Monday, October 27, 2008

American College Of Rheumatology 2008 Annual Meeting Highlights

Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients do Worse After a Heart Attack Following a heart attack, people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) suffer greater heart-related complications, including an increased risk for dying, when compared to other heart attack patients, according to research presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco. Read more ...

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Age, sex and traditional risk factors - such as hypertension, diabetes, smoking, and body mass - are more important predictors of heart attack in patients with rheumatoid arthritis than the use of certain medications that have been considered the link between the two and lipid-lowering medications may actually reduce this risk, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. Read more ...

Chest pain - or at worst a cardiac arrest - is invariably the prelude to one of the most critical episodes of health care. Acute cardiac care, that first emergency phase in which the chest pain is assessed and its cause treated, embraces a broad spectrum of diagnoses ranging from unstable angina to acute heart failure, from myocardial infarction (with or without ST elevation) to other life-threatening disorders of the heart. Read more ...

About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, while egg and high-fat dairy consumption raised risk. Other food groups did not directly affect HF risk. Read more ...

Wigs For Cancer Patients Keep Patients Looking Great

If you or someone that you are close to is currently going through cancer treatment therapy then you for sure know what a real struggle it is. With so much going on and priorities being so drastically reorganized, the fact that their hair has fallen out can be easily overlooked when it doesn't have to be. The truth is that "looking and feeling" good with a good head of hair "is" a crucial element of the recovery process that doctors don't often talk about.

MRSA Is More Prevalent In Paediatric Healthcare Than Previously Thought - Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK

MRSA Is More Prevalent In Paediatric Healthcare Than Previously Thought - Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
Birmingham Children's Hospital has introduced a new way of detecting the MRSA superbug amongst its most critically ill young patients. The test, developed by molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, has so far proven to be 100% accurate and is allowing doctors at the hospital to identify if a patient to be admitted to the ICU has MRSA within an hour.

Acute Cardiac Care 2008
Chest pain - or at worst a cardiac arrest - is invariably the prelude to one of the most critical episodes of health care. Acute cardiac care, that first emergency phase in which the chest pain is assessed and its cause treated, embraces a broad spectrum of diagnoses ranging from unstable angina to acute heart failure, from myocardial infarction (with or without ST elevation) to other life-threatening disorders of the heart.

Eating Whole Grains Lowers Heart Failure Risk, According To New Study
About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, while egg and high-fat dairy consumption raised risk. Other food groups did not directly affect HF risk.

The Future Of Anti-Microbials Is Here
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" underscores the need for new drugs and therapies for protecting the public from pathogenic organisms. Since bacteria rapidly evolve to evade the action of new antibiotics, the drugs quickly lose their effectiveness. The prevalence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) illustrates the severity of the problem.

New Treatment Targets Result From First Comprehensive Genomic Study Of The Common Cold
Scientists from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the University of Calgary and the University of Virginia have announced results from the first study to examine the entire human genome's response to the most common cold virus, human rhinovirus. The research confirmed, at the genomic level, that the immune system response to the virus, and not the virus by itself, results in common cold symptoms.