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...Association, was funded by the cellular phone industry and conducted by the American Health Foundation. The second, independently financed study will be published later this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, where editors decided to lift an embargo early in order to support the findings reported in JAMA...
...Sources: JAMA, AP; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, AP; Los Angeles Times; AP, www.thespark.com
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (8/24); Journal of the American Medical Association (8/23). Bad News--JAMA (8/23...
Sources--Good News: Journal of the American Medical Association (7/12/00); American Psychologist (6/00). Bad News (1 & 2): JAMA (7/5/00...
Speed makes a difference. Heart-attack victims who don't experience chest pain typically put off going to the hospital--by an average of two hours, the JAMA study found. When these patients finally show up at the emergency room, it often takes doctors longer to make the right diagnosis. All the while, their heart isn't getting potentially life-saving treatment with clot-busting drugs, beta-blockers or emergency angioplasty. These delays, says Dr. John Canto, the study's lead author and a cardiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, help explain why a heart-attack patient...