Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...ssue becomes more complicated when doctors provide controversial screening tests because they fear a future lawsuit...es several potential risks of screening tests with controversial benefits, including: Reliance on screening tests before their effectiveness has been corroborat...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
...se to cancer therapy, but that applicationhas been controversial because opinions differ on its validity and precisely howto interpret test results. The U-M researchers found that patients whose PSA levels declined at least 50percent after eight weeks of chemotherapy survived for 91 weeks (median),compared with 38...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
...quent survival. "This is an enormously controversial subject," says Dr. Harlap. "Ournew data has shown that the timing of surgery influenced survival for womendiagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But is it stillimportant? We don't know, but the answer seems to be no. In the m...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
... editor's noteaccompanying this article, this is a controversial conclusion. Theall-electronic format of the journal made it possible to obtain rapid responsesto the article and to publish some of those responses along with it. The most lengthy and vociferous response ("Listening to Meta-Analysisbut Heari...Differences In Brain Function Found For Attention Deficit Disorder
...m neuroscientists because "ADDis so widespread, so controversial and confusing, and these are among the fewclear findings in that field," said Gabrieli, who heads the brain imaginglaboratory where the research was done. Attention deficit disorder, which oftenincludes hyperactivity, is currently diagnosed on the ba...Study Confirms Safety Of Common Heart Drug
...lable in various forms for over200 years, has been controversial because of questions about its effectivenessand toxicity. With respect to toxicity, previous reports in the 1970s estimatedthat more than 20 percent of people taking the drug risked toxic reactions,including heart rhythm disturbances, nausea, vomitin...New Theory May Explain Ritalin Action In Hyperactivity
...HD,the use of such psychostimulants in children is controversial due to well-knownside effects of this class of drugs, Caron added. Giving children medicationsthat boost serotonin could provide both an attractive alternative therapy forchildren in whom these drugs are ineffective or prohibited, he said. Wh...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
... Ohman,the study's senior researcher. "This a very controversial topic, without much scientific data on eitherside," Ohman said. "This evidence suggests that we can achieve reasonableresults with the balloon alone in a certain group of patients. We can alwaysreserve the excellent stent technology for those patie...Higher Doses Of Methadone May Do The Trick, New Study Says
...y brought about by clinical trials' long historyof controversial orconflicting results." To avoid the earlier problems, the Hopkins researchers conducted the studyat a singlelocation and randomly assigned a large number of patients -- 192 -- to amoderate dose group (40 to50 mg of methadone) or to a high dos...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
... allowance to make forpassive smoking? The controversial 25 per cent figure, reported in the NEJM by Jiang Heand his colleagues at the Tulane University School of Public Health and TropicalMedicine (vol 340, p 920), was achieved by pooling many different statisticalresults -a "meta-analysis". It included t...Discussion about learning processes reopens
...re still remains, however, one unresolved and very controversial issue: Towhat extent does long-term potentiation participate in learning and memoryacquisition? Contrary to their expectations, the scientists from Heidelbergcould not demonstrate abnormal learning behaviour in the mutant mice. Rather,the mice lackin...Controversial performance enhancer "andro" affects brains as well as brawn, say UMass researchers
AMHERST, Mass. -- Athletes taking the controversial performance enhancerknown as "andro" may be affecting their moods as well as their muscles, suggestsa study published by University of Massachusetts researchers in the July issueof the journal Endocrinology. The study was conducted by doctoral studen...University of Chicago study finds therapy to prevent miscarriage is not helpful
...ehensive study of its kind to evaluatea costly and controversial therapy for miscarriage," said Carole Ober, Ph.D.,lead author of the study and professor of human genetics and obstetrics andgynecology at the University of Chicago. "Many smaller studies have reportedconflicting results, but this prospective, rando...Cholesterol lowering in elderly reduces heart disease and strokes
...rnal Medicine, makes clear the NCEP's stand on the controversial issue ofcholesterol lowering in those age 65 and older. "Some investigators have questioned the value of testing cholesterol andtreating high levels in the elderly," said NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. "But an overview of the research sho...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
... statements. Virginians continue to favor three controversial issues: 77 percent of Virginians agree that physicians should be allowed to prescribemarijuana for medical use when it reduces pain form cancer treatment or otherillness. 68 percent agree doctors should be allowed to end the life of a terminally ...Study suggests some unruptured aneurysms do not need treatment
Building on controversial data published in New England Journal of Medicine last year, UC San Francisco researchers report that surgically treating unruptured cerebral aneurysms is unnecessary in a large subset of patients. The UCSF analysis, combining results from numerous i...Conference convenes on ibogaine, a controversial drug to treat heroin addiction
...l of Medicine willhost a conference on ibogaine, a controversial drug hailed by some researchersas a potentially powerful treatment for heroin addiction. The conference, to beheld on November 5 and 6, will bring together leading ibogaine experts in thefields of neuroscience, ethnography and sociology. Ibogai...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...s of international trade regulation, including the controversial TRIPSAgreement raise serious concerns about the a...e,Uganda, and Viet Nam ? reported progress on this controversial drug accessmodel. In Uganda, where the initiative has completed its first year, more than700 people ...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
... in biomedical research. "Certainly there has been controversial research in North Carolina, where researchers have asked themselves - or should have - questions like, 'Will my research put this community at risk? How should I protect them? What happens after I'm finished?'" King says. In biomedical research of an...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...ation of the tiny particulate matter targeted by a controversial proposed environmental rule that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this term. (FUEL 1, Sunday, Aug. 20, 9:15 a.m.) New coating could extend life of metals tenfold - Instead of preventing rust, a new polymer helps metals form their own la...