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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Saad B. Omer, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D., call Melva Robertson at 404-727-5692 or email melva.robertson@emory.edu. Chicago – From 2009-2012, 36 bills introduced in 18 states sought to modify school immunization mandates, with the majority seeking to expand exemptions although none of the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, Ph.D., call Molly Dannenmaier at 409-772-8790 or email mjdannen@utmb.edu; or Mechal Weiss at 212-642-7731, mechal.weiss@edelman.com.  Chicago – Among rehabilitation facilities providing services to Medicare fee-for-service patients, 30-day hospital readmission rates vary, from about 6 percent for patients with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Lisen Arnheim-Dahlström, Ph.D., email lisen.arnheim.dahlstrom@ki.se. Chicago – Although maximum reduction in the risk of genital warts (condylomata) was seen after 3 doses of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, receipt of 2 vaccine doses was associated with considerable reduction in risk,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Xiaobin Wang, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., call Tim Parsons at 410-955-7619 or email tmparson@jhsph.edu. To contact editorial author Mark Hanson, D.Phil., F.R.C.O.G., email M.Hanson@soton.ac.uk. Chicago – Researchers have found that preterm infants are more likely to have elevated insulin levels…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Dorry L. Segev, M.D., Ph.D., call Stephanie Desmon at 410-955-8665 or email sdesmon1@jhmi.edu. To contact editorial co-author John S. Gill, M.D., call Brian Kladko at 604-827-3301 or email brian.kladko@ubc.ca.   Chicago – An analysis of nearly 100,000 kidney donors…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Barbara Schmidt, M.D., M.Sc., call Alison Fraser at 267-426-6054 or email FraserA1@email.chop.edu. Chicago – In a group of very low-birth-weight infants, severe retinopathy of prematurity was associated with nonvisual disabilities at age 5 years, according to a study in the February…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Nassir F. Marrouche, M.D., call Phil Sahm at 801-581-2517 or email phil.sahm@hsc.utah.edu. Chicago – Scarring of tissue in the upper chamber of the heart (atrium) was associated with recurrent rhythm disorder after treatment, according to a study in the February 5…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Norrina B. Allen, Ph.D., M.P.H., call Marla Paul at 312-503-8928 or email marla-paul@northwestern.edu. To contact editorial co-author George L. Bakris, M.D., call John Easton at 773-795-5225 or email john.easton@uchospitals.edu. Chicago – In an analysis of blood pressure patterns over a 25-year…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 8 A.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Richard Smith, M.B.Ch.B., C.B.E., email richardswsmith@yahoo.co.uk.   Chicago – A video of individuals who gave birth to the evidence-based medicine movement features valuable oral histories of the movement, according to an editorial in the January 22/29 issue of JAMA. Evidence-based…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Julia S. Johansen, M.D., D.M.Sc., email julia.johansen@post3.tele.dk. To contact editorial co-author Donald J. Buchsbaum, Ph.D., email Beena Thannickal at beenat@uab.edu. Chicago – Researchers have identified diagnostic microRNA panels in whole blood that had the ability to distinguish, to some…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Miguel A. Martinez-Gonzalez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., email mamartinez@unav.es.   Chicago – A multicenter study that previously reported a reduction in heart attack and stroke with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or with nuts now also reports…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Leonard V. Sacks, M.B.B.Ch., call Sandy Walsh at 301-796-4669 or email sandy.walsh@fda.hhs.gov. Chicago – Several potentially preventable deficiencies, including failure to select optimal drug doses and suitable outcome measures for a study, accounted for significant delays in the approval of new…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., call Jessica Maki at 617-525-6373 or email jmaki3@partners.org.   Chicago – Many cardiac implantable electronic device models currently in use were approved via a Food and Drug Administration review process in which the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Joseph S. Ross, M.D., M.H.S., call Karen Peart at 203-432-1326 or email karen.peart@yale.edu. To contact editorial co-author Steven N. Goodman, M.D., M.H.S., Ph.D., call Ruthann Richter at 650-725-8047 or email richter1@stanford.edu. Chicago – Clinical trials used by the Food…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Andrew T. Hattersley, D.M., email a.t.hattersley@exeter.ac.uk. To contact editorial author Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D., call Mike Morrison at 617-724-6425 or email mdmorrison@partners.org. Chicago – Despite having mild hyperglycemia for approximately 50 years, patients with a mutation in the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author John N. Primrose, M.D., F.R.C.S., email j.n.primrose@soton.ac.uk. Chicago – Among patients who had undergone curative surgery for primary colorectal cancer, the screening methods of computed tomography and carcinoembryonic antigen each provided an improved rate of surgical treatment of cancer…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Linda Sarna, Ph.D., R.N., call Laura Perry at 818-212-6226 or email Lperry@sonnet.ucla.edu.   