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Get Heart Attack in East, Not California, Study Says (Update2)
Published July 9, 2009, 12:02 pm, Bloomberg
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Patients who suffer a heart attack or heart failure may be as much as three times more likely to die in some U.S. hospitals than others, according to a study.
Group Health Research Editor Shares Toolkit To Boost Health Literacy
Published July 9, 2009, 9:16 am, Medical News Today
The doctor's mouth opens, and "medicalese" pours forth: words like "pyrosis" and "myocardial infarction." The patient's eyes glaze over. If only the doctor said "heartburn" or "heart attack," the patient could learn what caused the chest pain. This failure to communicate is all too familiar.
Hospital Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure Patients Varies Across Nation
Published July 9, 2009, 2:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
The 30-day mortality (death) and readmission rates for acute care of heart attack and heart failure patients vary significantly from hospital to hospital across the nation, according to a new study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Plain Language For Health Care Professionals To Improve Communication With Patients
Published July 8, 2009, 9:21 pm, Science Daily
The doctor speaks "medicalese," and the patient's eyes glaze over. Researchers noticed this familiar failure to communicate when health care researchers asked people to take part in studies. So they created a Toolkit that illustrates strategies for communicating clearly with study participants.
From Slam Poetry To Plain Language For Health Care
Published July 8, 2009, 3:15 pm, redOrbit
The doctor's mouth opens, and "medicalese" pours forth: words like "pyrosis" and "myocardial infarction." The patient's eyes glaze over.
Anti-angiogenesis treatment improves hearing in some NF2 patients
Published July 8, 2009, 2:35 pm, PhysOrg
Treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab improved hearing and alleviated other symptoms in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In a paper to appear in the July 23 New England Journal of Medicine, which is receiving early online release, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) report that bevacizumab treatment successfully shrank characteristic tumors in a ...
Drug gives anthrax protection in animal studies
Published July 8, 2009, 2:20 pm, PhysOrg
(AP) -- An experimental drug helped monkeys and rabbits survive anthrax in a series of studies, suggesting it could be useful in case of another anthrax attack.
Inflammation may trigger Alzheimer's disease
Published July 8, 2009, 2:05 pm, PhysOrg
The anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin could hold promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, says a Saint Louis University doctor and researcher.
Scientists suggest linkages between obesity and oral bacterial infection
Published July 8, 2009, 1:50 pm, PhysOrg
A scientific team from The Forsyth Institute has discovered new links between certain oral bacteria and obesity. In a recent study, the researchers demonstrated that the salivary bacterial composition of overweight women differs from non-overweight women. This preliminary work may provide clues to interactions between oral bacteria and the pathology of obesity. This research may help ...
From slam poetry to plain language for health care
Published July 8, 2009, 1:50 pm, PhysOrg
The doctor's mouth opens, and "medicalese" pours forth: words like "pyrosis" and "myocardial infarction." The patient's eyes glaze over. If only the doctor said "heartburn" or "heart attack," the patient could learn what caused the chest pain.
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