standard 1 7

Tag: "standard" at medical news

Antipsychotic Drug Linked to Pulmonary Embolism

...bolism in the man’s left lower lobe. He was put on standard anticoagulation treatment and he recovered. Olanzapine was discontinued and the man began receiving another drug instead. Though olanzapine is associated with weight gain, and its sedating effects might lead to inactivity -- thus predisposing someon...

Less Pain After Tonsillectomy

...tonsillectomy procedure using less energy than the standard electrocautery may be the key to reducing pain dur... group A the tonsillectomy was performed using the standard electrocautery procedure. In group B the tonsillectomy was performed using the lower-energy microdis...

Steroid-Free Liver Transplants

...drug basiliximab replaced steroids in an otherwise standard treatment. The children were all followed for at ...reatment as those seen among kids who received the standard treatment with steroids. Author Raymond Reding notes, "Our results suggest no harmful effect of ste...

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...y is safe and effective and should remain the gold standard of treatment. According to the report, published : ?h ICS therapy is not associated with bone thinning in children. ?h ICS therapy is linked to skin thinning and bruising in both adults and children, but the effects are mostly related to dose, lengt...

Breast Cancer Survivors Worry About Infertility

... in this age group go through menopause because of standard treatment, and some studies even show a zero-percent incidence in patients. Ann H. Partridge, M.D., says this study should serve as a wakeup call for health care providers. "We don't have a great system for educating these women and showing them da...

Good News for New Borns With Hypoxic Respiratory Failure

...here is no known way to prevent the condition. The standard treatment is a surgical procedure that involves cutting the infant’s jugular vein and putting the baby on a heart-lung machine to oxygenate the blood. The surgery can cause severe complications. A study finds a new treatment for hypoxic respirator...

Link Between Musculoskeletal Pain and Vitamin D Deficiency

...tamin D and they also say that it should be made a standard practice to screen all patients with such pain for hypovitaminosis D....

Reducing The After Effects of Tonsillectomy

...tonsillectomy procedure using less energy than the standard electrocautery may be the key to reducing pain dur... group A the tonsillectomy was performed using the standard electrocautery procedure. In group B the tonsillectomy was performed using the lower-energy microdis...

Epilepsy Drug May Relieve Chronic Headaches

...ic daily headaches. This type of study is the gold standard of clinical research studies where neither the researchers nor the participants know who received the drug or an identical dummy substance, called a placebo. For the study researchers recruited 133 patients who had headaches at least 15 days every m...

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

...ver these advances should be translated into a new standard of care as soon as possible. Researchers say they want to go one step further and inject both vasopressin and epinephrine, because that showed the most benefit and saved eight crucial minutes. "If truly confirmed by another study it would be a ma...

Vision Loss Due To Diabetic Retinopathy a Major Cause Of Concern

... and the rest had worse than 20/40. All filled out standard questionnaires aimed at measuring the impact of their vision loss on their ability to participate in normal life activities. The median length of time patients had suffered from vision loss was two years. Results show vision loss stemming from diab...

New Medication May Decrease The Frequency Of Angina Attacks

...dstream). Researchers found that when added to a standard dose of frequently prescribed antianginal drugs, ranolazine can reduce both the angina frequency and nitroglycerin consumption. When compared to the placebo results, the decrease in angina attacks were slightly less than one per week for those in the...

Poor Oral Health An Indicator Of Heart Disease

...s a stronger predictor of heart disease than other standard markers, such as // high levels of fibrinogen (a clotting factor), low HDL (“good”) cholesterol or high triglycerides. Researchers compared the oral health data of 256 cardiac patients to 250 non-cardiac patients with similar demographic characteri...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

...enefits of statins in patients who were already on standard medications to treat heart failure. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 551 heart-failure patients and looked to see what medications each one was given. They then looked at mortality records.They found an overall 55 percent reduction in mo...

Drug to stop HIV spread to babies may Indirectly harm The Mother

...ng pregnancy were much less likely to do well on a standard three-drug regimen if they developed AIDS. Three-quarters responded to treatment if they had never received nevirapine during pregnancy, compared with just one-third of those who had developed resistant virus because of their pregnancy treatment. Th...

‘Protein’ Produced By Overstressed Heart Muscle a Strong Indicator Of Heart Diseae

...ry disease or something else -- all got physicals, standard blood tests, a chest X-ray and an electrocardiogram, or EKG. Half also got the peptide test. The researchers said the additional test enabled them to start the correct treatment faster. That reduced how many patients were hospitalized, from 85 percen...

Help For Kids With Difficulty In Sleeping

... and adenoids. Each child’s caregiver filled out a standard survey on sleep-related quality of life before the testing and then again about 120 days after the operation. Results showed significant improvements in quality of life for the children after the surgery. The greatest change was seen in the score for...

Depression in Elderly

... to only about 45 percent of patients who received standard care. Researchers say patients who received the intervention also had less symptoms of depression and responded better to treatment. Researchers conclude saying that structured interventions can improve the quality of depression care in elderly pat...

New Treatment For Headache

...onic headache pain that simply does not respond to standard therapy. Often brought on by a traumatic head injury or after brain surgery, there has been little to offer these patients, until now. The answer to Eric’s pain and headaches came from a pain specialist at RUSH University Medical Center in Chicago....

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

... 63 percent with their latest drug compared to the standard regimes available . The clinical trial strengthens the case for administering the newer drug, exemestane, as a first option.// A study showed that women recovering from breast cancer lowered their chance of developing another tumor by 32 percent if t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10