Chicago – A survey of health care professionals finds that in 2010-2011, current smoking among this group, except for licensed practical nurses, was lower than the general population,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact A. Eden Evins, M.D., M.P.H., email Kristen Chadwick at kschadwick@partners.org. Chicago – Among smokers with schizophrenia or bipolar disease who achieved initial smoking abstinence with a standard 12-week course of the smoking cessation drug varenicline, an additional 40 weeks of treatment…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Jon O. Ebbert, M.D., M.Sc., call Kelley Luckstein at 507-284-5005 or email luckstein.kelley@mayo.edu. Chicago – Among cigarette smokers, the combined use of the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion, compared with varenicline alone, resulted in better rates of smoking abstinence at…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Benjamin Lê Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H., call David Cecere at 617-591-4044 or email dcecere@challiance.org. Chicago – In recent years, the decline in smoking among individuals with mental illness was significantly less than among those without mental illness, although the rates of quitting…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Christopher J.L. Murray, M.D., D.Phil., call Rhonda Stewart at 206-897-2863 or email stewartr@uw.edu. Chicago – Since 1980, the global prevalence of daily tobacco smoking has declined by an estimated 25 percent for men and 42 percent for women, although…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D., call Helen Dodson at 203-436-3984 or email helen.dodson@yale.edu. Chicago – Researchers estimate that tobacco control in the U.S. since 1964 has been associated with the avoidance of an estimated 8 million premature smoking-attributable deaths, with the beneficiaries…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Tuomo J. Meretoja, M.D., Ph.D., email tuomo.meretoja@fimnet.fi.   Chicago – In a study that included more than 800 women who had undergone surgery for breast cancer, the majority reported some level of pain 12 months after surgery, and factors associated with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Maurice W. Dysken, M.D., call Ralph Heussner at 612-467-3012 or email Ralph.Heussner@va.gov. To contact editorial co-author Denis A. Evans, M.D., email Deb Song at Deb_Song@rush.edu.   Chicago – Among patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease, a daily dosage of 2,000…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact John L. Berk, M.D., call Jenny Eriksen Leary at 617-638-6841 or email jenny.eriksen@bmc.org. Chicago – Among patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a lethal, genetic neurodegenerative disease, use of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent diflunisal compared with placebo for 2 years reduced the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Henry P. Parkman, M.D., call Kathleen Duffy at 267-800-4359 or email Kathleen.Duffy@tuhs.temple.edu. Chicago – Among patients with idiopathic (of unknown cause) gastroparesis, use of the antidepressant nortriptyline compared with placebo for 15 weeks did not result in improvement in overall symptoms,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Chinazo O. Cunningham, M.D., M.S., call Kim Newman at 718-430-3101 or email Sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu. Chicago – A survey of opioid treatment programs finds that the proportion offering on-site testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) declined substantially between…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Scott W. Powers, Ph.D., call Jim Feuer at 513-636-4656 or email Jim.Feuer@cchmc.org. To contact editorial author Mark Connelly, Ph.D., call Jessica Salazar at 816-346-1346 or email jmsalazar@cmh.edu. Chicago – Among children and adolescents with chronic migraine, the use of cognitive behavioral…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Edna B. Foa, Ph.D., call Steve Graff at 215-349-5653 or email Stephen.Graff@uphs.upenn.edu. To contact Sean Perrin, Ph.D., email sean.perrin@psy.lu.se. Chicago – Adolescents girls with sexual abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experienced greater benefit from prolonged exposure therapy (a type of therapy…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Paul A. James, M.D., call Molly Rossiter at 319-356-7127 or email molly-rossiter@uiowa.edu. Chicago – A new guideline for the management of high blood pressure, developed by an expert panel and containing nine recommendations and a treatment algorithm (flow…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Steven