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ST. LOUIS, (Newstream) July 29, 2002 - Five million Americans go to the emergency room each year with chest pain. While most patients are found to be fine and sent home, five percent have a heart attack soon after leaving the hospital. A simple, 15-minute test could save your life. It's a scan that measures blood flow in the heart of patients complaining of chest pain and recently the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology said it was the most accurate way to diagnose a heart attack. Baptist Hospital in Miami is one of only a handful of hospitals nationwide that have been using the test for the past seven years. The hospital has been using the scan to dramatically lower the risk of misdiagnosed heart attacks to nearly zero. The scans also means a reduction in unneeded hospital stays. According to medical professionals, standard tests such as an E-K-G can often miss a heart attack, but the blood flow scan is nearly a hundred percent accurate.  Health Officials Issue Hot Weather Tips
The Health Departments for St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Jefferson County and St. Charles County are all part of Operation Weather Survival, a network of public and private organizations that work together to prevent illness and death caused by extreme weather. This is also a good time to set up a plan to check on elderly relatives and neighbors during extremely hot weather. Health officials are offering the following list of common sense tips for dealing with the heat. Hot Weather Tips
Increases, Says Harris Interactive Poll ROCHESTER, N.Y., (PRNewswire), June 23, 2002 - A recent Harris Internative online survey reported that more consumers in the U.S.A, France, Germany and Japan are increasing their use of the Internet not only to seek information, but also to purchase drugs and to communicate with their doctors. The online study of "cyberchondriacs", people who use the Internet for health or health care, was conducted in January 2002 with 309 cyberchondriacs in the U.S.A., 327 in France, 407 in Germany and 275 in Japan. The study found that Internet users are also likely to visit health care sites developed by organizations outside their own countries. But the pace and growth of these activities will vary from country to country depending on Internet penetration, local regulations, and public demand. According to results of the study, majorities of cyberchondriacs in all four countries support the idea of pharmaceutical companies communicating directly with consumers online. The strongest support is in the U.S.A. (87% in favor), and the weakest is in Japan (59% in favor). The American and Japanese cyberchondriacs would be the most likely to use the Internet to buy pharmaceuticals online, if they could do so. French and German cyberchondriacs would be less likely to do so. These differences may well reflect higher drug prices in the U.S.A. and that many drug purchases in Japan include a fee for the physicians (and, perhaps, that doctors' visits in Japan are extremely brief). Fully, 51% of Americans and 69% of Japanese cyberchondriacs say they would be at least somewhat likely to do this if they could, compared to 33% in Germany and 32% in France. Most cyberchondriacs in all four countries say they would be at least "somewhat likely" to use the Internet to communicate with their doctors if they could do so (currently only very few doctors give patients their email addresses or encourage email correspondence). The survey in the U.S. has shown that large numbers of people would be likely to fix appointments, refill prescriptions or ask simple questions of the doctors online and that many people would pay to be able to do this. The largest proportions of those who would be "extremely" or "very likely" to communicate with their doctors online are in Germany (51%) and the U.S.A. (41%). The study indicated that cyberchondriacs in Japan (72%), France (61%) and the U.S.A. (52%) believe that their governments should regulate online health-related information at least "somewhat," but only small minorities, from 4% in Germany to 22% in France favor "a great deal" of regulation. Archived Stories: West Nile Virus Underlines Threat From Mosquito-Borne Diseases McDonnell Foundation Awards Grants for Research Linking Brain and Behavior St. Louis Ranks 24th in Spring Allergy Cities St. Louis is Ranked Ninth Fattest City Kids Not as Healthy and Fit as They Could Be Asthma Is A Growing Concern in St. Louis More Americans Change Their Eating Habits Due to Heath and Nutrition Concerns TFTC Challenges Comfrey Products Promoted via Internet What's the Difference Between Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke? Think Sparklers Are Safe? Think Again, Says SLUCare Opthalmologist Four-day Local Pollen Forecast Desktop Tool Helps Allergy Suffers Electronic Meal and Health Management Tool  The SLFP.com - Community Info is presented in conjunction with the St. Louis Front Page and Southwest Illinois News. The sites are owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan St. Louis area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 1996 - 2008 Moore Design Group . |
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