Jefferson scientists find that drug-eluting stents are disappointing in bypass grafts -- sometimes
...ege of Thomas Jefferson University. "The long-term outcome in diffusely diseased bypass grafts remains poor despite the use of drug-eluting stents. Physicians should carefully weigh the options before inserting stents into them."...Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
...ing the imaging technique would result in a better outcome than standard therapy. Study investigators from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Washington and eight other sites enrolled 430 patients who were referred for revascularization, cardiac transplantation or heart failure, or w...Community and clinic-based HIV-1 control program fails to decrease incidence of HIV-1 in Zimbabwe
...f HIV-1 among the population in general - the main outcome of the trial. These results are disappointing given the urgent need for control measures for HIV-1 in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors conclude that they emphasise the need for alternative strategies of behaviour-change promotion....Hersh receives IADR Research Award in Pharmacology
...stigated the local anaesthetic, articaine, and one outcome of that work is its recent approval by the US Food & Drug Administration. Dr. Hersh has been very active in the IADR. In addition to regular presentations of research abstracts, he has been a speaker in several symposia. He has also organized sympo...Colon cancer survival linked to number of lymph nodes examined
...surgical treatment of colon cancer, the better the outcome appears to be for patients. The study suggests that removal of the nodes takes away a reservoir for potentially lethal cancer, and that knowing how far a cancer has spread leads to tailored and more beneficial treatment, according to researchers at T...Lymph node evaluation linked to improved survival for colon cancer patients
...d result in clinically significant improvements in outcome and also the quality of care for patients with colon cancer. In an accompanying editorial, Rocco Ricciardi, M.D., of Tufts University and the Lahey Clinic in Boston, and Nancy Baxter, M.D., of the University of Toronto, call attention to the many q...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...of today's quality movement, are not results. Good outcome measures are vital feedback indicating what works and what does not. These measures enable professional insight and the development of expertise." "Designing risk-adjusted outcomes measures is not easy, but their practicality has been convincingly ...Specialist centers increase chance of surviving abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
...lence can provide great benefit to patients. A bad outcome in this type of surgery is death, and specialist centres are best placed to prevent it," says Mr Holt. An aortic aneurysm occurs when the muscle wall of the main artery that runs vertically through the body (the aortic artery) weakens and the arter...Health-care inequities underscore racial disparities in prostate cancer
...ctions. Racial disparities in the diagnosis and outcome of prostate cancer are well documented in the U.S. Most concerning is the comparatively significantly higher mortality rate in African-American men (68.1 per 100,000 versus 27.7 per 100,000 among white men). Researchers continue to explore the reason...High BMI linked to lower chance of being discharged directly home after hospitalization for stroke
...ight are risk factors for stroke and may influence outcome or increase the likelihood of complications among ...significant differences in the functional activity outcome were noted across BMI categories." "In summary, this study suggests that hospitalized obese indivi...Breast cancer survivors experience long-term heart disease risk from radiotherapy
...ve heart failure, heart failure is not an expected outcome for patients who were treated with CMF chemotherapy. "This association could represent a long-term toxicity of which we were previously unaware, or, as noted by the authors, could possibly be related to induction of menopause," the authors write. "Mo...Computed tomography screening may increase lung cancer diagnosis, but not decrease risk of death
...lying population. With this design, differences in outcome can be attributed to the intervention without reliance on highly modeled analyses with problematic assumptions. Although expensive and time-consuming, rigorous trials of cancer screening are far more cost-effective than what might be the alternative-...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...curately. The effect of the earlier diagnosis upon outcome also remains to be determined." A large randomized controlled trial will put CT to a demanding test. Dubbed CT-STAT, the Coronary Computed Tomography for Systematic Triage of Acute Chest Pain Patients to Treatment trial will involve 750 low-risk pa...New class of targeted cancer drugs shows promise in slowing progression of recurrent prostate cancer
...n prostate cancer literature: what should clinical outcome standards or end point be the for studies involving patients with advanced, intractable prostate cancer who have limited treatment options. The next step for researchers is to test the pertuzumab on a larger group of patients in a randomized fashi...Athlete's 'rituals' important for overcoming performance anxiety
...psychological factors hang around to influence the outcome of an athlete's performance. That is where intervention, often in the form of rituals or performance routines, comes in, according to Richard Cox, a sports psychology researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "Negative thoughts will kill ...US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
...ean countries and the U.S. They focused on four outcome measures: each patient's latest systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, whether their blood pressure was under control, and dose escalation for patients whose pressures were not adequately controlled. They found the U.S. physicians tended to s...Health providers could save billions without compromising health care says drug study
... symptoms at night on simvastatin. The clinical outcome ten months after the switch was positive. There was no significant change in blood cholesterol levels and no new diagnoses of ischaemic heart disease or cerebrovascular accidents among the 69 patients who had switched. 137 patients were receiving...Improved adherence to certain medications associated with longer survival following heart attack
...edications predicts better survival, no population outcome study has attempted to differentiate whether these associations are attributable to the drug's biological responsiveness (drug effect) or to the adoption of healthier lifestyles that often accompany adherent behaviors (healthy adherer effect). Jepp...Study examines genetic factors associated with head and neck cancer
...identify new biomarkers for prediction of clinical outcome and potentially novel compartments for targeted therapy and prevention."...Health-care delivery contributes to racial disparity in colorectal cancer
...nces in survival. African-Americans have the worst outcome of any ethnic/racial group, while Caucasians tend to fare worse than Asians. Access to healthcare is often cited as the cause of these disparities. In fact, studies show that, in general, people with health insurance are more likely to access prevent...