P. Engebretson, D.M.D., M.S., M.S., call Elyse Bloom at 212-998-9910 or email dental.communications@nyu.edu. Chicago – For persons with type 2 diabetes and chronic periodontitis, nonsurgical periodontal treatment did not result in improved glycemic control, according to a study appearing in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Eric J. Shiroma, M.Ed., M.S., call Jessica Maki at 617-525-6373 or email jmaki3@partners.org. Chicago – Among 7,000 older women who wore an accelerometer to measure their movement, about two-thirds of their waking time was spent in sedentary behavior, most of which…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Sheila M. Rothman, Ph.D., call Whitney Adair at 212-342-5268 or email smr4@columbia.edu or wa2187@columbia.edu. To contact editorial co-author Steven Woloshin, M.D., M.S., call Mike Barwell at 603-653-1984 or email Michael.r.barwell@hitchcock.org. Chicago – Eighteen medical communication companies (MCCs) received about $100 million…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Miguel-Angel Martinez-Garcia, M.D., Ph.D., email mianmartinezgarcia@gmail.com. Chicago – Among patients with obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension that requires 3 or more medications to control, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for 12 weeks resulted in a decrease in 24-hour average and…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Douglas A. Corley, M.D., Ph.D., call Janet Byron at 510-891-3115 or email Janet.L.Byron@kp.org. Chicago – Use for 2 or more years of proton pump inhibitors and histamine 2 receptor antagonists (two types of acid-inhibiting medications) was associated with a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact J. Randall Curtis, M.D., M.P.H., call Elizabeth Hunter at 206-616-3192 or email elh415@uw.edu. To contact editorial co-author Abraham Verghese, M.D., call Margarita Gallardo at 650-723-7897 or email mjgallardo@stanford.edu. Chicago – Among internal medicine and nurse practitioner trainees, simulation-based communication skills training…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Richard P. Deane, M.B., B.Ch., email deaneri@tcd.ie. Chicago – Among fourth-year medical students completing an 8-week obstetrics/gynecology clinical rotation, there was a positive association between attendance at clinical and tutorial-based activities and overall examination scores, according to a study appearing in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact David O. Warner, M.D., call Bryan Anderson at 507-284-5005 or email Anderson.bryan@mayo.edu. Chicago – Among anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009, 0.86 percent had a confirmed substance use disorder during training, with the incidence of this disorder increasing…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact James Guevara, M.D., M.P.H., call Dana Weidig at 267-426-6092 or email weidigd@email.chop.edu. Chicago – From 2000 to 2010, the presence of a minority faculty development program at U.S. medical schools was not associated with greater underrepresented minority faculty representation, recruitment, or…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Amy J. Starmer, M.D., M.P.H., call Meghan Weber at 617-919-3110 or email Meghan.Weber@childrens.harvard.edu. To contact editorial author Leora Horwitz, M.D., M.H.S., call Helen Dodson at 203-436-3984 or email helen.dodson@yale.edu. Chicago – Implementation of a multifaceted program to improve patient handoffs (change…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact David Alain Wohl, M.D., call Lisa Chensvold at 919-843-5719 or email lisa_chensvold@med.unc.edu. Chicago – An analysis indicates that the prevalence of undiagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among state prison entrants in North Carolina was low, at 0.09 percent, according to…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Bruno Mourvillier, M.D., email bruno.mourvillier@bch.aphp.fr. Chicago – In a study of adults with severe bacterial meningitis, therapeutic hypothermia (reduction of body temperature) did not improve outcomes, and it may even have been harmful, according to a study appearing in the November…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Bjorn Pasternak, M.D., Ph.D., email bjp@ssi.dk. To contact editorial author Allan S. Brett, M.D., call Jeff Stensland at 803-777-3686 or email stenslan@mailbox.sc.edu. Chicago – In contrast to findings of a recent study, researchers in Denmark did not find an association between…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Marzia Lazzerini, Ph.D., email lazzerini@burlo.trieste.it. Chicago – Among children and adolescents with Crohn disease not responding to treatment, use of the drug thalidomide resulted in improved clinical remission after 8 weeks of treatment compared with placebo, according to a study appearing…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Marianna K. Baum, Ph.D., call Maydel Santana-Bravo at 305-348-1555 or email santanam@fiu.edu. Chicago – Long-term (24-month) supplementation with multivitamins plus selenium for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in Botswana in the early stages of disease who had not received antiretroviral therapy…

