LSUHSC awarded designation resulting in improved patient safety and outcomes
...rehensive Education Institute. This is the highest level of the ACS Accredited Education Institutes. There are only 18 in the United States. The only one in its part of the country, LSUHSCs Level 1 Accredited Education Institute will serve the entire region. The vision of the ACS Accredited Education Inst...Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
...a false sense of security. An over-relaxed comfort level can lead to motorists driving at unsafe speeds, distracted, fatigued, unbelted or impaired, all of which increase the likelihood of a crash. Additionally, emergency response time to a rural crash and hospital transport can be lengthy and thus jeopard...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...-smoking alcoholics showed a significantly greater level of recovery than smoking alcoholics in the areas o...six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol, the level of their recovery was not greater than the non-smoking alcoholics. It is also of note that in the s...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
...ospitals in the 19 states studied performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals during the years 2003 through 2005, 15,925 deaths among women hospitalized for cardiovascular disease could have been potentially prevented. The national number would be much higher. The greatest opportunity to reduc...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...rams and teaching self-management skills. Low level of health literacy Assume a low level of health literacy when choosing and developing educational materials. Use other media (such as ......mong New Yorkers of all races, ethnicities, income level and insurance status. That means across the board...do. We want to increase the colon cancer screening level to more than 80% of New Yorkers over 50 in the next 5 years. The NYC Health and Hospitals Corpora...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...l look at the mechanisms of aging at the molecular level and study their importance for the aging process of whole organs using models. In doing so, it may be possible to develop pharmacological prevention and treatment concepts. (Host university: Heinrich Heine University of Dsseldorf, Coordinator: Jean K...Study shows Diachrome improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes
...mended goal for type 2 diabetes patients is an A1C level below 7.0%. Lowering A1C by just 1%, especially in patients with poor blood sugar control, can delay or prevent serious complications, reduce diabetes-related deaths and reduce healthcare costs. Uncontrolled, obese and overweight type 2 diabete...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
...r and had a more favorable prognosis. That is, the level of response to chemotherapy was reflected in the CTC level, notes Dr. Moreno. The numbers held up even after up to 20 weeks of treatment. If chemotherapy doesnt reduce the CTC level, its information that enables the physician to change the drug regim...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
...e authors write. During the break, average fitness level as measured by maximum oxygen consumptionthe amount of oxygen the body can use, with higher levels indicating better fitnessdecreased by 3.2 milliliters per kilogram per minute. Percentage of body fat increased by an average of 1.3 percent, and fasti...AMPAKINE compounds a new potential treatment for respiratory depression
...atory drive and breathing rhythm at the brain-stem level containing the pre-Botzinger Complex in laboratory...s blood flow throughout the body, to determine the level of respiratory distressed caused by the drugs. When drugged rats were treated with the AMPAKINE , th...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
...ng houses on ground that is 5 to 10 feet below sea level and assuming they will never get wet is nonsensical. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected in June to release its assessment of the inherent risk of the 350-mile, New Orleans hurricane protection system. As part of assessing the risk and...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
... the serum samples, they found that the higher the level of the protein, the greater likelihood the patients disease had returned. Melanoma patients who initially respond well to treatment with interferon are at high risk of their cancer recurring, said John Kirkwood, M.D., principal investigator of th...Clinical data suggest potential versatility of ALIMTA-based regimens in lung cancer
...enced Grade 3/4 thrombocytopenia or a low platelet level (48 vs. 107, p The patients in this study received a comparable quality-of-life benefit whether they received ALIMTA and carboplatin or GEMZAR and carboplatin, said Bjrn Henning Grnberg, M.D. of St. Olavs University Hospital in Norway and the study...Nursing home placement associated with accelerated cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease
...ng home, and placement was associated with a lower level of cognition and more rapid cognitive decline. ...evious adult day care experience fared better. As level of day care use at study onset increased, the association of nursing home placement with accelerated...Journal Sleep: Longer CPAP use at night can normalize one's daytime functioning
... evaluate treatment effectiveness by assessing the level of adherence in conjunction with treatment outcomes." Dr. Weaver noted that there are, in contrast, individuals who remain excessively sleepy despite more than seven hours of CPAP use per night. The determination of a recommended nightly duration ...Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes
.... For each patient, the researchers measured the level of HBV DNA in the blood before the start of chemotherapy. They also gathered other potentially important prognostic information, like age, sex, total bilirubin and presence of cirrhosis. Over the course of each patients treatment, the researchers mon...Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients
...d normally for six months. Then Shaftel raised the level of IL-1beta in one part of the brain the hippocampus, an area of the brain that specializes in memory and one of the first parts of the brain to be affected by the disease and followed the mice for an additional month, watching for effects in the br...Vaxfectin-formulated measles DNA vaccine elicits long-term protection in nonhuman primates
...Week 8, and remained above the accepted protective level throughout the 20-week follow-up period. No adverse events related to the vaccination were observed. Data were presented by Adrin Vilalta, Ph.D., Vical's Senior Scientific Manager of Immunogen Discovery, at the annual meeting of the American Society ...Cedars-Sinai endocrine researchers to discuss gene that may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome
...rs also will present preliminary evidence that the level of androgens produced by the adrenal glands of pre-adolescent girls may serve as markers of the risk of PCOS. Ricardo Azziz, M.D., chairman of Cedars-Sinais Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will open the Androgen Excess Society meeting with...