Angioplasty reduces long-term cardiac risk among heart patients with 'silent' ischemia
...lute event reduction of 6.3 percent per year. The rate of ischemia among patients in the PCI group was 11.6 percent at the final follow-up, compared with 28.9 percent among patients in the drug therapy group, despite fewer drugs. "We found a persistent benefit of PCI compared with optimized drug therap...Off-label and untested use of drug-coated stents appears widespread
...l use and is associated with a persistently higher rate of adverse angiographic and clinical outcomes. T...bel group." There was no difference in the death rate between the two groups at one year. The composite outcome and stent thrombosis occurred more often ...Home improvement warning -- Ladder-related injuries increasing in the US
...nother hospital, approximately twice the admission rate of consumer product-related injuries overall. Of the cases for which location of injury was recorded, nearly all (97 percent) occurred in non-occupational settings, such as homes and farms. Data showed ladder-related injuries most often occur to ma...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
...ause more women successfully donate than men, at a rate of 58 percent versus 42 percent," said Reeves-Daniel. "We hope all of these results will help with understanding so we can recruit successful donors in the future."...HCV patients survival after liver transplantation is not improving
...991 and 2001, but for HCV recipients, the survival rate has remained unchanged without any obvious explanations." Another article in the same issue of Liver Transplantation by Luca Belli of Niguarda Hospital in Milan includes observations from another group of HCV positive patients who received liver t...Forensic pathologists tell physiologists what they know about death and what puzzles them
...variations accounting for differences in metabolic rate among individuals. Because people metabolize pills at different rates, for example, medical examiners are unable to precisely determine at autopsy how many pills the victim took. When prescribing drugs, it is important for the doctor to know if th...Web-based asthma program dramatically improves disease management for low-income black students
...an educational program is evidenced by the growing rate of asthma in African-Americans between the ages of...997 to 2001, these teenagers developed asthma at a rate 75 percent higher than white people in the same age bracket. National guidelines recommend that ...Serious illness among children with sickle cell disease reduced with vaccine
...ed in 2000 has reduced by more than 90 percent the rate of a serious bacterial illness among young childre...eumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). They found the rate of serious pneumococcal disease dropped by more than 90 percent among children under 5 years of age....Researchers urge caution in using ESAs for cancer-related anemia
...termine the effects of ESAs on risk of thrombosis, rate of tumor growth and neovascularization both in vitro and in vivo," Dr. Lappin and colleagues write. Until such studies are done, they believe that ESA treatment for cancer-related anemia should be undertaken cautiously -- and no higher than the 12 g/...Acute coronary syndrome therapy improvements linked with fewer deaths and improved clinical outcomes
...EMI) declined by 22 percentage points, whereas the rate of primary PCI increased by 37 percentage points. Approximately one-third of patients received primary or other PCI in 1999 and this increased to 64 percent of patients in 2005. In patients with non-STEMI, rates of PCI increased by 18 percentage ...New data shows once a day LAMICTAL XR is effective in patients with partial epilepsy
...d diarrhea, 7 vs. 4 percent. The non-serious rash rate was 2 percent for Lamictal XR and ABOUT THE CO...al trials of bipolar and other mood disorders, the rate of serious rash was 0.08 percent of adult patients who received Lamictal as initial monotherapy and ...Infection takes high toll in young children
...iscussed a number of possible reasons for the high rate of hospitalisation. "These days young children g... greatest risk". The research team said the high rate of infections in Aboriginal children was of great concern. "Aboriginal children are at high risk o...LAP-BAND System surgery improves insulin resistance
... of fat in the blood. Because of the low success rate of calorie restriction (i.e., diets) in reducing morbid obesity, surgical intervention is increasingly common. Individuals are considered candidates for surgery if BMI>40 kg/m2, or if BMI is 35-40 kg/m2 with significant co-morbidities. Roux-en...Studies suggest investigational agent reduces disease activity in MS
...re reduced by more than 90 percent and the relapse rate was reduced from an average of at least one per patient per year to only a few for the entire group over the year of treatment. Side effects were limited to mild to moderate reactions to the drug infusion, according to study author Amit Bar-Or, MD, o...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...e that a study has shown a significant drop in the rate of heart failure and death over such a short time ...e use of all these treatments increased, the death rate for patients both in the hospital and in their first six months after going home decreased significa...New prostate cancer treatment wins operations research award for Sloan-Kettering
...ncer Therapeutics." The work improves the survival rate of patients with prostate cancer, reduces the side effects of treatment, and reduces costs to the health care system. Yesterday was the first time that the association awarded the Edelman prize for a medical treatment. The Sloan-Kettering win demon...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
... and following birth. In the last few decades the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Unit...es has been reduced from 25 percent to its current rate of less than 2 percent. However, the transmission of drug-resistant strains of HIV from mother to c...1 in 3 HIV positive gay men report unprotected sex
...lence, and 2311 men agreed to provide these. The rate of HIV infection was highest in Brighton, at almost 14%, and lowest in Manchester, at 8.6% But the rates of undiagnosed infection was high in all three cities, ranging from one in three in Brighton to more than four out of 10 (44%) in London. Acr...Study finds role of mid-brain in integrating heart and respiratory response to exercise
... implanted is directly related to changes in heart rate (HR), arterial blood pressure (ABP) and pulmonary ventilation (VE) when they are altered by anticipation of exercise and actual exercise. They sought to establish whether the subcortical structures provide neural circuitry that is involved in the ant...Does a peptide affect the heart's response to social isolation?
...cluding elevated resting heart rate, reduced heart rate variability, and reduced parasympathetic regulatio... period. Electrocardiographic parameters (heart rate and heart rhythms) were recorded using the radio frequency transmitter. Following the period of isol...