Researchers closer to delivering new insulin pill for diabetics
...es. About 12,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with the disorder every year. The Purdue researchers will continue working to improve the system and to learn exactly how insulin is transported from the particles and into capillaries in the intestinal lining, where it is absorbed into the blood, Pe...Too much soy could lead to kidney stones
...soy-based foods. More than one million people were diagnosed with kidney stones in the United States in 1996, the most recent available data, according to the National Institutes of Health. Stones can range in size from the diameter of a grain of rice to the width of a golf ball. An estimated 10 percent of the......f Illinois in Chicago fed 32 volunteers with newly diagnosed prostate cancer three-fourths cup of tomato sauce ...ted States, accounting for one-fourth of all newly diagnosed cancer cases among men. The prostate is the walnut-sized gland, located below a mans bladder, that s...Safe effective treatment to stop seizures can be delivered outside of the hospital
...ded the research. The study included 205 patients diagnosed with "status epilepticus," continuous or repeated seizures lasting 5 minutes or more without recovery of consciousness. Benzodiazepines are the drugs of choice for initial control of the prolonged type of seizures once the patients are in the hospit...30 years of fighting cancer: Forum discusses future of war on cancer
...every two men and one of every three women will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetimes. A third of those will die from the disease. Within this decade, cancer is expected to overtake heart disease as the nation's number one killer. On Nov. 7, 2001, leading research, clinical and policy experts will d...Tourettes, other tic disorders far more common than once thought
...t of the disorder in 1983, when a man who had been diagnosed with Huntingtons disease hitchhiked more than 2,000 miles to seek a second opinion from Kurlan. The man actually had Tourettes, and within an hour the most astonishing moment in his career, Kurlan recalls the patient had described 20 relatives with...UNC to share in $34 million study of what happens to cancer patients
...edicine and epidemiology. "Well follow 1,000 newly diagnosed colon cancer patients for five years, and the others will follow more than 9,000 other patients with either lung or colon cancer." Sandler, co-director of UNCs Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensi......ated 4.7 million Americans, with 550,000 new cases diagnosed each year," says Dr. Claude Lenfant, NHLBI director. "This compelling study shows that even with a high rate of complications, a left ventricular assistance device can provide a significantly longer and better quality of life in extremely ill heart f...Study proves flu shot safe for asthmatics
...sthma, included 2,032 children and adults who were diagnosed with moderate to severe asthma. Patients were rand...ericans including 8.6 million children have been diagnosed with asthma. In Vermont, approximately 23,000 people suffer from asthma, 7,500 of which are children...Testing for alcohol problems in the workplace
...al, and lead author of the study. "Employees with diagnosed alcohol problems have also confessed to being absent from work as a result of their drinking. Alcohol consumption also seems to vary between different workplaces. Unfortunately, there is a lack of comparability among these studies because of the di...Researchers find better way to predict childhood brain tumor outcomes
...d Medical School. About 2,000 children a year are diagnosed with medulloblastoma, with diagnosis verified at the time of surgery. For this study, researchers examined gene expression patterns from 99 patient tumor samples of three different types of brain tumors. In addition to distinguishing tumor types from......s were 18 years of age and older, and all had been diagnosed with an advanced cancer. They also had to have a self-reported loss of appetite and/or weight loss of at least five pounds during the preceding two months. The double-blinded study randomly enrolled the patients into one of three treatment sections: ......D as a cause of dementia. Up to one-third of all diagnosed dementia cases are VaD. In Europe, the prevalence...80 years of age; of the patients over 65 years old diagnosed with dementia in the United States, approximately 9 to 39 percent have VaD. This study is one of t...Chronically ill kids put up defenses to hide depression
... The study included 130 children who were recently diagnosed with cancer, 121 children who had juvenile diabetes, cystic fibrosis or rheumatoid disease for more than a month, and 368 healthy children. These results leave the unanswered question as to whether defensiveness is an adaptation that helps or hinders...Stanford researchers challenge value of widely used prostate cancer diagnostic methods
...ates that 189,000 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year alone, and one in six men will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives. "Prostate cancer is incredibly ubiquitous," Stamey sa......mers Disease Center. The participants had all been diagnosed as being either normal, having mild cognitive impairment or having Alzheimers disease within a year of death. AD researchers had long believed memory and cognitive problems associated with MCI were caused when levels of ChAT in the cortical and hippo...Air pollution may trigger asthma in young athletes
...th more heavily polluted air are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma than other children, according to rese...others. They also asked every year if a doctor had diagnosed them with asthma. Researchers also measured air pollutionmostly from vehicle emissionsin each commun...Hormone can predict future congestive heart failure
...ongestive heart failure, and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Congestive heart failure is the most frequent cause of hospitalization in the elderly, with 900,000 hospitalizations and 250,000 deaths each year.......tion. About 189,000 males in the United States are diagnosed annually with some form of prostate cancer, second only to lung cancer as deadly disease among men, reports the American Cancer Society. Although men can get the disease at any age, it's more common among those over 50 years old. Prostate cancer is t......ncluded more than 800 men and women who were newly diagnosed with the two skin cancers: 603 with basal cell carcinoma and 293 who with squamous cell carcinoma; and 540 who were free of skin cancer. Overall, people who reported any use of tanning lamps were 2.5 times more likely to develop squamous cell carcino...