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EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Use of Corticosteroid During Cardiac Surgery Does Not Appear to Improve Outcomes Jan M. Dieleman, M.D., of the University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands and colleagues conducted a randomized clinical trial to quantify the effect of a single intraoperative dose of the corticosteroid dexamethasone…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Martha L. Daviglus, M.D., Ph.D., call Jeanne Galatzer-Levy at 312-996-1583 or email jgala@uic.edu. CHICAGO – In a study that involved more than 16,000 Hispanic/Latino men and women living in the United States, the prevalence of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Monika M. Safford, M.D., call Jennifer Park Lollar at 205-934-3888 or email jpark@uab.edu. To contact editorial author Michael S. Lauer, M.D., call the NHLBI Office of Communications at 301-496-4236 or email nhlbi_news@nhlbi.nih.gov. CHICAGO – In an examination of the incidence…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Howard D. Sesso, Sc.D., M.P.H., call Tom Langford at 617-534-1605 or email tlangford@partners.org. To contact Eva M. Lonn, M.D., M.Sc., call Veronica McGuire at 905-525-9140, ext. 22169; or email vmcguir@mcmaster.ca. CHICAGO – In a randomized study that included nearly 15,000…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact John T. Wilkins, M.D., M.S., call Erin White at 847-491-4888 or email ewhite@northwestern.edu. CHICAGO – Even in men and women with an optimal cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor profile, the lifetime risk estimate for CVD is greater than 30 percent,…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 2:00 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D., call Tim Parsons at 410-955-7619 or email tmparson@jhsph.edu. To contact editorial author Ian H. de Boer, M.D., M.S., call Clare LaFond at 206-685-1323 or email clareh@uw.edu. CHICAGO – In a large, collaborative study that…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 6:15 A.M. (CT) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Asgeir S. Jakola, M.D., email asgeir.s.jakola@ntnu.no. To contact editorial author James M. Markert, M.D., call Bob Shepard at 205-934-8934 or email bshep@uab.edu. CHICAGO – In a comparison of strategies for treating low-grade gliomas (brain tumors), patients in Norway treated at…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 Molecular Prognostic Assay May Help Identify Patients at High Risk of Death Despite Small, Node-Negative Lung Tumors “Low-dose computed tomography screening may increase diagnoses of T1a node-negative non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC). One-quarter of these patients die within 5 years. Maximizing the benefit of screening requires…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Ary Serpa Neto, M.D., M.Sc., email aryserpa@terra.com.br. To contact editorial author Niall D. Ferguson, M.D., M.Sc., call Leslie O’Leary at 416-586-4800, ext.8306; or email lo’leary2@mtsinai.on.ca. CHICAGO –Among patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome, protective mechanical ventilation with use of lower tidal…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author John P. A. Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc., call Krista Conger at 650-725-5371 or email kristac@stanford.edu. To contact editorial author Andrew D. Oxman, M.D., email oxman@online.no. CHICAGO – In an examination of the characteristics of studies that yield large treatment effects…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Michel M. Joosten, Ph.D., call Kelly Lawman at 617-667-7305 or email klawman@bidmc.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Among nearly 45,000 men who were followed up for more than two decades, those with the risk factors of smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 8:15 A.M. (CT) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Sangeeta Mehta, M.D., call Nicole Bodnar at 416-978-5811 or email Nicole.bodnar@utoronto.ca. CHICAGO – For critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, daily sedation interruption did not reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation or appear to offer any benefit to patients, and…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 8:15 A.M. (CT) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Greet Van den Berghe, M.D., Ph.D., email greet.vandenberghe@med.kuleuven.be. To contact editorial author Robert C. Tasker, M.B.B.S., M.D., call Keri Stedman at 617-919-3114 or email keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Although there is some concern that hypoglycemia may adversely affect the…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 11:15 A.M. (CT) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Tarak K. Trivedi, B.S., call John Easton at 773-795-5225 or email john.easton@uchospitals.edu. CHICAGO – In a study that included more than 300 Medicare-certified nursing homes, rates of hospitalization and death were substantially increased during outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis vs. non-outbreak…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 9:30 A.M. (CT) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H., call Tom Langford at 617-534-1605 or email tlangford@partners.org. CHICAGO – In a randomized trial that included nearly 15,000 male physicians, long-term daily multivitamin use resulted in a modest but statistically significant reduction in cancer after…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Study Finds Association Between Pseudoephedrine Sales and Illicit Manufacture of Methamphetamine “The illicit production of methamphetamine [a highly addictive stimulant drug] from the precursor pseudoephedrine in clandestine laboratories fuels up to 35 percent of the domestic supply. Public health, law enforcement, and medical associations support…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Sheila Isanaka, Sc.D., call Marge Dwyer at 617-432-8416 or email mhdwyer@hsph.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Tanzania, high-dose multivitamin supplementation after beginning highly active antiretroviral therapy did not reduce the risk of HIV disease progression…

  EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Rinaldo Bellomo, M.D., F.C.I.C.M., email rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au. To contact editorial co-author Sushrut S. Waikar, M.D., M.P.H., call Jessica Maki at 617-534-1603 or email jmaki3@partners.org. CHICAGO – In a pilot study assessing the effect of different levels of chloride in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Antoni Castells, M.D., Ph.D., email castells@clinic.ub.es. To contact editorial co-author James M. Ford, M.D., call Krista Conger at 650-725-5371 or email kristac@stanford.edu. CHICAGO – In a comparison of strategies to identify individuals with Lynch syndrome, the most common form…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Margaret D. Carroll, M.S.P.H., call Karen Hunter at 404-639-3286 or email ksh7@cdc.gov. CHICAGO – An analysis of nationally-representative data indicates that between 1988 and 2010 there has been a trend of declining average levels of total cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 Study Examines Off-Label Use of Bone Protein For Pediatric Spinal Surgery Arthrodesis (the surgical fixation of a joint to promote bone fusion) of the spine is frequently performed in children. Although nonunion occurs frequently in adults, children rarely experience nonunion. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Olle Melander, M.D., Ph.D., email olle.melander@med.lu.se. CHICAGO – Plasma levels of proneurotensin are associated with the development of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular and total mortality, and breast cancer in women during long-term follow-up, according to a study in the October 10…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Karen E. Joynt, M.D., M.P.H., call Todd Datz at 617-432-8413 or email tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu.  To contact editorial author Maura Moscucci, M.D., M.B.A., call Lisa Worley at 305-243-5184 or email lworley2@med.miami.edu. CHICAGO – In an analysis that included nearly 100,000 Medicare patients who…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Carolyn R. Broderick, M.B.B.S., email c.broderick@unsw.edu.au. To contact Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson, M.D., call Jacque Montgomery at 303-928-9093 or email Jacque.Montgomery@ucdenver.edu. CHICAGO – In children and adolescents with hemophilia, vigorous physical activity was associated with an elevated risk of bleeding, although it…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 8 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Dean A. Fergusson, M.H.A., Ph.D., call Paddy Moore at 613-737-8899, ext. 73687, or email padmoore@ohri.ca. CHICAGO – Among premature, very low-birth-weight infants requiring a transfusion, use of fresh red blood cells (RBCs) compared with standard RBC transfusion practice did not…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Challenges at the Intersection of Team-Based and Patient-Centered Health Care – Insights From an IOM Working Group Matthew K. Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., of the American Medical Association, Chicago, and colleagues write that team-based health care may help the United States achieve improved health and improved…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Richard J. Barohn, M.D., call C.J. Janovy at 913-588-2598 or email cjanovy@kumc.edu. To contact editorial co-author Eric P. Hoffman, Ph.D., call Paula Darte at 202-821-6357 or email pdarte@ChildrensNational.org. CHICAGO – Preliminary research finds that for patients with nondystrophic myotonias…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Marie E. Holmqvist, M.D., Ph.D., email marie.holmqvist@ki.se. CHICAGO – A study that included more than 45,000 residents of Sweden with rheumatoid arthritis finds that individuals with this disease had an associated higher risk of venous thromboembolism (a blood clot that forms…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Sripal Bangalore, M.D., M.H.A., call Allison Clair at 212-404-3753 or email allison.clair@nyumc.org. CHICAGO – Among patients with either coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors only, known prior heart attack, or known CAD without heart attack, the use of beta-blockers was not…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact David R. Murdoch, M.D., email david.murdoch@otago.ac.nz. To contact editorial author Jeffrey A. Linder, M.D., M.P.H., call Marjorie Montemayor-Quellenberg at 617-534-2208 or email mmontemayor-quellenberg@partners.org. CHICAGO – Although some data have suggested a possible inverse association between serum vitamin D levels and the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 Bringing Diagnosis Into the Quality and Safety Equations Mark L. Graber, M.D., of RTI International, St. James, N.Y., and colleagues suggest that cases of delayed, missed and incorrect diagnosis are common, with an incidence in the range of 10 percent to 20 percent, and that…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Christopher J. Hartnick, M.D., call Mary Leach at 617-573-4170 or email Mary_Leach@meei.