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Tag: "outcome" at medical news

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...battle for essential services that ensure the best outcome for their disabled child, and that also make their own lives more tolerable, she concludes. Source-BMJ<BRSRM/V...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

... a better understanding of factors associated with outcome that we are minimizing harm to patients with our current management strategies." Source-Eurekalert/B...

Anti-fungal Drug Block Angiogenesis

... making them brittle and split apart. "The best outcome was to find an already approved drug that worked, and the fact that we did was very satisfying," says Liu, whose study has appeared online in ACS Chemical Biology. Itraconazole apparently maybe blocking the same enzyme in blood vessels, but the res...

Green Tea Compound may Be a Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...tic or preventive effects. Ahmed believes that the outcome of these studies will form a strong foundation for future testing of green tea compound in humans with rheumatoid arthritis. Source-Eurekalert SR/V...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...on, and the use of self-report indicators alone as outcome measures. Moreover, the team questions whether the differences could be due solely to the increased amount of counselling time given to the intervention-group participants. Finally, they note “the lack of sustainability of the alcohol outcomes sug...

India to Protect Its Forests With the Aid of Austrian NGO

...will reorient our research activities and take the outcome of the workshop seriously." Ghosh said the ministry is looking into developing the national eco-tourism industry that will enhance the livelihood of the local people so that they don't cut trees to sustain themselves. "We have already arrested mu...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

...a stray incident and is certainly not the expected outcome of all organ transplants. SV/V...

Chances of Survival for Melanoma is High When Detected by Dermatologists

...licy perspective, whether a difference in melanoma outcome is associated with a patient’s physician type (specifically, dermatologists vs. non-dermatologists) is of particular interest to this discussion," the authors write. Michelle L. Pennie, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and collea...

Support for Trauma and Grief

...t. These kinds of a crisis often have a positive outcome too. Known as the ‘post traumatic growth’ many people learn to appreciate life much better after a tragedy. They learn to draw source for spiritual strength from it. In order to recover from it a surrounding of safety and security is needed. Man or...

Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients

...y studies dedicated to predicting overall clinical outcome in TBI patients. The factors which have been ident...h worsening hemorrhage,” stated Dr. Smith. Overall outcome was negatively associated with worsening ICH and was measured by mortality (3 percent) and discharge...

Intravenous Delivery of Clot-busting Drug Still Best Intervention for Ischemic Stroke

...ry minute that goes by, the likelihood of a poorer outcome increases," said Harold P. Adams, Jr., M.D., chairman of the writing group. Intravenous delivery of the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is only approved to be used within three hours of symptom onset. The panel said other te...

AMA Urges COAG To Put Patients First

..., this COAG meeting will be remembered for a great outcome for the health of all Australians,” Dr Haikerwal said. Source-AA SRM/B...

Vitamin E- Take Its Benefits With A Pinch Of Salt

...ory of anti-oxidants. Theoretically, the adverse outcome can be attributed to Vitamin E having a paradoxical effect, that is, instead of serving as an anti-oxidant, Vitamin E might have promoted oxidation; by displacing other antioxidants within the cells of the body, these cells might have become more vul...

More Aggressive Breast Cancer in Hispanics Independent of Health Care Utilization

...dvanced disease and with cancers that have a worse outcome compared to other races. A growing body of evidence suggests that biological or genetic factors may explain these racial differences. Few studies, however, have fully controlled for healthcare access between Hispanic and non-Hispanic women with breas...

Working Up Potential Living Liver Donors

...yche, decision and satisfaction, as well as on the outcome of the potential recipient. Researchers, led by Professor Sheung Tat Fan of the University of Hong Kong, sought to analyze and report the experiences of donor workups at their center, which performs many more transplants from living donors than fro...

New Clinical Trial Results Could Improve Survival for Myeloma Patients

... important finding because it further improves the outcome for an already successful treatment, while low dos...eatment more tolerable; we never expected that the outcome for patients would actually improve. We are grateful to all of the patients who participated and to ...

FDA Approves INFUSE Bone Graft for Use in Dentistry

... in implant dentistry with remarkable results. The outcome of one of his most recent patient cases will appear in the Dental Case Studies column written by Dr. Mark in the upcoming May/June issue of the New York City edition of Doctor of Dentistry magazine. Commenting on the potential use of INFUSE in imp...

Sleep Quantity Affects Morning Testosterone Levels in Older Men

...articipants in everyday life settings. The main outcome levels were total sleep time and morning testosterone levels. Analyses revealed that the amount of nighttime sleep measured by polysomnography was an independent predictor of the subjects’ morning total and free testosterone levels. 'The results o...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

....3 percent in the placebo group died. The combined outcome of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for hea...patients. The secondary end points of the combined outcome of cardiovascular death or cardiovascular hospitalization, the incidence of cardiovascular death and...

Heartbeats on IPods - Being ‘cool’ can Help Doctors to

...nventions did sound strange at first, before their outcome shushed// up critics. Cardiologist Michael Barrett of Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital presented a study detailing his experiments with ‘recorded heartbeats’ at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology. According to Bar...

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