Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
... effects. Several patients in the studyexperienced abdominal pain, nausea, anorexia and other side effects. Paclitaxel is derived from taxol, a chemical obtained from the bark of theyew tree. As a chemotherapy drug, paclitaxel is used for the treatment ofovarian, breast and lung cancer. The study was funde......use an MRI-guided radio-frequency probe to destroy abdominal tumors. "A handful of groups have looked at radio-frequency ablation for tumors," Lewin said. "For the most part, this has been done with ultrasound or CT to place a probe in a patient using an amount of energy that is expected to treat the ...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...he body - from blood pressure to cortisollevels to abdominal fat- that can be measured to give a tangible indicationof an individual's personal stress load. McEwen introduces the concept of what he and his colleagues have labeled"allostatic load," which is the price our bodies pay for theability to adapt to ...Treatment For Cancer May No Longer Be As Grim As The Disease
...earthe liver's surface, patients may feel chest or abdominal pain for up to a week. The California team have so far tested their treatment on a dozen patients. Nineof the twelve have been free of cancer for more than a year. Left untreated,liver cancer is invariably fatal. Schneider expects that several more y......tness of breath. Less common signs are stomach or abdominal pain; dizziness; difficultybreathing; unexplained anxiety; weakness or fatigue; palpitations; cold sweat;or paleness. Because the study was large and distributed over a wide geographic region,Luepker says more data from the REACT project will be fort...Study Finds Olestra Chips Don't Generate Gastrointestinal Woes
...nd sometimes painful symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal cramping." What is perplexing about the re...the number of days volunteers reported any kind of abdominal symptoms, he said.One of the few differences was that people in the olestra group reported anaverage...Childhood Obesity, Diabetes And Hyperlipidemia
...on The authors found a clear relationship between abdominal fat according to waistcircumference and abnormal s...ipids and insulin in 3000 childrenaged 5-17. Thus, abdominal obesity in children may predict later diabetes andheart disease....Standardization Of Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Offers Hope To Patients Nationwide
...lutionary new treatment for patientssuffering from abdominal cancer will soon be available to doctors nationwidethanks to a partnership between Wake Forest University School of Medicine andIDT, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Biocontrol Technology of Pittsburgh, Pa New equipment called ThermoChem-H...UI Study Finds Many Physicians Withhold Pain Medication
...their beliefs about the use ofanalgesics for acute abdominal pain and examine how these beliefs affectprescribing patterns.Of the 131 respondents, 78 percent considered the ability to obtain informedconsent in their decisions to forgo pain medication. The survey also showed that53 percent thought the amount of...Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
...ignificantly reduce patients' pain following major abdominal surgery. Thestudy, published in the May issue of ...ch team studied three groups of patientsundergoing abdominal surgery. In addition to the usual pain medication, onegroup used a jaw relaxation technique, anothe...Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...gue that seat belts couldcause additional head and abdominal injuries and hinder evacuation of studentsafter a crash. Would a different type of restraint system settle the debate? Last fall, theJohns Hopkinsengineering students were assigned to find out. They designed and built therestraining bar in aclass pro...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...rized by a combination of persistent and recurrent abdominal painand abnormal bowel habit (diarrhea, constipation, or both). Pain often beginsafter eating and goes away after a bowel movement. Other symptoms are bloating,passage of mucus, and a feeling of incomplete emptying. IBS is not caused bystructural, bi......e of medical andsurgical diagnoses, who had marked abdominal distention and dilated colon andwho had failed to ...he patient had received recorded clinicalresponse, abdominal circumference, and X-ray measurements of the colon. Patientswho did not respond to the initial injec...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...en, infections (62percent), headache (19 percent), abdominal pain (19 percent), vomiting (13percent) and nausea (9 percent) occurred more frequently than in adults. Thetypes of infections reported in JRA patients were generally mild and consistentwith those commonly seen in outpatient pediatric populations. T...Children More Likely To Have Abdominal Pain During Termtime Than School Holidays
(Incidence of non-specific abdominal pain in children during school term: population su...diagnoses) Children are much more likely to have abdominal pain during the school term than during the school holiday, report Nigel Williams from Leicester Roy...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...sive and safe antibiotic, might help patients with abdominal aorticaneurysms, which kill at least 15,000 Americ...drug therapy that could inhibit the enlargement of abdominal aorticaneurysms, we could shift the management of this condition to screening andaggressive treatmen...High stress hormone levels impair memory
...rresponds to cortisol secretion after events like abdominal surgery. The lower dose wassimilar to cortisol secretion during a minor medical procedure such as gettingstitches or having a skin growth removed. The volunteers also were asked to listen to and recall parts of aparagraph so the researchers ...Music, relaxation can complement pain medicine
...nificantly reduce a patient's pain following major abdominal surgery. Testedin addition to the usual pain medication, these self-care methods reduced painmore than medication alone. The research was reported in "Pain," the journal ofthe International Association for the Study of Pain. Marion Good, assi......, totalgastrectomy (removal of the stomach), total abdominal colectomy (removal of thecolon), hepatic lobectomy (removal of a liver lobe), biliary tract anastomosis(reconnecting parts of the bile transport system, or radicalpancreaticoduodenectomy (removal of the pancreas head along with an encirclingloop of t......ndeven 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 prevalence and theavailability of inexpensive antibiotic treatments, physicians don't all treatcystitis th...