Economic cost to hospitals from an avian flu pandemic likely to be huge, SLU professor says
...to treat SARS patients because they were afraid of contracting the disease. "For instance, during the peak of the SARS crisis, the National Taiwan University Hospital's number of surgeries dropped from 3,576 in May 2002 to 519 in May 2003, an astonishing decrease rate of 85 percent," he said. "At one point early...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
...are required to prevent patients from accidentally contracting the virus directly from an infected medical staff worker or indirectly from other patients or visitors via medical staff. Previous research from Hopkins showed that annual flu shots have been almost 88 percent effective at reducing the risk of flu ...Urban Britain is a recipe for heart disease
...sia to the UK significantly increase their risk of contracting cardiovascular disease (CVD). The British population has one of the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world, and people from the Indian subcontinent living in Britain are amongst the most susceptible to heart attacks and strokes. The re...World leaders in cancer research to meet in Liverpool
...hould be undertaken on individuals at high risk of contracting the disease. Currently there are large US and European randomised controlled clinical trials being undertaken to demonstrate that these screening methods should be introduced into the health care system. Professor Field added: "Liverpool is internati...Steroids and chicken pox not a good mix
...s like childhood leukemia are at increased risk of contracting a more severe form of chicken pox, which may result in death. "Steroids are used to treat leukemia and they suppress the immune system," said Thomas McLean, a pediatric oncologist at Brenner Children's Hospital. "When a child is exposed to the varice...Breast cancer increases while experts disagree on causes - Debate in crisis say academics
...reast cancer, one in nine women in the UK now risk contracting the disease during their lifetime. Some scientists argue that the cause may be an increased exposure to a number of environmental chemicals, a claim taken up by campaigners in the US and the UK who urge the government to provide better health protec...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
...gh risk to take drugs that might prevent them from contracting HIV. But debate over the particulars of the strategy has slowed progress. "Even as available and proven prevention interventions are used, the HIV pandemic will not be stopped solely by talking to those at risk," they wrote. "Clinical trials of daily...Not enough is known about treating malaria in pregnancy, researchers say
...nant women, which probably increases their risk of contracting malaria. The disease can cause severe anemia and parasitic infection in the fetus and increase the risks of preterm birth and maternal death. "Clearly, more trials are needed evaluating the current best regimens for malaria," Orton says....U of T study shows barriers to HIV vaccine acceptance
... or promiscuous if they are vaccinated and fear of contracting HIV/AIDS from the vaccine, women in the focus groups were also concerned about power dynamics (the influence of husbands who are in denial about their own risk behaviours), affordability, reproductive side effects and discrimination in obtaining the ...Substituting blood transfusions
...have a rare blood group or are you concerned about contracting a disease such as HIV from a blood transfusion? The first ever European Blood Substitutes project ('EuroBloodSubstitutes') is designing molecules which will be able to replace the need for blood during transfusions in the future. Researchers are modi...Study shows increased risk of common infections in diabetic patients
...th type 1 or type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of contracting respiratory, urinary tract and skin infections than people without diabetes, according to an article in the August 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Diabetes can cause kidney problems, nerve damage, blindness and serious ...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
...ors place young women at greater risk than men for contracting the virus when exposed to it. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of people living with HIV are female, Quinn says, and in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, young women ages 15 to 24 are three to six times more likely to be infected than men. Women ...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
... weight gain affect considerably the likelihood of contracting breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Energy balance represents the difference between energy intake, by eating, and energy expenditure, through physical activity. Women with low levels of physical activity and highe...Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...ease. This age group also has the highest risk of contracting an STD and has historically been the least likely group to undergo regular testing. Results of a new survey by the same investigators, also to be presented at the ASM meeting, warn that reinfection rates for Chlamydia were alarmingly high among mid...Risk factors in contracting cancer of the endometrium
...emia and mellitus diabetes. The probabilities of contracting this disease are also increased in those women who...n Navarre. The research concluded that the risk of contracting endometrial cancer increases with obesity, thyroid alterations, hypercholesterolemia and mellitus di...Parents who don't vaccinate their children may believe vaccines cause harm
...Children with exemptions are at a greater risk for contracting vaccine-preventable diseases and may transmit those diseases to children who are too young to yet be vaccinated, people who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons and people who fail to develop protective responses to vaccines. Further, according t...Exclusive breastfeeding reduces risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission
...st three months were at four times greater risk of contracting HIV through breastfeeding compared to those who were exclusively breastfed. The study is published in the April 29, 2005, issue of AIDS . "International guidelines currently recommend that HIV-infected mothers should avoid all breastfeeding, but onl...... nevirapine effectively prevents many infants from contracting HIV from their infected mothers, are sound and reliable," said James Ware, chair of the committee that wrote the report, and professor of biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. "None of the shortcomings that we discovered upon revie...