Value of IVF children to society outweighs their cost to healthcare systems
...ial benefit that IVF children bring to society far outweighs the cost of 'producing' them, a scientist said at the 21st annual conference of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Maria Granberg, from the Fertilitetscentrum, Gteborg, Sweden, told the conference that, although the tot...Cedars-Sinai's live donor liver transplant program receives 'unos-approved' designation
LOS ANGELES (July 7, 2005) Because need far outweighs the availability of organs for transplantation, transplant specialists are increasingly utilizing adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation, but the procedure includes significant risks to the healthy donor. Now, to support quality assurance...Adolescents who watch smoking in movies are more likely to try smoking
...king is so pervasive, its impact on this age group outweighs whether peers or parents smoke or whether the child is involved other activities, like sports."In the study, 6,522 US adolescents aged 10-14 were asked to identify films they had seen from a list of 50 randomly selected titles out of a database of fi...ISN pioneering timely prevention of chronic kidney disease in Latin America
...alth expenditure reveals that the cost of diabetes outweighs average expenditure by far within the region. While cardiovascular disease is becoming recognized as a "hot spot" for prevention since it is currently the most common of all non-communicable diseases, other related diseases need to share equal preven...Light to moderate alcohol consumption not beneficial to health
...ctive effect on ischaemic heart disease (IHD) that outweighs adverse health effects. However, Rod Jackson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues state that the studies were non-randomised and any positive association could easily be due to confounding factors that were not considered. For exampl...Facial transplants are justified, say experts
... procedure to someone with severe facial deformity outweighs the risk of long term suppression of the immune system. One of the main areas of concern has been the risk to patients from the side effects of long term immunosuppression, say the authors. However, a patient having a facial transplant would probably...U of M reaches milestone in diabetes research using pig islets
...ation, however, the demand for islet cells grossly outweighs the supply. In order to make islet transplantation a viable solution for the tens of thousands of people with difficult-to-manage diabetes, a safe and reliable source of islet cells must be found. "These results suggest it is feasible to use pig ...Corticosteroids associated with poor outcomes, death in the trauma intensive care unit
...rrent literature. Certainly the risk of infection outweighs the potential benefit in these cases." Considering their extra time in the ICU and on a ventilator, those 61 patients also accumulated an additional $717,535.68 in cost because of the corticosteroids, the authors report. "Caution must be taken to ca...Corrective cosmetics may not boost quality of life for women with severe facial blemishes
...said. "In this case the psychological impact often outweighs the physical aspects of the problem the women in our study reported having more problems with social and sexual functioning than with physical functioning." The study appears in a recent issue of the International Journal of Dermatology. Of the 73 w...Sometimes no treatment is the right option for low-risk prostate cancer
...hat managing low-risk disease through surveillance outweighs the risks and possible side effects of treatments. Now, a new study at M. D. Anderson will follow low-risk patients eligible for watchful waiting to determine if they can avoid or postpone therapy and related side effects, and still live as long as p...The unknown risks of arthritis
...ussion of whether, or when, the benefits the drugs outweighs any risks associated with them", Dr. Askling added....Should patients undergoing surgery get ASA?
...ain if there is a real benefit and if that benefit outweighs the risk, even if there is, in fact, a risk."...Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children
...dy diarrhoea. In any of these situations the risks outweighs the benefits, even at low doses. In other children the drug may play a useful part in the treatment of diarrhoea. Citation: Li ST, Grossman DC, Cummings P (2007) Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children: Systematic review and meta-analysi...Patients with 'bleeding' strokes less likely to get prevention treatment
... weigh whether the benefit of cholesterol-lowering outweighs the potential increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke." The numbers were a little closer with diabetes medications or treatment at discharge, with 81 percent of ischemic stroke patients, 77 percent of those with ICH and 73 percent of those with SAH rec...Folic acid supplementation lowers stroke risk
...se of previously deemed 'safe' vitamin supplements outweighs the risk of other adverse CVD outcomes."......ction of free radicals, highly reactive chemicals, outweighs antioxidant defences. This leads to a great deal of damage to cells, and in particular DNA, the cells blueprint, and is likely to be responsible for the fibrosis, as the lungs try to repair the damage done by free radicals. In order to establish w...