Healthcare staff not prepared for flu pandemic
...ingness to come to work during a pandemic. This is lowest among technical or support staff. These results highlight the need for increased training and support for all health workers, but most importantly non-clinical healthcare staff, emphasising the importance of their role and their presence at work duri...American Academy of Neurology 58th Annual Meeting scientific highlights
...y elderly followed over five years, those with the lowest leptin levels had a greater decline in their cogni... of almost 800 men and women, those women with the lowest levels of estradiol (a type of estrogen) declined fastest, compared to those women with the highest ...New drug poised to radically change the treatment of severe anemias
...C levels during the study. For those receiving the lowest drug doses, the amount of deferasirox was found to be insufficient in these regularly transfused thalassemia patients. Deferasirox was generally well-tolerated. The most common side effects were skin rash (affecting approximately 11 percent of patien...Low folate levels may cut bowel cancer risk
...s likely to develop bowel cancer as those with the lowest blood levels, whereas people in between were almost twice as likely to develop the disease. A reduced risk for bowel cancer was also found in those people with a common mutation in the MTHFR gene. This is known to lower a person's circulating folate ...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
...n during the first half of the 1990s, reaching its lowest level in the mid-to-late 1990s. And, once again, the ICD malfunction rate increased substantially between the years of 1998 and 2002." But, he adds, this analysis showed a substantial improvement in ICD reliability in 2003 and 2004, years that were ...Adherence to treatment guidelines for patients with ACS associated with decreased in-hospital deaths
...rcent, compared to 63 percent for hospitals in the lowest group (quartile 1). These guideline adherence rate...eaths; death rates ranged from 6.31 percent in the lowest adherence group to 4.15 percent in the highest adherence group. After adjusting for risk, the resear...High polyunsaturated fat and vitamin E intake may halve motor neurone disease risk
...60% lower risk of developing ALS compared with the lowest daily intake of less than 25 g. Similarly, a dail...60% lower risk of developing ALS compared with the lowest daily intake of less than 18 mg. PUFA and vitamin E seemed to work synergistically, the researchers...New study to address HIV-related deaths in Downtown Eastside
...e. A Centre study published this month reveals the lowest life expectancy for HIV-positive individuals in B.C. are IDUs not receiving anti-HIV treatment. Centre researchers suggest Vancouver's health-care system may face a crisis over the next few years if large numbers of injection drug users, infected wit...Obesity levels in US are grossly underestimated
...South Carolina (36%) led the pack. States with the lowest prevalence of corrected obesity for men in 2000 were Colorado (18%), District of Columbia (21%) and Montana (21%); for women Colorado (24%), Montana (25%) and Massachusetts (27%). "The results show that there are clear geographical patterns of obesit...Low radiation dose still means successful interventional procedures, a new study shows
...e the dose if the procedure is not feasible at the lowest dose," Dr. Lucey said. In 12 patients undergoing biopsy, the low dose technique was unable to successfully identify the masses and these procedures were completed using a higher radiation dose, but all were successfully performed using a radiation do...Diuretic may not be best way to reduce CHF water retention
...atients received a placebo. At every dose but the lowest (10 milligrams), lixivaptan produced a significant increase in urine volume over four hours when compared to placebo, and over 24 hours, the output ranged from 1.8 liters in the placebo group to 3.9 liters in patients receiving 400 milligrams of lixi...Study finds middle-aged Americans not as healthy as English counterparts
...ilar to the least healthy in England--those in the lowest income and education levels there. The research wa... as high in Americans as in the English. Also, the lowest income and education group in each country reported the most cases of diabetes, hypertension, heart ...A new math model finds that the cochlea's spiral shape enhances low frequencies
...s strongest in the center of the spiral, where the lowest frequencies are detected. The researchers calculate the sensitivity increase can be as much as 20 decibels. That corresponds to the difference between the ambience of a quiet restaurant and the noise of a busy street. It could easily make the differ...US infant mortality rate fails to improve
...t 13.5 per 1,000 live births, while Asians had the lowest rate at 4.8. The rate for American Indians was 8.7 and for Whites it was 5.7. Infants born to Hispanic mothers, who can be of any race, had an infant mortality rate of 5.6. The March of Dimes "I Want My Nine Months" educational campaign aims to inf...Employees in small firms pay 18 percent more for health insurance when adjusted for value of plan
...the highest average premium. Other states with the lowest adjusted premiums are Hawaii ($2,717), Alabama ($2,981) and Arizona ($2,983). "Indemnity insurers have greater market share in rural states, so employees and employers in those states end up paying higher adjusted premiums. Also, small employers are ...Family refusal is biggest obstacle to improving UK organ donor rate
...s 12.3 per million population, which is one of the lowest rates in Western Europe. Spain has an exceptional rate of 33 per million population, but most other European countries have rates between 13 and 22 per million population. Researchers at UK Transplant carried out a two-year audit of all deaths in 341...Infants or adults? NIH ethicists argue for new bird flu priorities
...act, place healthy people aged 2 to 64 as the very lowest priority, below even funeral directors. Emanuel and Wertheimer's distribution recommendations are different: they put healthy people from early adolescence to middle age toward the front of the line for vaccination. (Both sets of recommendations giv...For elderly, extra pounds may lower mortality rates
... to finding that those who were overweight had the lowest mortality rates, the researchers discovered: People who were underweight at the time of the survey (BMI below 18.5) had the highest mortality rates, even higher than those who were obese (BMI 30 and higher). People who were either overweight or ob...'Bubble Bassets' cured of genetic disorder by in-vivo gene therapy technique
... researchers treated. The fourth dog received the lowest dose of the retrovirus vector the virus that had been engineered to pass on the gene " leading Felsburg and his colleagues to believe that there is a lower limit to the dose before the treatment becomes effective. Since the boys involved in the Frenc...National UK heart disease prevention threshold 'cheapest but least effective'
...roke in the overall population by 9%, which is the lowest preventive impact of all the recommendations. The US and European recommendations require 21 men to be treated, but cut the overall rate by around 23%. However, 60% of middle aged men in the population would have to be given statins. New joint Brit...