Depression among retired NFL players: Rates mirror the general public, but pain compounds symptoms
... population of retired professional athletes would benefit from a proactive educational and clinical outreach program, possibly beginning even before retirement, as a way to help improve the likelihood that retired NFL players will achieve a high quality of life after football," Hipple says. Researchers co...Drug therapy can reduce preterm births and decrease lifetime medical costs
...luable information about the magnitude of the cost benefit of 17P that can help inform health policy decisions and guide resource investments in the prevention of preterm birth." At the present time 17P is not yet FDA approved for this indication. The Journal editors add, "We urge readers to share both Dr....A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...esearchers believe the device has the potential to benefit 70,000 at risk babies a year in the UK alone. Statistics show that as many as 10 babies a day are stillborn in the UK and 10 per cent of all pregnancies each year are high risk. The monitor lets doctors read signals produced naturally by the unbor...Revolutionizing prosthetics 2009 team delivers first DARPA limb prototype
...rgeted Reinnervation technique to the forefront to benefit our nation's service men and women, says Dr. Kuiken, the director of the Neural Engineering Center for Bionic Medicine at RIC. The results we are achieving in this highly collaborative project are very exciting and I am confident that these discoveri...INTERMACS group reveals recent successes to international transplant community
...ining to VAD transplantation with great promise to benefit the heart failure and transplant community. Membe...ase available. "By demonstrating the potential benefit of this registry, we hope to motivate the international transplant community to assist with the deve...Obesity increases workers' compensation costs
...out the community, so the solutions we come up can benefit the community as well. "The primary message is that we need to reduce the burden on workers' compensation by intervening not only on individual risk factors such as obesity but also within the workplace to reduce the risk of injury," Dement said. "...Are higher doses of cholesterol drugs worth the extra money? Only sometimes, study says
...ost of high-dose statins may provide only marginal benefit at much greater cost, especially if they use gener...ttack or hospital stay for chest pain get so much benefit from higher doses of statins (over four additional quality-adjusted months of life) that the extra c...Clinical trial coordinators need more financial conflict-of-interest training
... and how coordinators new to their positions might benefit from additional education and training," Weinfurt said. The researchers surveyed 300 coordinators who were attending the 2006 international conference of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals. The full report of this study will be publ...ACP supports new bill to promote adoption of health information technology
... health information technology (HIT) could greatly benefit health care in the U.S. through improved patient care, reduction in medical errors, higher efficiency, and potential long run cost savings." The bill, introduced by Representatives Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) and Phil Gingrey (R-GA), is designed to facil...RAND study finds school playgrounds can help fight childhood obesity
...lic parks and playgrounds are often lacking, could benefit from convenient and safe places for physical activity. And making schools accessible doesn't require construction. It's a policy change." Although the RAND Health study didn't find a relationship between school accessibility and increased weekend p...UQ researchers identify thousands with curable high blood pressure
...n should ask their doctor about whether they could benefit from the procedure. While he was sharing his knowledge with the medical profession here and overseas, the complexity of the diagnostic process meant it was not yet widely available. "The procedure relies on a complex diagnostic process to identify...Antidepressants safe for children and adolescents
...t our young patients who we thought could possibly benefit from antidepressant therapy. Most clinicians, patients and their families found themselves questioning whether or not they should be using treatments out of fear of the risks," said David A. Brent, M.D., professor of psychiatry, University of Pittsbu...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
...ore top people in medicine and surgery, which will benefit the university and the community as a whole." "T... space solutions to medical applications that will benefit patients here on Earth," says Bruce Mack, vice-president of development programs of MDA's Brampton o...Don't use drains in uncomplicated open cholecystectomy
Drains increase harm without providing any benefit for patients undergoing open cholecystectomy, a Co...tine drain use after open cholecystectomy does not benefit the patient in any way, and does increase their risk of infection; they should no longer be used in ...UCSF brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results
...er phase 2 study will be required to determine the benefit of vitespen for patients with recurrent glioma. The consistent, tumor specific immune response seen in these patients suggests that in the right patient population, the vaccine could have a significant impact....DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
...early this research has the potential for positive benefit that extends far beyond the Rifle site." Funding for the field studies is provided by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Environmental Remediation Sciences Division within the Office of Science. Portions of the research will...Clinical studies evaluate potential treatments for mouth ulcers
The drug pentoxifylline appears to have limited benefit in the first-line treatment of mouth ulcers due to recurrent apthous stomatitis, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, a second report in the same issue finds that a cream com...Johns Hopkins develops pancreas cancer risk model
...ic counselors and physicians decide who would most benefit from early screening. An estimated 10 percent of aggressive and highly fatal cases of the disease are caused by inherited genes. Even if there is a 100 percent chance that an individual carries a pancreas cancer gene, their risk for developing the...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 17, 2007
...be considered dangerous. If patients say that they benefit from chondroitin, I see no harm in encouraging them to continue taking it as long as they perceive a benefit." Note: This article is the subject of a video news release. Call for coordinates. A separate news release will be issued. Sequenti...... adapt to them. Therefore, patients could possibly benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy in addition to pharmacological treatments. ...