US Latinos may develop Alzheimer's disease symptoms at earlier age than white, non-Latinos
...viduals evaluated at the same clinic. There was no difference in the age of symptom onset between the Latinos evaluated at the east and west coast centers, although there were differences in the countries of origin. "the findings in this study indicate that Latino individuals, the largest and fastest growing m...Nurses receive new tool to help patients quit smoking
... moment' and quitting opportunity and may make the difference between a patient's cessation success and failure," said Sarna. Partners in the Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative include the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Foundation, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, National Coalition of E...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...tissues than can be seen on mammography. "It's the difference between taking a picture of a crowd from across the street, versus circling the crowd and shooting hundreds of separate photos along the way, each photo only two or three people deep. Your chances of finding a particular person in the crowd are going...Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
... healthy infected infants. "There is a significant difference in the likelihood of disease progression [with ear...mptomatic infants-no matter what it is-makes a big difference in preventing or delaying the progression of the disease," said Maldonado. "Now we have to move forw...Study: Physicians need to be more vocal about encouraging diabetic patients to exercise
... on the study. "If doctors realized how much of a difference they make when they speak with their diabetic patients about being physically active and help them follow through with a concrete plan, they probably would talk about exercise during appointments." The physical environment in a patient's home town al...Penn study shows liver receptor key to diet-dependent differences in blood lipid levels
...ivers, this may help explain this conundrum of the difference in susceptibility to high cholesterol and heart disease, depending on diet," says Lazar. "The answer is genetics. Our work suggests that one of the new genetic factors to pay attention to is the amount of LXR in the liver."...Keyhole surgery set to become the new gold standard for colon cancer treatment
...uillou concludes: "For cancer of the colon, little difference seems to exist between keyhole surgery and open surgery and there is no reason to expect long-term cancer outcomes to be different. However, impaired short-term outcomes after keyhole surgery for rectal cancer do not yet justify its routine use." In ...Melbourne trailblazer scoops medical research award
...itute staff, whose research will ultimately make a difference to the lives of those affected directly and indirectly by brain disorders." "They are our unsung heroes and praise should be given to them." The 2005 BGRF medal was presented to Professor Mendelsohn at a function at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem in M...Mount Sinai study shows Hispanics have worse lung cancer survival rate
...riate analyses suggest that most of the unadjusted difference in survival can be explained by unequal rates of surgical resection and differences in the proportion of patients presenting with stage IB disease," said Dr. Wisnivesky. The investigators said that their future research would explore why Hispanics ar...Molecular testing in patients with rare cancer predicts response to Gleevec
...n 9 mutation (308 days). "However, there was no difference in the likelihood of clinical response between the two doses used in the study," said Heinrich. "The presence of an exon 11 type mutation was the single best predictor of clinical response to Gleevec, irrespective of dose." The study also confirme...Mayo Clinic researchers report on effectiveness of treatments for hot flashes
...that MPA was more effective than venlafaxine. This difference became even more striking after six weeks of treatment, says Mayo medical oncologist Charles Loprinzi, M.D., the NCCTG study's lead investigator. "This improved hot flash benefit appeared to last for at least six months following a single MPA dose, ...Popular procedures evaluated for diagnostic accuracy and treatment effectiveness
...e within the first year, indicating no significant difference in time of relapse between the groups. Thus EGP a...In addition, patient reports showed no significant difference in health-related quality of life. "Our findings suggest endoscopic gastric plication is not as bene...Integrated chemical-dependency and mental-health treatment best for adolescents
...nts presenting for substance-abuse treatment. The difference in focus can be very important." "Adolescent patients with comorbid mental-health and substance-use problems tend to drop out of treatment earlier than those with only substance-use problems," added Sterling. "They have also been found to relapse to...Babies' cries linked to their health
... reaction to cries. "Parents can usually tell the difference between pain and non-pain cries which guides the urgency of their care taking, and helps parents deal with infants with colic," says LaGasse. But parent perception of their infant's cry may be affected by conditions such as depression or age of pare...Vitamin D, taxotere combination promising for advanced prostate cancer
...nt) versus docetaxel alone (52 percent). While the difference between the two arms did not reach statistical significance (p=0.07), the combination results represent an historically strong PSA response. Six months into the study, 58 percent of DN-101 and 49 percent of placebo-treated patients had experienced a ...Mayo researchers to announce new findings about promising early-stage breast cancer treatment
...results. Although longer follow-up is needed, this difference led to the recommendation that study participants who are currently receiving chemotherapy should receive trastuzumab at the same time as the paclitaxel, instead of waiting," says Dr. Perez....Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...authors write. "Several factors contribute to this difference including recipients who are not critically ill, who have shorter cold and warm ischemia times [the time the liver is not connected to a blood supply between procurement and transplantation], and who have fewer incidents of retransplantation with LDL...Ablation therapy improves survival for patients with inoperable liver tumors
... chemotherapy. However, there was a significant difference between the two groups in disease recurrence, espe... spread beyond the liver. There was no significant difference in overall survival for patients undergoing surgery versus those undergoing ablation or the ablation...Digital mammography decreases 'call-back' appointments, reducing patient anxiety and cost
... X-rays to create the image of the breast, but the difference between the two is in how the image is recorded. In digital mammography, it is digitally recorded and stored, whereas with conventional mammography a hardcopy of the image is printed. "With digital mammography, we have the advantages of being able to...Ultrasound images transmitted over the phone allow radiologists to diagnose patients in real time
..., and in 64% of the cases, they could not tell the difference between the compressed and non-compressed images, said Harris. "In 67% of the cases, they ranked the compressed images as adequate for diagnostic purposes or better than adequate," he added. "The portable ultrasound machine we used to create the imag...