New study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
... risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event for patients with stable coronary artery disease, according to ...ria Chlamydia pneumoniae in the arterial plaque of patients with coronary artery disease. This led to the investigation of whether antibiotics could be used to...New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...stroke outcomes. Results will help better identify patients who are suitable candidates for treatment utilizin... typically administer tPA (a clot-busting drug) to patients within a three-hour window of stroke onset. After six hours, it's generally considered too risky to ...Brain imaging study explains Williams syndrome language gifts
...cal region in language areas is remarkable because patients with Williams syndrome show marked strengths in la.... The ability to map these abnormalities in living patients demonstrates how genes control development of the human cortex, and also aids clinical prognosis and...Pregnant women with epilepsy face dilemma
...ered limited help for physicians in how to council patients considering epilepsy treatment during their pregnancy. With this new review, doctors have more data and advice until more conclusive data is reached. "The risk of inducing harmful seizures by abrupt withdrawal of treatment is stressed and the import...Anti-malaria drug combination could help address treatment crisis in Africa
...laria parasites from the blood was found in 42% of patients on amodiaquine, 20% on amodiaquine and sulfadoxine...ffectiveness and safety of the drug combination in patients who had all their doses supervised with fatty food intake and in patients who only had their first d...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
...rectly compared colonoscopy and CT colonography in patients without any previous history of colorectal problem...methods in the studies reviewed. "In some studies, patients who have undergone both conventional colonoscopy and CT colonography have expressed a preference for...Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment
...f their adaptability, according to Lanza, who sees patients at Barnes Jewish Hospital. "We can also make these particles so that they can be seen with nuclear imaging, CT scanning and ultrasound imaging," Lanza says. In addition, the particles can be loaded with a wide variety of drugs that will then be direc...Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
...al insulin-producing cells from the pancreas saves patients from the complications of severe, poorly-controlle...ogram, which uses pancreatic cells from brain-dead patients to cure insulin-dependent diabetics. Contreras is co-director of the islet transplant program. The p...High levels of immunosuppressant may lead to tumor recurrence
...(HCC, a type of liver cancer) occurs frequently in patients with chronic liver disease who are listed for live...gh. Because of this, strict selection criteria of patients with HCC has limited their access to transplants, yet the role of immunosuprressants in tumor growth...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
...quately supply oxygenated blood to heart tissue in patients with heart disease. The firm's technology consists... year, pending NIH and FDA approval. In the study, patients with blocked or damaged heart vessels will have stem cells drawn from their own blood. These cells w...54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...saturation drops to a level at which many hospital patients would be prescribed extra oxygen, according to a p...ests that a third of physicians would put hospital patients with these levels on extra oxygen." 55 passengers were on long haul flights that lasted for more th...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...etes can also be over a decade earlier among Asian patients and Asian diabetics face a much higher risk of ren...rop in blood pressure of around 4mmHg in the Asian patients research has shown that such a drop in blood pressure leads to a 35% reduction in the risk of heart...Risk scores may identify young individuals with atherosclerosis
...eople with advanced atherosclerotic disease. Study patients were people aged 15 through 34 years who died of external causes (accidents, homicides, and suicides). The researchers developed a risk score from CHD factors like age, sex, smoking, and obesity to identify young individuals with a high probability o...Chest x-rays may provide information to help detect osteoporosis in the elderly
...rs suggest that the many chest radiographs elderly patients undergo for other health reasons might be examined...es selected a random sample of about 10 percent of patients older than 60 who had been evaluated in the emergency department of a large teaching hospital and ha...Class effect of statins in elderly patients
...head retrospective analysis of data 18 000 elderly patients who had AMI and who filled a prescription for a st...gives physicians an opportunity to reduce costs to patients and the health care system while still achieving optimal health outcomes for their patients....Increased risk associated with combining carotid artery, coronary artery surgeries
ST. PAUL, Minn. Among patients undergoing evaluation for coronary artery bypass s...ombined CEA-CABG procedure, the actual benefits to patients are not yet clear. "We sought to explore the use of these combined procedures in Canada, to evaluate......d that people over the age of 80 represented 5% of patients undergoing CABG, had more comorbid conditions, a h... if there is a clinical need for it and that older patients undergoing elective procedures may experience outcomes equivalent to those of younger patients....Age is not a limiting factor in combined therapy for lung cancer
Elderly lung cancer patients tolerate combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy wi...osed at age 70 years or older. About 20 percent of patients with lung cancer will have small cell lung cancer (SCLC). In the past, SCLC progressed rapidly despi...High risk of second cancers in survivors of childhood soft tissue sarcomas
...eloping a second malignancy in soft tissue sarcoma patients by second cancer site, initial therapy, histologic type of the primary sarcoma, age at primary cancer diagnosis, and gender. The investigators found that survivors of pediatric soft tissue sarcomas had a six-fold increased risk of developing a second...... regimen. Although the results are promising, some patients may have difficulty taking a six-dose regimen, and as it also needs oily food for adequate absorption there might be inadequate drug levels in the blood of many treated individuals. The authors conclude that although co-artemether as a first-line tre...