African-Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment
...Center, African-Americans continue to receive less aggressive treatment for heart attack than whites. Alain G. Bertoni, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, and his colleagues found that nearly 60 percent of every 100 white patients received cardiac catheterization for treatment...Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria
...ody's immune response in vaccine therapies against aggressive diseases such as melanoma, breast cancer, small-cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, HIV-1 and malaria. An extract from the bark of theSouth American tree Quillaja saponaria Molina, QS-21A is available only in small quantities. "Now that we have synthe...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...ians to avoid unnecessary treatment or choose less aggressive therapies for patients. John Foekens and colleagues (Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands) and colleagues, looked at patterns of gene expressions in 286 tumour samples from patients with lymph-node negative breast cancer who had not received hormone or ...Violence in the media can lead to aggressive behaviour in young children
...houghts and emotions, increasing the likelihood of aggressive or fearful behaviour, concludes a review published... children watching media violence and showing more aggressive play and behaviour, mainly in the short-term. The effect is small but significant and especially rel...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...g both smokers and non-smokers on nicotine, during aggressive moments such as impulsive or hostile acts, there are virtually no differences in brain activity between the sexes -- illustrating how nicotine can impact brain function. Results of the study, conducted by Brain Imaging Center researchers supported by...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...d that the Good Behavior Game dramatically reduced aggressive behavior and helped children stay on task in the c...d antisocial behaviors were much lower compared to aggressive boys who did not receive the intervention The Good Behavior Game also increases the likelihood that...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...onduct disorder such as persistent, impulsive and aggressive behavior, lack of adherence to societal norms, etc. may be a marker for underlying problems in emotional reactivity and related impairment in frontal limbic processes. This underlying dysfunction in central processes serving emotional reactivity, s...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...nvolve theoretical shifts, such as the use of less aggressive surgical therapy for early-stage breast cancer, may be harder to incorporate into the practice of doctors who have trained long ago. The study indicates that older doctors may need quality improvement interventions that are generally applicable to al...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
... history of hypothyroidism is associated with more aggressive forms of breast cancers, suggesting that thyroid hormone may promote breast cancer biology. Over a century ago physicians described using thyroid extract to treat breast cancer. Later, studies found that one of the circulating thyroid hormones actua...14-year study finds that quitting smoking adds years to life
... have abnormal lung function should be put into an aggressive quit-smoking program." Dr. Connett commented on the unusual study finding that even those who did not quit smoking completely had lower death rates than the people who continued to smoke throughout. "One might have thought that this program was not w...High levels of airborne mouse allergen in inner-city homes could trigger asthma attacks
...ites, and clinicians need to be ready to recommend aggressive extermination of mice or other ways parents can control the home environment." Asthma affects approximately 15 million people in the United States, about a third of whom are children. It is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization for children 15 y...Opportunity missed: TIA patients receive less aggressive attention than those with stroke
...nsient ischemic attack (TIA) patients receive less aggressive diagnostic testing, treatment and education compared to stroke patients, which is a missed opportunity to prevent permanent disability or death, researchers reported at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2005. "There...Stat5 protein inhibits spread of breast cancer cells
...that is gradually lost as cancer cells become more aggressive and invasive." Stat5 is a DNA-binding protein that...east cancers, especially as the tumors become more aggressive and metastatic. Rui cautions that this research was done with cancer cells cultured in the laborato...Two studies find evidence that sunlight may have beneficial influence on cancer
...ative hypothesis is that sun exposure induces less aggressive melanomas by inducing melanization and increasing DNA repair capacity, both of which might reduce further mutational changes in a melanoma. Which, if either, hypothesis is more plausible remains to be determined." Non-Hodgkin lymphoma has also been o...Balancing care decisions for gravely ill patients
...ve at the hospital might limit potentially futile, aggressive ICU care to such patients. However, limiting such aggressive care based on inaccurate tools might shorten potentially productive lives, says Keith Berge, M.D., a...People wounded in tsunami at risk of undetected fungal infections
.... Mucormycosis has a high mortality rate even with aggressive surgical intervention. Death rates range from 20-80% depending on the site involved and whether the patient has any underlying immune problems. The authors believe that infections found in travellers who have returned from tsunami-affected regions ca...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...transition defines a novel prognostic indicator of aggressive colon carcinoma AUTHOR CONTACT:Richard C. Bates Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Phone: 617-667-2816; Fax: 617-975-5531; E-mail: rbates@caregroup.harvard.edu . View the PDF of this arti...Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
...e in any form was better than death," and demanded aggressive treatment even when the doctors considered it medically futile. Doctors were most aggravated by patients who had no moral objection to a particular therapy but simply chose faith over medicine. "I have had patients," recalled several physicians, "wh...Gene vaccine protects mice against development of Her2/neu breast cancer
..."tells" the cancer cell to grow, this producing an aggressive disease that is difficult to stop. The drug Herceptin treats this kind of breast cancer by "plugging" these receptors with a monoclonal antibody, but this treatment "produces only a passive and transitory immune reaction," Lachman said. "This vaccine...Reduced progression of atherosclerosis tied to statin drugs lowering fats, protein
... of pravastatin, while the rest underwent the more aggressive treatment of 80 milligrams of atorvastatin. Doctors repeated the ultrasound evaluations 18 months later. In the group as a whole, the mean LDL cholesterol level dropped from 150.2 milligrams per deciliter to 94.5 milligrams per deciliter. Both ...