Statins reduce the risk of stroke and death after carotid artery surgery
...pear to reduce this risk, though physicians aren't quite sure how. "Whether these drugs make those plaques less likely to fracture, less likely to break off or whether it's less likely for clots to form due to their anti-inflammatory effects, we can only speculate," Dr. Perler said. What is clear, Dr. Per......, which have become increasingly expensive. "It is quite possible that a substantial proportion of runaway health care costs is related to advocates using average benefits of treatments to promote use of these treatments to large numbers of people who receive little benefit from them." Of course, to make r...Pretreating vein graft does not help prevent graft failure in coronary artery bypass surgery
...hors write. "Failure of at least one vein graft is quite common within 12 to 18 months after CABG surgery. Although safe and well tolerated, inhibition with edifoligide is no more effective than placebo in preventing these events. Longer-term follow-up and additional research are needed to explain the mec...Drug not effective in preventing bypass vein clogging
...ssociation. "Failure of at least one vein graft is quite common within a year of bypass surgery" Alexander said. "While edifoligide had no effect in preventing neointimal hyperplasia, longer-term follow-up and additional research is needed to determine whether the drug has longer-term beneficial effects an...Promising advance in breast cancer research
...ey were exposed. Combined, however, the result was quite startling. "Within five days, we saw profound tumor cell death," Dent said. "Three researchers in the group operated the same studies independently, and they all saw very similar results."...Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant
...st are still in the prime of life and can still be quite productive." To be considered for the trial, patie...ents most likely to survive would be those who are quite sick, but not too sick to be beyond help. This fine line in determining which patients are optimal w...Multilateral initiative on malaria seeks international effort
...procedures for obtaining informed consent that are quite different from what a scientist would do in the West," he said. "But without this approach, it would have been impossible to accomplish what have been very valuable clinical trials. And as we see more and more drugs and vaccines that need to be tes...Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...d Kass, M.D., a professor at Hopkins. "There is a quite different biological mechanism at work than what was thought to be the case." In the study, 19 elderly women and men, mostly African-Americans from the Baltimore area, were matched to 17 adults similar in age and risk factors for heart failure: obesi...Wide racial disparities found in heart device implantation
...an-American patients might agree." Thomas found it quite telling that African-Americans and whites were prescribed evidence-based medicines such as aspirin, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors and anti-arrhythmic drugs at the same rates, but not when it came to the high-tech expensive ICD therapy. Equipped with ...Doctors and patients should discuss use of alternative medicines
...nced-based medicine, we have more patients who are quite comfortable with alternative medicine rather than drugs proven to work," Abramson said. "Unfortunately many patients believe that if something is natural, then it's safe. But many of these alternative medicines are not regulated, aren't necessarily...Mildly depressed people more perceptive than others
...of Queen's psychologists has discovered. "This was quite unexpected because we tend to think that the opposite is true," says lead researcher Kate Harkness. "For example, people with depression are more likely to have problems in a number of social areas." The researchers were so taken aback by the findin...Aspirin may help the heart, but one in ten patients will also develop an ulcer, new research shows
...hospitalised with an ulcer bleed.What has not been quite clear is whether this is due to aspirin patients actually getting ulcers more often, or just more likely to bleed from an ulcer that might be already there." In this study, patients underwent an endoscopy at the beginning of the trial and again three...Radiation treatment prolonged liver cancer patients' lives, U-M study finds
...a median survival of 17 months in such patients is quite a substantial improvement and definitely clinically relevant," says lead study author Edgar Ben-Josef, M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at the U-M Medical School. In the study, patients received radiation twice daily for two weeks, alo...Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates
...e example of soccer hooligans who on their own are quite ineffective but when they group together, can be a powerful force that creates havoc of disastrous proportions. It's the furanones that come to the rescue by irreversibly switching off the bacterial signalling mechanism. Without the signal, the bact...Insulin levels drop with progression of Alzheimer's disease, linked to tangles in brain
...ther, and demonstrates that Alzheimer's disease is quite possibly a Type 3 diabetes," de la Monte says. Earlier this year, de la Monte and co-authors provided the first evidence that insulin and its related proteins are produced in the brain and that reduced levels of both are linked to the late stages of ...Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity
...ength per minute, and that much of the movement is quite directed, for example toward the dendritic cells, rather than random activity. These directed movements are followed by prolonged interaction between autoimmune T cells and dendritic cells that lead to proliferation of autoimmune cells and eventually...Children with heart defects found to benefit from exercise
...ed helped melt away a lot of their anxiety. It was quite a metamorphosis." Heart rate was checked before each session, and 2 to 3 times during the session. For safety, a pulse oximeter and external defibrillator were available on site, but were never needed. At the end of the program, 15 of 16 children h...A leap forward in understanding cholera
...ient (i.e., the exposure to an environment that is quite different from their regular freshwater ponds) changes the cholera bacteria. As a result, for a short period of time, the bacteria become more infectious. The study caught the attention of David Hartley and colleagues, who saw a chance to improve t...Computer simulation shows buckyballs deform DNA
... "The binding energy between DNA and buckyballs is quite strong," Cummings says. "We found that the energies were comparable to the binding energies of a drug to receptors in cells." It turns out that buckyballs have a stronger affinity for DNA than they do for themselves. "This research shows that if buck......ly well known phenomenon that when you get storms, quite often the tropopause -- which is the flexible boun...ations measured in this study are still considered quite low in relation to levels that are known to cause significant changes in lung function at sea level....