Single dose of azithromycin prevents recurrence of inturned eyelashes
... that a single dose of the antibiotic azithromycin reduces the risk of trichiasis recurring for up to one year after surgery. The researchers compared the use of one oral dose of azithromycin to six weeks of twice daily topical tetracycline treatment. Researchers found the azithromycin group had one-third...Post-stent maintenance therapies questioned
...herapy with ticlopidine plus aspirin significantly reduces post-stent implantation complications, including death, repeat heart attack or reintervention. The drug ticlopidine has been replaced by clopidogrel in recent research, which is safe and acts more rapidly in a 600 mg dosage level, offering better pl...Enoxaparin beats unfractionated heparin as adjunct therapy for heart attacks
...patients who have suffered a heart attack markedly reduces the risk of repeat heart attack or death when compared to an older, more widely used blood thinning strategy, according to a large international study presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 55th Annual Scientific Session and the inau...Cutting-edge procedures cut costs, time associated with cardiac episodes
...and lead author of the study. "This significantly reduces the amount of time patients spend waiting for treatment after entering the hospital, and, in combination with optimal treatment, significantly lowers mortality rates."...Anti-thrombotic medication significantly reduces risk of death for heart attack patients
...the fondaparinux group. "In summary, fondaparinux reduces mortality and reinfarction early, and this benefit persists long term," the authors write. " results from OASIS-6 confirm the value and safety of fondaparinux as a simple and widely applicable antithrombotic therapy in a broad group of patients with...Test to predict cardiovascular risk in heart attack patients not yet appropriately used
...o the kidneys to produce more urine, which in turn reduces the volume of blood fluid, facilitating damaged or weakened heart muscle to pump blood throughout the body. Larger elevations of BNP levels have been previously shown to be associated with an incremental increase in the risk of mortality for heart a...Study finds incidence of hypertension reduced with early intervention
...ension with medication and lifestyle modifications reduces the risk of patients progressing to hypertension, a new study involving researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has concluded. The findings, appearing in an upcoming issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, are the result of a four-year st...Vaccinated adults less likely to die from pneumonia
...ases, now available online. Prior vaccination also reduces patients' risk of developing medical complications and decreases their length of stay in the hospital. Pneumococci, or Streptococcus pneumoniae, are bacteria that colonize the nose and throat, often without causing harm. When they do cause infection,......ccurs in the first 72 hours after transplantation, reduces three-year survival rates. Of the 5,262 patients who were analyzed from an organ sharing network, 10.2 percent were diagnosed with primary graft dysfunction. The 30-day mortality rate for this problem was 42 percent, as compared to 6 percent for thos...ABIM to recognize CMS Physician Voluntary Reporting Program measures
...Medical Education (CME) credits. "This arrangement reduces redundancy it permits data to be collected once, but used for multiple purposes and provides additional incentives beyond board certification for physicians to get involved in performance assessment," said Christine Cassel, MD, MACP, President and C...Women with breast cancer who choose preventive mastectomies
...n that preventive removal of the unaffected breast reduces the risk of cancer and may improve survival. In an earlier study involving this same group of patients, the researchers found that women who had the mastectomy had a 97 percent lower risk of developing cancer in both breasts than women who had only t...Medication plus oral contraceptive may improve female pattern hair loss
... researchers selected a type of contraceptive that reduces levels of male hormones, because that effect may also contribute to the treatment of hair loss. They took photographs of the patients' heads and assessed their hair density with a technique known as computerized light videodermoscopy at the beginnin...Hopkins study shows low-dose aspirin suppresses clumping of blood platelets in both sexes
...f stroke and, as our latest findings show, it also reduces platelet aggregation that can lead to potentially fatal clots in blood vessels." "Our results show that aspirin does what it is supposed to do in both men and women," says platelet biologist and study co-author Nauder Faraday, M.D., an associate prof...Topical antiseptic reduces umbilical cord infection and mortality risk
A topical antiseptic reduces umbilical cord infections and infant mortality risk, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In a study conducted in southern Nepal, babies who received umbilical cord cleanings after their cords we...Poor, ethnic children at greater risk for exposure to toxic pollutants
...dds, strict enforcement of lead abatement policies reduces future lead poisonings. Yet enforcement varies widely by state, particularly for children from families that don't receive federal housing subsidies, she and her co-author, Colleen F. Moore, Ph.D., a professor of psychology, explain. Compliance with...Two new studies reveal benefits of laparoscopic surgery for uterine cancer
...paroscopy is safe, and when successfully completed reduces hospital stay by 50 percent, and contributes to a better quality of life from the patient's perspective. Additionally, the study provided the best guidelines to date for predicting the likelihood of successful laparoscopic surgery, based on weight a...Combining alcohol and Red Bull reduces the 'perception' of impairment
...inking alcohol and Red Bull together significantly reduces the perception of headache, weakness, dry mouth ...measures of their abilities: although combined use reduces the sensation of tiredness and sleepiness, actual capabilities are significantly impaired. "In Brazi......s reporting that six months of calorie restriction reduces two key markers of aging: fasting insulin levels and body temperature. More than a decade ago several researchers, including John O. Holloszy, M.D., professor of medicine at Washington University, demonstrated that stringent and consistent caloric r......orking on solving a problem, the brain momentarily reduces visual inputs, with an effect similar to a person shutting his or her eyes or looking away to facilitate the emergence into consciousness of the solution. The new study extends these findings by suggesting that mental preparation involving inward fo...Photodynamic therapy is an alternative to removal of esophagus
...s in Kentucky offering photodynamic therapy, which reduces the incidence of esophageal cancer. The outpatient procedure involves injecting the patient with a photosensitizer intravenously. Two days later, the photosensitizer is activated with a laser, and abnormal cells are destroyed. The patient must return...