Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...en were tested less often. COPD is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and the economic burden of this disease is measured in the billions of dollars but, despite this, it is so often underdiagnosed or misclassified, said Dr. Han. Prior to this study, I did not truly apprecia...Stomach cancer rate set to fall further 25 percent over next decade
... print in the journal Gut. Stomach cancer is the fourth most common cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer related death, in the world. The findings are based on the long term monitoring of the three types of cell changes indicative of subsequent stomach cancer. The authors tracked all new cas...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...ars promising for detecting pancreatic cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Known as a silent killer, with no method of early detection, pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and seldom is detected in its early stages. The new technique could lead to the first screening ...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
...n's poorest-performing hospitals, according to the fourth annual HealthGrades Womens Health Outcomes in U.S. Hospitals study, released today. The study also found that, for women, the largest quality gaps between the best-performing and poorest-performing hospitals were in heart failure and interventional...What's the fat content? Whether or not you notice depends on how you think
...tive thinking or individualistic thinking, and the fourth compared undergraduate students originally from North America and East Asia. The researchers found that individualists are less affected than collectivists by the context within which products are placed. For example, when a low-fat cookie was grou...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
... dose of gabapentin that reached 600 mg/d, and the fourth groups dose reached 900 mg/d. The study was blinded: physicians and patients did not know which pills contained the active agent. Using a scale from 1 to 4, patients recorded the daily number of mild, moderate, severe, and very severe hot flashes.......National Institute on Aging. The study, now in its fourth year, will test as many as two dozen possible anti-aging agents in animals in the next five years. The other centers are the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. The scien...Persistent smokers may have higher risk to become depressed than never smokers
...ocal mechanism between smoking and depression. The fourth hypothesis says that there are shared underlying genetic factors explaining this co-morbidity. This study conducted in the Department of Public Health at the University of Helsinki explored, which of those assumptions would be supported by the dat...Asthmatx completes enrollment in pivotal study of bronchial thermoplasty
...g 15 US research hospitals. The AIR2 Trial is the fourth clinical study of the Alair Bronchial Thermoplasty System. To date, over 700 bronchoscopic procedures have been performed on asthma patients. "We are very pleased to be a participant in this very important AIR2 Trial, the success of which will re...Neglected epidemic of chronic lung disease; childhood conditions affect adult progesterone levels
...ion predicts that by 2030 COPD will be the world's fourth commonest cause of death, after heart disease, stroke, and AIDS, and the increase in deaths is predicted to be greater in developing countries than in affluent countries. The neglect of COPD by clinicians, researchers, and drug companies, says Prof...Effectiveness of first renin inhibitor drug for treating hypertension is limited
...rs, for which aliskiren is a prototype, become the fourth class of drugs to lower blood pressure by blocking the renin-angiotensin system. Previously existing classes are beta blockers, converting enzyme inhibitors (CEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). Many drugs in these classes have lost patent...RAND study finds alcohol advertising and marketing associated with adolescent drinking
...revious study that found that children as young as fourth grade were very familiar with alcohol advertising and can tell you slogans and brand names. This new study shows that by the time they get to sixth grade, ads may be influencing them to drink." "Parents often think they don't have to worry about th...Recommended doses of ginseng, ginko biloba do not interfere with drug absorption
...oth ginseng and ginkgo biloba supplements; and the fourth received placebos for both supplements. The prescription drug cocktail was again administered and blood and urine samples taken in order to determine the absorption and metabolism of these drugs in the presence of either or both of the herbal supplem...New animal study may explain why alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk
...s were subcutaneously injected near the pad of the fourth mammary gland of female immunocompetant mice (C57BL/6). The six-week-old female mice were fed with moderate EtOH (one percent in drinking water) for four weeks, the equivalent of two drinks per day in humans. The control mice received regular drinkin...Does a peptide affect the heart's response to social isolation?
...l solution) daily for 14 days during the third and fourth week of the four-week isolation period. Electrocardiographic parameters (heart rate and heart rhythms) were recorded using the radio frequency transmitter. Following the period of isolation or pairing, all animals were exposed to a mild social str...Eating cured meats frequently can lead to lower lung function and potential COPD
... consumption of cured meats and COPD, which is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. In 2004, more than 11 million U.S. adults were estimated to suffer from COPD, which results from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two inflammatory lung diseases that frequently co-exist and interfere with breathi...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...idents among the Medicare patients studied." The fourth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study applies methodology developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to identify the incident rates of 13 patient safety incidents...Virtual activities: Virtuous or perilous?
... a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18 in the Da Vinci Ballroom, fourth floor, Renaissance Parc 55. VIRTUAL THERAPY FOR... p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18 in the Da Vinci Ballroom, fourth floor, Renaissance Parc 55. Rizzo will participate in a news briefing at 10 a.m. that day. EXPANDI...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center -- Surgery and adjuvant therapy may work for pancreatic cancer
... decreased over the last few years, it remains the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death. Pancreatic cancer, which has a very poor prognosis, killed more than 32,000 people in the United States last year. "We are constantly looking for ways to improve the prognosis of patients with cancers suc......ions as "favorable," "neutral" or "unfavorable." A fourth investigator, who had no knowledge of the conclusions, determined the funding source (22 percent were funded entirely by industry, 47 percent had no industry funding, and 32 percent had mixed funding) and classified articles as to whether a favorable...