Alcohol-deterrent drugs help patients achieve high rates of long-term abstinence
...s examined the U.K, U.S. and New Zealand had the lowest use," he said. "Furthermore, a recent U.S. study showed that addiction specialists prescribed disulfiram or naltrexone for fewer than 15 percent of their alcoholic patients. Conversely, disulfiram use is certainly common in Spain, Portugal, Germany...MCG gets technology to help optimize medicine dosage
...and Health Behavior. "Generally, we start with the lowest dose we think will work because it reduces the risk of side effects. The problem is, if you give somebody who has depression an antidepressant and you give them too low a dose, it's not going to benefit them and they still have the risk of side effec...HealthGrades identifies hospitals with highest-rated specialty practices
...sted mortality and complication rates that are the lowest ten percent in the nation in each of eight special...o reach the top ten percent other than to have the lowest mortality and complication rates in the country." In determining the Specialty Excellence Awards, He...Taking a taxi could increase your exposure to pollution
...o find the extent to which walking resulted in the lowest exposure. The higher exposure from travelling in taxis may come from actually sitting in the vehicle while being stuck in traffic where you are directly in the path of the pollutant source. Also the fact that taxis are probably on the road for much l...Most behaviors preceding major causes of preventable death have begun by young adulthood
... most of the indicators, Asians and whites were at lowest risk, while blacks and Native Americans were at highest risk. Racial and ethnic disparities in health as well as in access to health care also increased as the participants reached adulthood. No single racial or ethnic group, however, had a greate...Emergency angioplasty patients do best at hospitals where it's the 'default' treatment
...ioplasty patients was seen between the highest and lowest groups. But there was a noticeable, though not statistically significant, difference between the highest group and the next two groups. There were no significant differences among the groups in death risk or treatment time for patients given clot-bus...Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox
...e mice that were injected with 8AH8AL (even at the lowest dose) or with VIG were protected from death. Further, mice that received a single 90-microgram dose of 8AH8AL two days after virus exposure experienced only slight weight loss followed by rapid recovery. Conversely, all five of the mice that receive...Tufts University receives federal grant to address occupational risks among immigrants
...g, have limited access to health care, work at the lowest paid jobs under the worst conditions, and are exposed to a disproportionate share of environmental hazards in their schools and homes." Society's stake in addressing issues Society has a strong stake in addressing these problems, according to Alex...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...that were kept lean throughout their lives had the lowest mortality, and rats maintained at an obese weight had highest mortality." Animals that were obese and then made to lose weight had mortality comparable to the consistently lean rats, she said. Mortality among rats that lost weight was slightly higher...Nearly half of people who need cholesterol treatment don't get it
...the researchers found that cholesterol control was lowest in study participants who were at the highest risk...l is far from optimal. The high-risk group had the lowest level of control and there was evidence of gender and ethnic disparities in both treatment and contr...Methadone therapy - one dose does not fit all
... doctors should work with each patient to find the lowest effective dose for that individual. Because patients in clinics that adhere to the guidelines do better on average, the recommended dose should serve as a starting point that is then adjusted upward or downward....Study: Hospitals rated top 5 percent have mortality rates 27 percent lower
... the nation's nonfederal hospitals. Those with the lowest mortality and complication rates are named Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence TM . "The data in this year's study indicate a clear and profound divergence between the best hospitals and all others," said Samantha Collier, MD, HealthGrad...Low-fat diet's benefits for women less than expected, Stanford researcher says
...cer risk reduction for women who initially had the lowest consumption of vegetables and fruits and then increased their intake by one serving per day as part of the diet. Regarding the heart disease findings, Stefanick noted that the women weren't asked to differentiate between "good fats" (the unsaturated ...Doctors fail to recommend colon cancer tests for low-income patients
...nd screening rates determined in the study are the lowest to be reported in the medical literature among minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. The study, led by Northwestern researcher Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine, Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Fe...Children fare better at pediatric trauma centers
...of stay and hospital bills. Mortality rates were lowest (0.9 percent) in children's hospitals, somewhat worse (1.4 percent) in adult hospitals and highest (2.4 percent) in children's units within adult hospitals Lengths of stay greater than the 90th percentile occurred least often at children's hospital...Blood test can predict long-term risk of death in patients with shortness of breath
...at one year and low levels identified those at the lowest risk," says James Januzzi Jr., MD, of the MGH Cardiology Division, the paper's lead author. "Based on these results, we recommend that every patient coming to a hospital with shortness of breath be tested for NT-proBNP." NT-proBNP is a natriuretic pe...Poor physical fitness associated with lower socioeconomic status and higher rate of death
... for 47 percent of this association. People in the lowest SES quartile had nearly twice the rate of death when compared to those in the highest SES quartile. The association between SES and death rate was particularly strong in people who had an impaired functional capacity. "Our findings may have important...Children in the South face higher health risks
...eep South states, Kentucky and Florida, are in the lowest quarter. Living in the Deep South proved to be the best predictor of poor child health outcomes, moreso than any other factor commonly used to describe health differences among groups of children, including poverty, parents' employment status or sing...New compound protects against liver cancer
... percent reduction in pre-cancerous lesions at the lowest dose of 50 micrograms per rat and a 99 percent reduction at the highest dose of 5 milligrams. Like other compounds derived from oleanolic acid, CDDO-Im also has strong anti-inflammatory properties, which the researchers say makes it ideally suited to...European Union's 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease
...uania, Czech Republic and Poland. By contrast, the lowest proportion of the budget spent on CVD was by Malta (2%) and Ireland (4.4%). The report also showed a difference in the average estimated per capita spending between the EU at 230 per head and the USA at about 715 per head (around 485 more per US citi...