Survival differences by race most apparent in advanced stages of breast cancer
...example, survival at the same stage can vary by 40 percent depending on the number of lymph nodes with diseas...rican American women was calculated to be up to 56 percent higher than whites. This study confirms statistically significant differences within stage betwee...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
...waves, most victims are found dead at home, and 60 percent of those who reach the hospital are likely to die....after 28 days and one and two years. Fifty-eight percent of patients died within 28 days. Patients who died: more often came from an institution for the e...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...y was very common in this population. More than 25 percent had the disease at the time initial interviews wer...dy found that over the next three years another 10 percent developed diabetes. The rate at which this African-American population is developing new onset dia...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...or James P. Smith found that in 1999-2002 about 20 percent of American men who had diabetes did not know they...of men diagnosed with diabetes jumped from about 3 percent to 7 percent -- a more than doubling of the prevalence rate. However, when undiagnosed cases were co...Study suggests loss of 2 types of neurons -- not just 1 -- triggers Parkinson's symptoms
...ing symptoms of Parkinson's disease until about 80 percent of their dopamine neurons are gone, which is when ...hydropyridine (MPTP) at a dose that kills about 80 percent of the dopamine cells, but observed no motor impairments in the mice. Surprisingly, when they tested...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...A study of adults over the age of 65 found that 13 percent of men and 36 percent of women take more than 30 minutes to fall asleep. There are many other possible explanations for ...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...y was very common in this population. More than 25 percent had the disease at the time initial interviews wer...dy found that over the next three years another 10 percent developed diabetes. "I think that's a huge finding in and of itself," Schootman says. "Think about...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...h hypertension and diabetes, which accounts for 80 percent of the patients with chronic kidney failure on dialysis. These two conditions account for medical costs of more than $19 billion per year in the U.S. alone. This information could lead to diagnostic tests to identify individuals more susceptible to ...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
...e and an estimated 7.3 million users, including 15 percent of young adults ages 18 to 25, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Life-threatening emergencies related to cocaine use include sudden cardiac death, high blood pressure, stroke and acute myocardial infarctions. We also found that dexme...Disability payments may spur drug abuse
...ge. The analysis found that in California, the 23 percent increase in drug-related hospital admissions that ..., hospital deaths among SSI recipients increase 22 percent at the beginning of the month. This research was funded by the Substance Abuse Policy Research Prog...Drug for cluster headaches may cause heart problems
...manent pacemaker due to the problem. A total of 37 percent of the participants had slower than normal heart r...itially supposed to take part in the study, but 42 percent of them did not have the EKGs done to monitor their heart activity. Many of them said either they or...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...in binds to and neutralizes anywhere from 70 to 90 percent of the amyloid-beta that is circulating in the bod...ls of sLRP in people with Alzheimers were about 30 percent lower than in healthy people, and the sLRP that was present was almost three times as likely to be d...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...e consequences as well. The study shows that 6.4 percent of whites reported using illicit drugs in the previous month, compared to 7.2 percent of acculturated Hispanics. However, less than 1 percent of non-acculturated, Spanish-speaking Hispan...Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals
...that overweight children were absent on average 20 percent more than their normal-weight peers. At this you...mogeneously among the citys poorest. More than 80 percent of students at these schools were eligible for free and reduced-cost meal plans....New study shows promise in reducing surgical risks associated with surgical bleeding
...es in the United States. However, approximately 20 percent of these patients develop antibodies against bovin...ase III trial show that we can stop bleeding in 95 percent of patients within 10 minutes and do so without introducing foreign proteins that can carry greater ...Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
...e available, 104,364 Americans (approximately 0.03 percent of the population) started dialysis or received a kidney transplant. This represented nearly a one percent decline in renal replacement therapy, compared with the previous year. The decline is especially e...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
...vive as long as those with an active TSC1/TSC2 (46 percent survival at 60 months vs. 65 percent). Rapamycin is a powerful immune system suppressor used to protect organ transplant recipients against rejection of their new organs by suppressing mTOR. Rapamycin and similar mTOR inhibitors are in early clinic...Women with migraines and visual symptoms may have higher stroke risk
...imore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center. Eight percent of stroke cases had onset of probable migraine wit... visual symptoms in the prior year compared to one percent of controls. Second, and probably the most important finding, women who had probable migraine with v...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
...to antibiotics in a test tube and found that in 57 percent of cases, doctors had prescribed an antibiotic to which the bacteria were resistant. Finding certain antibiotics ineffective against MRSA in a laboratory setting, however, does not necessarily mean they will fail in patients, who have the help of the...ANN ARBOR, Mich.---More than 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004, according to a University of Michigan analysis. And poor seniors are as li...