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UK has worst outcome for stroke patients in western Europe
08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!The UK urgently needs to reorganise stroke services to improve outcomes for patients, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ.
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02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
Discoveries about how muscles tell arteries that they need more blood to perform could lead to a new treatment for poor circulation in aging patients, which causes amputation in the worst cases and quadruples the risk of heart attack or stroke. A related mechanism controls blood flow to chronic wounds, and the same discoveries could lead to a pro-growth ointment that speeds healing.
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- Kaiser Permanente -- Group Health study shows depression worsens HIV treatment
12-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
The largest study to examine the effect of depression on HIV treatment appears in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study by Kaiser Permanente and Group Health found depression significantly worsens a patient's adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy and clinical measures but that effective antidepressant medication reverses this outcome. The study looked at 3,359 HIV-infected patients to measure the effects of depression -- with and without SSRIs.
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- Higher death rate for heart attack patients with additional non-cardiac conditions
11-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
Heart attack patients who also have another acute condition such as stroke, kidney failure and pneumonia may have a poorer outcome than those without these conditions, and those with the most severe conditions account for a disproportionate percentage of hospital deaths, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a recent American Journal of Medicine.
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- Rehabilitation technique for stroke patients effective in improving arm, hand movement
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
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- Caring for the sick now a public health priority for developing countries
05-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
The epidemic rates of chronic disease such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease, as well as cancer and HIV/AIDS in many low-middle income countries, means they are experiencing a greater need for palliative care than most western countries. Palliative care is commonly used in developed countries to improve the quality of life of patients with life-threatening illnesses, through strategies aimed mainly at pain relief.
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- US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
By starting treatment for high blood pressure earlier and being more aggressive, physicians in the U.S. control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe. Sixty-three percent of U.S. patients had their blood pressure under control -- compared to 31 percent to 46 percent in Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain or France. The authors caution, however, that better blood pressure control in the United States "should not be too quickly praised."
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- Hypertension control appears better in US than in western Europe
01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Individuals with diagnosed hypertension in the United States appear to have lower blood pressure readings and better hypertension control than patients in five western European countries, according to a report in the Jan. 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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- For treating malaria, less drugs may be best drugs
11-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
The current dosage of drugs used in treating malaria may be helping the parasites become resistant to the drugs faster, without improving the long-term outcome in patients. According to evolutionary biologists, studies using mice suggest that the optimal use of the drugs might slow the spread of drug resistance while making the patient just as healthy.
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- Rating your pain from 0 to 10 might not help your doctor
09-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
The most commonly used measure for pain screening -- which asks patients in primary care to rate their current pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain) -- may only be modestly accurate, according to researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina.
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- Research sheds light on carotid artery stenting risk in elderly
11-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Dr. Hernan Bazan, assistant professor of surgery, section of vascular surgery, at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans' School of Medicine, is the lead author of a research paper which may help physicians decide which patients with carotid artery occlusive disease should have carotid surgery or carotid stenting. The research sheds light on characteristics of the aortic arch that could help explain why octogenarians have a higher risk of embolization and stroke during carotid artery stenting.
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