Nursing home placement associated with accelerated cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease
...heimer's disease experience an acceleration in the rate of cognitive decline after being placed in a nursi...rage, cognition declined at a gradually increasing rate for all participants. During the study period, 155 persons were placed in a nursing home, and place...Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
...tients with HIV," said Dr. Nahid. The TB relapse rate for HIV-infected patients was found to be 6.6 percent versus 0.8 percent in uninfected/unknown patients. This finding was in contrast to other studies that did not find any significant difference between HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected/unknown pati...FDA approves ZYFLO CR extended-release tablets for chronic treatment of asthma
...delivery technology, which controls the amount and rate of drug released into the body. We applaud our marketing partners success in securing FDA approval of the only twice-daily leukotriene synthesis inhibitor for asthma, said Mel Engle, President and CEO of DEY. ZYFLO CR has a unique mechanism of ac...International studies show high efficacy for HPV vaccine
...e name Gardasil, also demonstrated a high efficacy rate in protection from HPV types 6 and 11, which together cause about 90 percent of all cases of genital warts. All four types cause a large number of abnormal Pap test results and low-grade cervical lesions. Cervical cancer is the second most common c...More rib fractures, but better survival rates
...ty, one of the authors of the study. The success rate for CPR ranges from 5 percent to 10 percent, depen...recommendation, it's likely that the resuscitation rate will increase, but it's equally likely that the fracture rate will increase." ...Survey shows asthma not controlled in majority of patients
...e and suggest that clinicians should expect a high rate of uncontrolled disease among their asthma patients." Uncontrolled asthma has been associated with significant costs. In 2003, reports show that asthma caused about 24.5 million missed days of work, 12.7 million physician office visits and 1.2 mill...Research shows aerobic exercise helps maintain muscle in elderly
...heir hearts beating at 70 percent of their maximum rate the same aerobic intensity level recommended to ma...olpi said. "Now it looks like it may also slow the rate of muscle loss in aging. We need to test this hypothesis further with larger trials, but still, it's...JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
...people in pain. We asked nursing home residents to rate their pain using all three scales. We wanted to know how the pain reported on one scale translated onto another scale. The 42,000 veterans who live in nursing homes and their families will benefit from this study. Cognitive impairment and pain man...Once-fatal metabolic disorders treatable, says Stanford/Packard researcher
... received the drug therapy had an overall survival rate of 73 percent for newborns and 98 percent for older patients. In contrast, a recent European study of 217 patients who did not receive the therapy reported overall survival rates of only 16 percent for newborns and 72 percent for people with later on......g of the arteries. They also asked participants to rate their quality of life. This treatment did not cause any side-effects. Dr Weaver says, "The results of our study show that treatment of people with this mild form of underactive thyroid condition leads to significant improvements in risk factors ...Dentists need more training in oral cancer detection
...arly detection. A greater than 60 percent response rate indicated that Illinois dentists "take seriously t...not significantly improved in decades. The death rate for oral cancer is higher than for cervical cancer; Hodgkin's disease; and cancer of the brain, live...Community-associated staph infections involving antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase
...lated." "Why CA-MRSA has emerged at such a rapid rate remains unclear," the authors write. Hospitals and...nclusion, among Cook County Hospital patients, the rate of CA-MRSA skin and soft tissue infections increased rapidly between 2000 and 2005, adding significa...Human antibodies protect mice from avian flu
...Most surprisingly, says Dr. Subbarao, the survival rate was excellent even when treatment was delayed for three days. Spurred by these results, the NIAID investigators next tested whether the H5N1 mAbs might be used to treat mice infected with a related but distinct H5N1 virus. Although the four mAbs u...Ground breaking research to end in tears
...played an unexpected role slowingdown the break-up rate of tears. "Proteins on the tear film interact and behave very differently. Theylower the surface tension and make tears more stable," he says. Previously it was believed lipids - released from small holes inside theeyelids - formed an oily barri...Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
... blood) from convalescent patientshalved the death rate during the Spanish flu pandemic. Large amounts of pure monoclonal antibodies can be readily made for clinical use and, importantly, this study indicates that some monoclonal antibodies neutralize H5N1 viruses from different clades. The researche...High pretreatment PSA velocity predicts worse outcome
...ictor of aggressive prostate cancer is an elevated rate of increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) lev...ncer Society, the study found that a pre-treatment rate of PSA increase, called PSA velocity, of more than 2 ng/ml/year was strongly associated with a high ...New insights into chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis
...tory rheumatic diseases are associated with a high rate of death from heart disease. One explanation is a greater susceptibility to atherosclerosis. Although atherosclerosis is linked to inflammation in healthy individuals as well, the mechanism of inflammation and the reason for accelerated atheroscler...ECP may be effective in treating Crohn's disease
...ppressants and/or anti-TNF agents. A 50% response rate after 3 months of ECP treatment was noted in the study, using standard disease activity criteria, as presented this afternoon at a scientific research session of Digestive Disease Week (DDW). The majority of patients who responded to ECP therapy had...Coffee consumption may lower blood uric acid levels -- the precursor of gout
...an 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 Vancouver, Canada, the current study was base......he committee's recommendations because of the high rate at which teens start smoking. Most smokers start before they turn 18, and the rate of daily smoking among high school seniors has hovered around 20 percent for most of the past two de...