Are depressive symptoms more common among British South Asian patients compared with British
White patients with cancer?
White patients with CTD had a much smaller increase.
The researchers analyzed data on more than 69,000 black and
white patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated at 253 hospitals in three states during 2006 - 07.
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In a mid-stage trial, 16 of 37 lung cancer
patients given a placebo ahead of standard chemo wound up hospitalized
with severely low
white blood cell counts.
Patients with either a United Health card
with an anchor in the upper right hand corner, a
white Rhode Island medical card
with an anchor in the center, or a Neighborhood Health Plan card, or a state welfare card are eligible for free parking.
The Journal News spoke
with the first medical marijuana
patients in
White Plains as the new program gets off the ground this month.
In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the
white matter of
patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked
with the disorder.
Almost all of the
patients with melanoma were
white and they were more likely to be taking the common immunosuppressants cyclosporine or sirolimus than those without melanoma.
Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called
white matter hyperintensities, that are associated
with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.
The results of the empirical study show a clear distinction between the damage to the
white blood cells from
patients with cancer,
with pre-cancerous conditions and from healthy
patients.
Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized
white and black pediatric
patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.
The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large
patient populations
with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government
patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve
white customers
with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized in most
patients by red, raised patches of skin, or plaques, covered
with silvery -
white scales.
Results suggest that while isotretinoin was associated
with a change in the average value of some laboratory tests (
white blood cell count and hepatic and lipid panels), the average change across a
patient group did not meet the criteria for high - risk and the proportion of
patients with laboratory abnormalities was low, the authors report.
The disease once disproportionately affected
white patients, and those
with higher socioeconomic status.
Authors examined the association between SVD and AD pathology by looking at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- based microbleeds (MB),
white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and lacunes (which are measures for SVD) along
with certain protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which reflect AD pathophysiology in
patients with AD, VaD and healthy control
patients.
The MIT team estimated that if there were a way to detect when
patients»
white cell counts went below the threshold level, so they could be treated
with prophylactic antibiotics and drugs that promote
white blood cell growth, about half of the 110,000 infections that occur in chemotherapy
patients in the United States every year could be prevented.
According to the nationally representative study,
patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38),
with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and
white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.
«In the U.S., one in six chemotherapy
patients ends up hospitalized
with one of these infections while their
white cells are particularly low,» Castro - Gonzalez says.
The study involved 23
patients with relapsed or treatment - resistant HL, a cancer of
white blood cells called lymphocytes.
Initially a test cohort of 10
patients with MS and 10
patients with non-MS
white brain matter lesions were scanned.
Nonwhite
patients reported more perceived barriers, such as transportation issues and more concern over side effects, compared
with white patients, but their expectations concerning the therapies» benefits were similar.
To make the vaccine, cancer cells are harvested from a tumor after surgery and stripped of their proteins; then those proteins are cultured
with dendritic cells, a subclass of
white blood cells, drawn from the
patient's blood.
«We've taken
white cells from his body, put them in a culture
with malignant cells, and they gobble them up,» says Michael O'Rourke, who is treating the
patient.
He did, however, publish a paper last year documenting a study in which he infused three cancer
patients with white blood cells from young donors who had been injected
with G - CSF.
The study also found that racial minority
patients with a strong desire for testing were less likely than
white patients to discuss it
with a professional, even though studies show that minority
patients are not at lower risk for these mutations.
«We found that Asian and black
patients have a substantially higher risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions to urate - lowering drugs than do
white or Hispanic
patients, which correlates
with the frequency of the HLA - B * 5801 gene in their U.S. populations,» says Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, senior author of the report that has been published online in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Moreover, the research shows, trauma
patients of all races are 40 percent less likely to die — regardless of the severity of their injuries — if they are treated at hospitals
with lower - than - expected mortality rates, the vast majority of which serve predominantly
white patients.
«All
patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating
white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals
with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»
Analyzing
white blood cells from 934
patients and 1,698 healthy controls, they found BRCA1 methylation among 6.4 % of
patients diagnosed
with ovarian cancer, contrasting 4.2 % among controls.
White and colleagues will work
with other collaborators at the Cancer Institute to develop early - phase
patient clinical trials based on the findings from this study in the near future.
Thus in this study, the authors compared RYGB to an intensive lifestyle and medical intervention (ILMI) for type 2 diabetes, including among only mildly obese
patients with a BMI < 35 kg / m2 (above 30 kg / m2 is considered obese, so 30 - 35 BMI is the least severe obesity category among
white people).
The analysis compared
patient consultation rates
with cancer specialists as well as treatment
with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for
white and black
patients.
Compared to controls,
patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of
white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated
with the brain's reward circuit.
The analysis of charges at more than 150 California hospitals looked at blood tests that are often required of
patients, such as lipid panel, basic metabolic panel, and complete blood cell count
with differential
white cell count.
The primarily
white female adolescent
patients were fed three meals and three snacks each day and their vital signs were monitored closely,
with their heart rates measured continuously and electrolytes checked twice a day.
Further searching turned up retroviral particles, which could kill
white blood cells and which also reacted
with antibodies from infected
patients.
Women were more likely to wear sunscreen, as were
white and Hispanic
patients, which is consistent
with other studies.
«The DTI findings pertaining to the most frequent headers in our study showed
white - matter abnormalities similar to what we've seen in
patients with concussion,» said Dr. Lipton.
Overall, inadequate medication adherence was seen in 60.2 percent of Spanish - speaking Latino
patients with limited - English proficiency, 51.7 percent of English - speaking Latino
patients and 37.5 percent of
white patients, the results indicate.
Launched
with a $ 215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget, the initiative aims to «give clinicians tools to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying a
patient's health, disease, or condition, and to better predict which treatments will be most effective,» according to a statement issued by the
White House.
In one study, Alicia Fernández, M.D., of San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, and coauthors examined the association of
patient race / ethnicity, preferred language and physician -
patient language concordance
with adherence to newly prescribed diabetes medications among Latino and
white patients.
Elder «was diagnosed
with cystic fibrosis when he was eight years old, at a time when most cystic fibrosis
patients were only expected to live to early adulthood,» according to a
White House statement.
President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a
White House East Room audience packed
with federal science leaders, academic researchers,
patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.
«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a
patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new
white paper, along
with Peng.
A 65 - year - old male
patient with a history of chronic alcoholism complained of an odd, painless
white growth over his tongue.
The article published by the Journal of Neurotrauma is titled «Measurement of Peripheral Vision Reaction Time Identifies
White Matter Disruption in
Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.»
President Barack Obama
with liver cancer
patient Elana Simon at precision medicine event at
White House.
Commissioned by ASTRO's Board of Directors as part of the Target Safely campaign, the
white paper evaluates the current safety and practice guidance for HDR brachytherapy, makes recommendations for guidance applications to the delivery of HDR brachytherapy, suggests topics where additional guidance is needed and examines the adequacy of general physics, quality assurance (QA) and clinical guidance currently available for the most common treatment sites
with regard to
patient safety.