-
The emphasis is on the lifelong prevention of cardiovascular disease, say the experts, likening the new European Society of Cardiology (ESC) cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines to the owner's manual of a new car. While the car is all bright and shiny and new, owners still need to read the instructions because only a maintained engine hums along at full capacity. This approach to cardiovascular disease prevention, which ideally starts with young parents and continues with children throughout their years in school, is intended to emphasize heart-healthy lifestyles and behaviors. For adults, risk-adjusted prevention can be coordinated through nurse-based activities and by the preventive efforts of general practitioners and cardiologists.
Medscape - Lun, 7 Maggio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
As the population ages, more and more people are turning up in doctors' offices with low vision, and new gadgets and rehabilitation techniques are becoming available to help improve their quality of life.
Medscape - Mar, 6 Marzo 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
In a survey of US medical centers using integrative medicine, 75% reported success using integrative practices to treat chronic pain, with more than half reporting positive results in the areas of gastrointestinal conditions, depression, anxiety, cancer, and chronic stress.
Medscape - Mar, 21 Febbraio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, one death every 19 minutes. Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The increase in unintentional drug overdose death rates in recent years (Figure 1) has been driven by increased use of a class of prescription drugs called opioid analgesics.
Medscape - Mar, 21 Febbraio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
Obstetricians and gynecologists should routinely and periodically screen all women for intimate partner violence (IPV), according to an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee Opinion published in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Medscape - Mar, 24 Gennaio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
Trends in the volume of cases reported early through informal sources — such as the HealthMap news media and Twitter — correlated well with officially reported case data in an analysis of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, new research suggests. It is the first study to demonstrate the use of informal social and news media "to gain early insight into an evolving epidemic."
Medscape - Mar, 17 Gennaio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
Atrial tachyarrhythmias in the absence of clinical atrial fibrillation (AF) occur frequently among patients with pacemakers and are associated with a significant increase in the risk for stroke or systemic embolism over time. Results of the Asymptomatic AF and Stroke Evaluation in Pacemaker Patients and the AF Reduction Atrial Pacing Trial (ASSERT) show that in this population of patients with pacemakers who have hypertension but no history of AF, episodes of device-detected atrial tachycardia greater than 6 minutes were seen in approximately one third of patients during almost 3 years of mean follow-up.
Medscape - Mar, 17 Gennaio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
An immune regulator from healthy cord blood stem cells (CB-SCs) can "educate" the T cells of a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D), enabling the pancreas to produce insulin, according to a report published online January 10, 2012, in BMC Medicine.
Medscape - Mar, 17 Gennaio 2012
http://www.medscape.com
-
New types of hip implants, using metal-on-metal or ceramic-on-ceramic bearings, appear to have no significant advantage over traditional implants, according to a systematic review of clinical trials, observational studies, and national registries published online November 29 in the British Medical Journal.
Medscape - Mar, 6 Dicembre 2011
http://www.medscape.com
-
Ten-year survival rates are high when patients with unfavorable localized prostate cancer are treated with external beam radiotherapy boosted with conformal high-dose-rate brachytherapy, a Spanish group reports.
Medscape - Mar, 6 Dicembre 2011
http://www.medscape.com