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Major discovery raises prospect of better patient care by improving platelet life span
03-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Scientists at WEHI have made a discovery with potentially profound implications for the care of patients, especially those undergoing cancer chemotherapy.
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- Patient navigators help minority, low-income cancer patients get life-saving treatments
10-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
Volunteers who guide low-income and minority cancer patients through cancer treatment, called lay patient navigators, help them to overcome major obstacles that prevent them from receiving quality care and achieving better outcomes, according to a study presented Oct. 28, 2007, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 49th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
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- GI screening: Racing time or wasting time?
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Preventative medicine and technology are some of the great benefits in this ever-changing age of health-care technology. Operations that once required major surgery and in-patient stays are being replaced with minimally invasive procedures with quick recovery times. Among these preventative technologies include CT scans, colonoscopies and X-rays. But with all of these available options in detecting abnormalities in patients, how does one choose which test to perform and whether it is worth the time to test on fast-acting ailments? Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week 2007 provides guidance as to which tests are best for which patients. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
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- New protein super-family discovered with critical functions for animal life
02-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Biologists have discovered a new super-family of developmental proteins that are critical for cell growth and differentiation and whose further study is expected to benefit research on cancer and the nerve-cell repair. The protein super-family, which existed before the emergence of animals about 850 million years ago, is of major importance for understanding how life evolved in primordial times. The discovery will be described in the February 14, 2007 issue of the journal PLoS ONE.
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- Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia
03-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit already are seriously ill, so the last thing they need is a new infection. Unfortunately, statistics show that as many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators develop pneumonia, which can be fatal. Ironically, it turns out that the patient’s own dental plaque is a major source of germs that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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- Binghamton University researcher makes major biofilm dispersion breakthrough
10-12-2006 · EurekAlert!
A Binghamton University biologist's discovery of a molecule that induces the dispersion of biofilms will likely mean a sea change in health care, manufacturing, shipping and pharmaceutics over the coming years.David Davies has found and is in the process of synthesizing a compound that will cause biofilm colonies to disperse, thus leaving individual bacteria up to 1,000 times more susceptible to disinfectants, antibiotics and immune functions.
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- New guidelines reinforce pulmonary rehab need for patients with COPD
05-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation recommend a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, citing that pulmonary rehabilitation can help improve a patient's exercise tolerance, dyspnea and health-related quality of life, as well as decrease hospital stay and health-care utilization.
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- Care reforms raise concerns over patient access to GP services
09-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
GP services could be compromised by new provisions enabling commercial companies to provide primary care through locally negotiated contracts, researchers warn.
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- Due to cost, heart attack patients often avoid follow-up care and medication
03-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
A lack of funds to pay for medical treatment and prescriptions is common among heart attack patients and leads to a worse recovery, more angina, poorer quality of life and higher risk of re-hospitalization, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Published in the March 14 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study sought to determine if self-reported financial barriers to health care services or medication were associated with worse patient outcomes.
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- APC papers in global theme issue on poverty
10-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
"Human Resources for Treating HIV/AIDS: Needs, Capacities, and Gaps" published online today in AIDS Patient Care and STDs has been selected to be one of seven papers presented orally at the NIH Launch of the Council of Science Editors' Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. The global theme issue is a special worldwide publishing event on Oct. 22, 2007, to raise awareness and stimulate dialogue to address this worldwide challenge.
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- Initiative to improve heart failure care at nation's hospitals makes major gains
07-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
A national initiative designed to improve heart-failure patient care in hospitals proved effective at increasing hospital adherence to key quality-of-care performance measures and reducing the length of hospital stays for patients. It also resulted in favorable trends for in-hospital and post-discharge mortality rates.
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