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Administration of the corticosteroid dexamethasone to children during a tonsillectomy was not associated with excessive, serious bleeding events following surgery compared to patients who received…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Peter Cram, M.D., M.B.A., call Tom Moore at 319-356-3945 or email thomas-moore@uiowa.edu. To contact editorial co-author Joseph D. Zuckerman, M.D., call Craig Andrews at 212-404-3511 or email Craig.Andrews@nyumc.org. CHICAGO – There has been an increase in total knee arthroplasty (TKA; knee…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Higher Amounts of Aerobic Exercise By Overweight Children Reduces Risk of Diabetes Child obesity and overweight are epidemic among U.S. children, with a third of elementary school-aged children being overweight or obese. Childhood obesity is associated with a number of adverse conditions formerly thought…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Thomas A. Farley, M.D., M.P.H., call Jean Weinberg at 347-396-4177 or email jweinberg@health.nyc.gov. NEW YORK – Addressing the obesity epidemic by preventing excess calorie consumption with government regulation of portion sizes is justifiable and could be an effective measure to…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact James A. de Lemos, M.D., call Lisa Warshaw at 214-648-9349 or email lisa.warshaw@utsouthwestern.edu. NEW YORK – Obese adults with excess visceral fat (fat located inside the abdominal cavity, around the body’s internal organs) and biomarkers of insulin resistance had an…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Ted D. Adams, Ph.D., M.P.H., call Jennifer Barrett at 801-408-2182 or email jennifer.barrett@imail.org. To contact editorial author Anita P. Courcoulas, M.D., M.P.H., call Amy Dugas Rose at 412-586-9776 or email dugasak@upmc.edu. NEW YORK – Severely obese patients who had Roux-en-Y…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Leonardo Trasande, M.D., M.P.P., call Jessica Guenzel at 212-404-3591 or email Jessica.Guenzel@nyumc.org. NEW YORK – In a nationally representative sample of nearly 3,000 children and adolescents, those who had higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA), a manufactured chemical found…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Study Analyzes Changes in Pharmaceutical Advertising Following Shift to OTC Status “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates prescription drug advertising, including requirements to provide consumers with a ‘fair balance’ of risks and benefits. When prescription drugs switch to over-the-counter (OTC) status, regulatory oversight…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Carrie H. Colla, Ph.D., call Annmarie Christensen at 603-653-0897 or email annmarie.christensen@dartmouth.edu. To contact editorial author Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., email donberwick1@gmail.com. CHICAGO – In an analysis of the cost-savings achieved by an earlier pilot program, the Medicare Physician Group…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Joachim Klode, M.D., email joachim.klode@uk-essen.de. CHICAGO – Preoperative 3-dimensional visualization of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) with a technique known as single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography was associated with a higher rate of detection of positive SLNs and a higher…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact William J. Calhoun, M.D., call Raul Reyes at 409-747-0794 or email rareyes@utmb.edu. To contact editorial co-author George T. O’Connor, M.D., M.S., call Gina DiGravio at 617-638-8480 or email gina.digravio@bmc.org. CHICAGO – Among adults with asthma controlled with low-dose inhaled corticosteroid therapy,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Moses S. Elisaf, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.S.A., F.R.S.H., email egepi@cc.uoi.gr. CHICAGO – In a study that included nearly 70,000 patients, supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids was not associated with a lower risk of all-cause death, cardiac death, sudden death,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Prone Position During Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy Associated With Reduced Amount of Irradiation to Lung, Heart Radiation therapy to the breast contributes to improved outcomes in breast cancer patients after breast preservation surgery. “However, whole breast radiotherapy is associated with damage to the heart and…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Charlotte Andersson, M.D., Ph.D., email ca@heart.dk. To contact editorial author Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., call Lori Schroth at 617-534-1604 or email ljschroth@partners.org. CHICAGO – In a study that included nearly 60,000 patients with a first-time heart attack, patients with diabetes…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, M.D., Ph.D., call Julie Penne at 713-792-0662 or email jpenne@mdanderson.org. CHICAGO – Although there are concerns regarding the potential development of malignancies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who are receiving treatment with biologic response modifiers (BRMs),…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Andrew E. Arai, M.D., call Nick Zagorski at 301-496-4236 or email nicholas.zagorski@nih.gov. CHICAGO – Using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging among older adults in Iceland, researchers estimated