Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
...of grafts or catheters. At the same time, there is continued concern about overaggressive use of drugs called e...improvement since 1993. In contrast, the data show continued reductions in risk of death during the second through fifth years of dialysis. "While most of thes...States taking action to insure nation's 13.3M uninsured young adults
...icaid and SCHIP eligibility, the authors recommend continued efforts to expand eligibility for dependents under private coverage beyond age 18 or 19 and that states take steps to ensure that colleges and universities require and offer health insurance coverage to students. ...High blood pressure problems largely misunderstood by sufferers
... changes and the use of medications, which must be continued for life. Because of the need for long-term treatment, it is essential that patients and healthcare professionals work together to fight the disease. This synthesis of qualitative studies provides valuable information that will assist healthcare prov...ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...condary prevention, recommendations that should be continued after the UA/NSTEMI patient is discharged from the hospital to reduce risk of a recurrent heart attack. We are emphasizing the use of ACE inhibitors---drugs that protect the muscle--- and prescribing aldosterone receptor blockade, a new drug category...Fat is the new normal, FSU researcher says
...veled off in the mid-1990s. And yet American women continued to get bigger. Heiland and Burkes social multiplier theory offers a potential reason why: As Americans continue to super-size their value meals, the average weight of the population increases and people slowly adjust their perceptions of appropria...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...nd of the two years, the pravastatin-treated group continued taking the drug and the placebo group switched to ...r all patients were on the statin drug, 83 percent continued with pravastatin and 17 percent switched to another statin. Analyses of 4.5-year data showed that t...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...eatly benefit society for generations to come with continued advances in understanding and combating the fundamental mechanisms of human disease. The Young Scholars Program was initiated in 1999 and has awarded grants totalling nearly $45 million to date. Each grant applicant must be nominated by his or her...Floods and fires across Europe captured from space
...trying to escape the flames. On Thursday, fires continued to rage across Calabria and Abruzzo as strong winds thwarted fire-fighting efforts. According to the environmental group WWF, at least 4500 hectares of protected areas have burned in the past three weeks in Italy, with the hardest hit areas being Cam...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
... and seniors by: Providing funding to assure continued and expanded coverage for millions of children from lower-income families through the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Protecting access to Medicare by funding positive physician payment updates in 2008 and 2009 instead of allowing ...'SCHIP funding levels too low' ACP tells Senate Finance Committee Leaders
...niors alike need Congress to take action to assure continued access to good health care, said Dr. Levine. We appreciate the efforts that Senator Baucus and Senator Grassley have made to maintain and improve SCHIP, and particularly, their courage in taking on big tobacco to provide health care to kids. At the ...Sucampo Pharmaceuticals submits supplemental new drug application for Lubiprostone to treat IBS-C
...one, established during the double-blinded period, continued overall improvement during the open-label extension period to the end of the 52-week program. In the pivotal trials, lubiprostone and placebo groups showed a similar incidence of serious adverse events (1% in both the lubiprostone and placebo group...SAGE to publish British Journal of Infection Control
... worlds fifth largest journals publisher, SAGE has continued to invest in a flourishing STM publishing programme to complement its established reputation as the market leader in the social sciences. SAGE publishes over 460 journals, over 150 of which are in the science, technical and medical fields, including ...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...known if non-smoking alcoholics and alcoholics who continued to smoke during abstinence would show comparable l...importance of considering the behavioral impact of continued cigarette smoking among alcoholics on long-term recovery of function. Durazzo concurred. Previous...Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides high contrast, 3-D look at breast cancer
...onal diffuse optical tomography, or DOT. With the continued development of molecularly-targeted exogenous fluorophores, the research helps pave the way for diagnostic tools based on optics that will provide improved sensitivity and specificity between healthy and normal tissues. Fluorophores are exquisitely...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
...ors would become an 'endangered species' if trends continued unaltered," the authors write. There has been no comprehensive analysis over a long period of the outcomes for first-time investigators with an M.D. applying for research grants. Howard B. Dickler, M.D., of the Association of American Medical Colle...Study outlines how stroke, head injury can increase risk of Alzheimer's disease
...e further apoptosis, leading to a vicious cycle of continued cell death and amyloid-beta production. The importance of GGA3s control of BACE levels was supported by the observation that, in brain tissue from Alzheimers patients, reductions in GGA3 corresponded with elevations in BACE, particularly in those ...High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act endorsed by American College of Physicians
... and help in improving Americas healthcare system, continued Dr. Dale. He and Rep. Cuellar are to be commended for addressing the critical need to have a strong foundation of primary care and generalist physicians to meet the needs of an aging population with more chronic diseases and to support a new model o...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...ignificance, the trend is encouraging and warrants continued clinical investigation of MAGE-A3 ASCI. In the Phase II clinical study, the most commonly reported adverse events were mild local (pain, redness, swelling) or systemic (fever, fatigue, muscle pain) reactions observed within the 24 hours of injectio...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...b. The new data are important as they document the continued benefit of the targeted therapy, she says. Targeted therapy uses a specific agent directed against a particular change in a cancer cell. Researchers also found that the highest risk of relapse occurs within the first two years, and that recurrence......our weeks. During the next month half of the women continued to receive the drug while the other half took an identical looking placebo pill. The women who took modafinil for all eight weeks reported major improvements in memory, concentration and learning. I am very enthusiastic about the potential weve dem...