-TB "as the latter is potentially curable." WHO guidelines recommend that ambulatory MDR-TB patients refrain from mixing with the general pub...Health care costs for abused women are significant
...al outpatient care, emergency department care, and acute inpatient care during and after periods of IPV. Health care utilization was still 20 percent higher five years after women's abuse ceased compared to women who had never experienced IPV. The estimated excess costs to the health plan due to ...Aspirin saves lives of cancer patients suffering heart attacks, despite fears of bleeding
...e abnormally high. "In the non-cancer patient with acute coronary syndrome anywhere in the United States, an expected seven-day mortality is less than 1 percent," he says. There were parallel findings for those patients in either group who were treated with beta-blockers, which block the heart's use of a...Hospital death rate study reveals wide variations
...cluded. Small hospitals discharging fewer than 100 acute medical patients a year and specialty hospitals not providing care for the four key conditions studied were excluded. 5980 nurses working in medical and combined medical-surgical clinical areas across the study hospitals were surveyed and 65 per cen...Syphilis spreading rapidly in China
...an have devastating health consequences, including acute cutaneous manifestations such as genital ulcers, chronic severe and debilitating compromise of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, and serious effects on reproductive and neonatal health. During the first half of the 20th century, China experi...Improved adherence to certain medications associated with longer survival following heart attack
...ionship between drug adherence and death following acute myocardial infarction (AMI; heart attack). To help evaluate whether this relationship was more attributable to drug effects rather than to healthy adherer effects, the researchers examined 3 medication classes, 2 of which are associated with proven m...High level of cardiac biomarker may help predict risk of CVD events in patients with heart disease
...pital admission for decompensated heart failure or acute coronary syndrome, and may also be important markers of long-term prognosis, according to background information in the article. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues assessed the assoc......ical) tasks. The new regulation will allow general acute care hospitals to employ specially trained pharmacy technicians to check medication cassettes and the work of other technicians, thereby freeing pharmacists to expand their role in patient care areas to ensure the safety of the medication use process...Medication does not appear to offer benefit for certain heart attack patients undergoing PCI
...y effective at improving outcomes in patients with acute STEMI, especially if delivered promptly in an expert facility. However, in patients without prompt reestablishment of adequate coronary blood flow, risk of death remains high, indicating the need for new treatments, including drugs intended to reduce...Methamphetamine use increases risks of artery tears and stroke
...recovered with mild to moderate disabilities after acute stroke therapy....Study explains how NSAIDs halt cancer growth
...er. As the bodys immune response to tissue damage, acute inflammation serves as a natural defense to guard against injury or infection. However, in cases of chronic inflammation for example, inflammatory bowel disease certain signaling pathways that modulate the inflammatory processes become "stuck" in...Hospital performance measures may not accurately reflect quality of care or predict patient outcomes
... for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia at acute care hospitals included on the Hospital Compare we...sing Medicare Part A claims data. A total of 3,657 acute care hospitals were included in the study based on their performance reported in Hospital Compare. ...Hospital performance measures may not make much difference when it comes to mortality
...hat goal by publishing hospital performance in all acute care hospitals in the United States on their websi...sing Medicare Part A claims data. A total of 3,657 acute care hospitals were included in the study based on their performance reported in Hospital Compare. ...Recurrence of silent brain lesions after initial stroke may predict subsequent stroke
...d., and colleagues studied 120 patients who had an acute ischemic stroke between 2000 and 2002. Each patient had MRI performed within 24 hours of the stroke and on the fifth day after, and 68 underwent follow-up MRI after 30 or up to 90 days. In 2003, 104 of the patients or their caregivers were intervie...U of MN study finds children with leukemia are living longer
... years or longer after diagnosis and treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are alive 20 years later and leading productive lives, according to a University of Minnesota study. On a cautionary note, the study reports these survivors need to be regularly evaluated and treated for health problems that ma...M. D. Anderson reports first drug activity in T315I-Positive CML, ALL and JAK-2-Positive MPD
...tation found in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). In addition, the trial showed the first activity against the JAK-2 mutation found in myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), a group of blood diseases that can evolve into leukemia. MK-0457 has also been found in previous st...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center collaborating to find new tools to fight leukemia
...ic leukemia because it progresses more slowly than acute leukemia, and lymphocytic because it affects a group of white blood cells (lymphocytes), an important component of the immune system which typically fights infection....Breastfeeding overcomes a genetic tendency toward ear infections, scientists discover
... 6 months; had undergone three or more episodes of acute otitis media within a six-month period; had four or more episodes within a 12-month period; or had six or more episodes by age 6. Children who had required drainage tubes to assuage recurrent or persistent ear infections were also placed in the "susc...