Drug use linked to brain hemmorhage in young adults
Tampa, FL. (Feb. 17, 2006) A fifth of young adults whose blood vessels ruptured inside their brain abused drugs and more than 40 percent had malformed blood vessels, according to a study reported Feb. 17 at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2006 in Kiss...UK addresses funding gap created by US anti-abortion stance
...pledge will be essential if the third, fourth, and fifth Millennium Development Goals--to empower women, to save children's lives, and to reduce maternal mortality--have any chance of being reached."...Study finds some people in pain unlikely to seek treatment
... the American Pain Society declared pain to be the fifth vital sign, a designation to increase pain awareness among health care professionals. The rapid increases in pain medicine prescription hint at a population of patients with unmet pain needs, according to the study. Barbara Yawn, M.D., an Olmsted Me...Ronald Breslow to receive 2006 Othmer Gold Medal
...Gold Medal Luncheon will be the first event in the fifth annual Heritage Day on Thursday, May 18, 2006. "An individual of multifaceted talents and great achievements, Ron Breslow combines a brilliance in research with a motivation to tell the story of chemical achievement to all who will listen," said Arn...Does alcohol labelling encourage sensible drinking?
...ne what constitutes a unit of alcohol, less than a fifth of men and just a quarter of women used the inform...alf of the shoppers surveyed preferred wine, but a fifth of those gave no estimate on how many units are in a bottle. Another third thought the alcohol cont...Warning of risk to breast cancer patients from vaginal oestrogen
...educe circulating oestradiol by over 97%. Around a fifth of patients on adjuvant AIs suffer from atrophic vaginitis a distressing skin condition of the genitals caused by lack of oestrogen. Many ask if they can use topical oestrogen to alleviate the symptoms as conventional HRT is not recommended. Senior...Measurement of urinary protein can help detect recurrent bladder cancer
...he January 18 issue of JAMA. Bladder cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the United States, according to background information in the article. In 2005, there were an estimated 63,210 new cases and more than 13,000 deaths. There are 500,000 patients in the United States with a history of bladder ...Point-of-care test proves more effective for recurrent bladder cancer than conventional lab test
... 94.2 percent in this study. Bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the United States. For the 500,000 Americans with a history of bladder cancer, the probability of recurrence can be as high as 50 percent depending on the stage, grade and number of primary tumors. Risk factors for the disease i...One in five patients on commonly prescribed diuretics have abnormal sodium and potassium levels
... abnormalities. "Despite the fact that more than a fifth of the patients we looked at suffered from reduced electrolyte levels, less than a third of the people given this commonly used type of drug appear to have had tests to check their levels." The authors stress that people should never stop taking pre...A little telomerase isn't enough
...ld have two copies of the telomerase gene.) By the fifth generation, mice had severely shortened telomeres and exhibited failure of organs that have high turnover of their cells -- the bone marrow and intestine among them. "We thought there might be some relationship between telomerase, telomere length and...Food insecurity and food stamps: How is the US doing?
...rease might not seem like a lot, it represents the fifth straight year of worsening food insecurity. Barely 10 percent of US households were food insecure in 1999. Wilde illustrates graphically how household food insecurity declined between 1995 and 1999, but then increased steadily every year from 1999 t...Hazardous alcohol use by young adults goes far beyond college campuses
...cipants (n=1,987) were originally recruited in the fifth or sixth grade. Participants were asked about their alcohol use by survey in the 12th grade and again by telephone around 24 years of age. None of the young adults in the analyses had ever been married or had children. Three groups were formed bas...Psychometric testing might be best way to predict future happy doctors
...ries, are unhappy with their careers. In the UK, a fifth of junior doctors consider leaving medicine....Envisat sees smoke from Europe's worst peacetime fire
...he outskirts of Hemel Hempstead. Buncefield is the fifth largest fuel storage depot in the UK, distributing millions of tonnes of petrol and other oil products per year, including aviation fuel to nearby Luton and Heathrow Airports. Buncefield is located at the topmost part of the cloud, with light winds...Depressed heart patients skip medications, have elevated stress hormones
...atients with coronary heart disease that is in its fifth year. The study is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs Epidemiology Program, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Federation for Aging Research. "The overall goal of the Heart and Soul Study is to try to understand why dep...Hospitalization rates for infectious diseases increase among older adults
... million by 2030, accounting for approximately one fifth of the total U.S. population. Aaron T. Curns, M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues, examined the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) to estimate older adult hospitalization rates from 1990 through ...Men, check your blood pressure before checking in for plastic surgery
...flammatory drugs before surgery. Facelifts are the fifth most popular cosmetic surgical procedure performed on men. More than 10,200 men had a facelift in 2004, accounting for nine percent of all facelifts, according to the ASPS. "By controlling blood pressure before surgery, patients can significantly l...Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
...imately three quarters by vaginal delivery and one fifth by emergency caesarean section. The researchers determined the level of placental microtransfusions from the umbilical cord blood and then looked for correlations between HIV transmission and the level of microtransfusions. They found no correlation ...Gene therapy potential for treatment of pancreatic cancer
...ed ahead of print in Gut. Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in the developed world, and is extremely difficult to treat. Only 3% of affected patients are still alive five years after diagnosis, a survival rate that has remained static for the past three decades. Currently, the o...Medical debt undermines housing security for working families, new national study shows
...to protect people from housing difficulties -- one fifth of those with insurance reported housing problems." Brandeis University researchers worked with The Access Project and local research partners on the study. "In a surprisingly clear way these data document how often medical debt hinders access to ho...