First study to show link between children's solid tumours and their mothers' breast cancer
...s for high risk individuals. Our research helps to define the periods of highest risk and it may be appropriate to screen more frequently during the high-risk periods. The research may point the way to intervention measures aimed at prevention in the future. Suitable measures may become a possibility for ch...The European Cancer Patient Coalition - challenges for the future
...ackle them. At a European level it is difficult to define common concerns because of the variability of health care systems, she said. The European legislative system is extremely complicated, even to Brussels insiders, and ECPC will have to learn how to navigate and influence it. But one of the largest obs...North American mammographers prone to more false positives, study finds
...eening procedure, and differences in how countries define an abnormal mammogram. Malpractice concerns and financial incentives may also be contributing to the variation in mammography interpretations, they say. "Currently, it is not possible to determine which features may be most responsible for the vari...Lesbians' weight patterns may trigger more heart disease
...dy mass index (a ratio of weight to height used to define overweight and obesity) and are less concerned about weight issues than heterosexual women. In general, Roberts found that the lesbians surveyed were about a year older (49.7 years vs. 48.9 years), more educated (17.5 years vs. 15.4 years) and more l...Heart failure is more common but less fatal in South Asian people
...se of the disease. Further studies are required to define the cause, clinical course, and prognosis of heart failure in different communities worldwide, they conclude....New studies demonstrate importance of offering range of treatment options to elderly cancer patients
...d symptom relief. Participants were then asked to define the minimum benefit for which they would accept chemotherapy. The study found that elderly cancer patients in both countries were equally willing to consider treatment, although older French non-cancer patients were more reluctant to consider chemo...Early detection of lung cancer possible with CAT and PET scans
...r nodule classification. More data are required to define the ideal algorithm. Furthermore, prospective randomised trials are underway to analyse whether regular low-dose computed tomography can, in fact, reduce mortality from lung cancer."...Childhood leukemia survivors not receiving radiation have same life expectancy as general population
... for five years after treatment and thus could not define cure with certainty," said Melissa Hudson, M.D., director of the After Completion of Therapy program at St. Jude and a senior author of the report. This new standard could be used to measure the effectiveness of all current and future ALL treatments,...... of quality as you age?' To answer this we have to define environment, and the research shows us how complex this is. "Environment in its widest sense includes the street, the home, the neighbourhood, as well as the nation and other countries. It has its social aspects, as well as psychological factors ran...Research reveals no benefit of rapid MRI over X-rays in patients with low back pain
...evelop a more rapid MRI. Why is it so important to define the anatomy of the lumbosacral spines of patients with regional back pain?" Health-care agencies in 11 countries have published guidelines for managing patients with low back pain, he said. All agree that X-rays are not useful. By looking at the imag...MRI may help find missed breast cancers in high risk women
...e the false-positive rate of breast MRI screening, define its psychological and economic impact on women with BRCA mutations, and obtain a clearer sense of its benefit before it can be made into a recommended screening tool. In the meantime, the study investigators say specialists counseling women at geneti...UCLA, RAND researchers help men with prostate cancer
... in better outcomes, but no one knew before how to define good care," said Dr. Mark S. Litwin, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher, an associate professor of urology, a RAND consultant and the article's senior author. "That's what this paper does, establish what good care means in early-stage prostate cancer...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
...erm care system than currently exists." How do you define and measure the quality of life of nursing home residents? Rosalie A. Kane of the University of Minnesota noted, "Measuring quality of life is a relatively low priority in nursing homes because of focus on markers of poor quality of care." This is be...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program 2003
...For purposes of the grant program, the judges will define "drug discovery and development" as one or more of the following: The development of an assay against a novel and specific HIV target. Screening of compounds against an established assay. Pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo potency and toxicolog...UCSF study finds no cases of HIV transmission from receptive oral sex
...h this study is the first to try to systematically define the risk, case reports exist of HIV infections acquired through oral contact. While rare, acquiring HIV infection orally is possible and many other sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis are transmitted orally," said...Researchers link teen sex to early friendships, steady dating
... having sex. The researchers define early adolescence as ages 13 and 14 and middle adolescence as ages 15 and 16. Cooksey and her colleagues also found that one out of three of the teens in the study h......amage. And some research suggests that players who define themselves as "headers" do suffer from short-term cognitive effects. "There's a Dutch study in Journal of the American Medical Association in 1999 that compares runners, swimmers and soccer players," said Genin. "Soccer players who head the ball and...VHA to measure impact of Bridge barcode patient safety system
...eement enables VHA to evaluate MedPoint and better define its impact on medication-error reduction. We also want to better understand MedPoint's compatibility with other IT systems already in use at many hospitals. Knowledge gained from this effort will help VHA members, and ultimately the entire industry, ...Supportive mothers ease harm of prenatal alcohol exposure
...s David Geffen School of Medicine. The researchers define attachment security as a child's use of the parent as a secure stepping stone for both comfort and exploration. "Inherent in measures of attachment is the question of how a child responds to stress or frustration and uses available resources to self-...NIDA and SAMHSA agreement expedites transfer of research findings to clinical practice
... working with the National Institutes of Health to define and develop a "Science to Services" cycle and to reduce the time between the discovery of an effective treatment or intervention and its adoption as part of community-based care. Today, the Institute of Medicine tells us it can take up to 20 years."...