Good for the heart and the wallet: African-American heart failure drug is cost-effective
...iety brought about by use of the drug. "Using very conservative restrictions, our model suggests that this drug, even if used for lifetime courses over many years, should be very cost-effective," Dr. Angus said. "The key will be appropriate patient selection and careful attention to compliance with treatment. Our...UCI receives major grant to develop 'gene signature' for prostate cancer prognosis
...res radical treatment, or indolent, requiring only conservative medical management. However, it currently is not possible to tell patients which form of cancer they have. In previous work, Mercola and his colleagues have developed methods for determining cell-specific gene expression of four major cell groups w...Hidden cost of teen pain in the UK almost 4 billion per year
... is more than 8,000 per patient per year, giving a conservative estimate of more than 3.8 billion for the UK as a whole. "We hope that this establishes the seriousness of adolescent pain in a way that will help improve the provision of services in this chronically under-treated area," said Professor Chris Ecclest...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...of developing cancer by 50 percent - and that is a conservative estimate," he says. "While we should be modest in claiming our work will lead to new chemoprevention advances in the coming years, we have promising leads from the laboratory that will enable us to conduct even better and more informative tria...Induced labor has some benefits in cases of premature water break
...e, current evidence suggests that women undergoing conservative management of [premature rupture] at term are ultimately more likely to be dissatisfied with their experience," Mercer said....Unexpected high rates of tobacco use
...th toll will double to 10 million by 2020 may be a conservative estimate. The true toll from tobacco use could be even greater with high rates of non-cigarette tobacco use and high rates of smoking among young girls. "Reduction of tobacco consumption will require a redoubling of efforts to prevent initiation and ...Maintenance therapies offer lasting heart health benefits
...in an event (8,037 on aggressive therapy, 7,958 on conservative therapy). Overall, the incidence of all-cause mor...ressively treated group as compared to patients on conservative treatment (3.1 percent versus 4.0 percent). The incidence of a recurrent heart attack was not reduc...Two surgeries for nearsightedness equally effective
...t said, noting that patients can still choose more conservative options such as glasses and contact lens to treat nearsightedness. It is important that patients are informed about and understand the effectiveness, limitations, safety, complications and relative merits of these procedures," he said....Steroids do not prolong survival in intensive care patients with ARDS on life support
...ative, the central venous catheter, and the use of conservative versus liberal fluid management. Results are expected to be released in several weeks....Should older men be screened for prostate cancer?
...but have negative effects on quality of life. More conservative treatments may preserve quality of life, but may not be appropriate for those cases where the disease is progressing more quickly. In the face of these uncertainties, what is the appropriate age to stop screening? Although guidelines suggest that me...Young men with prostate cancer benefit from radiation therapy
... radiation may be an effective alternative to both conservative and more invasive treatments, according to a new study. Published in the June 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that external beam radiation therapy is as effective in younger prostate...Statins prove life-saving in patients with acute coronary syndromes
...atin therapy during the hospital stay or to a more conservative approach that consisted of low-dose statin therapy or placebo. Statins are primarily used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood, but they have other effects as well, including the ability to reduce inflammation in the arteries. Dr. Bavry and his...Studies unclear whether spinal cement procedure improves back pain
...l have pain and reduced mobility after trying more conservative treatments such as bed rest, anti-inflammatory medicines and physical therapy. Kyphoplasty is not recommended for certain severe fractures and spinal infections. The ECRI review looked at 16 studies of percutaneous kyphoplasty, mostly in osteoporosis...Brain study yields insight into machinery of prejudice
...n was described as a fundamentalist Christian with conservative political views and activities--unlike most of the students. The students' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging as they judged how likely each of the targets were to agree with a series of opinion questions. For example, th...For patients with severe lung injury, less is more
...03) of the participants were assigned to receive a conservative fluid strategy and the other half (497) received l...n the numbers of deaths between patients receiving conservative fluid management compared to those on a liberal fluid management strategy. However, compared to the ...Use of anti-depressant does not decrease risk of relapse for patients with anorexia nervosa
...ne: 26.5 percent; placebo: 31.5 percent). The most conservative analysis of time-to-relapse found no significant difference between the fluoxetine and placebo groups in time-to-relapse. At 52 weeks, 45 percent of the placebo group and 43 percent of the fluoxetine group had not relapsed. "The current study has imp...Incidence of hip fractures set to increase to 6.3 million worldwide in 2050
...ikely to increase. The authors' state: "In 1997, a conservative estimate of the worldwide direct and indirect annual costs of hip fracture was US$131.5 billion. More recently, the combined annual costs of all osteoporotic fractures have been estimated to be $20 billion in the USA and about $30 billion in the Euro...Is expensive new heart rhythm treatment 'worth it'?
...ch & Development Center. "This analysis provides a conservative model that could be used to assess LACA's cost-eff... on the procedure, "Through rigorous modeling with conservative estimates, this study provides the groundwork for the cost-effectiveness of catheter ablation in tre...MRSA is a global health problem
...2 billion individuals carrying S aureus worldwide, conservative estimates based on either Dutch or US prevalence figures would predict that between 2 million and 52 million carry MRSA," states Professor Grundmann. In their Review the authors also warn of the threat of community acquired MRSA. Genetic changes in ......sexual event. However, women belonging to the more conservative denominations abstained longer, with 59 percent of Jehovah's Witnesses and 54 percent of Seventh Day Adventists reporting that they had never had sex. The survey also showed that only one in five women in these denominations used a condom the first t...