ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...2005 Pediatric heart transplant recipients taking the medication CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil) as par...t-transplant. The study was led by researchers at the Arkansas Children's Research Institute (ACHRI) and results were presented today at the 25th annual m...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...U.S. adults will be uninsured at some point during the years preceding Medicare eligibility, according to an article in the April 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine , one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Uninsured ind...Controversy in dyslipidemia guidelines
In 2003 the Canadian recommendations for the management and treatment of dyslipidemia were revised but further revisions are in order, argue Man...New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...ng to a group of international physicians. This is the central recommendation of the "Como International Conference Position Statement," published in the April issue of Chest . The rec...Aboriginal Canadians at high risk for severe trauma
Injury is the leading cause of death among people under age of 45 and the leading cause of potential years of life lost. A new study by Shahzeer Karmali and colleagues in thi...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
...s, even in normal weight individuals, according to the April 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Metabolic syndrome, a disorder that includes dyslipidemia (elevated blood li...Restless legs syndrome has complex genetic involvement
... restless leg syndrome, according to an article in the April issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Restless legs syndrome is one of the leading causes of insomnia, affecting m...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...nt after treatment in a clinical trial reported in the April issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Although it is widely agreed that amblyopia, a condition that involves poor ...Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease reduces uncontrolled movements
... Deep brain stimulation of two different areas of the brain appears to improve problems with uncontrolle...Parkinson disease (PD), according to an article in the April issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Deep brain stimulation with...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...of Ophthalmology Richard W. Hertle, MD, co-chaired the study, which showed that treatment improved the vision of many of the 507 older children with amblyopia studied at 49 eye centers nationwide. Previo...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
...nia (CAP), who are unable to walk when admitted to the hospital, have a greater risk of death while in the hospital. In a study of 3,043 patients with CAP admitted to six hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta, Can...Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and 48 eye centers...ss North America report that many children between the ages of 7 and 17 with amblyopia, or "lazy eye," may benefit from treatments usually prescribed for y...Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
...y has found no link between use of cell phones and the risk of developing a brain tumor. The study is published in the April 12 issue of Neurology , the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The Dani...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...ol mild hypertension in men and women over age 55, the age group most at risk of later developing potenti...y researchers at Johns Hopkins, to be published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine online April 11, call into question the effectiveness of natio...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
Some day soon, in a remote village in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual b...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...ly used on younger children. Treatment improved the vision of many of the 507 older children with amblyopia studied at 49 eye centers. Previously, eye care professionals ofte...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...vate smokers to quit smoking. The study appears in the May 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.intersci....com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, and finds smokers who receive one or more abnormal results on the screening...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
...n eligible to take tamoxifen were inclined to take the drug after being told of its risks and benefits, according to a new study. The study, from the May 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed ...Little answers to world's biggest problems
Some day soon, in a remote village in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual b...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
... grandmother smoked while pregnant may have double the risk of developing childhood asthma as a child who...other did not smoke, according to researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). Published in the April issue...