Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...ndividual child. None of the children in the study suffered increases in liver and muscle enzymes attributed to their medication, a major concern with statins. Two boys had temporary increases in muscle enzymes apparently related to their extreme physical exercise. Four patients complained of muscle pain bu...Stroke in nonvascular atrial fibrillation -- anti-coagulants better than anti-platelet therapy
...lved a total of 9598 people who had AF but had not suffered stokes so far. The results showed that anticoagulants were more successful than anti-platelet therapies at reducing stroke. They reduced the risk of a stroke in people with AF by about 33% compared with anti-platelet therapies. The anti-platelet th...Needle-stick injuries are common but unreported by surgeons in training
..., revealed that 99 percent of surgeons-in-training suffered an average of eight needle-stick injuries in their first five years. Of these surgeons, only 49 percent reported injuries to an employee health service. Of those who reported, 53 percent had experienced an injury involving a patient with a history of...New research spares children the pain of the needle
...hildren given oral treatment recovered as quickly, suffered less pain, required less oxygen therapy in hospital and were able to go home sooner than those given injections. Two-and-a-half million children are affected by pneumonia each year in Europe. Until now, most children have been admitted to hospital ...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
...ound that more than one quarter of nurses (27.23%) suffered from insomnia; 32.10% had difficulty staying asleep, 12.52% had trouble falling asleep, and 55.38% suffered from a combination of both symptoms. To our knowledge, this is the first study looking at how insom...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
...te 1990s following reports that one-third of users suffered from visual field defects, ranging from asymptomatic to severe and potentially disabling. In 2004, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence the UK Governments advisory body on therapeutic interventions stated that vigabatrin sh...QBI scientist looks at why stroke causes vision problems
...ciated with poor recovery for individuals who have suffered a stroke. After a stroke, many people with damage to their parietal lobe behave as if one-half of their visual world has simply disappeared," he said. To examine this problem under controlled conditions, the researchers applied painless and rev...Nonhormonal drug reduces hot flashes in men treated for prostate cancer
...ticipating in this study had a mean age of 70, and suffered with hot flashes occurring at least 14 times a week. They were randomized into four groups. Over 28 days, one group was given placebo pills, another received a 300 mg/d (milligrams a day) tablet of gabapentin, a third group received an escalating dos...News from American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting
...Design A total of 33 adults age 65 or older who suffered from insomnia at least three nights per week for over three months received ramelteon 8 mg, zolpidem 10 mg or placebo 30 minutes before bedtime for one night each in a single-dose, three-period crossover study. Patients were awakened two hours after...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
...98 men actually developed prostate cancer, and 161 suffered from advanced disease (greater than T3 or metastasis). Association between PSA levels and eventual development advanced disease was determined using conditional logistical regression. In men with a total PSA of .5, .75, 1., 1.5 and 2 ng/ml, the proba...Long-term anti-clotting therapy sweetens stenting outcomes in diabetic patients
...with a drug-eluting stent were less likely to have suffered a heart attack or died if they continued taking clopidogrel than if they discontinued the medication (2.2 percent versus 5.5 percent, respectively; p=0.07). More surprising was the finding that even with bare metal stents, long-term clopidogrel thera...Bali bomb lessons helped shape Australia's mental health response to terrorism and trauma
...s' support as needed. Many of the bomb victims suffered profound mental health problems immediately after ...bombs, including 88 Australians, and hundreds more suffered burns and other injuries. Many of the victims injured in the suicide bombings at Paddy's Bar and the...Children's Hospital and Pitt lead national trial of hypothermia to treat pediatric brain injury
... a therapy for brain swelling in children who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. P. David Adelson, MD, director of the Pediatric Neurotrauma Center at Children's and the A. Leland Albright Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will lead researchers at 12 sites t...Innovative education scheme sees fewer rugby players suffering spinal injuries
...n for a reduction in the number of spinal injuries suffered by rugby players, says a researcher writing in thi...hether the programme has had an effect on injuries suffered during other phases of play: "Educational initiatives seem to represent a viable option for decreasi...A self-fulfilling prophecy in bleeding stroke?
...ranec. In short, families whose loved ones have suffered an ICH should seek to get them to a specialized center as soon as possible. At the same time, they should speak with the patient's doctors about end-of-life options if the aggressive treatment doesn't appear to be improving the patient's outlook afte...Bare-metal stents are better for some heart patients
...re treated with the strategy. Twenty seven percent suffered from diabetes which can complicate surgery. The results show the coronary interventional procedure was successful in all patients where a total of 82 heart lesions were treated with bare-metal stents. The second, non-cardiac, surgery was performe...Scientists from the CIMA investigate a molecule for diagnosing hypertensive cardiopathy
...g or controlling the damaging effects on the heart suffered by patients with this disease. In Spain, there are four million patients with this illness, a number that supposes fifty percent of the eight million patients with high blood pressure. The research on this cardiovascular illness was shared today d...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
...o better ways to reduce the number of patients who suffered a full cardiac arrest outside the PICU. Tortoriel...ents needing escalation of care those who had not suffered an arrest but whose distressed condition benefited from the expertise of the PALS Team increased fr...Research demonstrates link between domestic violence and asthma
... Respondents were asked if anyone in the household suffered from asthma, and were also asked about a personal history of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence. Researchers also accounted for many other factors that have been associated with asthma, including exposure to tobacco smoke and level of educ......gan Cardiovascular Center. All the patients had suffered either a kind of severe heart attack called ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI), or had acute coronary syndrome (ACS), which includes non-STEMI heart attack and a kind of chest pain called unstable angina. Between 1999 and 2006, the use of h...