Breast reconstruction during mastectomy boosts well-being most, study finds
...vely higher preoperative scores, because they had completed their cancer treatment and had had several months or years to cope with their experience." Though they started from mostly lower psychological scores the immediate reconstruction patients made a bigger jump in most scores by the time they reached a y...Doctors use novel methods to more effectively treat lung cancer
...ts, said Dr. Rosenzweig. To date, 20 patients have completed high dose radiation treatment using the breath hold technique with positive results....GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
...of Genelabs Technologies, Inc. "Genelabs recently completed its submission to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its New Drug Application (NDA) for marketing approval of its formulation of GL701, which will be marketed in the U.S. under the name Aslera™, if approved. The NDA include...Post-traumatic stress disorder found in mothers whose children receive a bone marrow transplant
...eliminary data was gathered, 76 of 136 mothers had completed the six-month follow-up. "Not only is PTSD seen after the transplant, but mothers may experience considerable emotional distress before the procedure," says Manne. "This could be attributed to the demanding pre-transplant regimen which involves......titute in Americus, Georgia. Dr. Wykle recently completed a four-year study funded by the National Center for Nursing Research on Black vs. White Caregivers Formal/Informal Service Use, and a three-year study funded by National Institute on Aging on MD Style, Self-Care and Compliance of Chronically Ill Aged...Results of Yale study confirm aspirin helpful in preventing a first heart attack
...numbers of events in the primary prevention trials completed to date. While based on small numbers, the available evidence suggests an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke that needs to be further investigated." Hebert said more randomized trial data, especially in women, is needed to help formulate a rati...Stress levels can affect success of pneumonia vaccinations
...mune systems. All participants completed psychological tests to determine their current stress level and blood samples were taken to gauge their immune status. They received a vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria, the causative ag...More potent cancer drug made from platinum shows promise in clinical trials
... In Phase I studies of 47 cancer patients completed in Europe last year, the new class of drugs showed preliminary signs of activity against pancreatic cancer, melanoma and lung cancer, Farrell said. Phase II clinical trials, which could involve more than 200 patients, are underway in Europe and the U...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...he study began in 1984, and follow-up surveys were completed in 1999. Half of the study's 40 rural and suburban...he experimental and control groups. Questionnaires completed by the students during their senior year, and again two years after high school, showed almost ident...Medical hospitalization may be especially distressing for those with psychiatric disorders
...d substance abuse screening tests. These could be completed by patients before seeing physicians. One clinical option is to evaluate for signs and symptoms of distress during a medical crisis, continue to observe during follow-up care and intervene later if distress persists longer than a few weeks, said Boo...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
... carried out using traditional techniques could be completed in less than one month for a large group of compounds, and less than three months for a small group, he says. The technique, detailed in the Dec. 15 issue of the German scientific journal Angewandte Chemie, draws upon an area of research called combi...Toward a better burger: "Where's the selenium?"
...ing important in light of a long-term cancer study completed in 1996. The study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved the treatment of 1,312 skin cancer patients over 4.5 years plus a 6.4-year follow-up period. According to Finley, selenium had no effect on skin cancer, but t......ene Use for the Heart (RUTH) study, which recently completed enrolling more than 10,000 older women at risk of heart disease. Longer-term effects of raloxifene on reducing the incidence of breast cancer in post-menopausal women will be evaluated in the Continuing Outcomes Relevant to Evista (CORE) trial. Ven...Penn researchers identify new cost-effective antibiotic treatment which shortens patient stays
...ble through IV administration. Among patients who completed the study and follow up tests, a significantly higher proportion of patients treated with linezolid were discharged from the hospital in their first week of therapy (30 percent) than the group treated with vancomycin (12 percent). "Antibiotic resist...New definition may make number of heart attack cases soar
...iology in the UMHS Cardiovascular Center, recently completed a study investigating the significance of this change in definition at UMHS. They found that the new definition will mean a significant increase in the number of myocardial infarction cases at U-M, and implies such an increase nationwide. The informa...Unergrad's invention may deliver life-saving medicine
...ty remarkable students here at Hopkins." Krauland completed his undergraduates studie in December but is remaining at Johns Hopkin as a biomedical engineering master's degree student. As one of 43 Johns Hopkins students who received Provost's Undergraduate Awards for Research and Excellence in the 2000-2001 a...No evidence that large numbers of physicians are leaving California, say UCSF researchers
...cy training in the state. The remaining 45 percent completed their residencies outside California....Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...at least through the sixth. Analyses have now been completed and reported for ages 6, 15, 24, 36 and 54 months. Investigators consider their sample reasonably but not perfectly representative of U.S. children, Cox said. Strengths of the study include its large sample size, the repeated direct assessments and t...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...eceive the full vaccination series also could have completed the series in just one more visit, and 40.3 percent needed only one more shot, says Danni Daniels and CDC colleagues. Our findings suggest that most of the undervaccination was not a result of limited access to care, but rather a result of miss...Investigational oral contraceptive reduces premenstrual and menstrual symptoms
...5 years were given Yasmin for 13 cycles. Subjects completed a 23-item, self-rating Womens Health Assessment Qu...ious OCs. Study Results There were 258 women who completed the study. At the end of cycle six, premenstrual and menstrual symptom scores on the negative affec...