Morphine for chest pain increases death risk
...thing about what is actually causing the pain. It just masks it, and may, in fact, make the underlying disease worse. "Morphine has the well-known and potentially harmful side effects of depressing respiration, reducing blood pressure and slowing heart rate," he continued. "These side effects could expla...Early failure to pay attention to faces, speech may influence later development in autism
...searchers can reliably diagnosis with autism, some just 18 months of age. The program was designed with the assistance of Sally Rogers, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The intervention program is intensive, running 25 to 30 hours per week over a two-year pe...The relationship between clinical depression and chronic pain
...ects of pain may be independently processed is not just of theoretical interest," he adds. "Evaluation of these sensory and affective dimensions in patients with chronic pain is likely to improve diagnosis, choice of treatment, and treatment efficacy." As this study affirms, prescribing a standard antid...CPR instructions should focus on continuous chest compressions, UT Southwestern physicians recommend
...ncomfortable with mouth-to-mouth procedures should just do chest compressions until emergency medical services crews arrive. The fourth recommendation is that dispatchers' CPR protocols should take into consideration local EMS system features, like geography, which can account for longer response times. A...Study calls for earlier use of ICDs in patients diagnosed with cardiomyopathy
... for more than nine months, and they appear to get just as good a survival benefit from ICD implantation as those with a remote diagnosis. Therefore, these findings could help expand the number of patients who benefit from this life-saving therapy." Details of the overall trial on which these new findin...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...ployer-sponsored health insurance. These findings, just published in a working paper on the Web site of th...r wages. By implication, insured workers should be just as alarmed by rising health-care costs as their employers are. "When employers give you health insur...Physical pain aggravates majority of Americans, according to poll
... what works for pain relief, researchers find that just as many people cite prayers as prescription drugs....re's a growing recognition that pain really is not just the sensation we have - it's something that interferes with every one of us, with life." The new sur...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
...livers could not initiate fat burning, and the fat just accumulated. We concluded that to regulate fat burning, the liver needs 'new' fat." New fat is the fat that is consumed in food or is newly made in the liver as glucose is converted to fat by fatty acid synthase, the enzyme missing in the FASKOL mice...Older adults with diabetes in managed care networks have higher rates of untreated eye disease
...ge-related eye diseases, suggesting that more than just treatment for retinopathy must be considered when evaluating the appropriateness of the interval between eye care visits for older persons with diabetes," the authors conclude. "Additionally, older adults with diabetes who were enrolled in a network-...Misunderstanding real cost a barrier to mammography
...itute found the national average for an exam to be just under $125. In contrast, the actual cost of mammography screening in 1998 in Robeson County was about $60 at a radiology clinic accessible to many women in the study. Interestingly, researchers discovered that women enrolled in government-provided i...Study evaluates Alzheimer's patients' ability to make decisions about treatment
...abilities," he said. "Of course, the MMSE score is just one piece of information. People below this range are less likely to retain adequate decision-making abilities, but some may." Another finding of the study was that people who were aware of their diagnosis, symptoms, and prognosis were more likely to...Nurses receive new tool to help patients quit smoking
... advocates," she added. "If each U.S. nurse helps just one person quit smoking per year, they could triple the current U.S. cessation rate." Smoking causes more than 440,000 deaths in the United States per year. Seventy percent of adult smokers express a desire to stop, yet research shows that only half...Lack of sleep can affect athletic performance in teens
...to correct," Carskadon says. Lack of sleep doesn't just affect athletics in teenagers. Studies repeatedly show that reaction time, vigilance, learning and alertness are impaired by insufficient sleep; so students with short nights and irregular sleep patterns perform poorly in school and in other aspects ...University of Manchester launches new anti-MRSA product
...to contact with its surface (see Notes). Measuring just over 89cm (height) by 48cm (square) the BioKab is moulded in one piece, excluding the simply detachable doors. This feature increases cleanliness by eliminating the crevices and corners in which bacteria can thrive and allows effective steam-cleaning...Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
...t allowed them to analyze all infected babies, not just the sickest. "We were able to analyze children with the full spectrum of disease across many years, rather than using mathematical models to predict the development of illness in the children," said Maldonado. "We were able to see the real distributi...Is the vaccine industry ailing?
...es has declined from 26 in 1967, to 17 in 1980, to just five in 2004. Although some of these changes result from mergers among pharmaceutical companies, for the most part, says Dr. Offit, a series of events has made the manufacture of vaccines more expensive, and their sale less profitable. To begin with,...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...due to sample size, Dr. Svirsky said, because only just six of the patients were in the six-to-12-month age group. The children's language development skills were tested with the widely used Reynell Developmental Language Scales. Speech perception was tested using the Mr. Potato Head Task, a technique dev...African Americans just as likely to be diagnosed with depression
...o they were assigned. "Primary care providers are just as likely to diagnose and treat depression in older African Americans as in whites, suggesting that bias based simply on apparent patient race is not a likely explanation for the lower rates of depression diagnosis and treatment in older African Amer...Hyperhidrosis and its treatment becoming better understood
...with someone who is affected by this," he says. "I just hope people with this condition seek help, because of the emerging treatment options and high satisfaction rates that can be obtained, even in severe cases." The Food and Drug Administration approval of botulinum toxin type A (Botox) has provided an ...Statin therapy cost-effective for a wider range of individuals
...vastatin daily produces substantial reductions not just in the rates of such coronary events, but also in the rates of strokes and revascularisation procedures among a wide-range of high-risk individuals, irrespective of their pre-treatment blood cholesterol concentrations. In the HPS, over 20,500 adults ...