Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...ive solutions to emerging problems. PLATO produced overall time and cost saving and reduced required resources without compromising level of service. Its assistance managing operations design contributed an additional savings. Eli Lilly: Antifolates are among the most promising potential anticancer agents ...Study examines effectiveness of anti-anemia drug in treatment of cancer patients
... response, blood transfusions, adverse events, and overall survival, Andreas Engert, M.D., of the University ...onclusive evidence that erythropoietin may improve overall survival. However, this contrasts with the results of two recently published randomized controlled t...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
... the study. "The music group reported a 26 percent overall improvement in the first week and this figure cont... music group showed significantly better scores in overall sleep quality and in five of the six subcategories used to measure sleep quality. These included bet...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...hen looked at how the participants had rated their overall psychological well-being on a standardized survey, focusing on happiness, enjoyment of life, sadness and loneliness. They looked at how that self-reported well-being changed over time, from pre-disability to post-disability. The analysis showed that...PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
...f controversy. Questions continue about the test's overall effectiveness and its ability to actually save men's lives. For example, elevated PSA levels don't necessarily equate with clinically significant prostate cancer. Some men faced with high test results, however, may have undergone unnecessary treatme...Post-traumatic stress disorder common among refugees in western countries
... the results of the studies. Dr Fazel states: "Our overall estimates will need to be used judiciously, in view of the fact that it is difficult to know whether the diverse refugee groups contributing to this analysis were representative of the refugee populations resettled in western countries. Nevertheless,...Mediterranean diet leads to longer life
...A higher dietary score was associated with a lower overall death rate. A two point increase corresponded to an 8% reduction in mortality, while a three or four point increase was associated with a reduction of total mortality by 11% or 14% respectively. So, for example, a healthy man aged 60 who adheres well...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...uninsured at least once. Older age, male sex, poor overall health, having one or more chronic illness, and being uninsured at the start of the study were all associated with higher risk of death. "The proportion of U.S. adults in late middle age at risk from being uninsured over a ten-year follow-up period w...Controversy in dyslipidemia guidelines
...tatin therapy, which will increase cost for little overall benefit. Jacques Genest and colleagues, members of the Working Group on Hypercholesterolemia and Other Dyslipidemias, comment on the data used by Manuel and colleagues and question their approach. A rebuttal from the challengers concludes the debate...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...udy, exercisers showed significant improvements in overall fitness, as measured by their performance on a tre..., could also explain why exercise helps to improve overall heart health. We are also interested in learning if longer periods of exercise, or more intense exe...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...y during asthma attacks. Changes in lung function, overall frequency of symptoms and the number of severe attacks were about the same, whichever regimen was followed. According to one of the study's authors, if the estimated four million people with mild persistent asthma took inhaled steroids only when symp...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
...n genetic risk factor for late-onset AD. While the overall rate of progression to AD was greater in this grou...or probable AD within the 3-year study period. The overall rate of progression from MCI to AD for all three treatment groups combined was 16 percent per year. ...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
... also recommend written action plans as part of an overall effort to educate patients in self-management. The plans provide guidance for patients on how to monitor and treat their asthma, including how to recognize when their condition worsens. In general, action plans are based on the patient's symptoms or ...Can hospital data detect poor performing doctors?
...her evaluation of our method is warranted, but our overall approach may be potentially useful in other settings, especially where performance entails several indicator variables," they conclude....Cancer research could lead to improved detection methods
...s or leads damaged cells to die. "If, however, the overall process fails because of an overload of an overload of carcinogens and the cell is not killed, this leads to multiplication of damaged cells which may develop in into a cancer. Identification of such damage could thus serve as a very early warning si...Drug may help MS patients with laughing, crying spells
...those who received the placebo. They also reported overall improvement in the condition and improvement in their quality of life, quality of relationships, and amount of pain they experienced. Those taking the drug reported the side effect of dizziness more often than those taking the placebo did. "This is t...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
...sults highlight the importance of BMI in assessing overall risk to heart health and supplement traditional risk assessments, such as the Framingham Risk Score (FRS), the researchers say. Traditional FRS scoring measures the likelihood of developing major heart problems, such as a heart attack, within 10 yea...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...with 95 percent certainty that the results for the overall sample have a sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points. Sampling error for the following sub-sample results: those who have traveled to countries with the risk of malaria (868), hepatitis A (881), and hepatitis B (1,022) is higher and varies....Dermatologists use knowledge of patterns to recognize melanoma
CHICAGO Dermatologists depend on overall pattern recognition and comparison rather than spe...ity physicians in private practice, recorded their overall impression of the lesion, based on their past experience; assessed the lesion using the analytic ABC...Gastric bypass patients fare better as surgical programs' experience increases
... considered obese) with an average BMI of 47. The overall complication rate was 15 percent with a death rate...g to the authors. But for the first 100 cases, the overall complication rate was 26 percent with a death rate of one percent. This complication rate decreased ...