Personality changes may help detect form of dementia
...lzheimer's disease. By the time of death, up to 75 percent of those with dementia with Lewy bodies had passive personality changes compared to 45 percent of those with Alzheimer's disease. "Currently we mainly look for memory problems and other cognit...Exercise may slightly boost 'good' cholesterol levels
...HDL-C level was reported to be associated with a 2 percent and 3 percent decreased risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women, respectively," the authors write. "If thi...Soy nuts may improve blood pressure in postmenopausal women
...utic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet, consisted of 30 percent of calories from fat (with 7 percent or less from saturated fat), 15 percent from protein and 55 percent from carbohydrates; 1,200 millig...Human antibodies protect mice from avian flu
...5N1 mAb testedregardless of dosesurvived, while 80 percent of mice receiving the highest dose of the second H5N1 mAb survived. Additional tests showed that mice receiving either of the two protective H5N1 mAbs had levels of virus in the lungs that were 10 to 100 times lower than those in control mice, and li...High pretreatment PSA velocity predicts worse outcome
... the men who underwent treatment with RP or RT, 44 percent and 28 percent, respectively, had pre-treatment PS...died with only one identified high-risk factor, 88 percent of RP-treated patients and 80 percent of RT-treated patients had pre-treatment PSA velocities of ...Drinking 4 or more cups of coffee a day may help prevent gout
Coffee is a habit for more than 50 percent of Americans, who drink, on average, 2 cups per da...study of some 50,000 male health professionals, 91 percent white, who were between 40 and 75 years of age in 1986 when the project was initiated. To assess co...Most pediatric chemotherapy mistakes reach patients
... pediatric hospitalizations, occurring in almost 6 percent of all medication orders for pediatric inpatients....ies of pediatric chemotherapy errors found that 13 percent of such errors reached children and 2 percent were serious and required intervention. Dr. Marlene...New insights into chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis
...patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease -- 47 percent of this group, compared with 20 percent of the control group. Along with greater prevalence, these inflammatory cells were larger in size. ...Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage
...tion of a newly designed gene therapy relieved 100 percent of osteoarthritic pain in the study model. In addi...nd that the therapy also brought about a nearly 35 percent reduction in permanent structural to joints caused by round and after round of osteoarthritic inflam...Telephone 'quitlines' may help dental patients stop smoking
... received only brief counseling. At six months, 25 percent of the patients in the quitline group and 27.3 percent of the patients in the brief-counseling group had abstained from tobacco use. Abstinence rates among...Coffee consumption may lower blood uric acid levels -- the precursor of gout
...dely consumed beverages in the world; more than 50 percent of Americans drink it at the average rate of 2 cups per day. Because of this widespread consumption, its potential effects have important implications for public and individual health. Led by Hyon K. Choi, of the University of British Columbia in Van...Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US
...e U.S. smoking rate, which now hovers at around 21 percent of the adult population, says a new report from th... in the United States has declined by more than 50 percent since 1964, tobacco use still claims about 440,000 lives every year, and secondhand smoke causes ano...Possible new breast cancer gene
...BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations account for less than 50 percent of inherited breast cancer. "The genetic basis of breast cancers in other families has been largely unknown," explains Greenberg. "These families arent able to make informed choices about screening and treatment, prophylactic or otherwise, the way th...Hepatitis C negatively impacts HIV
...complex patient management. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of HIV infected persons in the United States and E... HIVinfected persons with alcohol problems. Fifty percent (199) were also co-infected with HCV. CD4 cell counts and HIV RNA levels were assessed at baseline ...Hepatitis B patients' understanding of infection and treatment deficient
...itis B patients on antiviral therapy. Of those, 24 percent were on interferon treatment. Most of these patien...about half being of Asian descent. In addition, 64 percent were from the mid-Atlantic or Pacific regions of the United States. The study was based on Internet ...Limiting eligibility for medical studies can omit women and African-Americans
...bility. The researchers found that women were 62 percent more likely than men to be disqualified from studi...ed social and residential stability. Women were 29 percent more likely to be excluded from studies that disqualified patients with psychiatric problems, and 20...ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
...skin ulcers. On average nurses worked overtime 5.6 percent of the time. These findings, reported in the June issue of Medical Care, one of the leading health care administration journals, support the notion that a systematic approach aimed at improving nurse working conditions will improve patient safety. ...Advances in screening and markers improve early detection of colorectal cancer
...ght. The study found an overall miss rate of 12 percent for tumors of any size and three percent for tumors greater than or equal to six millimeters. No lesion larger than one centimeter was misse...Same-day coronary angiography and surgery safe for many patients
...mortality rates have been reported as high as 44.4 percent to 63.7 percent, the researchers report. The dye u...average age of the patient was 65 years old and 33 percent were female. Of the 226, angiography showed that 28.3 percent had severe enough coronary artery dise...12-month study demonstrated tolerability and efficacy of Daytrana
...ations. Of the safety population (326 children) 7 percent withdrew due to skin irritation at the patch application site, and 9 percent withdrew due to adverse events. The highest percentage of discontinuations were due to withdrawn co...