The American College of Cardiology calls on Congress to reject cuts to office-based imaging
...ing the flawed sustainable growth rate formula and examining medical imaging in a thoughtful way, conferees, desperate for savings, simply took an axe to imaging without consideration of what cuts will do to access and, coincidently, volume." The budget reconciliation bill was passed by the U.S. Senate by a 51...Risky sex in Miami, racial influence on children's care in latest Journal of Urban Health
...true for children. The authors found the answer by examining data from the 2000 National Survey of Early Childhood Health, a telephone survey of about 2,000 Latino, white and African-American parents of children ages 4 months to 35 months. No statistically significant difference was found in the basic prevent...Difficulty in treating older hepatitis C patients with combination therapy
A new study in Japan examining the effects of combination therapy on older patients with hepatitis C found more adverse effects necessitating discontinuation of treatment, lowering of dosages, and lower long-term benefits in this age group. The results of this study appear in the ...New cocoa evidence on why plant foods are beneficial to cardiovascular health
...rvard Medical School conducted a series of studies examining the role of specific cocoa flavanols in cardiovascular health. "Applying accepted causality criteria and gold standard methodologies, we have been able to advance our understanding of the relationship between the intake of certain flavanols present i...Nurses' research proves mother knows best when taking temp
...tion was really applicable." As the first research examining the effects of beverage consumption on the accuracy of oral electronic thermometers, the nurses' findings were presented recently at the annual Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses Convention in Las Vegas. Previous research on the topic used only men ...Working memory retains visual details despite distractions
... used for words or simple shapes. We are currently examining how this memory system develops in children, how it is affected by aging and how it interacts with attention and disorders of attention."...Race/ethnicity predict lipids, heart-disease risk in HIV-1 patients on protease inhibitors
...l. Still, the study underscores the importance of examining the side effects of antiretroviral drugs across all racial groups, not just among Whites. Scientists said the need for testing the medicines among diverse populations was particularly important as the drugs begin to roll out in developing countries i...Guiding principles for facial transplantation unveiled
...t considers the issue of facial transplantation by examining various subjects including, immunosuppression, transplant rejection, technical issues and psychological aspects (both those facing all transplant patients and those unique to facial transplant patients). "As plastic surgeons we fully recognize the re...All placebos not created alike
...e them. This study takes the first step away from examining the placebo effect as a generalized phenomenon to one investigating how it varies in specific clinical environments. Kaptchuk and his colleagues have initiated other National Institute of Health funded studies that will explore the placebo phenomenon...Low-fat diet does not reduce risk of colorectal cancer
...al cancer in postmenopausal women. Previous trials examining this association have been inconclusive. The researchers found that over the 8.1 years of follow-up, there were 201 cases of invasive colorectal cancer (0.13 percent per year) in the intervention group and 279 (0.12 percent) in the comparison group. ...Many new immigrants to US change diet -- and not for the better
...e professor said. "Understanding these changes and examining their determinants is an important precursor to a fuller understanding of immigrant health." In her research, Akresh focuses on several aspects of immigrant acculturation and assimilation to the United States, giving a portrait of immigrant behaviors...Parental conflict produces more than fleeting distress for children
...f the journal Child Development, the team reported examining 223 children twice during a one-year period for their reactions to conflicts between their parents. First, their mothers and fathers participated alone in an exercise in which they attempted to manage and resolve a common point of disagreement. The r...UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection
... in Los Angeles. The study, a statistical analysis examining the connection between glucose (blood sugar) levels and death in patients with cardiovascular disease, will be published Feb. 15 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the leading scientific journal in its field. Cardiovascular disease includes cor...Man-made prostate created by women
... from embryonic stem cells provides a new tool for examining the origins of cancer and role of primitive stem cells. Research collaborators are the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, USA, Australian...Multiple sclerosis research into reparative cells offers new avenue for fighting disease
...eatments for MS are difficult, but researchers are examining the regulation of the genes Nogo, Lingo-1, Jagged and Notch for potential treatment. The proteins Nogo and Lingo-1 appear to have the ability to block nerve cells from growing, so if they can be blocked, the nerve cells might be able to recover. "Wit...Better procedures needed on care of prisoners in hospitals
...d almost two thirds (111) felt uncomfortable while examining prisoners. Only six doctors believed that breaches of confidentiality never occurred whereas 13 thought that they always happened and 162 sometimes. Consistent adherence to BMA guidelines was carried out by a minority. This survey shows that hospital...People use separate brain mechanisms to make ambiguous and risky choices
...esearchers determined the subjects' preferences by examining how frequently they chose each type of gamble during the experiment. They found that activation of specific brain regions depended on participants' preferences for risk or for ambiguity. They soon learned that the activation of an area in the latera...Troubling increase in repeat cesarean delivery, inadequate explanations
...documented indications for the change in trend. In examining the medical records of over 4500 women who had live births, data revealed that of the 493 women who underwent repeat cesarean delivery without having gone into labor, "elective" (36%) and "maternal request" (18%) were the most common reasons recorded...State children's health insurance program affects access to dental care and use of dental services
...olina (Chapel Hill) reports the results of a study examining the influence of SCHIP on the use of dental care and unmet dental needs, based on six years (1997-2002) of data from the National Health Interview Survey, a national survey conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics. The study i...Seattle Heart Failure Model is able to accurately predict survival for patients with heart failure
... acid, and serum sodium. The model was derived by examining 1,125 heart failure patients, and validated in five additional groups, totaling 9,942 patients. The accuracy of the model was excellent. "What is unique about this model is that one can estimate the change in an individual patient's survival by addin...