Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...esent less than five percent of all U.S. hospitals examined in the study. The study says, "Despite the flurry of research, publications and process improvement activity that has occurred since the IOM report there is a growing consensus that not much progress has been made leading to a visible national impa...International study finds ways to maximize effective responses after terrorism incidents
...s that have recently experienced terrorist attacks examined and discussed their emergency medical response to blast events and identified common issues that could be used by others to enhance preparedness. The represented countries included: Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, United Kingdom, United States, Sp...1 out of every 3 arthritis sufferers is affected in ability to work
...ity, work loss and lower income. Some studies have examined work limitations for people with specific rheumati...f AAWL in adults between the ages of 18 and 64 and examined characteristics related to AAWL in this age group. Led by Kristina A. Theis, MPH, of the Centers f...Implant device effectively maintains heart function for transplant-listed patients
...ge to heart transplantation. New devices are being examined for their safety and efficacy in this setting as w...tered eplerenone and 109 treated with placebo, and examined the effect of eplerenone on LV "remodeling", the unfavorable change in heart size and structure that...EVEREST data on use of tolvaptan published in JAMA and featured at ACC
...dentical, embedded short-term pivotal studies that examined tolvaptan compared to placebo over seven days of inpatient care or discharge, whichever came first. Data from the two short-term studies documented that tolvaptan treatment yielded significantly greater improvements than placebo based on the primar...Long-term aspirin use associated with reduced risk of dying in women
...and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined the association between aspirin use and death in 79,439 women enrolled in the Nurses Health Study, a large group of female nurses who have been followed since 1976. Beginning in 1980 and again every two years through 2004, the women were asked if th...Pairing medical therapy with coronary intervention fails to reduce heart disease deaths
...restore blood flow in a heart attack, no study has examined the ability of PCI to improve outcomes over and above modern, optimal medical therapy (OMT) in patients with stable coronary disease. Results of research presented today at the American College of Cardiologys 56th Annual Scientific Session showed t...Women without regular medical care at increased risk of ovarian cancer
...In this casecontrol study, Abenhaim and colleagues examined whether the frequency of medical visits and pelvic examinations and the type of health care provider visited had an effect on the risk of ovarian cancer. They found that women who did not have an annual medical visit or pelvic examination and who had...Most first-time offenders for driving while intoxicated need help for more than just alcohol
...perimental Research . "While other studies have examined symptoms of depression as a predictor of change during interventions for DWI offenders, ours is the first to examine formal diagnoses of drug use and other psychiatric problems," said Rebekka S. Palmer, associate research scientist at Yale University...Emergency responses greatly increase risk to firefighters of dying on duty from heart disease
...rs from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) examined the link between CHD deaths and firefighting and l...ong firefighters on duty. Numerous earlier studies examined CHD death rates to see whether firefighters have a greater lifetime risk of heart death than the gen...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
...aculty member of the UGA College of Public Health, examined four high-profile American cities New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta and modeled the effects of a 20 kiloton nuclear detonation and a 550 kiloton detonation. (For comparison, the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in ...Colon cancer survival linked to number of lymph nodes examined
...und that the more lymph nodes that are removed and examined during surgical treatment of colon cancer, the bet...r a minimum number of lymph nodes be extracted and examined during the surgery, continues Chang. For example, the research team reports that one of the 17 s...Lymph node evaluation linked to improved survival for colon cancer patients
The number of lymph nodes removed and examined for tumor cells appears to be associated with the likelihood of survival after surgery in colon cancer patients, according to a study in the March 21 Journal of the National Cancer Institute . Health care providers should consider the number of lymp...Americans still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, according to 2 recent studies
...sue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examined whether the diets of non-Hispanic blacks have improved relative to the diets of whites. Also working with the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) I (1971C75); II (1976C1980); III (1988C1994); 1999C2000; and 2001...New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks
... the risks of smoking," she said. Pankow's group examined carcinogen deliveries from 26 brands of conventional "regular," "light" and "ultralight" cigarettes. Using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for the potency of carcinogens, Pankow's team showed that these deliveries are only able to account f...Obese patients run higher risk of post-operative complications
...ment of Anesthesiology database from 2001 to 2005, examined and analyzed the complications of 6,773 patients. Of these, 2,217 about one-third were obese, and in the obese group, 993 were morbidly obese. Bamgbade and the other researchers found much higher rates of the following complications in obese pat...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...., of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, examined the status of health care today, and propose a strategy for reform. The authors write that the health sector today has the wrong kind of competition. Each player in the system gains not by increasing value for the patient but by taking value away ...Framingham study shows parents who live long pass on
...of Internal Medicine. In the study, researchers examined 1,697 offspring age 30 and older (average age 40) whose parents participated in the original FHS and had reached age 85 or died before January 1, 2005. They compared cardiovascular risk factors among the offspring based on whether both parents, one p...Mental illnesses appear common among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
...San Francisco, and San Francisco VA Medical Center examined data from a VA database including 103,788 veterans of these operations who were first seen at VA facilities between Sept. 30, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2005. About 13 percent were women, 54 percent were younger than age 30, close to one-third were minorit......n for three months before treatment, patients were examined before and at 4,12, 24 and 48 weeks after treatment began to check for symptom control (pain, urinary and bowel symptom, breakthrough bleeding). Pain was evaluated by patients self-assessment and an investigator interviewed and performed a gynecologi...