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...Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that a method of screening women for Down in the first trimester is an even better indicator of risk than second-trimester screening. The aptly named FASTER study (for first- and second- trimester evaluation of risk), published in the New England Journal of Medicine, determined that if done properly, the first-trimester screening detects 87% of fetuses with Down at 11 weeks gestation, while the second-trimester blood screening detects 81% if four substances are screened and only 69% if the more popular triple-screen test is used. Most accurate...
...would go to households with annual incomes of more than $1 million. "With three consecutive hurricanes and skyrocketing energy prices, the fiscal environment is quite different, and we have to think about what is doable," Snowe told TIME. Her resolve, which rankled Senate G.O.P. leaders and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, inspired a literal thumbs-up from North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad as he headed to the Senate floor. "It took real courage for her to stand up and say, 'We've got to change course,'" Conrad said...
...concluded that the drugs are scarcely more effective than a placebo in alleviating depression. "I think they are more or less completely useless," says Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, senior lecturer in social and community psychiatry at University College London. In an article published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal, Moncrieff and coauthor Irving Kirsch, professor of psychology at the University of Plymouth, argued that it was time for "a thorough reevaluation of current approaches to depression and further development of alternatives to drug treatment." Seldom had a piece about antidepressants so explicitly challenged the reigning orthodoxy in the mainstream...
WAKE UP! SNORING AND STROKES Obstructive sleep apnea, a narrowing of the airways, causes raucous snoring and shortness of breath in millions of Americans (and keeps millions of spouses awake at night). Apnea has been linked to heart disease, but a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that it also significantly raises the risk of strokes...
...instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding to the “notion that as a general community, we are hoping to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing, especially for respiratory infections.” However, the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday, shows that pediatricians are still prescribing antibiotics to patients who do not need them. “Approximately half of children who come to the doctor for sore throat get an antibiotic, and that is higher than we would expect need an antibiotic,” said...