VCU Medical Center team implants total artificial heart
...s in stable condition today in the Pauley Center's intensive care unit following a seven-hour surgery on Monday to implant the TAH-t. He had been critically ill suffering from end-stage heart failure. The TAH-t replaces his damaged heart while he waits for a donor heart to become available for transplant. The...Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants
...hile group II consisted of 6 recipients who needed intensive clinical management and had poor clinical outcomes...d sampling used by the second study is quite labor intensive when compared to the device used in the first study, which is more apt to make its way into clinical...UCL scientists gauge pain in premature babies
... birth (~ 80,000 per annum) and 2.5% need neonatal intensive care (~ 17,000 per annum). Estimates show that in intensive care each baby is subjected to an average of 14 procedures per day, many of which are considered by ...OMS to participate in an international clinical trial to optimize brain tumor therapy
...se with unmethylated MGMT, can benefit from a more intensive temozolomide treatment regimen. To assist in this effort, OncoMethylome Sciences will be providing testing services to determine the methylation status of the MGMT gene in brain tumor patients enrolled in the trial. "Brain tumors are among the most ...Newer chemotherapies improve outcomes for some types of breast cancer
... patients with ERnegative disease. The benefits of intensive and extensive chemotherapy for unselected patients...e survival and overall survival benefits of modern intensive and extensive chemotherapy considered in our study are substantial," the author conclude....Hypnotherapy helps relieve chest pain
...he authors acknowledge that hypnotherapy is labour intensive and therefore expensive, but so too are the many investigations and drugs given to patients with non-cardiac chest pain, they say. And previous research carried out by the same authors on patients with irritable bowel syndrome shows that most of them...Steroids do not prolong survival in intensive care patients with ARDS on life support
... are functioning again. Patients are placed in the intensive care unit and supported with mechanical ventilator...4 days compared to 27 days), and had fewer days of intensive care during the first 28 days of the study. However, participants in the treatment group had to ret...Preconception health care can improve the lives of mothers and babies
...ning. Use the time between pregnancies to provide intensive interventions to women who have had a pregnancy that resulted in infant death, low birthweight or premature birth. Offer one pre-pregnancy visit. Increase health insurance coverage among low-income women. Integrate preconception health objectives...Concern over rising preterm births
...result in 75% of neonatal deaths and most neonatal intensive care admissions, write Andrew Shennan and Susan Bewley of St Thomas' Hospital, London. Preterm birth also has considerable impact on long term future health. For instance, 1 in 4 survivors born less than 25 weeks' gestation have severe mental or phys...End-of-life treatment preferences may change as health declines
...ition, cancer patients are more willing to undergo intensive treatment with a small chance of benefit than are members of the general public or physicians. Terri R. Fried, M.D., VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., and colleagues conducted in-home interview...Effective alcohol dependence treatments defined
...ery Research, NIAAA. "Although MM is somewhat more intensive than the alcohol dependence interventions offered in most of today's health care settings, it is not unlike other patient care models such as initiating insulin therapy in patients with diabetes mellitus. MM's application in primary care and general ...New kind of drug could increase number who quit smoking
...ncreased to 25 to 35 per cent when smokers receive intensive counselling and combined medications are used. Dr Foulds summarised 141 studies covering just over 48,000 subjects who were randomly allocated different types of medication or placebos. He found that quit rates with nicotine replacement methods and d...Mayo Clinic study finds coma grossly misrepresented in the movies
...s portraying those in a coma might visit neurology intensive care units or neurology rehabilitation centers to observe patients in a coma or rehabilitating after a coma. Producers might have the screenplay reviewed by a neurologist. Dr. Wijdicks' current research focus is coma, including the public perspe...Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in children
...eas, such as pediatric oncology centers, pediatric intensive care units and emergency rooms. "What we found extends well beyond pediatric oncology and has potential application in all areas of medicine," says George Kim, M.D., lead author of the chemotherapy study, adjunct faculty in The Johns Hopkins Univers...High hepatitis B infection rate found among NYC's Asian American community
...raordinarily high and underscore the need for more intensive screening in this population," says Henry Pollack, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine, and the study's lead author. "There needs to be much more public awareness of this problem and physicians caring for this population...Family refusal is biggest obstacle to improving UK organ donor rate
... carried out a two-year audit of all deaths in 341 intensive care units in 284 hospitals across the United King...to try to identify the number of patients dying in intensive care units who could donate their organs for transplantation. Over the two year period, families of ...Desensitization protocol overcomes allergy to clopidogrel
...h Fasano, MD. While being monitored in the cardiac intensive care unit, patients were first given a dose of clopidogrel so small it had to be mixed into a drinkable solution. Every 15 minutes over the next several hours they received an additional, higher dose of the drug, until they were able to tolerate a ta...$5.8 million funds 2 new studies on best treatments for ADHD
...r "enhanced behavior modification," which involves intensive intervention for the parents, teachers and children, including the center's highly regarded Summer Treatment Program that has been conducted at UB for the past decade. The researchers aim to evaluate whether the need for and/or dose of medicatio...Decent NHS care for older people still too patchy
..., ask the authors? A third of older people needing intensive daily help in England now receive this in their own homes rather than in residential care; delayed discharge from acute hospitals has been reduced by more than two thirds; and specialist services for people with stroke and for those prone to falls co...... men, women and minority patients stayed longer in intensive and cardiac care units, had more pre-existing medical conditions, and had higher hospital costs. The study involved nearly 229,000 Medicare beneficiaries who received ICDs between January 1995 and September 2003. Nathan Goldstein, MD, assistant profe...