New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...tients would best benefit from treatment and which should not receive clot-busting drugs. In the study, less than one percent of patients suffered a hemorrhage after receiving tPA, compared with the average of 5.2 percent of patients cited by the Stroke study. CT perfusion allows radiologists to determine ...Propensity for obesity, diabetes, may occur in utero
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The adage "You are what you eat" should be rephrased to include "and so are your children," based on metabolic research pioneered by researchers at the University at Buffalo. Previous studies by the UB scientists showed that rat pups raised artificially on a high-carbohydrate milk formul...UT Southwestern sports medicine doctor pedals advice on gearing up for safe cycling season
...ner of the Tour de France. Even beginning cyclists should be armed with health information that can help red...drates and salts, and between four to eight ounces should be consumed every 15 to 20 minutes, Dr. Palacios said. "Most sports drinks have 6 percent to 8 perc...Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study
...ty participation and decreasing television viewing should be the focus of strategies aimed at preventing and...says Dr. Janssen. "Physical activity interventions should be a fundamental component of health campaigns aimed at reducing the global obesity epidemic."...Breakthrough for kids with epilepsy
...y value for counseling parents whether their child should undergo epilepsy surgery," states corresponding author, Ingrid Tuxhorn, MD. Twelve months post-surgery, 82% of children showed stable improvements in development and three children showed gains of greater than 15 points in IQ. Gains in IQ were only o...Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment
...oma tumors, the researchers believe the technology should work for most solid tumors, because all tumors mus...ough to begin new blood vessel formation. Plus, we should be able to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs right to melanoma cells, because melanoma tumors create bl...High levels of immunosuppressant may lead to tumor recurrence
...rence and identified blood levels of the drug that should not be exceeded. Lower levels of cyclosporine lev...porine] immunosuppression the exposure to the drug should not exceed the daily blood levels that we identified," the authors state. Since higher and lower le...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...t into a human antibody. The "humanized" antibody should be less likely to induce an adverse human immune system response. A second round of tests in mice confirmed that the new antibodies retained their ability to stop West Nile virus. Other monoclonal antibodies are currently in development or use as ant...Genetic screening for iron blood disorder feasible in the workplace
...enetic screening is shown to be cost-effective, it should be implemented since hereditary haemochromatosis can be prevented by simple measures and, as shown in our study, the risks of such screening are very low and genetic discrimination need not occur." In an accompanying comment Paul Adams (London Health...Risk scores may identify young individuals with atherosclerosis
...g-range prevention of CHD [coronary heart disease] should begin early in life," the authors write. C. Alex McMahan, Ph.D., from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and colleagues analyzed data from the Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) study to determine......s. The authors conclude that advanced patient age should not on its own deter a decision to perform CABG if there is a clinical need for it and that older patients undergoing elective procedures may experience outcomes equivalent to those of younger patients....Age is not a limiting factor in combined therapy for lung cancer
...ally advanced limited stage small cell lung cancer should be encouraged to receive combined modality therapy, preferably on clinical trials."...Every birth and death must be counted
...de efforts to reduce health inequities: Everyone should have opportunities for health and the means to imp...serve special attention--this means that countries should collect and analyze information on inequalities in health status and the determinants of health amon...Data suggest bypass surgery free of long-term brain effects
...sis. It is curious, the authors note, that studies should continue to find cognitive deficits despite the fa...months in most patients. "We believe that patients should not be discouraged from having CABG because of the risk of late cognitive decline," said Selnes. He ...Report reveals need to improve physical health of people with schizophrenia
...t loss interventions for people with schizophrenia should start with regular and frequent weight monitoring ...s also assert that the evaluation of new therapies should include assessments of long-term risk to physical health in addition to psychiatric effects....Revised Bethesda guidelines effective at identifying patients at risk of colorectal cancer
...ncer, are effective for determining which patients should undergo further genetic testing, according to a st...ve strategies to further select those patients who should be tested for MSH2/MLH1 germline mutations. Considering this equivalence and that immunostaining is ...Children do well with shorter fast before surgery
...fter midnight the day of surgery, a "practice that should no longer be tolerated," she says. "Most children can safely drink clear liquids until two hours before surgery, although more research is needed for some groups of children," Brady and colleagues write. Not surprisingly, children allowed a drink clo...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...packages for women and children. WIC participants should be given vouchers or coupons for fresh produce tot... infants 6 months and older. Baby food meats also should be added to the packages for infants 6 months and older who are primarily breast-fed to ensure that ...New guidelines recommend screening HIV-infected patients for kidney disease
...tis C coinfection. All patients diagnosed with HIV should be screened for proteinuria and kidney function. "...er risk for conditions like HIVAN, then perhaps we should be treating them earlier than we would have otherwise," Dr. Gupta says. Patients who already have ad...Herbal medicine may alter cell response to cancer therapeutic agents
...hysicians. "Our studies caution that black cohosh should not be considered to be a harmless herb that is inconsequential to the health of cancer patients or to the outcome of conventional cancer therapy," Rockwell said....