HIV patients of low socioeconomic status likelier to die more often and sooner than others
...ts with a low socioeconomic status are likelier to die much more often than patients with higher levels of wealth and education, a new UCLA study has found. These findings are of concern given the high rates of HIV among patients with low socioeconomic status (SES), according to the study, led by Dr. Wil...Shortness of breath without chest pain can signify the presence of high risk heart disease
...f of the patients with this serious disease either die suddenly without prior symptoms or have a heart at...s of breath without chest pain were more likely to die was not entirely clear. While some of the patients had underlying abnormalities of pumping function ...Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment
...packaged diodes out there we needed diodes in bare die form with some novel properties so we developed the diodes ourselves, here at the Tyndall Institute," says Jaksic. The arrays are extremely accurate and can track radiation at micro-Gray resolution over millimetres of spatial resolution. These are t...Xeloda plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) dramatically reduces hospital visits by over 60%
...ncers. 2 It is estimated that over 394,000 people die worldwide from colorectal cancer each year. 3 Xeloda was approved in the EU for post-surgery treatment of colorectal cancer in April 2005. Approval was based on data (X-ACT study) that showed Xeloda to be at least equal to 5-FU/LV in terms of effect...Aspirin & similar drugs may cut risk of esophageal cancer in people with Barrett's esophagus
...jority of patients with invasive esophageal cancer die within a year of diagnosis. "Most Barrett's patients will never get esophageal cancer, but since it is such a rapidly fatal cancer once you get it, it's very important to identify ways to prevent it," Vaughan said. "This research gives us hope that...New TB test scoops top prize at Medical Futures competition
... cases of TB are diagnosed, and 1.7 million people die from TB, often as a result of delayed diagnosis and through not being able to spot if the TB is drug resistant. Working with colleagues from Peru's National TB Programme, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, AB PRISMA, and John Hopkins Bloomberg...Unrelated adults in the home associated with child-abuse deaths
... unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die from an inflicted injury, usually being shaken or ...ren in single-parent households are more likely to die from inflicted injury," Schnitzer said. "It is less the mother's inability to control her temper th...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
...he job and that each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die from influenza, many of them elderly or ill, with weakened immune systems that cannot readily fend off the disease. In an editorial to be published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology online Nov. 9, Trish Perl, M.D., M.Sc., con...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center finds better predictors for outcomes after radical prostatectomy
...ostate cancer in his lifetime, only one in 33 will die of it. However, because it causes disability and ... correlated to men being 6.54 times more likely to die than those with lower PSAV. PSADT quicker than 18 months correlated to the risk of death being 6.22...Research to improve trauma patient care neglected
...s British Medical Journal. More than 10,000 people die every day, world-wide, and 300,000 people are severely injured daily mostly from road traffic crashes and violence. Trauma doctors, writing in this week's BMJ, argue that there is an urgent need to improve the evidence base for trauma care, somethin...Statins reduce the risk of stroke and death after carotid artery surgery
..., 1 to 5 percent of patients will have a stroke or die as a complication of the surgery. If we can cut that in half or by two-thirds, that's important." Dr. Perler, who is the Julius H. Jacobson II Professor of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University and chief of the division of vascular surgery at The J...... patients who received it were much less likely to die than those who got another drug. But when Hayward's colleague David M. Kent, M.D., M.Sc., now at Tufts University, analyzed the data from this study in a risk-stratified way, he found major differences in effectiveness of tPA. In fact, his analysis ...Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke
... challenges the notion that nerve cells inevitably die quickly in the core region of the brain most severely deprived of oxygen and nutrients when a stroke hits. Instead, the researchers suggest, many nerve cells within ground zero of the attack, like those in mild to moderately damaged outlying areas, m...Compound from marine bacteria shows potential as multiple myeloma therapy
...nted proteins. With their proteasome jammed, cells die from the backup of damaged proteins. "Proteasome inhibition is a key therapeutic target and bortezomib (Velcade tm) was the first in a new class of compounds in multiple myeloma. NPI-0052 is a novel proteasome inhibitor with a chemical structure and...Penn researcher wins awards from two major cardiovascular research organizations
...ore heart disease and stroke and be more likely to die from it. I look forward to the day when the recipient of this award can say that we have remedied this situation." Kumanyika has a unique interdisciplinary background that integrates epidemiology, nutrition, prevention, minority health, aging, and ...Exercise may ward off death in women with metabolic syndrome
... metabolic syndrome were 57 percent more likely to die than those who didn't have the cluster of risk factors that defines metabolic syndrome. But when researchers controlled the study for women with metabolic syndrome who had higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, this elevated risk nearly disappea...Stress echo tests shown to predict cardiac death, illness in higher-risk women
... history, are more likely to have heart disease or die from it," says Dolan. "Dobutamine stress echo tests serve an important role in predicting heart attacks or cardiac death in these higher-risk women." After two years, the team followed up with the patients and found that 23 had died from cardiac even...Mayo Clinic study: People with heart failure at significant increase for death from stroke
People with heart failure are twice as likely to die from a stroke as the general population, new research at Mayo Clinic has found. This research will be presented today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2005 in Dallas. A random sample of 630 patients with heart failure was ident...Heart care lacking for those with clogged leg blood vessels
...e of the drugs. "The majority of patients with PAD die from heart attacks, heart failure or strokes, so we need to help as many patients as possible get screened, understand their risk, change their lifestyle and receive treatment that's in line with national guidelines," says Grossman.......the U.S. National Cancer Institute, 160,000 people die each year from lung cancer, making it the number one cause of cancer death in America. Smoking is the primary cause of the disease. The authors state that presently only 25 percent of new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed at an early stage, when cu...