Children born prematurely at risk for poorer vision
...ding to background information in the article, but little is known about the effects of prematurity on visual acuity, the sharpness or clarity of vision. The current study evaluated both prematurely born and full-term children at the age of 10 years to determine the effects on visual acuity of prematurity a...Delaying radiation for prostate cancer does not affect outcome
...r cancers are associated with increased mortality, little is known about the effect of delaying treatment on the outcome of prostate cancer. Stephen F. Andrews, D.O. and colleagues from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia reviewed the data from almost 1500 men treated for locally confined prostate c...Chemotherapy for brain tumors is boosted after vaccine targets resistance-related antigen
...ly, chemotherapy directed against GBM has had very little effect. Even new agents specifically designed to attack the DNA of tumor cells and prevent their replication fail or became impotent as the tumor cells developed drug resistance. Taking into account recent articles identifying TRP-2 as a contributing...Even in Canada's universal health plan, wealth effects hospitalization
...neral practitioners; socioeconomic groups differed little in contact with specialists. Policies and research that tries to assess the "timeliness" and "quality of care" of care received by measuring access to outpatient care for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions need to be further examined in the light...Invasive treatment may be more effective for heart attack patients presenting late to hospital
...te myocardial infarction (MI, heart attack) offers little or no benefit and may be even harmful. Between 8.5 percent to 40 percent of patients with acute MI present late after symptom onset, thus being no longer eligible for thrombolysis. Despite efforts to reduce time to presentation, recent studies have d...Drinking for just eight weeks impairs learning and memory in mice
... the first to show that continuous drinking for as little as eight weeks can produce deficits in learning an... the first to show that continuous drinking for as little as eight weeks can produce deficits in learning and memory that last up to 12 weeks after drinking s...'Hazardous' drinking and drug use have serious health implications
...rove overall health," she said. "Yet we know very little about the associated health problems of those with these less severe alcohol and drug problems." Researchers screened a representative sample of 1,419 patients (563 males, 856 females) who visited Kaiser Permanente primary-care clinics in the Sacrame...Avoiding amputation: Early infection intervention can save feet & legs
...ar surgery at the U-M Medical School. "But there's little evidence to guide treatment, so we wanted to look at epidemiology and outcomes. Our results show this is a common, costly issue that needs much further study." Henke and his colleagues performed the study using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sam...Good friends, rather than close family ties, help you live longer in older age
...yle. Close contact with children and relatives had little impact on survival rates over the 10 years. But a strong network of friends and confidants significantly improved the chances of survival over that period. Those with the strongest network of friends and confidants lived longer than those with the fe...Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
... children; in others, the drug might be either too little to kill cancer cells or so high that it produces unacceptable toxicity. However, by closely monitoring and fine tuning the drug levels in each child, investigators kept topotecan levels within a range that previous work at St. Jude showed was effecti...High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users
...58 percent) of the female study participants and a little more than 20 percent of male participants were infected with herpes simplex virus 2. Women were also more likely to have syphilis than men in the study 4 percent versus less than 1 percent, respectively. "The sexual behavior of both injection drug u...The Lancet calls for open debate on illegal drug use
...y moralising or by adherence to social ideals have little utility in a society of which drug use is an inescapable part. Without open debate, we cannot know the true extent of the problem. Without open debate, there can be no accurate quantification of the risk of harm. And without open debate, doctors rema...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...ate one too many french fries, or because he got a little cold," said Susan Jasin, Jakob's mother. "We knew transplant surgery had risks, but the alternative was a life that could end at any moment for my son. I could not bear to live another day like that." People suffering from MSUD are unable to metaboli...Antibiotics appear to have little benefit for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections
...such as bronchitis, who were given antibiotics had little difference in symptom relief compared to patients ...tics or no antibiotics was acceptable, resulted in little difference in duration or severity of symptoms compared with immediate treatment with antibiotics, a...Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...rveys published in Nature in 1997 and 1998, showed little change since 1916, with only 39 percent of all scientists declaring a personal belief in God. Belief among "leading" scientists, however -- defined in this case as members of the National Academy of Sciences -- was far lower: only seven percent in 1...Researchers shed new light on cause of bedsores and other chronic wounds
... do not have these pathogenic markers or have very little are the million-dollar cells, which you really want to target in therapy," says Dr. Tomic-Canic. The findings may also be useful in clinical trials of new therapies for chronic wounds, to make sure that the treatments are targeting the right types...Postnatal depression in fathers may affect children's behavioural development
...ural, cognitive and physical development. However, little is known about the effect of depression in fathers during the early years of a child's life. Paul Ramchandani (University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues studied over 13,500 mothers, from the Bristol area of the UK, taking part in the Avon Longitudinal...Saving six million children each year is affordable
Extra funding amounting to as little as US$1.23 per head in the 42 countries* with the ...ealth by 2015, and also a sobering reminder of how little a life costs in some parts of the world."...Do singlehanded general practices have a future?
...ent and higher quality service? Studies have found little relation between practice size and quality of care. Smaller practices are also considered by patients to be more accessible and achieve higher levels of satisfaction than larger practices. Creating a primary care service based on larger practices als...Vascular disease most common cause of male erectile dysfunction
...-5 inhibitors, however, since oral nitrates confer little benefit when added to optimum doses of betablockers and/or calcium antagonists, it followed that stable patients may be able to have their nitrate therapy discontinued or exchanged for a drug that does not react with a PDE-5 inhibitor, such as a calc...