New asthma inhaler propellant effective, but costlier
...patients should remove the devices' metal canister once a week and clean the plastic actuators with warm water. Not all of the new HFA inhaler products are ideal for everyone and health-care providers and their patients should be aware of important differences. Two brands of HFA inhalers contain ethanol...Mayo Clinic study shows drug-eluting stent use in heart patients determined more by insurance type
... an access issue, says Dr. Long. Its the fact that once they got access, the type of insurance, as well as the characteristics of the hospital, affected the kind of care they received. Our next step is to do more research to understand the mechanisms of how and why these non-clinical factors influence dru...Blocking immune cell action increases Alzheimer's-associated protein deposits
...bsence does not interfere with the cells' activity once they encounter amyloid-beta. "By showing that microglia have a protective role in helping remove amyloid-beta from the brain, our findings suggest that enhancing the accumulation of these cells may be beneficial to patients with early-stage Alzheim...Study finds coronary procedure adds no benefit over 'optimal medical therapy' alone
...r five years of follow-up. "People assume that once you have PCI, it's curative," said first author and presenter William E. Boden, MD. "I think the best we can say is that it's palliative." Boden is a consultant in cardiology at the Western New York VA Healthcare System in Buffalo. He is also the med...Preventive health exams may provide opportunities for cancer screening
... all visited their primary care physician at least once during the study period. More than half (52.4 percent) of the patients received a preventive health examination in 2002 or 2003. After the researchers controlled for other factors influencing cancer screening rates, including patient demographic c...Government's reliance on free market economics makes essential drug prices too high for the poor
...an equivalent drug produced by a different company once the exclusive patent has expired). Prices were compared against international reference prices (IRP), which are the average prices offered by not-for-profit drug companies to developing countries. The researchers also compared t he cost of the drugs ...March of Dimes, Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute launch prematurity prevention partnership
...th because medical technology is saving babies who once would not have survived. However, babies born even just a few weeks early who physically appear healthy are at risk," said Bonnie J. Petrauskas, a director of the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute. "Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait will bring to...Sustainability of energy, food and water theme of ACS national meeting
...acted from the leaves of the American beautyberry, once used as a Southern folk-remedy to keep insects from biting, show promise in lab studies as natural mosquito repellants that may be as effective as DEET, one of the most widely used insect repellants, according to researchers with the USDAs Agricultur...Research agreement to advance new imaging technology
... for these problems by doing faster scans and then once they have image they filter it to decrease the artifact," said Chengazi. "But these artifacts are already 'baked' into the image by the process of reconstruction." The T.I.E.S. technology overcomes these problems by segmenting the raw data before ...LIALDA -- the first oral once-daily mesalamine for ulcerative colitis -- now available
...isease. LIALDA is the first and only FDA-approved once daily oral formulation of mesalamine. The U.S. Foo...y, allowing patients to take as few as two tablets once daily. Other currently available mesalamines require three to four times daily dosing and six to 16...Pacifier use may lower risk of SIDS
...take a pacifier and parents should not reinsert it once the infant falls asleep." Parents should also avoid using homemade pacifiers, avoid strings or cords to secure the pacifier to the child, and regularly clean and replace pacifiers. Even though evidence is mounting that pacifiers help to prevent SID...Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system
...ure from an evolutionary standpoint, the brainstem once was thought to only play a passive role in auditory processing. Using a novel experimental design, the researchers presented the Mandarin word "mi" to 20 adults as they watched a movie. Half had at least six years of musical instrument training sta...Empathy skills must be given a high priority in medical education, says Jefferson author
...an curing the patient's illness. "The thinking is, once you treat the organ, the patient is fine," he says. "This is a unidimensional approach to patient care. Health is not simply defined as absence of disease it encompasses the physical, mental and social well being of a person." The book is aimed at...Insight on fruit fly immune system could lead to new types of vaccines, Stanford researchers say
...nd - employing T and B cells - springs into action once it encounters the same invader again. This adaptiv...nology has always been done on a fly infected only once - and that's not how things happen outside a lab, where a fly would be continually exposed to microb...Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
... of antibiotic resistance is more complicated than once thought," Lee said. "These findings suggest that banning antibiotics at the farm level may not be as effective as assumed. We need further studies to identify which management practice would be effective" Lee stresses that for consumers, the advice...Obesity and environmental chemicals -- New research probes potential link
...ght changes, and energy metabolism of the rat pups once they are weaned from their mothers. PBDEs, the researchers note, seem to interrupt thyroid hormone levels, which may impact caloric expenditure. "Theres much more to obesity than eating too much McDonalds and not exercising," says Small. "PBDEs may...Reactions to 'false-positive' prostate cancer screenings assessed
...of getting a PSA test with their doctors. However, once a man decides to go ahead and get a PSA test, if its results are abnormal, he typically should have ongoing follow-up and surveillance for prostate cancer," Katz said. Katz said that a strength of the UI study was that it did not rely on volunteers...RAND study finds walking more likely in neighborhoods with more 4-way intersections
...ty of housing also may encourage walking, but only once density reaches a relatively high level, according to the RAND Health study that is one of the first to test whether urban design recommendations for creating walkable communities may help achieve their goal. "Our findings may provide some guidance...Aspirin reduces esophageal-cancer risk in people with most-aggressive form of Barrett's esophagus
...ening frequency for Barretts esophagus ranges from once every three to six months to once every two to three years, depending on the amount of affected tissue and the degree of dysplasia, or......ent died and 48 percent were hospitalized at least once for their heart condition. What made this analysis different from other such studies was that the researchers coupled the psychological assessment with a relatively new blood test that measures what are known as "B-type natriuretic peptides." These...