Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...ding death, but overdiagnosis may lead patients to receive unnecessary treatment. "To date, the way physicians have traditionally evaluated potential heart failure patients has been rather random, with some receiving a physical examination and medical history while others also get expensive and time-consumi...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...new ones). Children were then randomly assigned to receive treatment for amblyopia or to receive optical correction alone. Children aged seven to 12 in the treatment group were treated with two to ...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...nt due to amblyopia. Many of these children do not receive treatment while they are young," he said. Amblyopia is a leading cause of vision impairment in children and usually begins in infancy or childhood. It is a condition resulting in poor vision in an otherwise healthy eye due to unequal or abnormal vi...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
According to a new study, smokers who receive multiple abnormal results using computed tomograph...the American Cancer Society, and finds smokers who receive one or more abnormal results on the screening test are increasingly likely to quit and remain abstin...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
... 529 patients with fibromyalgia were randomized to receive one of three daily doses of Lyrica (150 mg, 300 mg, or 450 mg) or placebo. The primary objective was reduction in the severity of pain. Pain scores were recorded in daily diaries. On average, patients in the study were women in their late 40s who ...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
... Computing (AWC). One of 23 honorees, Canic will receive her AWC-Houston Leadership in Technology Award during the annual gala June 11 at the Inter-Continental Houston Hotel. Dedicated to the advancement of women in technology fields, the AWC, founded in 1978, is a national non-profit professional organiz...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
... Disasters is being activated so rescue teams will receive satellite images of the disaster zone. It begins with a train derailment, and then the situation gets worse. Train wagons of fuel begin to burn, the fire spreading to pressurised tanks of liquefied gas until one of them explodes violently, even as a ...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
... emergency rooms with heart attack symptoms do not receive these potentially life-saving drugs. One reason cited for this under-usage is that many physicians may be overly albeit sometimes justifiably -- concerned about potential adverse events due to incorrect dosing, the researchers said. The drugs, known...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...developed to reduce the number of vaccines infants receive appears to provide less immunity than the vaccines...munization schedules. Infants in the United States receive up to 20 separate vaccine injections over 5 immunization encounters at ages 2, 4, 6, 12, and 18 mont...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
... about 5 percent of patients with heart attack who receive a certain blood clot dissolving therapy, patient-r...able early clinical course could be more likely to receive incorrect doses. Rajendra H. Mehta, M.D., M.S., of Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Univers...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
... you for five minutes, and the actual services you receive take 10 minutes, but nobody can get out of there in under four hours," said Lin. "The system is just not set up right," he said. "No one is actively seeking to get patients through efficiently. It has to be built into the process."...Tamoxifen can reduce breast pain in prostate cancer patients
... severe breast pain and were randomly allocated to receive additional treatment of 10mg tamoxifen or one dose of radiotherapy. In this sub-group tamoxifen substantially reduced the frequency of breast enlargement and breast pain when compared with radiotherapy. The treatments were well tolerated and the grou...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ral valve surgery, some of whom were randomized to receive an Acorn CorCap at the same time. Some patients had their mitral valves repaired, while others received a total artificial valve. That study was the first to show in a multi-center trial that mitral valve surgery can be performed safely even in pati...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...on Wednesday, April 13. "I am extremely honored to receive this prestigious award which will allow me to broaden the message of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. So many families and their caregivers know the frustration and confusion of neurological disorders," Gibbons said. "The work of the American Aca...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...other than their own health plans-for help if they receive unexpected medical bills or refusals for much-needed medical equipment. They also have had few resources in figuring out how to choose health coverage or how to navigate public insurance programs. But a network of California legal services groups has......ta suggest that only 1-12% of males self-reporting receive treatment for their dysfunction. According to The Journal of Sexual Medicine editor Irwin Goldstein, most physicians do not inquire about the existence of premature ejaculation when the patient has other sexual complaints or when the partner has org...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...anying editorial The Lancet comments: "Whether you receive the death penalty depends not on what you have done, but where you committed your crime, what colour your skin is, and how much money you have. The use of the death penalty not only varies from state to state (12 US states have no death penalty) but ...Women not given same tests for stroke
...I BEACH Women who have strokes are less likely to receive some standard tests to help diagnose the type of stroke and determine treatment, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., April 9 16, 2005. "Previous studies have sho...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...esidents may have to travel more than 100 miles to receive cancer treatment. The program is designed for the...norities and underserved populations do not always receive timely, appropriate advice and care when confronted with a cancer diagnosis. Patient navigators can......lthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 50 will receive three injections of the DNA vaccine into the upper arm: one at the start of the trial, a second approximately four weeks later, and a third approximately four weeks after that. To help force the DNA plasmid into muscle cells, the vaccine will be admi...