Controlling blood sugar in hospitalized patients saves lives
... glucose levels in critically ill patients will be kept as close to 110 mg/dl as possible, most likely with intravenous insulin. Other improvements in patient care include: So-called ADA Diets will be replaced with Consistent Carbohydrate diets, which help regulate blood sugar. A diabetes education pl...Making multiple lifestyle changes is beneficial, achievable in lowering high blood pressure
... total daily calories. To keep track, participants kept food diaries, monitored calories and sodium intakes, and recorded minutes of physical activity. More than one-third of participants had high blood pressure at the beginning of the study. Of these, 62 percent in the intervention group with DASH, and...Scent of fear impacts cognitive performance
...cted samples of sweat from research volunteers who kept gauze pads in their armpits while they watched videos of horror movies and nonthreatening documentaries. The sweat samples were then stored in a freezer until needed for the study. Next, Chen had 75 female students between the ages of 18 and 22 res...Keeping patients from falling through the medical-imaging cracks
... Arbor VA hospital. In all, they show, the system kept eight patients with serious signs of trouble on their scans from falling through the cracks, including five who turned out to have cancer. And while the handoff between radiologists and other physicians took place correctly for the vast majority of 3......oxygen during transport. Organ transport times are kept to a minimum to assure each organ has the lowest possible cold ischemic time. (Ischemic times are from the point an organ is surgically removed from the donor to the time the organ is transplanted and re-perfused with the blood and oxygen of the reci...Corrective cosmetics may not boost quality of life for women with severe facial blemishes
...alth, and how often poor physical or mental health kept them from doing their usual activities. The survey also asked women to describe what they thought life would be like if they didn't have to contend with the blemishes. Not surprisingly, having a severe facial blemish negatively affected how most of t...How, not where, you die matters most to terminal patients
...e in the doctors looking after you" and "not to be kept alive on life supports when there is little hope for a meaningful recovery" as most important. "To be able to die in the location of your choice, e.g. home or hospital" rated 24th of 28 from the patient's perspective and 14th of 26 from the family me...Acrux patent portfolio advances in USA
...cise and convenient means of drug delivery are now kept out of the market until 2022 at the earliest". In addition, Acrux has been granted another US patent (number 6,998,138), expiring in 2017, which provides an additional layer of patent protection for delivery of anti-alopecia (baldness) drugs using Ac...Low-tech garment holds promise in preventing maternal death related to childbirth
...ssure and no palpable pulse, were resuscitated and kept alive for up to two days while waiting for blood transfusions," said Miller. In the United States, the suit had been used most recently by emergency medical technicians during transport of patients with lower body trauma to help prevent severe obst...Study shows that soda consumption increases among adolescent girls as they get older
...everal institutions studied three-day food diaries kept by 2,371 girls who participated in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth Health Study. The food diaries were provided by the participants during annual visits between the ages of nine or ten through age 19. The authors found that for ...Common reflux treatment linked to life threatening bowel infection in premature infants
...gative bacteria, normally harmless, are presumably kept in check by stomach acid, and might increase to unhealthy levels in the absence of sufficient stomach acid. In support of their hypothesis, the researchers cited a study which found that experimental animals with reduced stomach acid levels had highe...Jan/Feb Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...cian tells the story of an elderly patient who was kept alive beyond his wishes. He reflects on how the experience shaped his perception of the role of physicians in end-of-life care, suggesting that to fight illness at all cost and prolong life with no quality may be as wrong as assisting in their death...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...dies in experimental animals have shown that those kept slender live longer than heavier animals. Recently...n an animal model. They showed that rats that were kept lean throughout their lives had the lowest mortality, and rats maintained at an obese weight had hig...Internet game provides breakthrough in predicting the spread of epidemics, report scientists
...e speed with which epidemics could spread was thus kept in check. It took the plague three years to move up the European continent, south to north, with an average rate of spread of about two kilometers a day. "But today people move great distances in short time periods, as well as short distances, and t...Emergency angioplasty patients do best at hospitals where it's the 'default' treatment
...e-care hospital, or had conditions that would have kept them from getting either angioplasty or clot-busting drugs. Emergency angioplasty and other catheter-based treatments are known as primary percutaneous coronary interventions, or PPCI, and have become the "default" treatment at most major medical cen...A closer look at oral controlled release
...use the precise concentration of the medication is kept constant within the body, which can cause fewer side effects. Exploring new methods to develop and manufacture safe and effective oral controlled release dosage forms is imperative to the future of the field. WHO: The Pharmaceutical Technologies s...Avian flu transmission to humans may be higher than thought
...to being an important source of income, poultry is kept by many rural households for subsistence farming. The current epidemic in poultry is thus not only a public health problem but also an economic drawback for the many Vietnamese who live in rural areas." The researchers note the Vietnam is the count...New Hurricane Katrina survivor initiative to guide policy
...mation from participants, including names, will be kept confidential. This finely-tuned information-gathering tool used to track the experiences of Advisory Group members is being implemented for the first time and is based on lessons learned from past disasters, including the terrorist attacks of 9/11. ...Blocking the nerve receptor EP1 in mouse models reduces brain damage caused by stroke
...en produces PGE2. "A lot of the previous findings kept bringing us back to PGE2 and its receptors," Dor said. "So we investigated whether it's possible to block the EP1 receptor so PGE2 couldn't trigger toxic effects." Dor's team first injected either the EP1 blocker ONO-8713 or the EP1 stimulator, ONO-......n-American men in the late stages of syphilis, but kept them in the dark about the nature of their illness and failed to treat them with penicillin when it became available. In the new study, Dr David Wendler of the National Institutes of Health and colleagues systematically assessed health research stud...