New guidelines: Common drugs can calm essential tremor
...with treatment, they can be managed, making a huge difference in the daily lives of people with essential tremor." The guideline panel reviewed 211 articles to make evidence-based recommendations on the treatment of essential tremor. Propranolol, long-acting (LA) propranolol, and primidone were each found to s...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...patient care, their race and ethnicity make little difference in the quality of care they receive. But the study also found that health-care providers have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to caring for all of their patients. In fact, it suggests there were only limited improvements in outpatient car...Diuretics effective for people with diabetes and high blood pressure
... April 25 Archives of Internal Medicine found no difference among the treatments in progression of kidney disease among diabetic patients with reduced kidney function....Diabetics with high blood pressure benefit from 'water pills'
...betes and hypertension has been whether it makes a difference which medicine is used for initial therapy of high blood pressure. "ALLHAT is the largest study to address this question, comparing four different classes of antihypertensive medication: diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme [ACE] inhibitors, ca...Hospital outcomes for women improve, but some hospitals fall far behind: Healthgrades study
...1,500 hospitals. For many cardiac procedures, the difference in mortality rates between the nation's best-performing hospitals � those in the top 15 percent � and the poorest-performing hospitals � those in the bottom 15 percent � was dramatic. For example, the risk of mortality for women undergoing coronary a...Polls finds many Americans believe cancer myths
...ur of the five questions, there was no significant difference in prevalence of endorsement of the inaccuracies between the groups who called themselves "very informed," "somewhat informed," or "not very informed." However, those who called themselves "not at all informed" were generally quite accurate when rati...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) significantly improved components of diabetic dyslipidemia
...ool of Medicine. "The results demonstrate a clear difference between ACTOS and Avandia on their effects on diabetic dyslipidemia, with ACTOS lowering triglycerides and raising HDL-C to a greater extent than Avandia." Study Design This 24-week prospective, randomized, multicenter, double-blind clinical trial...New drug is effective in reducing rejection in heart transplantation
... percent versus 48 percent). There was no survival difference between patients who received placebo and daclizumab. In addition, researchers noted that it took three times longer for the patients in the daclizumab group to reach the primary end point than it did for those in the placebo group (61 versus 21 days...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (first issue)
...40 to 85 percent of the oxygen uptake reserve (the difference between resting and peak oxygen intake) for more than 20 minutes per session....A TV in the bedroom is associated with lower standardized test scores among third grade students
...edia use]) range from 41 to 58, showing a 17-point difference if a child's household media environment is taken into consideration." "While this research focuses on academic achievement, we know that media use can influence children in many ways," the authors conclude. "Especially with the media environment con...New pediatrician workforce policy addresses growing challenges in health care
...ckly and the cultural roots of providers do make a difference in terms of patient care in a number of ways. If the aim is to improve the health and well-being of patients then it is desirable to have as diverse a workforce as possible." The Committee on Pediatric Workforce manages issues pertaining to the supp...Child early intervention programs make for healthier adults
...ealth than the urban Boston residents, with little difference between the BEEP and non-BEEP groups; Palfrey speculates that this was because Brookline offers many programs and supports for families. However, within the urban group, there were significant differences: BEEP participants had, on average, completed...Treatments for prostate cancer may affect employment
...y to remain working, although the reasons for this difference were not examined....The rich die differently from you and me, U-M study shows
... pain often during the year before they died. This difference persisted after the researchers controlled for age, gender, ethnicity, education and diagnosis. Wealthier elders also experienced a lower number of symptoms overall, the study found. Those in the wealthiest half of the elderly population not only had...Ten million Africans treated by international disease treatment programme
...ow how initiatives such as the SCI can make a real difference in tackling serious problems in the developing world." About schistosomiasis Schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease caused by infection with the blood fluke (worm) Schistosoma spp. It is one of the most common parasitic diseases in the worl...Normal blood pressure could add years to your life
...rprising is the unexpectedly large number of years difference in life expectancy between those with hypertension and those without," she said. "And while those with lower blood pressure lived longer, they also lived healthier lives." "So, by preventing hypertension you would have a much higher life expectancy a...Acupuncture offers short-term benefit for arthritis
...ever, at 1-year follow-up there was no significant difference in scores between the three groups. Lead investigator Claudia Witt (Charite University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany) comments: "Acupuncture treatment had significant and clinically relevant short-term effects when compared to minimal acupunctur...Early prostate cancer screening may reduce mortality rate
...along; we were a bit more surprised. A 35 per cent difference is quite a large amount so from our perspective it is quite a significant link in the chain supporting that early prostate screening has a positive impact." Ontario is among the half of Canadian provinces that does not cover the costs of PSA screeni...Costs of coronary artery bypass graft surgery
...ent longer than in the United States; there was no difference in in-hospital mortality [death]; and the cost in ...ared with those at Canadian hospitals, with little difference in clinical outcome and despite shorter average LOS [length of stay]. The difference in total in-hos...Major heart failure quality of care variations found in US hospitals
...formation. Fonarow notes that that is a 100-fold difference in conformity. Fonarow adds that the study compare...es by the hospital they go to," said Fonarow. The difference in mortality rates between hospitals was fourfold, with variations from only 1.4 percent of patients...