the prevalence of unrecognized heart attacks, which was associated with an increased risk…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Gary F. Mitchell, M.D., call 781-255-6930 or email garyfmitchell@gmail.com. To contact editorial author Debabrata Mukherjee, M.D., M.S., call Laura Gallegos at 915-309-5647 or email laura.gallegos@ttuhsc.edu. CHICAGO – An analysis of the relationship between several vascular function measures and blood…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 1 A.M. (CT) MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Nicolas Danchin, M.D., Ph.D., email nicolas.danchin@egp.aphp.fr. CHICAGO – The overall rate of death in patients hospitalized with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram following a heart attack) decreased from 1995 to 2010 in…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 1 A.M. (CT) SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact James K. Min, M.D., call Sally Stewart at 310-423-4768 or email sally.stewart@cshs.org. To contact editorial author Manesh R. Patel, M.D., call Sarah Avery at 919-660-1306 or email sarah.avery@duke.edu. CHICAGO – Among patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease, use…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Preventing Patient Harms Through Systems of Care Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, and George W. Bo-Linn, M.D., M.H.A., of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif., discuss the problem of preventable harms to patients, which include…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact co-author Michiel L. Bots, M.D., Ph.D., email m.l.bots@umcutrecht.nl. CHICAGO – In an analysis of data from previously published studies that included more than 45,000 patients, the value of adding to the Framingham Risk Score a measure of the common carotid artery…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact David Preiss, M.D., Ph.D., email david.preiss@glasgow.ac.uk. CHICAGO – Although some studies have suggested that use of lipid-lowering therapies may increase the risk of pancreatitis, an analysis that involved pooling of data from previous studies and included more than 150,000 participants found…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Stephan Windecker, M.D., email stephan.windecker@insel.ch. To contact editorial co-author Adnan Kastrati, M.D., email kastrati@dhm.mhn.de. CHICAGO – Compared with a bare-metal stent, the use of a stent with a biodegradable polymer that releases the drug biolimus resulted in a lower…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Joseph Yeboah, M.D., M.S., call Marguerite Beck at 336-716-2415 or email marbeck@wakehealth.edu. To contact editorial co-author J. Michael Gaziano, M.D., M.P.H., call Lori Schroth at 617-534-1604 or email ljschroth@partners.org. CHICAGO – In a comparison of novel cardiovascular risk markers, coronary artery…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Preventing Suicides in U.S. Service Members and Veterans – Concerns After a Decade of War Charles W. Hoge, M.D., of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Md., and Carl A. Castro, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact the corresponding author for the first study, Takeshi Tanigawa, M.D., Ph.D., email tt9178tt9178@gmail.com. To contact the corresponding author for the second study, Masaharu Tsubokura, M.D., email tsubokura-tky@umin.ac.jp. CHICAGO – The results of two studies in the August 15 issue of JAMA…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Katherine L. Mills, Ph.D., email k.mills@unsw.edu.au. CHICAGO – Study participants who received an integrated treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance dependence plus usual treatment for substance dependence showed significantly greater reductions in PTSD symptom severity compared with participants who…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Joanne Klevens, M.D., Ph.D., call Gail Hayes at 770-488-4902 or email shayes@cdc.gov. To contact editorial co-author C. Nadine Wathen, Ph.D., call Jeff Renaud at 519-661-2111, ext. 85165, or email jrenaud9@uwo.ca. CHICAGO – In a study that included more than 2,700 women receiving…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Candice M. Monson, Ph.D., call Suelan Toye at 416-979-5000, ext. 7161 or email stoye@ryerson.ca. To contact editorial author Lisa M. Najavits, Ph.D., call Gina DiGravio at 617-638-8480 or email gina.digravio@bmc.org. CHICAGO – Among couples in which one partner was diagnosed as…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 Transcatheter Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis – Balancing Benefits, Risks, and Expectations Chintan S. Desai, M.D., and Robert O. Bonow, M.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, write that “transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) represents a transformative technology with potential for the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Mercedes R. Carnethon, Ph.D., call Marla Paul at 312-503-8928 or email marla-paul@northwestern.edu. To contact Hermes Florez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., call Lisa Worley at 305-243-5184 or email lworley2@med.miami.edu. CHICAGO – Participants in a study who were normal weight at the time of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Brian K. Kit, M.D., M.P.H., call Karen Hunter at 404-639-3286 or email ksh7@cdc.gov. To contact editorial author Sarah D. de Ferranti, M.D., M.P.H., call Rob Graham at 617-919-3110 or email rob.graham@childrens.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – In a study involving more than 16,000 U.S….

