Archive for December, 2009
Do Preemies Benefit From High-Tech Measures?
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Even though more treatments are provided for extremely preterm infants, they’re no more likely to survive than they were in the mid-1990s, a U.S. study has found.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine compared 75 extremely preterm infants (born at 22 to 24 weeks’ gestation) delivered between 1993 and 1995 (early epoch) and 104 [...]
Habits May Keep Couples Together or Tear Them Apart
Monday, December 21st, 2009Marriages can be at risk when one partner is an excessive drinker and/or smoker, but the other isn’t, researchers say.
However, when their drinking and/or smoking habits are similar, both partners remain relatively satisfied with their marriage, according to the study published in a recent edition of the journal Addiction.
Researchers tracked 634 newly married couples for [...]
Doctors May Be Able to Predict Domestic Abuse
Thursday, December 10th, 2009It may be possible to use a person’s electronic medical records to predict the likelihood of domestic abuse years before it actually occurs, according to U.S. researchers.
They analyzed the medical records of more than 500,000 adults that included at least four years of data on hospital admissions and visits to emergency departments. In total, the [...]
Medications That Lower Breast Cancer Risk Carry Other Dangers
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Medications given to women at high risk for developing breast cancer do reduce their cancer risk, but the drugs carry other health risks, a new analysis suggests.
That was the conclusion of researchers who looked at numerous published studies, including randomized clinical trials and a head-to-head assessment of the medications used for risk reduction. Those include [...]