Embargoed for Early Release: 10:45 a.m CT Monday, November 18, 2013 Chicago – Horng H. Chen, M.B.B.Ch., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a randomized trial to determine whether, as compared with placebo, the addition of low-doses of the drugs dopamine or nesiritide to diuretic therapy would enhance urine output and preserve…

Embargoed for Early Release: 3 p.m CT Monday, November 18, 2013 Chicago – Stephen J. Nicholls, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues determined the effects of varespladib, a drug that inhibits the enzyme secretory phospholipase A2 on cardiovascular risk in patients with…

Embargoed for Early Release: 9:00 a.m CT Monday, November 18, 2013 Chicago – Alan W. Heldman, M.D., of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a study to examine the safety of transendocardial stem cell injection (TESI) with autologous mesenchymal stem cells and bone marrow mononuclear cells in patients with ischemic…

Embargoed for Early Release: 9:00 a.m CT Monday, November 18, 2013 Chicago – Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic…

Embargoed for Early Release: 9:00 a.m CT Monday, November 18, 2013 Chicago – Michael H. Criqui, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues determined the independent associations of coronary artery calcium (CAC) volume and CAC density with cardiovascular disease events. An increasing body of evidence suggests that greater calcium density in…

Embargoed for Early Release: 3:00 p.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D., of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, and colleagues examined whether moderate lowering of blood pressure within the first 48 hours after the onset of an acute ischemic stroke would reduce death…

Embargoed for Early Release: 3:00 p.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Francis Kim, M.D., of Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues evaluated whether early prehospital cooling (lowering body temperature) improved survival to hospital discharge and neurological outcome in cardiac arrest patients with or without ventricular fibrillation (VF). Cardiac arrest can cause brain injury…

Embargoed for Early Release: 1:00 p.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Sten Rubertsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Uppsala University, Sweden and colleagues assessed whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in which chest compressions are delivered with a mechanical device would result in superior 4-hour survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to CPR with manual…

Embargoed for Early Release: 11:00 a.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Jose Augusto Barreto-Filho, M.D., Ph.D., of the Federal University of Sergipe and the Clinica e Hospital Sao Lucas, Sergipe, Brazil, and colleagues assessed procedure rates and outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) among 82,755,924 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between 1999 and 2011….

Embargoed for Early Release: 11:00 a.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Michael J. Mack, M.D., of the Baylor Health Care System, Plano, Texas, and colleagues describe the experience in the U.S. with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), including patient selection, procedural details, and in-hospital and 30-day outcomes following TAVR, a less invasive procedure…

Embargoed for Early Release: 11:00 a.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Seth S. Martin, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, and colleagues developed a method for estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels that is more accurate than the standard measure. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol is the…

