Using coxibs and NSAIDs to treat osteoarthritis
...mmendations that high-dose aspirin be administered alone as a first line therapy for patients with chronic pain and arthritis. Dr Roland W. Moskowitz, Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland, lead author of the Editorial comments, "Careful review of th...Antioxidants show no clear benefit against cardiovascular events, death in high-risk women
...nd point for any of the antioxidant agents tested, alone or in combination, the authors conclude. We also found no evidence for harm. While additional research into combinations of agents, particularly for stroke, may be of interest, widespread use of these individual agents for cardiovascular protection d...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
... to background information in the articles. France alone had 14,800 deaths in a nine-day period, one-third of which were caused by heatstroke. Heatstroke is the most severe heat-related illness and is defined by an elevated core body temperature above 40 degrees Celsius [104 degrees Fahrenheit], associated...Waist-to-hip ratio may better predict cardiovascular risk than body mass index
...T Southwestern findings, however, suggest that BMI alone might not give a clear enough picture of heart disease riskBMI was used as the primary measure of obesity rather than alternative measures such as waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio, said Dr. de Lemos. The latter measures have demonstrated str...States taking action to insure nation's 13.3M uninsured young adults
...in 1994, and the Texas law in 2003. States arent alone in seeking to expand coverage to young adults. Several federal level proposals, including the SCHIP reauthorization bill that recently passed in the House include provisions that would allow states to increase access to Medicaid and SCHIP up to age 2...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...s found that the two combined work better than one alone in pancreatic cancer screening. The success of the pancreatic cancer screening study follows on the heels of extremely positive results in studies using the two optical technologies for the early detection of colon cancer. In the colon cancer work,...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...eanwhile, the percentage of older Americans living alone will either remain high or continue to grow: About half of women and nearly a quarter of men aged 75 and older currently live alone. But the UF-IBM technology may also prove useful in many other medical settings. For example, Helal said, it could h...6 out of 10 doctors aren't frustrated that patients can't lower cholesterol
...of doctors. This was followed by lifestyle changes alone (43%) and statin therapy alone (10%). Only 1.5% recommended no course of action. Doctors in South Korea (66%) and Portu...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...mined outcomes from treatment of extremity tumours alone to establish whether the volume of surgeries done at a centre affected the likelihood of patients keeping their limbs. A total of 1937 extremity tumours were analysed. At high volume centres, 90.6% of procedures for these tumours were limb sparing op...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
...n obtain essential care, the authors say insurance alone cannot eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. Insurance coverage helps people gain access to health care, but the next thing you have to ask is access to what" says lead co-author Anne Beal, M.D., senior program officer at the Commonwea...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
...the first casually dressed male entering the store alone who appeared to be 21 to 30 years old. Only a small percentage eight percent of the general adult population entering alcohol establishments are willing to purchase alcohol for individuals who appear under age 21, said Toomey. This is an encour...Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
... cost-effective than treating symptomatic patients alone and may be an effective and cost-saving measure fo... population which would save $21 billion in the US alone versus no intervention. Adding other strategies such as school closures further reduces the attack a...A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...ortant, but even if well-documented, early warning alone has proven inadequate to plan a response. Maxwell stresses the importance of continual contextual monitoring and periodic program evaluation. He also highlights the need to separate information systems from operational budgets in order to maintain ob...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
... However, we did not find that pay for performance alone will be the sole means of improving care. In fact, it all comes down to hard work by individual caregivers and institutions. Here, it appears that a voluntary effort to do good and improve care was equally as powerful as the incentive for additiona...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...revent tumor recurrence, Lurje says. While surgery alone is usually effective for treating stage II cancer, 20 to 30 percent of patients do develop tumor recurrence and die from the disease, he says. This study is the very first to demonstrate that genes in the angiogenesis pathway play a critical role ...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
...ements, Gilbert cautioned that fortification steps alone arent enough. It isnt just about improving the reliability of the levees and making them taller, he said. Spending federal money towards developing a way to evacuate people effectively is crucial, and very little emphasis has been put on this or on...Adding radioimmunotherapy to chemo may help patients with lymphoma
...disease response after treatment with chemotherapy alone and after treatment with IT. The researchers found that five out of 16 patients who had a positive PET scan after the initial chemotherapy phase of treatment relapsed. Of the 34 patients whose early PET scans were negative, none have relapsed to-date...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
...nd recombinant human interferon -2b (IFN-), either alone or in combination, have been widely used in patients with advanced disease. Although high-dose IL-2 has shown promise with durable complete remissions observed in 7% of patients, toxicity has limited its widespread use. Lower dose cytokine therapi...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...nd recombinant human interferon -2b (IFN-), either alone or in combination, have been widely used in patients with advanced disease. Although high-dose IL-2 has shown promise with durable complete remissions observed in 7% of patients, toxicity has limited its widespread use. Lower dose cytokine therapi......lls had multiplied. Men taking flaxseed, either alone or in conjunction with a low-fat diet, were compared to men assigned to just a low-fat diet, as well as to men in a control group, who did not alter or supplement their daily diet. Men in both of the flaxseed groups had the slowest rate of tumor grow...