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FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder

...lead to disability and premature death. Soliris is classified as an Orphan Drug and is a new molecular entity containing an ingredient not previously marketed in the United States. "This product is important in that it offers a treatment other than blood transfusion that may help this small population of pati...

Head Injury Awareness Day

...aumatic brain injury (TBI). A head injury can be classified as either closed or penetrating. In closed head injury, the head sustains a blunt force by striking against an object while in penetrating head injuries, a high velocity object breaks through the skull and enters the brain. Some head injuries result ...

Obstetrical Anesthesia Equally Safe When Provided by CRNAs or Anesthesiologists

...nd 17 deaths: 76 percent of the complications were classified as less serious according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), and only one of the deaths had an ICD-9-CM code associated with an anesthetic complication. The CRNA-only hospitals had a com...

eSie Touch Elasticity Imaging, and a Promise of Avoiding Breast Biopsies

...ch Elasticity Imaging application, 18 lesions were classified as malignant, which was confirmed in17 cases by a needle-guided biopsy. Of the 105 lesions predicted as benign, all were biopsy-proven benign. "Elasticity imaging has a high specificity," confirms the head of the study, Richard G. Barr, professor for...

PET Imaging Identifies Aggressive Kidney Cancers That Require Surgery

...ke. A pathologist unaware of PET scan results then classified resected tumor specimens as clear cell renal carcinoma or otherwise. All patients were monitored for toxicity and the antibody infusion was well tolerated with no side effects or other adverse events related to the agent. According to the authors...

370,000 AIDS Cases in Russia

... published in January 2007 said most of the people classified seropositive were in the regions of Murmansk, Daguestan, Lipets and Rostov. The territories of Riazan, Karelia, Vologodsk, Novgorod and Krasnodarsk had seen a reduction in the number of AIDS/HIV cases, the report said. Expert Elena Pravidlo said,...

Primary Graft Dysfunction Is Risk Factor For Lung Transplant Problem

...dysfunction immediately after transplantation were classified grade 0, while those with more severe graft dysfunction received a 1, 2 or 3. In their analysis, the investigators found that all grades of primary graft dysfunction were associated with a significantly increased risk of BOS. Recipients with prima...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

...nfirmed by a negative expired carbon monoxide were classified as “abstinent.” Those patients who were confirmed ... their expired carbon monoxide at every visit were classified as “continuously abstinent.” Compared with the usual care group, patients in the intensive treatmen...

Poor People Worse Off Following Heart Attack

... a proxy for socioeconomic status, the researchers classified patients into separate income groups. Patients in the lowest income quartile were more likely to be older, female and to have other illnesses such as diabetes and peripheral vascular diseases. Researchers first looked at who was more likely to have a...

Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads to Respiratory Complaints

...e 34 articles that met selection criteria, 12 were classified as challenge studies because they examined the link between short-term marijuana use and airway response. Eleven of the 12 studies found an association between short-term marijuana use and relaxation and opening of the air passages. The study’s ph...

Girls Encounter More Stress Than Boys

... later evaluated how stressful the events were and classified them as interpersonal (involving interaction between the teen and another person -- such as family, peer, or romantic partner) or achievement (involving academics or athletic performance). Hankin's team also looked at the boys' and girls' depressiv...

Condition That Causes Irregular Periods Can Lead to Fertility Problems

...s that not all instances of polycystic ovaries are classified as PCOS. Nearly a third of women have polycystic ovaries, but a smaller number, about 10 percent, actually have PCOS. Health conditions associated with PCOS 1. Women with polycystic ovary syndrome often experience irregular or infrequent menstrual...

NO Linked With Increased Survival in ALI/ARDS

... was 52, with 57 percent being male and 74 percent classified as white. By the third day of the three-day study, 62 ALI/ARDS patients had died. All of the remaining survivors had significantly higher NO levels. Lower tidal volume respiration was associated with higher levels of urine NO and fewer deaths. T...

World Leprosy Day – Easing Pain and Giving Hop

...ater risk of catching the infection. Leprosy is classified into several types based on the bacterial load present in the lesions, the extent of skin and nerve involvement and based on the presence of deformities. Several types of classification exist, like Madrid classification, Ridley & Jopling classificati...

Guns, Knives - Main Cause for Hospital Emergencies

...-related incidents and 2,594 of the stabbings were classified as assault, rest of the injuries from guns or knives were accidents, self-inflicted or described as 'intent unknown.' Moreover, it was found that the patients admitted in the emergency were mostly young men between the ages of 15 and 24. The overa...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...e have been labeled modulator pheromones. To be classified as a pheromone, a chemical or small set of chemicals must be obtained from one member of a species, structurally characterized, and then be shown to produce a reliable involuntary response in other members of the same species. Chemicals isolated from...

New Test Kits for Dengue, Hepatitis Developed

...le kits." Based on the signals, a patient can be classified as 'sero positive' or 'sero negative' for the infections. The uniqueness of the kits is that they would not give false results. The minister said the antigens had to be earlier imported at exorbitant rates and were of unsure quality. The technol...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...ells from nearby lymph nodes. Although they aren't classified as "professional antigen-presenters," as dendritic cells are, the stromal cells serve the same purpose: exhibiting normal-cell antigens to the immune system. "Our study points to a previously unknown mechanism of immune system tolerance," Turley ex...

Risk Of Soft Tissue Sarcomas In Hereditary Retinoblastoma Survivors

...tudy period, so some cancer subtypes may have been classified differently depending on the year they were diagnosed. "Given the excellent survival of retinoblastoma patients, it is important that survivors continue to undergo regular medical surveillance for sarcomas in their adult years," the authors write. ...

TB can Be Eradicated in the U.S With Modified Guidelines: Study

...icine. This will need all foreign immigrants to be classified as "high-risk,” when they have originally come from high risk areas around the world.This paper has been published by American Thoracic Society. Data on all 2004 TB cases listed in the U.S. National TB Surveillance database were collected by seven ...

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