Wide racial disparities found in heart device implantation
... said that future studies need to address specific strategies for solving the problem. For example, he suggested that educational videos be produced with the same information but introduced by people of different races. "We need to continue to push education and awareness that these racial disparities are real,...Early experience may shape our sensory perceptions
...its mature may one day be used to tailor treatment strategies for those who have problems in basic sensory processes." Wallace and colleagues presented the results from two related studies this week at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C. The goal of the studies was to ...Experts call for re-focussing of COPD management to reduce hospital admissions and mortality
... reduce exacerbations, when it comes to management strategies for the condition 81% of doctors interviewed for the report still regard every day symptomatic relief as the best treatment option. This suggests that preventing and reducing exacerbations is still not enough of a priority in COPD management. Dr Alfr...Lifestyle modification plus medication more effective than medication alone
...Clinical Guidelines state that the most successful strategies for weight loss include calorie reduction, increased physical activity, and behavioral therapy designed to improve eating and physical activity habits. The Guidelines also recommend that physicians prescribe a regimen of lifestyle therapy for at lea...Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development tipsheet
...tions are useful screening tools. Proven treatment strategies include functional electrical stimulation and strapping for acute hemiplegia and slings, which may be used with other strategies....Study uncovers potential biomarker for lupus atherosclerosis
...h SLE is an important first step toward developing strategies to prevent cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in these patients." Dr. Hahn notes that "pro-inflammatory HDL, which is easily measured, may provide just the sign, known as a biomarker, to determine which patients are at increased risk. If this re...Making primary health care work: New research
...ld where multiple local and national health reform strategies were being implemented. "There are many initiatives aimed at improving primary health care services for patients, but without acknowledgement of key ingredients to keep those programs going - like established funding and State and Federal organisati...$3.2 million MERIT Award for study on disability and recovery in older persons
...onic pain; older persons use a number of different strategies to reduce the level of their pain. "Our results have provided strong evidence to support the idea that disability is a reversible and often recurrent event," said Gill. "PEP addresses an important problem in the lives of many older Americans and th...Penn research permits first-ever visualization of psychological stress in the human brain
... will pave the way for the development of improved strategies for preventing or correcting the long-term health consequences of chronic stress. The researchers' study appears in the November 21 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the Penn study, researchers induced stress on h...Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
...gimens and possibly lead to the development of new strategies for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV....Older women who receive pelvic irradiation for cancer have increased risk for pelvic fracture
...preventing osteoporosis, and fall prevention. Such strategies should be evaluated in prospective studies. In addition, changes in irradiation techniques for high-risk individuals to minimize the irradiation dose received by bone should be investigated."...Two anticoagulant therapies for treating acute coronary syndromes show similar outcomes at one year
... was similar. Despite aggressive revascularization strategies and high use of evidence-based therapies, patients with high-risk ACS features remain at risk for continued adverse cardiac morbidity and mortality," the authors conclude....New vaccine platform may fight infections with causes from influenza to bioterrorism
...ated to develop CD4+ T-cellindependent therapeutic strategies to meet this growing need. "While we'll need to replicate these findings in larger animal models, our studies indicate it may be feasible to develop vaccines for bioterrorism agents and transplant patients, as well as high-risk individuals who have ...Family habits set drinking path
... news." Public health prevention and intervention strategies for responsible drinking should aim to intervene during late childhood and early adolescence. "Public health interventions will need to raise parents' awareness of the risks associated with easy availability of alcohol in the family context during e......s and health regions should develop human resource strategies for communicable disease outbreaks that cover the diverse occupational roles, that are transparent in how individuals are assigned to roles in the management of an outbreak, and that are equitable with respect to the distribution of risk among indivi...New blood test may improve risk assessment for ischemic stroke in middle aged adults
... allowing physicians to implement basic prevention strategies and potentially reduce the number of strokes that occur each year," said Richard B. Lanman, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of diaDexus. "Additional analyses have shown that Lp-PLA2 has the unique capability of predicting futur...ESC issues policy statement on reperfusion therapy
... review pharmacological and mechanical reperfusion strategies to identify obstacles and find solutions for its i...d at regional and national levels so that proposed strategies and recommendations are implemented. Mobilization of the cardiology community with the involvement ...Many smokers fail to quit after cancer diagnosis
...nes for generalized smoking cessation intervention strategies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are available, but the diagnosis of cancer presents complex physical and emotional challenges to applying tools in the guidelines to cancer patients who smoke. For example, certain pharmacotherapi...Robotic treadmill training helps retrain brain, improves walking
...es School. The results suggest that rehabilitation strategies could be designed "based in part upon whether or not they engage the critical areas of the brain necessary for walking," said Dr. Winchester. Additionally, the findings suggest that a diagnostic technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging...UQ scientists break new ground in fight against infection & chronic disease
...ow said. "Knowledge of the pathway will help find strategies to combat both acute infection and chronic inflammation and to explore new avenues for treatment of cancer. "Basic research findings such as this underpin all medical research but there is still a long way to go (upwards of 10 years) until any new d...