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Study Evaluates Association of Pertussis Vaccine Type and Administration With Reports of Pertussis Cases Similar to North America, Australia is experiencing a sustained pertussis epidemic, with the highest incidence rates in Queensland during 2011 in children age 6 to 11 years. The recent changes in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Peter K. Smith, M.D., call Debbe Geiger at 919-660-9461 or email debbe.geiger@dm.duke.edu. To contact editorial author Lawrence J. Dacey, M.D., M.S., call David Corriveau at 603-653-1978 or email David.A.Corriveau@hitchcock.org. CHICAGO – Although there have been questions regarding the safety…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Sapna Syngal, M.D., M.P.H., call Jessica Maki at 617-534-1603 or email jmaki3@partners.org. To contact editorial co-author Hemant K. Roy, M.D., call Jim Anthony at 847-570-6132 or email janthony@northshore.org. CHICAGO – Among patients with multiple colorectal polyps, the prevalence of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D., call Sarah Avery at 919-660-1306 or email sarah.avery@duke.edu. CHICAGO – Patients with chronic heart failure who participated in exercise training had modest reductions in symptoms of depression after 12 months, compared with usual care, according to a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Anne L. Coleman, M.D., Ph.D., call Elaine Schmidt at 310-794-2272 or email eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu. CHICAGO – Medicare patients 65 years and older who underwent cataract surgery had a lower odds of hip fracture 1 year after the procedure when compared…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Use of Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Slow HIV Disease Progression Among Patients Not Taking Antiretroviral Therapy Nicholas I. Paton, M.D., F.R.C.P., of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, and colleagues conducted a study to examine whether hydroxychloroquine decreases immune activation and inflammation and subsequently slows…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., call Kathy Stover at 301-402-1663 or email Kathy.stover@nih.gov. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ending the global HIV/AIDS pandemic may be possible by implementing a multifaceted global effort that expands testing, treatment, and prevention programs, as well as meets…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Howard D. Strickler, M.D., M.P.H., call Deirdre Branley at 347-266-9204 or email sciencenews@einstein.yu.edu. WASHINGTON, D.C. – HIV-infected and uninfected women with normal cervical cytology (Pap test) and a negative test result for oncogenic (tumor inducing) human papillomavirus DNA at study…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact H. Irene Hall, Ph.D., call the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention press office at 404-639-8895 or email NCHHSTPMediaTeam@cdc.gov. WASHINGTON, D.C. – An examination of the characteristics of persons born outside the United States diagnosed with…

EMBARGOED FOR EARLY RELEASE: 10 A.M. (ET) SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Melanie A. Thompson, M.D., email drmt@mindspring.com, or contact Donna Jacobsen, Executive Director of IAS-USA at DJacobsen@iasusa.org or 415-544-9400. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Included in the 2012 International Antiviral Society-USA panel recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient care is that all adult patients, regardless of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012 Is It Time to Replace the Tuberculin Skin Test With a Blood Test? “Recent mathematical tuberculosis (TB) transmission modeling has shown that substantial improvements in addressing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) will be needed to eliminate TB before the 22nd century,” writes Philip A. LoBue, M.D.,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A., call David Cameron at 617-432-0441 or email david_cameron@hms.harvard.edu. To contact editorial co-author Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., call Annmarie Christensen at 603-653-0897 or email Annmarie.Christensen@dartmouth.edu. CHICAGO – Physicians tend to share patients with colleagues who have…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Michael W. Fried, M.D., call Tom Hughes at 919-966-6047 or email tahughes@unch.unc.edu. CHICAGO – Use of the botanical product silymarin, an extract of milk thistle that is commonly used by some patients with chronic liver disease, did not provide greater benefit…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT) TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D., call Rachel Champeau at 310-794-2270 or email RChampeau@mednet.ucla.edu. To contact editorial co-author Tobias Kurth, M.D., Sc.D., email tobias.kurth@univ-bordeaux.fr. CHICAGO – Adding stroke severity to a hospital 30-day mortality model based on claims data for Medicare beneficiaries with…