Limiting eligibility for medical studies can omit women and African-Americans
...omen and African-Americans were substantially more likely to be excluded from treatment studies than men or ... researchers found that women were 62 percent more likely than men to be disqualified from studies that required social and residential stability. Women were ...ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
...with high staffing levels. Patients were also less likely to die within 30 days in these higher-staffed units. Increased overtime hours in ICUs were associated with increased rates of another common hospital-associated infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, as well as increased rates of ...Women with breast cancer do not get potentially life-saving information, survey reveals
...d women or those without Internet access were less likely to receive information or be involved in decision making. In fact, 57% of older women (those over age 71) were not involved at all in their treatment decision, compared to 22% of younger women. Insight obtained from the survey has helped identify g...Disadvantaged TB patients urgently need social support to make medical treatment more effective
...ons for non-homeless people. People were most likely to miss appointments if they had previously had TB or misused drugs or alcohol. A third of the 81 patients tested for HIV were positive. "Our study shows that greater emphasis is needed on developing a social model of care, which incl...Psychological bullying hits just as hard
...are exposed to relational aggression are also more likely to carry a weapon to school. This is not the case for girls. A total of 1,335 African American and European American adolescents, aged 11 19 years, from a public school district in Detroit, Michigan, took part in an Internet survey which looked at...COX inhibitors may weaken protective qualities of estrogen hormone therapy
...s cardioprotection remains controversial. It seems likely that benefit is conferred only on women who commence estrogen close to the time of menopause; such women were the object of this study, explain the researchers. If estrogen is started some years after the onset of menopause it may actually confer ris...NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center doctors present at 2007 AUA Meeting
... found that patients with large prostates are more likely to have lower Gleason sum, locally confined and less aggressive pathologic disease and subsequently were more often down-graded from biopsy to pathologic sampling. Experts Available for Commentary on Breaking News and Other Stories at AUA Confer...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...st commonly an acne-like rash. The reactions most likely occur because the receptor blocked by the drugs al...e restarted if the skin reaction returns, it will likely be manageable. The authors underscore the need for further studies to validate their recommendation...Moderate drinking lowers women's risk of heart attack
...at least once a month were nearly three times more likely to suffer a heart attack than abstainers, results showed. One difference in the protective pattern among drinkers involved those who drank primarily liquor. Women who preferred liquor to wine experienced a borderline increase in risk of heart ...Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
...ave found that obese patients with asthma are more likely to have severe asthma when compared to those who a...s with asthma, obese patients were 66 percent more likely to report continuous symptoms, 36 percent more likely to miss more days of work and 52 percent more ...Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
...ry low birth weight infants are significantly more likely to survive when delivered in hospitals with high-level neonatal intensive care units that care for more than 100 such newborns annually than are those delivered in comparable facilities that provide care to fewer than 100 such children every year. ...Tiny newborns face higher risk of death at community hospitals, Stanford/VA study finds
...se extremely tiny newborns were significantly more likely to survive in hospitals that cared for at least 10... neonatal ICUs were between 1.2 and 3.1 times more likely to die than those born at higher-level, higher-volume centers. It's not just that practice makes p...Follow-up care for breast cancer patients is 'devalued and deregulated'
...e primary care infrastructure would make them more likely to discharge earlier. These changes included increased GP education and training, development of shared protocols and the recruitment of locally based oncology nurses. However, while 84% said that GPs were aware that their patients were being discuss...GI screening: Racing time or wasting time?
...tients who were ordered a CT scan were older, more likely to be female and had experienced a longer waiting period between admittance and surgery than those who were not ordered a scan (8.2 vs. 5.1 hours). Additionally, perforation was seen in 17 percent of those who had a CT scan, while only eight percent...New Mayo Clinic MRI technology enables noninvasive liver diagnoses
...use the properties of tissue to change and will be likely candidates for diagnosis using MRE in the future. His research team is exploring the use of MRE in detecting breast cancer and Alzheimers disease....Passengers, not just mobile phones, contribute to road accidents
...." "Drivers with passengers were almost 60% more likely to have a motor vehicle crash resulting in hospita... than that associated with mobile phone use, it is likely to have a higher contribution to accidents because of the higher incidence of drivers taking passeng...Scientists find war vets' hand dexterity determines susceptibility to PTSD
...reme level of mixed handedness are nearly twice as likely to develop (PTSD) after combat compared to veteran...d high combat exposure were nearly five times more likely to have PTSD than those with lower degrees of mixed handedness. Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH and St...More pounds equals worse asthma?
...nce finds that obese people are significantly more likely to have persistent or severe persistent asthma tha...asthma patients, obese patients (BMI=30) were more likely to report having continuous symptoms, have more ER visits, miss more days of work, use more rescue i...Inhaled steroids may not be enough for some children with asthma
...orted consistent inhaled steroid use were 20% less likely to report having well-controlled asthma compared w...The majority of children with mild asthma are less likely to have symptoms as they get older and may not need to be on daily steroids, Dr. Sawicki said. The f......s to the management of this ancient disease. There likely will be a role for vaccine development in disease prevention, but new drugs appear to be few and far between. The recent sequencing of the P falciparum genome may ultimately offer new possibilities for therapeutic approaches, as might mosquito-based ...