Mexico's health-system reforms showing encouraging results
... national data revealed that many Mexican families suffered catastrophic expenditure or were forced below the poverty line by the cost of health care and medicines. This was directly related to health insurance being limited to salaried employees in private firms or in public-sector institutions. To address t...Pediatric neurosurgeons recommend banning children from ATVs
...the study's findings: One-third of the patients suffered serious neurological injuries including cerebral h...y. The study found twice as many males as females suffered neurological injuries. Patients included both riders and drivers, and their ages ranged from 2 to 17...ACTOS reduces stroke by almost 50 percent
... significant benefits of ACTOS in patients who had suffered a prior stroke. The incidence of recurrent stroke was reduced by 47 percent (P=0.008) and the combined risk of death, MI or stroke was reduced by 28 percent (P Patients with diabetes are at an increased risk of stroke. In fact, the risk is two to...Hopkins-led study finds that chronic form of depression runs in families
...c major depression had 352 family members who also suffered from this form of disease (37.8%), whereas the remaining 412 had a total of 148 relatives with chronic depression (20.2%). A breakdown of these results showed that 58 people diagnosed before the age of 13 with chronic major depression had 44 family m...Eastern Europe, Middle East tops in cardiovascular disease deaths
...ans and 9 percent of Middle Easterners had died or suffered from a stroke or heart attack," said Duke Universi...h Americans with similar conditions either died or suffered from a stroke or heart attack, he said. Four percent of Eastern European patients, 3.58 percent of ...Depressed patients experience excessive inflammation during stressful situations
...iated with depression. People in the study who suffered from depression also had higher rates of early life stressful experiences. "We have found that this kind of personal life history may make people more likely to develop major depression and is actually common in depressed patients," says Dr. Heim. ...Human rights abuses frequent in Haiti's capital
...ere asked if they or anyone in their household had suffered any human rights violations such as murders, rapes, extra-judiciary arrests, larceny, or physical assaults in the 22-month period from February 2004 to December 2005. They were asked the date and location of incidents, as well as the perpetrator. Th......a second stroke was dramatic. Stroke survivors who suffered a second stroke were 2.67 times more likely to die than stroke survivors who did not have a second stroke in the study period. The increased risk from recurrent stroke was present for both ethnic groups even after the researchers corrected for other ...Liver-kidney transplant reduces organ rejection, boosts recovery
...o 2004. The patients' average age was 46 years; 76 suffered from primary kidney diseases and 22 had hepatorenal syndrome. For comparison, the researchers also reviewed data from 148 patients with hepatorenal syndrome who underwent only a liver transplant between 1998 and 2002, and 743 patients who receive...Link between autism and abnormal blood-vessel function and oxidative stress
...dicine with any known anti-oxidant effect; if they suffered from chronic illnesses, such as depression, psychosis, or inflammatory disorders; and/or if they were sick at the time of the sample collection. These strict criteria resulted in the small sample size in this preliminary study: 26 children with autis...Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State get grant to study link between antidepressants and suicidality in teens
...sed risk of suicidality only among adolescents who suffered from major depressive disorder, and then only among those who took a specific class of antidepressants -- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Antidepressants are prescribed for a variety of other psychological ailments, such as obsessive...New method shows that neocortical nerve cells are not renewed
...rebral cortex to form new nerve cells after having suffered pathological conditions, such as stroke. Other studies show that most other tissue types have a renewal cycle of varying lengths. Cells covering the inside of the stomach, for instance, live only a few days; the outer layer of skin is renewed every...Forest fires a huge cost to health
...y days, lost wages, and acute respiratory symptoms suffered by those affected by the poorer air quality. "The overall health impacts were significant, when compared to other related costs such as fire-fighting," said Dr. Vic Adamowicz, a professor of rural economy at the University of Alberta and co-author of......mours just like CTVT. That is why people who have suffered from cancer should not become organ donors."...Automated external defibrillators are frequently recalled
...tant determinant of survival for patients who have suffered a cardiac arrest." However, he adds, as AED distribution continues to increase, the number of devices prone to malfunction can also be expected to increase. "Unlike implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) which are routinely registered with the...Nicotine found to protect against Parkinson's-like brain damage
...esults showed that animals receiving only the MPTP suffered a 75 percent loss of function in their dopamine-containing brain cells. When the researchers tested the animals that had received both MPTP and nicotine, the damage in the dopamine cells was only 50 percent. "The results suggested that the nicotine t...Spinoff company based on technology developed at OHSU enters new business phase
...olled devices that assist stroke patients who have suffered loss of movement in their arms or legs. Specifically, during a therapy session, the device helps a patient move the impaired limb while vibrating the tendons of the limb to stimulate sensory receptors in the muscles. Preclinical studies of 22 stroke ...Research ethics requirements compromising quality of health research
...used, they write. Certain kinds of research have suffered more than others under the present system, but winners and losers are determined by administrative factors not research priorities, they add. The full impact of an opt-in system is seen in those projects that require records to be searched and letter...Lung diseases represent major costs for society
...diagnosed in most cases only after the patient has suffered from the disease for some time. Most previous studies of the economic consequences of the diseases have been based on various health care databases, and they have for this reason not been able to give a complete picture of the effects on health econo...Chronic middle ear infections linked to resistant biofilm bacteria
...ge. "Nearly all of the children in our study who suffered from chronic otitis media tested positive for biofilms in the middle ear, even those who were asymptomatic. It appears that in many cases recurrent disease stems not from re-infection as was previously thought and which forms the basis for convent...