Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...ts. However, another antibody, EBV-IgA, seen with repeat or reactivated EBV infection, was also more common in African Americans with lupus. EBV-IgA was found in 66 percent of African-American patients, and calculated at increasing the odds for lupus by 5 to 6 fold. Among white lupus patients, the EBV-Ig...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...ire another procedure such as coronary stenting or repeat coronary bypass surgery. What surgeons have needed is the ability to see whether blood was flowing so that any needed corrections could be made on the spot. Until now, there have been few good options. The SPY system uses a fluorescent green dy...Long term outcomes for children who undergo ear tube placement surgery
...ugh children with more serious disease may require repeat procedures or other ear surgery, according to two ...ed on whether the ear had healed, for a history of repeat procedures, for abnormal outcomes and on whether they required more extensive ear surgery. The heari...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...rrence that typically resolves within 24 hours. A repeat study is performed a year later and participants will receive a small compensation after the second visit. Participants will not receive HEDA results but will receive their mammogram report per usual, says Helen Fain, a nurse and study sub-investigat...Enlarged prostate drug allows for less invasive prostate biopsies
...% of men who have a prostate biopsy need to have a repeat procedure done, said Dr. Ives. "If cancer is there...osed sooner and be spared from having to undergo a repeat biopsy," she said. Dr. Ives' mentor for the research project is Ethan Halpern, MD, at Thomas Jeffers......ng from the National Science Foundation to quickly repeat the survey, which they did in November 2001 to Jan...than it did in the past." The researchers plan to repeat the study in Dayton , Ohio , a smaller city, but one that has a large military presence the Wright-...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...hout a lot of effort." The Watanabe group plans to repeat their experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to peer into the brains of participants. Using fMRI, the team will essentially be able to look directly into the portion of the brain involved in subliminal learning.......ards," Wadsworth said. "The fact that we have both repeat winners and first-time winners is an impressive st...re variations over time. Lauf, Bible and Sohns are repeat winners. SeizAlert, developed by ORNL's Lee Hively and Kara Kruse of the Computational Sciences and ...SCAI news: Drug-eluting stents prove mettle in heart attack patients
...d their primary purpose, preventing the need for a repeat procedure to treat renarrowing in the stented artery. At six-month follow-up, only 1 percent of patients treated with the drug-eluting stent required a new procedure to reopen the artery, as compared to more than 10 percent of patients treated with t....... After the first treatment, patients are able to repeat this process at home for an hour everyday. After approximately three treatments, the patient will notice a significant change in their breath. Until now, dentists could only offer treatment plans that reduced, but not treat, bad breath. In the past...Common C-section method leads to unnecessary scars, Stanford study finds
...ecause it is increasingly common for women to have repeat caesareans, Lyell said adhesions are of particular...olving 173 women at Stanford who were undergoing a repeat caesarean. During the study, surgeons were asked after surgery to score the severity and location of...Cognitive therapy effective in preventing repeat suicide attempts
... who had attempted suicide reduced their risk of a repeat attempt by participating in a cognitive therapy pr...psychosocial intervention could reduce the rate of repeat suicide attempts over an 18-month interval. The study included 120 adults who attempted suicide and ...Cognitive therapy reduces repeat suicide attempts by 50 percent
...death for adults under 65, a proven way to prevent repeat attempts has important public health implications,... (13) of those in the cognitive therapy group made repeat suicide attempts, compared to 42 percent (23) of the usual care group. Although the groups did not d...More is better, at least in angioplasty
...lood flow using minimally invasive techniques, and repeat angioplasty during the same hospital stay indicates incomplete treatment the first time. The analysis of current data was made possible by the BCBSM-funded project, the BCBSM Cardiovascular Consortium, which for the last eight years has pooled data f...Hearing loss in older adults may compromise cognitive resources for memory
... when older adults could hear words well enough to repeat them, their ability to memorize and remember these words was poorer in comparison to other individuals of the same age with good hearing. "There are subtle effects of hearing loss on memory and cognitive function in older adults," said lead author ...Drug-eluting stents successfully treat vein-graft disease
...ts significantly cut the rates of heart attack and repeat procedures, both of which are indicators of renarr... become diseased, necessitating either stenting or repeat bypass surgery in some cases. The study analyzed data from 223 consecutive patients who had a stenti...Corticosteroids often used in treatment of infectious mononucleosis
...crease in corticosteroid use included a history of repeat visits, inpatient admission, and otolaryngology consultation," the authors write. "Despite consistent and uniform acceptance in the medical literature that SCT in the setting of IM [infectious mononucleosis] should be reserved for patients with impen...Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent is cost effective vs. bypass surgery
...or physician fees, room and ancillary charges, and repeat procedures, were $7,700 less (29 percent) for CYPHER Stent than for CABG, at $26,419 and $34,119 respectively. Total one-year costs, when adjusted for patient differences in extent of coronary artery disease and diabetes, were $6,487 less (21 percent...Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic
...be civil unrest." What is certainly likely to repeat itself is the swiftness with which the flu raced through communities. In many cases, he said, those who are most vulnerable are the very young, the very old, and the immuno-suppressed, such as those fighting cancer, AIDS, or other devastating illness...Measuring certain enzyme activity in urine shows promise for detection of bladder cancer
... was determined using a highly sensitive telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay. Urine samples were processed for cytological (cell) diagnosis and TRAP assay. The diagnosis of bladder cancer was based on bioptic and cystoscopic examinations (direct visual examination of the urinary tract). The...