�New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows African Americans ar more than twice as likely as Caucasians to die in the infirmary after surgical removal of part of the liver -- an increasingly used procedure for the treatment of liver cancer.
In recent years, a large body of evidence has emerged revealing significant racial disparities in health care and outcomes in the United States. Previous studies get documented racial disparities in surgical mortality after cardiovascular and cancer the Crab procedures. Because of such studies, the identification and elimination of these disparities has go a national public health priority.
"Our study shows a racial divide in regards to in-hospital mortality afterwards major hepatectomy," according to Timothy Pawlik, MD, MPH, FACS, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. "This finding is of special note because of the magnitude of the observed gap in outcomes."
Using hospital discharge data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, researchers retrospectively reviewed 3,552 patients who underwent major hepatectomy between 1998 and 2005. The overall racial makeup was 59 percent Caucasian, 6 pct African-American, 5 percent Hispanic, 7 percentage Asian/Pacific Islander and 24 percent other or unsung, which included records with missing race and those from states that do not report race.
"There has previously not been any research on racial disparities in the outcomes of liver resection, but it is an important issue to examine as the use of hepatic resection has increased dramatically in the U.S.," added Hari Nathan, MD, department of surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's lead investigator. "Given this increase, studies are needful to clear up the nature of this disparity and identify targets for intervention."
The odds of dying following this type of liver operation were twice as high for African Americans compared with Caucasians. After adjustment for clinical, infirmary, and socioeconomic risk factors, data revealed that African-American patients were twice as likely to die compared to Caucasian patients (odds ratio 2.15, 95 percent assurance, interval 1.28 to 3.61).
Researchers believe that differences in preoperative health status may underlie some of the ascertained disparity in outcomes, a theory supported by the finding that African-American patients who died in the hospital as a complication of a hepatectomy did so a great deal sooner than their Caucasian counterparts. Hospital factors may also explain racial disparities in outcomes, insofar as minority patients might receive care at hospitals with generally poorer outcomes.
About the American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organisation of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 72,000 members and is the largest organisation of surgeons in the world. For more information, visit http://www.facs.org/.
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Saturday 30 August 2008
Download Fiddlers Green mp3
 Artist: Fiddlers Green: mp3 download Genre(s): Folk Discography:  Drive Me Mad Year: 2007 Tracks: 20 Fiddler's Green were formed in 1990 in Erlanger and were major players in Germany's folk-rock rebirth of the early and mid '90s. They do a remainder of traditional Irish songs and original compositions in a expressive style sometimes redolent of the Pogues and Oysterband only they besides contribute twists of ska and nods to Johnny Cash and Tom Waits. They helped engender many corresponding German bands like Tapsi Turtles, Paddy Whack and In Search of a Rose. Their first tercet albums Fiddler's Green, (1992) Black Sheep (1993) and King Shepherd (1995) were quite consistent Celtic rock collections featuring particular playing by fiddler Tobias Rempe and accordionist Stefan Klug coupled with Peter Pathos' cracking original songs and intricate vocal harmonies. On and On (1997) was their first major label expiration and likewise marked the get-go signs of a more than rock oriented sound for Fiddler's Green. Jim Crichton (Saga) was employed to make Spin Around(1998) which cemented their reasoned transformation despite the comprehension of threesome traditional songs. |
Sunday 10 August 2008
Fightstar, Alternate Endings
The acquittance of Alternate Endings, a B-sides aggregation from Middle England post-hardcore bastions, Fightstar, raises a question: hardly how itchy do staunch devotees capture during that 'tween-album oblivion period? Evidently, enough to warrant this provisional record, just to keep the keenest fans ticking over until the next record album proper.
But, at the same metre, the fact that a band so prematurely pink-slipped have clocked up sufficiency material to put out an assemblage of this sort underlines that Fightstar are non a band to be miscalculated. And its parochial fan-focused characteristic suggests they're certainly non putting this out to make a quick buck, as is so ofttimes the nature of such anthologies.
The sequential development on display across Alternate Endings, while non laid forbidden chronologically, makes for a noteworthy expression to study - the earlier recordings see Charlie Simpson apparently knocking on 60-a-day to achieve a strained, grizzled croakiness (clamant credibility, go out?) while the later material carries a far more organic quality.
And though the more late material - Dark Star or Hold Out Your Arms, for instance, both B-sides from the One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours era - may not be a repay to choirboy trillings, they're a significant step on from the primary amalgam of desperate emo yearnings and noise for noise's sake. Deep amongst the echelons of Fightstar lurks some contact musicianship, patently only visible when the bravado is left at the threshold. A tasting of things to fall, one might hope?
And even, ready to subvert this theory with evil glee comes Where's The Money, Lebowski?, the lone specimen of brand new material on the compilation. Stale, strident and contrived beyond principle, it's a rapid excursion straight back to square one. That aforesaid, it's at least equipped with the element of surprise.
Acoustic offerings lifted from Colin Murray's Radio 1 roger Sessions provide similarly diverse extremes of timber. Where a stripped-bare rendering of Floods heightens the song dramatically and pays testament to the band's broad aptitude, a lumpen, oafish take on Waitin' For A Superman by the Flaming Lips quick undoes whatsoever display of artistry explicit during the aforementioned runway.
Still, Alternate Endings proves, if cypher else, that Fightstar ar far from transitory. Somehow, they let forged trine solid years' worth of a estimable career, escaping laughable boy band ties and gaining something in the way of insufferable acceptance, something which Alternate Endings cements deservingly. But, as a record in itself, the customary farrago omnibus scene confirms this not so much as an album, but as an article of merchandise strictly for the most active of fans.
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Wednesday 2 July 2008
Hed Planet Earth
Artist: Hed Planet Earth
Genre(s):
Alternative
Rock: Hard-Rock
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Rock: Hard-Rock
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
The Best of (Hed) Planet Earth
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Back To Base X
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Blackout
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Nativity In Black Ii
Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
Broke
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
(Hed) Planet Earth
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Church Of Realities
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Sunday 22 June 2008
Skin
Artist: Skin
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Industrial
Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Industrial
Discography:
Fake Chemical State
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Fleshwounds
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Shame, Humility, Revenge
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Dynamic
Sunday 1 June 2008
Fall Out Boy - The Things They Say 8298
"I get a look (from her) every time I don't say fiancee." FALL OUT BOY bassist PETE WENTZ admits fiancee ASHLEE SIMPSON is unimpressed when he forgets their new relationship status.
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