Studies examine menopausal hormone therapy and risk of breast cancer recurrence
... with the recurrence of breast cancer, there is an urgent need to identify safe and effective strategies to manage menopausal symptoms and improve the quality of life for patients with breast cancer." In an editorial, Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harb...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...ly increased risk for adverse health outcomes, and urgent policy measures are needed to expand coverage for this group."...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...p people in developing countries tackle their most urgent problems - extreme poverty and hunger, child mortality, environmental degradation and diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. The study is the first ranking of nanotechnology applications relative to their impact on development; it was published today...Obesity common among Chinese adults
...e metabolic syndrome and overweight underscore the urgent need to develop comprehensive national strategies aimed at the prevention and treatment of the metabolic syndrome and overweight, to reduce the increased societal burden of cardiovascular disease in China." The metabolic syndrome is described in a se...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
... involving 862 heart failure patients who required urgent treatment for acute decompensation, or sudden worsening of symptoms. The 485 randomly assigned to receive nesiritide had a higher risk of death than the 377 randomized to traditional non-inotropic drugs. The size of the risk was much larger than a pr...The Roll Back Malaria partnership has done more harm than good
...to halve malaria deaths now looks unreachable, but urgent action is necessary to meet even the Millennium Development Goal deadline of 2015 for halting malaria's spread."...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...or patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, and the urgent need to develop new therapies. [S43.001] The AAN 57th Annual Meeting was held April 9 16, 2005 in Miami Beach, Fla. It is the world's largest annual gathering of neurologists....Substituting nurses for doctors results in high quality care, few savings
...itions; or first contact care for patients seeking urgent attention. In the first two categories, the review...nts per hour. In four of five studies on nurse-led urgent care, lower salary costs were offset by this so-called "lower productivity" and increased use of res...Exclusive breastfeeding reduces risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission
...er for infants of HIV-infected mothers has been an urgent research priority. A study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Zimbabwe and Harare (Zimbabwe) City Health Department found that exclusive breastfeeding substantially reduces the transmission of HIV from...Lipoprotein abnormalities found in severely obese children
..., Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. "The message is urgent about the importance of prevention of cardiovascular disease in childhood. Lifestyle modification with appropriate diet and exercise can reduce cardiovascular risk in children," said lead author Daniel L. Preud'Homme, M.D., associate professor of me...CONRAD receives $24 million from Gates Foundation and USAID for HIV microbicide trials
...enry Gabelnick, Ph.D, Director of CONRAD said, "An urgent need exists to provide additional means of prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission as rapidly as possible. Although male and female condoms can provide protection, they are not used sufficiently and consistently. The availability of a microbicide that ...More effort needed to prevent pattern of child abuse developing in families
...ill not be effective in all cases, and there is an urgent need to identify an effective secondary preventive intervention to reduce the recurrence of abuse, and to limit the impact that such abuse has on children's health."...Type 2 diabetes is increasing among children all over the world
...gree to which lifestyles have deteriorated and the urgent need to begin to develop strategies to reverse these changes. The study is reported in "The global spread of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents" by Orit Pinhas-Hamiel, M.D. and Philip Zeitler, M.D., Ph.D. The article appears in T...The role of the Royal Society should be reviewed
...ed little to medical science and should undergo an urgent review of its purpose and programmes, states an editorial in this week's issue of THE LANCET. During recent times, the Royal Society has produced little of public value in medicine and public health. It has launched inquiries into non-human primate ...Radiology residents can accurately assess after-hours patients for stroke
...dy compared the residents' interpretation of 1,113 urgent head scans to attending physicians' diagnoses for the same scans, said Dr. Tang. In 97% of the cases, the attending physicians and the residents were in complete agreement, she said. There were 33 discrepant cases, only two of which had the potential...Biomarkers for interstitial cystitis identified, could lead to the first test
... tenderness in the bladder and pelvic area; and an urgent and/or frequent need to urinate. In IC, the bladder wall may become scarred or irritated, and pinpoint bleeding may appear on the bladder wall. Also contributing to this research were Thu-Suong Van Le, Uukio Hayashi, Shachi Tyagi and Naoki Yoshimura,...Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...at camps -- instead of the local emergency room or urgent care center, which Walton's study found was the case 75 percent of the time. Preparing for rapid and effective response to emergencies is a major part of camp health, Walton explains, because of all the injuries and acute illnesses that can strike ca...Risk factors for tuberculosis and homelessness often overlap in US
... the patients take their medications. "The most urgent priority for controlling TB in the United States is interrupting new transmission of M tuberculosis. Opportunities for transmission arise when homeless persons with infectious TB frequent homeless shelters, emergency departments, and jails," the aut...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
...rts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide has issued an urgent call for global strategies and resources to confront the rapid "feminization" of the AIDS pandemic. In an article appearing in the journal Science online June 10, Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at Hopkins and a senior inves...Invasive treatment may be more effective for heart attack patients presenting late to hospital
... Although the BRAVE-2 investigators proceeded with urgent PCI in the patients who were included in this trial, the trial results do not reveal whether this urgency was justified." "The BRAVE-2 trial results are a noteworthy challenge to existing dogma and an important contribution to current knowledge. Howe...