Embargoed for Early Release: 11:00 a.m CT Sunday, November 17, 2013 Chicago – Hany S. Abed, B.Pharm., M.B.B.S., of the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia and colleagues evaluated the effect of a structured weight reduction program on atrial fibrillation symptoms. “Atrial fibrillation has been described as the epidemic of the new…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 9 A.M. (CT) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Amit X. Garg, M.D., Ph.D., call Julia Capaldi at 519-685-8500, ext. 75616, or email julia.capaldi@lawsonresearch.com. Chicago – Among older adults taking a calcium-channel blocker, simultaneous use of the antibiotic clarithromycin, compared with azithromycin, was associated with a small…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 9:30 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., call Katie Delach at 215-349-5964 or email Katie.Delach@uphs.upenn.edu. Washington, D.C. – The U.S. health care system needs a new, audacious goal: limit health care expenditure growth to the growth of national economy. “That is, by…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 9:30 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A., M.S., call Ken Schwartz at 571-733-5709 or email Ken.schwartz@altarum.org. Washington, D.C. – “The United States needs arrangements that allow elderly people to live with confidence, comfort, and meaningfulness at a cost that families can afford and…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 9:30 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Hamilton Moses III, M.D., call Stephanie Desmon at 410-955-8665 or email sdesmon1@jhmi.edu. Washington, D.C. – An examination of health care in the U.S. finds that despite the extraordinary economic success of many of its participants, the health care system has…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Nicholas J. Christian, Ph.D., email Allison Hydzik (HydzikAM@upmc.edu) or Cyndy McGrath (McGrathC3@upmc.edu) or call 412-647-9975. In an analysis that included nearly 1,000 patients, self-reported weights following bariatric surgery were close to measured weights, suggesting that self-reported weights used in studies…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10:00 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Anita P. Courcoulas, M.D., M.P.H., call Andréa Stanford at 412-647-6190 or email Stanfordac@upmc.edu. In 3-year follow-up after bariatric surgery, substantial weight loss was observed among individuals who were severely obese, with most of the change occurring during the first year;…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Gunnel Henriksson, M.D., Ph.D., email Gunnel.Henriksson@med.lu.se. Autoantibodies are present many years before symptom onset in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome, an autoimmune disease, according to a Research Letter published in the November 6 issue of JAMA. Primary Sjögren syndrome…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Richard L. Kravitz, M.D., M.S.P.H., call Charles Casey at 916-734-9048 or email  charles.casey@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu. Chicago — Among depressed patients evaluated in a primary care setting, use of an interactive multimedia computer program immediately prior to a primary care visit resulted in the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Christopher Vinden, M.D., call Julia Capaldi at 519-685-8500, ext. 75616 or email Julia.Capaldi@LawsonResearch.Com. To contact editorial co-author Michael J. Zinner, M.D., call Tom Langford at 617-525-6375 or email tlangford@partners.org. Chicago — Surgeons who had operated the night before an elective daytime…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author P. Michael Ho, M.D., Ph.D., call Mark Couch at 303-724-5377 or email mark.couch@ucdenver.edu. To contact editorial author Anne R. Cappola, M.D., Sc.M., call Kim Menard at 215-662-6183 or email kim.menard@uphs.upenn.edu. Chicago — Among a group of men who underwent…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11:30 A.M. (CT) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Fausto Feres, M.D., Ph.D., email fferes@lee.dante.br.   Short-term (3 months) vs. long-term (12 months) dual anti­platelet therapy did not result in poorer outcomes on certain measures (death, heart attack, stroke, and bleeding) for patients with coronary artery disease or low-risk…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Ulrike Bingel, M.D., Ph.D., email ulrike.bingel@uk-essen.de.   The hormone oxytocin may mediate processes such as empathy, trust, and social learning. These are key elements of the patient-physician relationship, which is an important mediator of placebo responses, according to background…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Lisa R. Metsch, Ph.D., call Stephanie Berger at 212-305-4372 or email sb2247@columbia.edu. To contact editorial co-author Jason S. Haukoos, M.D., M.Sc., call Jenny Bertrand at 303-520-9591 or email Jennifer.Bertrand@dhha.org.   Brief risk-reduction counseling at the time of a rapid human immunodeficiency…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Jacob A. Udell, M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.C., call Nicole Bodnar at 416-978-5811 or email Nicole.Bodnar@utoronto.ca. To contact editorial author Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., M.P.H., call Monica Graham at 206-302-6072 or email mgraham@path.org.   Receiving an influenza vaccination was associated with a lower…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 6:00 A.M. (CT) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Jennifer F. Kawwass, M.D., call Janet Christenbury at 404-727-8599 or email Jmchris@emory.edu. To contact editorial author Evan R. Myers, M.D., M.P.H., call Rachel Harrison at 919-419-5069 or email rachel.harrison@duke.edu. Between 2000 and 2010 in the United States the number of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact Bjorn Pasternak, M.D., email bjp@ssi.dk. In an analysis that included more than 40,000 women exposed to the nausea medication metoclopramide in pregnancy, use of this drug was not associated with significantly increased risk of major congenital malformations overall, spontaneous abortion, and…