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... and VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. "We found that for high-risk patients, the combination of a ...hemorrhages in high-risk patients. The UCLA study found that for high-risk patients, it is more cost-effective and safer to use a non-steroidal anti-inflamm...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...n released online prior to print publication. "We found that testing with the NT-proBNP assay was an extre...on, the paper's lead author. "Importantly, we also found that the very best results came from combining the results of this very sensitive and specific blood...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...e and either CellCept or azathioprine (AZA). They found that freedom from rejection after 12 months was 10 percent higher with those treated with CellCept (63% of CellCept patients versus 53% of AZA patients). The study also determined that the one-year survival rate was significantly better in CellCept ...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...ied as private, public, or uninsured. Researchers found that at least 23.3 percent of participants were uninsured at least once during the eight-year study period. The percentage of uninsured individuals decreased throughout the study at the time of interviews in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000, with 14....Aboriginal Canadians at high risk for severe trauma
... 1 million urban and rural inhabitants. The study found that Aboriginal Canadians were nearly four times a... interval [CI] 3.0-4.6). Aboriginal Canadians were found to be at significantly increased risk of injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes (RR 4.8, 95% ...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
... by a BMI of greater than 29.9. Visceral fat (fat found in the deeper tissues and around the body's organs rather than just under the skin) was associated with metabolic syndrome in older men and women whether they were normal weight, overweight or obese. Subcutaneous (under the skin) abdominal fat was as...Restless legs syndrome has complex genetic involvement
...s correlated with the differences in linkage. They found that one feature, periodic leg movements during sleep, was significantly greater for affected individuals from the linked families than for affected individuals from the unlinked families. "These results further support the involvement of an RLS-susc...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...lines on a standard eye chart. Those investigators found that 53 percent of children ages 7 to 12 years who received both glasses and treatment with patches, near activity met this standard, while only 25 percent of those children in this age group who received glasses alone met the standard. For children...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
...ity Patients With CAP In a new study, researchers found that patients with community-acquired pneumonia (C...Canada, researchers from the University of Alberta found that patients in a wheelchair at time of hospital admission were 1.4 times more likely to die during...Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
...pia in older children would be ineffective, but we found that many teenagers responded to treatment," says Michael Repka, M.D., a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Children's Center and a co-author of the study. "In our opinion, age alone should not determine whether or not to treat." The findings are publi...Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
ST. PAUL, Minn. A new study has found no link between use of cell phones and the risk of...brain tumors about their cell phone use. The study found no increased risk for brain tumors related to cell phone use, frequency of use, or number of years o...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...he adds. Upon closer examination, the Hopkins team found that people most likely to decrease both systolic and diastolic blood pressure also were those who lost the most body fat, particularly abdominal fat, and gained the most muscle. These changes in body composition were more closely related to reducti...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...al challenges using nanotechnology The study team found that several developing countries have already launched nanotechnology initiatives. India's Department of Science and Technology will invest $20 million over the next four years, for example, and China ranks third in the world behind the United State...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...s on a standard eye chart. The study investigators found that 53 percent of children age seven through 12 years who received both glasses and treatment with patches and near activity met this standard, while only 25 percent of those children in this age group who received glasses alone met the standard. Fo...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...to motivate smokers to quit. Previous studies have found smokers recently diagnosed with medical conditions...hologist working with the investigative team, they found that the more abnormal screenings a smoker received, the more likely they were to quit and remain sm...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...hile another 570 children were asthma-free. They found these results: Children whose mothers smoked while pregnant were one-and-a-half times more likely to develop asthma early in life than children whose mothers did not smoke while pregnant. Children whose grandmothers smoked were more than twice as...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...d most frequently in the United States, as we have found that the number of invasive cases being diagnosed ...c Health Sciences Division. Li and colleagues also found a sixfold increase in a less aggressive form of ductal carcinoma in situ, a condition called noncome...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...f these approaches. '"One interesting thing we've found in this work is that it appears the activities of the drugs that we're delivering vary with the affinity of the binding site," she said. "We're not sure if that's a function of the affinity controlling the rate of release or if there is actually some...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...isphenolA (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bott...Tibor Hajszan, M.D., a research scientist at Yale, found that low doses of BPA in female rats inhibit estrogeninduction of synaptic connections in the hippoc......ng electrophysiology and electron microscopy. They found a unique, previously un-described organization of ...sted a good night's sleep to help obesity. Horvath found that the neurological basis of the link between obesity and insomnia make them both independent and ...