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Radiation after Breast Reconstruction

...hat’s interesting about this reported complication rate for breast implants is that not only is it low com...econstruction, it is also low when considering the rate of major complications following reconstruction when radiation is not a factor....

Steroid Treatment for Wheezing Questioned

.... They also found no difference in the symptoms or rate of hospital admission between children with high or low levels of wheezing. Surprisingly, study authors say more children on the steroid ended up in the hospital than those on the placebo, though the numbers were not statistically significant. Study...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...t, lung and brain disorders if they survive. The rate of premature births in the United States has jumped in the last 20 years from about 9.4 percent of all births to almost 12 percent. About a half million premature infants are born annually in the United States. Dr. Olga Basso of the University of A...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...eart, lung and brain disorders if they survive.The rate of premature births in the United States has jumped in the last 20 years from about 9.4 percent of all births to almost 12 percent. About a half million premature infants are born annually in the United States. Dr. Olga Basso of the University of Ar...

Transplants Help Liver Cancer Patients

... years, compared to nearly a zero percent survival rate in patients who did not have a transplant. Researc...atients with liver cancer had a five-year survival rate of about 25 percent. Between 1996 and 2001, liver cancer patients had more than a 60 percent five-ye...

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...ding to its extent. A 20 percent clinical response rate is noted as ACR 20, 50 percent is ACR 50, and 70 percent is ACR 70. Researchers also looked at the patients’ quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients wh...

Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy

...reast irradiation, to assess the cancer recurrence rate in that breast. After five years, the recurrence rate at the original tumor site was 3 percent, while it was 1 percent in other parts of the same breast. ...

Psoriasis Increases Cancer Risk

...s with psoriasis had a nearly three-fold increased rate of lymphoma.//Psoriasis is a common skin disease t...the University of Pennsylvania studied whether the rate of lymphoma in patients with a history of psoriasis is different from the rate of lymphoma in patien...

New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

...ding to its extent. A 20 percent clinical response rate is noted as ACR 20, 50 percent is ACR 50, and 70 percent is ACR 70. Researchers also looked at the patients’ quality of life. Researchers report the patients treated with the higher dose of CTLA4Ig were more likely to have an ACR 20 than patients wh...

An Alternative to Warfarin

... blood clots as warfarin. The study also found the rate of stroke, death and major bleeding were similar between both groups. Researchers say these findings show ximelagatran is as effective as warfarin for patients at high risk for stroke. In an accompanying commentary, researchers from the Netherlands ...

HIV Treatment Said to Increase Heart Attack Risk

...e this therapy was available, the annual mortality rate among patients with HIV infection exceeded 20 percent. In the current research, the mortality rate was 2 percent. While the benefits of combination antiretroviral therapy are clear, there is a concer...

Blood Sugar Linked to Deaths in ICU

...se as average glucose levels rose, with the lowest rate of death (9.6 percent) seen for those with glucose...mal range (100 mg/dL to 119 mg/dL) had a mortality rate of 12.2 percent. The highest rate was seen for those with glucose levels above 300 mg/dL. Those pati...

Ebola Treatment Shows Promise

...of people who contracted the virus died. The death rate in monkey models of the disease has been nearly 100 percent. These researchers wondered if the disease could be stopped by using rNAPc2 to inhibit the blood coagulation pathway. Researchers from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of I...

Steroid-Free Liver Transplants

...on of medications had a 25 percent graft rejection rate after one year vs. 50 percent among those who had received steroid therapy following their transplant. Children on the new treatment also had a reduced need for high blood pressure medications and appeared to begin catching up on growth soon after th...

Mental Health Services for Children

... were not discussed with professionals at the same rate as physical health or developmental problems. They also found the rates of service use in all three categories vary dramatically.Researchers conclude factors other than need influence which services are used. They say one explanation is parents have ...

Oral Medication Effective In Combating Eye Infection

...ection will have repeat infections. The recurrence rate is about 20 percent within two years, 40 percent within five years, and 67 percent within seven years. Acyclovir, which is taken by mouth, has been shown to be effective in reducing the recurrence among people with the disease. A study was done to ...

Link Between Hyperglycemia & Hospital Mortality

...se as average glucose levels rose, with the lowest rate of death (9.6 percent) seen for those with glucose...mal range (100 mg/dL to 119 mg/dL) had a mortality rate of 12.2 percent. The highest rate was seen for those with glucose levels above 300 mg/dL. Those pati...

Suicide Prevention Program – Having its Intended Effec

...ted a program aimed at reducing an alarmingly high rate of suicide seen among Air Force personnel. // The suicide rate had been particularly higher for black and white males ages 24 to 35, between 1990 and 1994. The key...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...ently, patients who experience it have a mortality rate of about 50 percent. The researchers say it is a major cause of death in seriously ill patients. They explain acute renal failure -- or kidney failure -- occurs because of renal tubule cell death. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the gene...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...ently, patients who experience it have a mortality rate of about 50 percent and according to researchers it is one of the major causes of death in seriously ill patients. // A recently discovered molecule may have the potential to protect the kidneys from failing after injury, according to new research....

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