Radiology residents can accurately assess after-hours patients for stroke
...tification prior to taking call. This includes one month of neuroradiology training, one month emergency room rotation, two weeks of MR training and one hour neuroradiology conferences every week...Federal NIH office clears Ohio State research program
... welfare in research, notified the university this month that it was satisfied with the institution's activities on this project. OLAW had contacted Ohio State officials in January raising a series of questions about the program it had received from the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)...Within six months, one in three patients fail to take medications as prescribed
...arted these regimens on the same day or within one month of each other were 34 percent more likely to be adherent with both medications during the three-year study period, compared with patients who initiated therapy two to three months apart. Women were less likely to be adherent than men. " physicians m...A warning for women on HRT don't skip your next mammogram
...ncer, when cancer could be present. Published this month in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, the five year study of 1557 women with breast cancer looked at the odds of having a false negative result on mammogram in women who attended first round screening in 1994 and 1995 or secon...Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
...eer-reviewed report on the work was published this month in volume 26 issue number 4 of the journal Ultrasonic Imaging. (Note: Because the journal's publication is backlogged, the issue date is 2004.) The research is funded by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and by ...Most heart failure cases are discovered after patients are admitted to hospital
...if a person is admitted to a hospital twice in one month because of CHF, most insurance companies won't pay for a second diagnosis of primary CHF in that same month, Durtschi said. "So a physician may need to look for another problem as the primary reason to admit the patient," she said. "Granted, if some...Treating autism 'right the first time'
...s and a girl, aged chronologically from 3 years, 1 month to 5 years, 10 months. The children received 90 minutes of one-on-one PRT four to five times a week by trained, advanced psychology students who were blind to the hypothesis of the study. After five weeks, PRT treatment was stopped for the non-resp...Exposure to aircraft noise may affect children's reading and memory
...delayed by up to 2 months in the UK and by up to 1 month in the Netherlands for a 5 decibel change in noise exposure. Road traffic noise did not have an effect on reading and was unexpectedly found to improve recall memory. Increased exposure to both aircraft and road traffic noise was associated with inc...OHSU researchers uncover cause, possible treatment for abdominal fat in postmenopausal women
...rapy with a synthetic form of estrogen. After one month of therapy, these women, who all previously had heightened cortisol levels, witnessed decreased cortisol at levels close to that of premenopausal women. The findings also suggest that over time, this group of women may also witness a decrease in abd...Prevalence and severity of mental illness in the United States
... diagnosis of a mental disorder in the previous 12 month period (12-month prevalence) were likely to receive any treatment, based on their analysis of data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). Of those who received treatment, 12.3 percent were treated by a psychiatrist, 16 percent by a...Study recommends new guidelines for air bag safety in children
...a population-based sample of 3,790 children aged 1 month to 18 years who were seated in the right front seat and involved in motor vehicle crashes. The eight-year sample was supplied by the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System and encompasses one of the largest, most current and ...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
... women began the exercise routine usually within a month of completing post-surgical therapy. All exercisers followed a similar regimen stretching to warm up, use of Flexbands for resistance training, and an aerobic activity of their choice: treadmill, exercise bike, or walking. In the exercise group, e...Exercise helps recovery from chemotherapy for breast cancer
...exercise group began the exercise routine within a month of completing post-surgical therapy. All exercisers followed a similar regimen--stretching to warm up, use of flex-bands for resistance training, and an aerobic activity of their choice: treadmill, exercise bike, or walking. In the exercise group, ...Nanoparticles carry cancer-killing drugs into tumor cells
...length of a mouse's life, that is significant. One month for a mouse is about three years for a person." Before they began to study the effects of targeted nanoparticle therapy on cancer, U-M scientists injected dendrimers with fluorescent tags into the bloodstream of laboratory mice to determine where the...Novel approach for eradicating prostate cancer wins award for young Hebrew University researcher
...e in Drug Delivery Systems, which was awarded this month during the Hebrew University Board of Governors meeting. Tal, born in Israel, began her academic studies in the Etgar program for outstanding students at the Hebrew University at the age of 20. She received her B.S. in medical science at the Hebrew U...New topical pain cream reduces pain
...Kids Emergency Department, where children aged one month to 17 years who required an IV insertion received either the liposomal lidocaine cream or a placebo before the procedure. IVs were successfully inserted on first attempt in 74 per cent of the children who received the liposomal lidocaine, and in 55 p...Antibiotics appear to have little benefit for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections
...r of patients who return for cough within the next month but only by a little more than delayed antibiotic prescription. The challenge now is for clinicians and researchers to determine which groups are at risk of adverse outcomes and identify those patients who might selectively benefit from immediate ant...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
...ng 18 visits with a primary care provider from one month before birth until the child reaches age five. In their cost analysis, the researchers also ensured that treatment for the major causes of child death were available to all children who needed them. Universal coverage levels from 2000 for drugs and o...Anti-tobacco ads associated with reduced smoking and increased anti-smoking attitudes among youth
... among U.S. teen audiences. An ad with 80 TRPs per month is estimated to have been seen an average of one time by 80 percent of this age group. This information was combined with survey data from school-based samples of 51,085 students in the contiguous 48 states. The researchers found that among survey re......rs were asked how much of the time during the past month they felt nervous, downhearted or calm and peaceful, as well as how frequently they were happy or could not be cheered up. Each item was measured on a scale that ranged from "all of the time" to "none of the time." "One reason for a grandmother's em...