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Gender Differences In Access To Trauma Centers

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE: May 22, 2013

EXCERPT: "Women are less likely than men to receive care in a trauma center after severe injury, according to a new study of almost 100,000 Canadian patients."  more

RELATED  LINK:
 
Paper "Access To Trauma Centre Care Following Severe Injury: Are Women At A Disadvantage?" presented by Andrea Hill at the 2013 American Thoracic Society (May 2013), Philidelphia

Hill A, Pinto R, Nathens A, Fowler R. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 187;2013:A4953. Meeting Abstract.

Gender Differences In Symptoms And Care Of Irregular Heartbeats

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE: March 13, 2013

EXCERPT:  "Women with atrial fibrilation have more symptoms and lower quality of life than men with the same heart condition, according to an analysis of patients in a large national registry compiled by the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

The finding adds to a growing body of research that highlights gender disparities in how cardiovascular disease is managed, and serves as a caution to doctors to be alert to treatment decisions that might perpetuate the differences."  more

RELATED LINK:

Presented by Jonathan P. Piccini at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Sessions & Expo, 9-11 2013, San Francisco

Women Suffer More ICD Complications

SOURCE:  MedPage Today

DATE:  February 9, 2012

EXCERPT:  "Women are at greater risk of complications and are less likely to receive appropriate shocks from their implantable cardioverter-defibrillators than men, researchers found."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Macfadden DR, Crystal E, Krahn AD, Mangat I, Healey JS, Dorian P, Birnie D, Simpson CS, Khaykin Y, Pinter A, Nanthakumar K, Calzavara AJ, Austin PC, Tu JV, Lee DS. Sex differences in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator outcomes: findings from a prospective defibrillator database. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Feb 7;156(3):195-203.


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Young Women Have Greater In-Hospital Mortality Rates Than Young Men In New Jersey Following Heart Attacks

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: July 23, 2010

EXCERPT:  "A new study by researchers at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has found that women between the ages of 35 and 54 were more likely to die in hospitals following heart attacks  than men of a similar age. This finding from a sample of more than 423,000 patients can be seen as surprising, given that women, on average, develop their first acute myocardial infarction -- or heart attack -- about 10 years later than men, and are overall less likely to develop myocardial infarction than are men. The study was published in the July 2010 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:
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Shao YH, Croitor SK, Moreyra AE, Wilson AC, Kostis WJ, Cosgrove NM, Kostis JB; MIDAS Study Group (MIDAS II). Comparison of hospital versus out of hospital coronary death rates in women and men. Am J Cardiol. 2010 Jul 1;106(1):26-30.

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Women’s Mortality Rates at U.S. Hospitals Differ from Men’s

SOURCE:  Newswise

DATE:  April 21, 2010

EXCERPT: "Women and men experience different outcomes at U.S. hospitals for the same procedures and treatments, according to a new study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The HealthGrades Seventh Annual Women’s Health in American Hospitals study also identified hospitals in the top 5% in women’s care through an analysis of nearly 7 million hospitalization records from all of the nation’s nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

HealthGrades.com 

Women, Diabetics, Dementia Patients Most Likely To Fall In 'Doughnut Hole'; Reform Seeks To Close Coverage Gap

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  March 31, 2010

EXCERPT:  "Among elderly Americans, women and those with diabetes and dementia are most likely to find themselves in the Medicare Part D drug plan 'doughnut hole,' the coverage gap that occurs after a beneficiary has reached the annual coverage limit but hasn't spent enough on drugs to qualify for catastrophic coverage."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Ettner SL, Steers N, Duru OK, Turk N, Quiter E, Schmittdiel J, Mangione CM. Entering and Exiting the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Role of Comorbidities and Demographics. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 Mar 9.

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Women More Likely to Die After Heart Attack

SOURCE:  MedlinePlus.gov   (Reuters Health)

DATE:  March 16, 2010

EXCERPT: "When it comes to matters of the heart, women should be treated more like men.Among patients admitted to the hospital for a heart attack, women were far less likely than men to get angiography in which blood vessels are injected with dye so that blockages are visible on an X-ray, or angioplasty to clear blockages, a study found. Women were about twice as likely as men to die within a
month of a heart attack, the study said."   more

RELATED LINKS:

Presented by Dr. Francois Schiele [on date] at the American College of Cardiolog (ACC) 2010 meeting 14-16 March 2010, Atlanta.

See also Schiele, ACC CardioSourceNews 2010, p. 11

A Vision for Personalized Medicine

SOURCE: MIT Technology Review (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

DATE:  March 9, 2010

EXCERPT: "Leroy Hood has been at the center of a number of paradigm shifts in biology. He helped to invent the first automated DNA sequencing machine in the 1980s, along with several other technologies that have changed the face of molecular biology. And in 2000, he founded the Institute for Systems Biology, a multidisciplinary institute in Seattle dedicated to examining the interactions between biological information at many different levels, and to moving forward a new perspective for studying biology. The next revolution he plans to help shape is in medicine, using new technologies and new knowledge in biology and informatics to make its practice more predictive, preventative and personal."   more

World-Renowned Radiologist Speaks Out On The Over-Use, Radiation Exposure, And Expense Of CTs Ordered For Women With Acute Pelvic Conditions

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  March 3, 2010

EXCERPT: "In a bold, eye-opening editorial in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Harvard Professor, Beryl Benacerraf, MD, urges the medical community to use ultrasound instead of Computed Tomography (CT) as the first-line imaging test for better diagnosis capability in the evaluation of acute female pelvic and lower abdominal conditions. 

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Citing a recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the vast use of imaging procedures that involved radiation exposure, Dr Benacerraf emphasizes the fact that "radiation exposure is cumulative, and each exposure adds incrementally to the long-term danger of cancer". Alternatively, ultrasound is safe, radiation-free, and most frequently has superior diagnostic capability when evaluating patients with lower abdominal conditions. The advancement of ultrasound technology has resulted in machines that are less operator-dependent with the ability to poduce images that can be evaluated in multiple views with 3D volume imaging.   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Benacerraf BR. Why has computed tomography won and ultrasound lost the market share of imaging for acute pelvic conditions in the female patient? J Ultrasound Med. 2010 Mar;29(3):327-8. No abstract available.


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Better Research Needed for Better Women's Health -- Audio

Pat Lynch, Host of Speak Up!  Guest -- Phyllis Greenberger, President and C.E.O. of the Society for Women’s Health Research

SOURCE:  WomensRadio

DATE:   n.a.

EXCERPT: "Speak Up! invites women, and also men, who “speak” to women in terms of their values, their goals and their strong sense of community, to address issues, opportunities and successes that need to be heard by a larger audience of women leaders.  ...  Phyllis Greenberger is the President and C.E.O. of the Society for Women’s Health Research.  She is a longtime champion of women’s health care needs and friend of WomensRadio.  Greenberger joins Speak Up! to talk about the health research needed to identify gender differences in health care and how the Government is responding to this."   more