Millions Of Americans With Glaucoma Could Save Sight With Early Detection, Treatment
... medical professionals and glaucomasufferers alike urge people to have their eyes examined for the disease, whichcan result in blindness when left untreated. In the U.S., as many as 116,000people are legally blind due to glaucoma, and an estimated 5,500 new cases ofdisease-related blindness are reported e......t is too late. For that reason, cancer specialists urge allpatients over 50 years of age to have a colonoscopy. Although younger people do not usually have colon cancer, three recentcases of physically fit patients in their mid-30s have focused attention on thedisease: Baseball players Eric Davis ...Statement from Claude Lenfant, M.D., NHLBI Director, on Trends in Hypertension
...ent and treat hypertension. The JNC VI guidelines urge a population-wide approach to prevent high bloodpressure through lifestyle changes to affect overall cardiovascular deaths anddisability. In addition, the JNC VI report offers specific information tophysicians regarding when medication is indicated a...Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases For New Breast Cancer Biopsy
... vary widely among surgeons and institutions. They urge breast cancerpatients seeking to avoid complete axillary resection to first ask about the"false negative rate" of their surgeon and medical institution. "Doing so could reduce one's risk of being told that the biopsy results werenegative -- that the......urs, recording their mood and smokingbehavior. The urge to smoke was more strongly associated with anger, ...feelings of sadness or fatigue were linked withthe urge to smoke in men only. Smoking seemed to decrease feelings of anger inthose men who got angry more of...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...t on QOL: fecal incontinence and urgency -a sudden urge to rush to the toilet. Results of a questionnaire given to 2,410GI clinic patients in three states found incontinence three times as common andurgency about five times as common among people with IBS. "Those symptoms seem to us clinically as having t...Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
...n for every child to enter school ready to learn.I urge policymakers at all levels of government to redouble theirefforts to make quality child care opportunities available tohard-working American families." Dr. Richard Clifford, co-director of the National Center forEarly Development and Learning...Help for women's urinary tract infections
...the disease's irritatingsymptoms---an overwhelming urge to urinate frequently, burning sensations andeven bleeding during urination, and accompanying abdominal and back pain. Many women have also experienced inconsistent treatment of cystitis from doctorto doctor and region to region. Despite its wide pr...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
...ns in another part of the hypothalamus blocked the urge to eat and even caused death by starvation. Howeve...appetite. When leptin levels return to normal, the urge to eat goes away. Until recently, the responsible pathways in the brain were unclear. In the pas...New research on Tourette's syndrome
... and decision making. Most people have the urge to say or do inappropriate things, but decidenot to, says Flanagan. But Tourette's sufferers lack the ability to suppressthese impulses. "It's probably an extreme variant of a normal thing felt by manypeople," he says. "It's a nice observatio...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
Many drivers feel the urge to floor the accelerator on a crisp sunny daywhen the highway ahead seems to stretch straight to eternity. But only the mostfoolish would cut the brake line while pushing the pedal to the metal. Yet one of the body's most potent cancer-causing genes ...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...ed from depression, to come out of the closet. "We urge you to declare yourselves not for your own good but as the onlyeffective way to help reduce the stigma that still surrounds the condition", hesaid. This would send a clear signal to the public and to sufferers that depressiondoes not prevent one l...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
... spouses, to give them a health risk appraisal and urge them to make lifestyle changes of their own and to seek treatment if necessary." Co-authors include Bernice C. Yates, Ph.D., R.N. and Susan Blancher, R.N., Ph.D....Drug that curbs nicotine craving may do same for cocaine
...ed in combination with nicotine to help reduce the urge to smoke cigarettes, has now been shown in animal studies to reduce their self-administration of cocaine. Rats that were trained to press a lever in order to get cocaine no longer pressed it with the same frequency after they were given mecamyl......lion Americans. The condition is characterized by urge urinary incontinence (sudden and involuntary loss ...d efficacy superior to placebo in the reduction of urge incontinence episodes. Patients treated with Ditropan XL experienced a decrease in incontinence epi...Vitamin D shows promise as cancer prevention drug
...ts Washington D.C., August 22 -- Today, mothers urge vitamin D on their children to build strong bones and teeth. Within a decade, a chemically modified version of the vitamin could become one of a small but growing number of drugs used to prevent cancer, researchers reported today at the 220th nationa...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
...an individual with a UTI will feel an overwhelming urge to urinate frequently, accompanied by a burning sensation. Rarely, UTIs can cause bleeding during urination, high fever and accompanying abdominal and back pain. Worse yet is bacteremia, in which the bacteria enter the bloodstream and can cause fever...Measles and pertussis risk higher for children with personal exemptions from immunization
... risks of not vaccinating their children, and they urge public health personnel to recognize the potential effect of exemptors in outbreaks in the community....Groups urge Bush: rethink natural hazards approach
Professional groups urge incoming administrationto take new approach to natural hazards WASHINGTON--A group of organizations concerned about staggering humanand economic losses caused by natural hazards is asking the incomingadministration to take a new national approach t...Largest ever overactive bladder study published in leading urology journal
...of frequent urination, and urgency with or without urge incontinence (wetting episodes). Overactive bladder is a disruptive but treatable condition that can be managed, said Philip Van Kerrebroeck, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Department of Urology, University Hospital of Maastricht, The Netherlands, and principa...