Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
... ARC Breast Cancer Partners Programme, and 47 have completed it, according to Mrs Ursula Courtney, director of ...ers have breast cancer. Nine programmes have been completed since then. Groups of no more than six men at a time join an educational class which has the added a...First European trial for new breast cancer vaccine
...vanced breast cancer in the trial, which should be completed late this year." HER-2 is a protein that is overexpressed in many tumours. But, because it is also expressed at low levels in some normal tissues, the immune system does not recognise it as foreign and the immune cells, especially helper T cells that...Novel anti-coagulant clears hurdle
...ander, M.D., presented the results of the recently completed Phase II clinical trial today (March 20) at the 51st annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology. As cardiologists, what we need is an anti-coagulant that achieves predictable concentrations, is easy to dose for individual patien...Keeping patients in touch with their lives and their treatments
...th since your last treatment?. Often the patients completed a touch screen questionnaire more than once, with 868 forms completed, made up of 627 women receiving chemotherapy as adjuvant treatment and 241 receiving it for metastatic disease. Interesting results from the exercise included the fact that there w...Doctors need training courses in communication skills
...d not. Before and after attending the course they completed a questionnaire on their psychosocial beliefs. Th...tations before and after the course, and they also completed a self-assessment questionnaire after the course, recording how they perceived their communication s...Individually tailored health promotions can help working women, research shows
...ceived confidential feedback based on surveys they completed about their smoking, eating, exercising and other ...had changed. Of women originally in the group, 538 completed all three, she said. Results were encouraging. Our women increased fruit and vegetable consumption, ...Miniature filtering device to make angioplasty safer being tested
...continues to remain safe. Earlier this year, Rush completed a study of a device called PercuSurge, which also blocks debris from blocked arteries from floating freely through a blood vessel by using a balloon and suction catheter. Snell indicated that Rush will soon embark on a trial comparing the two device...The Pill may increase the risk of breast cancer according to a large study of younger women
... 1991/1992, 103,027 women, aged between 30 and 49, completed a questionnaire that included questions on hormonal contraceptive use and other lifestyle characteristics. The researchers followed them through to December 1999 and found that in that time 1,008 cases of breast cancer had been detected. Most of th...Depressed teens receptive to tobacco advertising more likely to experiment with smoking
...ed over 1,100 ninth grade students. These students completed a survey that assessed current smoking practices, exposure to other smokers, levels of depression, and receptivity to tobacco advertising. Demographic data including age, gender, and race/ethnicity were also collected. Sixty percent of the students r...Research confirms safety and efficacy of RemiFemin for menopausal symptoms
...sicians' practices. More than 20 trials have been completed spanning more than 40 years. No serious drug interactions have been reported in 40 years of use under physicians' supervision and adverse events have been limited to mild, transient stomach upset. This research was funded by Schaper & Brmmer, whic...Effect of diet on risk of benign prostate disease in middle-aged men
...ld at the inception of the study in 1986. The men completed questionnaires biennially from 1986 and 1993, in which they provided detailed dietary information as well as information on prostate health. A total of 3523 men were identified in 1993 as having BPH, defined according to whether they had experienced...Study reveals benefits of lay health advisers in boosting mammography
...he latest research is based on 801 black women who completed both a baseline survey and a follow-up three years later. Our new study demonstrates that although intensive, a lay health adviser network intervention, supplemented by efforts to increase access and quality, appears effective and may be the be...HIV infection among female injection drug users
... women) who were HIV negative at enrolment and who completed follow-up study visits and serology tests up to March 2001. During each visit blood samples were drawn and information was collected on patterns of drug use and high-risk behaviours. Over the period, seroconversion occurred in 64 men and 46 women. Th...Hormone replacement therapy may be associated with increased ovarian cancer risk
...The women, who were between the ages of 50 and 74, completed questionnaires about their history of HRT use and other factors that may have affected their risk of ovarian cancer. The authors found that women who had used estrogens alone had a 43% increased risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer compared ...Buck researcher awarded Brookdale Fellowship
...ly based at the University of Manchester, where he completed his Ph.D. in endocrinology in 1997. In 1998, he was awarded a Medical Research Council Research Fellowship to conduct a three-year study of genetic influences on the growth of nematode worms, which initiated his collaboration with Dr. Lithgow. It was...Behavior management programs help seniors with chronic illnesses sleep better
...ion. Delayed treatment control group participants completed three in home assessments at intervals that matched to treatment groups and offered HART intervention at the end of the six months. Seniors with chronic illnesses (such as coronary artery disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, high c...Parents recognise benefits of postmortems
...f the postmortem examination. Of the 166 women who completed the questionnaire, 81% agreed to a postmortem examination on their baby. The most common reasons given for agreeing to an examination were wanting more information about what had happened and helping to improve medical knowledge and research. Twenty-...Excessive weight gain during pregnancy can increase breast cancer risk, study finds
...ternity center registries and from a questionnaire completed by the study participants. Significant weight gain during pregnancy may cause changes in breast tissue that increase susceptibility to breast cancer in later liferoughly equivalent to the risk of postmenopausal obesity, said Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, Ph...Many junior doctors experience bullying
...er they had witnessed others being bullied. Of 594 completed questionnaires, 220 (37%) reported being bullied in the past year and 84% had experienced at least one bullying behaviour. Black and Asian doctors were more likely to be bullied than white doctors, and women were more likely to report being bullied t...Classroom management linked to lesser teen alienation from school
... addition, administrators at participating schools completed questionnaires about school policies and procedures, teacher characteristics, and student body characteristics. Thus, Add Health is the only current, nationally representative dataset with information on school attributes and on students' feelings of...