The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...difference in survival was observed. However, the rate of fibrosis appeared to be slower in those receivi... livers from HCV-infected donors may have a slower rate of fibrosis progression at one year. "This is a trend we're seeing in survival advantage for thos...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
...ol, Austria, had a statistically significant lower rate of extracapsular extension and positive surgical margins than those found in a non-screened population despite similar preoperative PSA levels. Researchers evaluated 997 radical prostatectomy patients from Innsbruck undergoing surgery between Februar...Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
...utheastern region of the U.S. Nationally, the TB rate among African Americans is more than eight times the rate among whites and has been for some time. Over one-third of the TB cases in African Americans are in ...Parents and schools, major factors in China obesity boom
... of the adolescents were found to be overweight, a rate similar to that observed in many western countries. In a recent report in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found the following factors were significantly associated with overweight and obesity in children included: living i...Could statins be a new option for hepatitis C patients?
...us in blood six months after the end of treatment) rate in hepatitis C patients. A modified intent to tre...ts on standard treatment achieved a 37 percent SVR rate the highest SVR reported to date in the medical literature for a VA-based population. Having a hig...Long-term anti-clotting therapy sweetens stenting outcomes in diabetic patients
...rel after 6 months, the difference in the combined rate of death or heart attack for drug-eluting and bare...n diabetic patients, the study recorded the lowest rate of death or heart attack among those who continued therapy for up to 1 year. After that, the anti-cl...Children with both autism and ADHD often bully, parents say
...id not find that children with autism had a higher rate of bullying unless they also had ADD or ADHD. Those with both disorders showed a rate four times higher than children with just autism and with children overall. They also had a higher r...Mayor of New York proposes preventing 100 million deaths from tobacco
...country around the world reduced its adult smoking rate to below 20% or by 5% if already below 20%. The proposal is published in a Viewpoint co-authored by Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg in this week's edition of The Lancet. The Viewpoint, also co-authored by Dr Thomas Frieden, New York City Depart...25,000 needless deaths each year due to failure to tackle blood clots in hospital
...y at risk. Trials show that drugs can reduce the rate of VTE by up to 65%, yet a Health Select Committee report in 2005 found that only one in five patients at risk were getting them. The committee instructed NICE to produce guidelines and called for an expert working group to develop a strategy and r...Innovative education scheme sees fewer rugby players suffering spinal injuries
...em to represent a viable option for decreasing the rate of serious spinal injuries in rugby union scrums"....Tests show healthy humans not harmed by Taser
...hour after the exposure. Blood pressure and heart rate as well as calcium, sodium, potassium, bicarbonate and lactate levels, and blood pH were measured. Systolic blood pressure decreased after the Taser, likely due to a heightened anxiety before the test. Other measures changed slightly, but there wer...Protocol for treatment of sepsis can reduce hospital deaths
...reating sepsis and septic shock, and the mortality rate remains disturbingly high. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, Alan Jones, MD, of Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, will show that Early Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT) is clinic...New study: Pycnogenol reduces heart failure
...ardiac chamber walls showed a significantly higher rate of collagen connective tissues than control groups...0 new cases are diagnosed each year. The mortality rate for heart failure affects 80 percent of men and 70 percent of women within 12 years of obtaining car...ACE inhibitors help preserve kidney function in IgA nephropathy
...po. After a median three years of treatment, the rate of decreased kidney function was just three percent for patients treated with the ACE inhibitor, compared to fifteen percent in the placebo group. The combined risk of decreased kidney function or rising level of protein in the urine was also lower i...Asthma study shows patients have more options to control disease
...luticasone/salmeterol both had a treatment failure rate of 20 percent. In the group taking montelukast, the rate was 30 percent. "This study suggests that patients whose asthma is well controlled on twice-daily ...Will the healthcare workers go to work during disasters?
... rate, but many experts believe the real mortality rate may be closer to the pandemic of 1918 at less than 5%. Lack of accurate information is likely to cause many more workers to stay home. "If fear and uncertainty are allowed to take over, many more workers will stay away, and pandemic staffing will tur...Low physical activity can improve fitness levels for sedentary, overweight postmenopausal women
...on period. Target training intensity was the heart rate associated with 50 percent (a modest intensity) of each womans peak VO2 (a measure of oxygen consumption and fitness level). The average minutes of exercising per week were 72.2 for the 4-kcal/kg, 135.8 for the 8-kcal/kg, and 191.7 for the 12-kcal/...Exercise may lead to improvement in patients with Parkinson's
...lease greater amounts of dopamine and decrease the rate of its removal from the synapse compared to neurons in subjects that do not undergo exercise. The findings suggest that the benefits of treadmill exercise on motor performance may be accompanied by changes in dopamine neurotransmission that are dif...ACP enthusiastically supports introduction of Bipartisan Health CARE Act
...idized through an increase in the federal matching rate (Federal Medical Assistance Percentages or FMAP). States that guarantee S-CHIP coverage to all eligible children would be exempted from federal funding caps....Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
...behind a malaria vaccine," he said. "The mortality rate is high." The student inventors are pleased about the potential public health benefits. They also found the hands-on assignment to be a valuable part of their engineering education. "This was a really good experience," said Yu, the student co-t...