Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...icians that there are non-systemic therapies being studied for OA pain which may provide future options." OA affects more than 20 million Americans annually and generates more than seven million physician visits per year. If left untreated, chronic pain conditions such as OA can have significant physical,...Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
...ex, seems to be a critical factor. The researchers studied 127 young women from three sexual health clinics. All of them had started having periods within the preceding five years or were aged 17 years and under. The young women were screened for genital infections, including chlamydia, wart virus (human pa...Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
...ials. The 15-45 year age group is one of the least studied and also the least likely to be treated at a large health care institution that offers clinical trials. Participation in cancer clinical trials has been shown to improve survival. Young adults with Kaposi Sarcoma have shown significant survival and m...Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues studied the efficacy of an office systems method in improving CRC screening behaviors. An office systems approach includes five clinician behaviors: educating patients; identifying patients due for screening; enabling patient compliance; monitoring patient c...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...cs and Nutritional Science. Fontana and colleagues studied 18 strict raw food vegans ages of 33 to 85. All ate a diet that not only lacked animal products but also included only raw foods such as a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, sprouted grains and legumes, dressed with olive oil. They had ...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...hat affect metabolism and health. The researchers studied two proteins that promote inflammation (interleukin 6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha) and a protein that promotes blood clots (plasminogen activator inhibitor 1). These proteins are all manufactured by fat tissue and involved in atherosclerosis, the...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...other students being bullied. The UCLA researchers studied 192 students in two ethnically diverse, urban schools. In one school, 47 percent of the sixth graders reported being bullied on at least one of these days; at the other school, 46 percent reported being bullied at least once. The study, published Mar...Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
...bout how this takes place, the Hopkins researchers studied brain cells from genetically engineered mice. Through their experiments, the researchers determined that the PICK1 and NSF proteins are both required for the calcium-forbidding channel to move into place at the synapse. Exactly how they help the chan...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...uary 1999 and May 2004, Dr. Swensen and colleagues studied 1,520 current and former smokers at high risk for lung cancer. The patient group contained 788 men and 732 women, age 50 or older (median age 59). All patients received an initial low-dose, helical CT examination, with annual screenings over the next...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
... cities experimented with NEPs. The most carefully studied program was in New Haven, Conn., where researchers estimated that the HIV and hepatitis B transmission rates dropped by approximately one-third during the first two years of the program. Government-funded studies of NEPs and reports from such respec...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...n College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y., and colleagues studied the incidence of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs) [abnormal lesions] among HIV-seropositive (n= 855) and HIV-seronegative (n= 343) who were enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and had normal cervical cytology at the b...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...s needed to determine how these differences can be studied to help identify better therapies for high-risk minority groups." The authors of the first study are: LTC G. Larry Maxwell, MD, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Cancer Institute; G.V.R. Chandramouli, PhD, National Cancer Institute; L...New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
...ere keratitis, 9 did so. Four types of lenses were studied - rigid, hydrogel daily disposable, hydrogel, and silicone hydrogel. There were no differences in risk of severe keratitis between the different types of lenses when they were worn during the day. But the risk of severe keratitis rose when lenses wer...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...transplant success, researchers had previously not studied patients for a longer follow-up period. Led by Antonio Cuadrado, M.D. of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit of the University Hospital "Marqus de Valdecilla" in Santander, Spain, the study expanded on a 1977 study involving 44 patients who unde...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
... including medical audit and research. Researchers studied the feasibility of obtaining signed consent for submission of patient identifiable information to a national clinical audit database (PICANet). Their analysis involved patients admitted to five paediatric intensive care units in England during May an...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...ch like normal skin cells that the researchers had studied previously. It turns out that the difference in cancer formation had to do with the type of alteration in the children's collagen VII gene. The cancer-resistant skin cells were from children who lacked the collagen VII protein altogether. The remaini...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...ounger than five years. The Atlanta research team studied pneumococcal isolates and demographic data from patients with invasive disease. They calculated cumulative incidence rates for invasive pneumonia from 1994 to 2002 using population estimates and census data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The decline i...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...analytical techniques, the investigative team also studied metabolic changes in the test animals at the genetic level. They found significant differences in gene expression, as measured by messenger RNA changes, between animals that became insulin resistant and those that did not, they say. Although the exac...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...spital-specific report cards only.Among the states studied (New York plus 12 controls) only New York released CABG report cards during the study period from 1988-95. Control states were defined by data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP-3), a data set that includes hospital discharge inf...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...s, was compared in the three cohorts. Of the women studied that were diagnosed in the 1970s, those with tumors on the left side had an increased ischemic heart disease mortality after 15 years (13.1 percent) compared to patients with tumors on the right side (10.2 percent). However, of the women diagnosed fr...