NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...hest pain, onlyabout 40 percent can be immediately diagnosed with heart attack using standardtesting. The majority of patients must undergo a number of tests or furtherhospitalization to reach a conclusive diagnosis. MRI may shorten the time neededto accurately evaluate cardiac patients. The timing of stroke ...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
... Without PSA screening, for example, a man mightbe diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 68, but with screening doctors mightcatch the cancer at age 64, creating a lead time of four years. Lead time is an important indicator of a cancer's aggressiveness. Short leadtimes generally are linked to faster-growing t...Pennsylvania voters believe tobacco settlement funds should be used for cancer research
...xt 10 years, 700,000 Pennsylvania residentswill be diagnosed with cancer and approximately 300,000 will die of the disease. During that same time period, the incidence of cancer is expected to rise by 29percent through the United States....Researchers develop better means to diagnose adrenal gland tumors
...d lead author of the study. "If the tumors are not diagnosed and removed, they can have potentiallycatastrophic consequences for the patient." The mainly benign tumors, called pheochromocytomas, are sometimes found inpatients with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, a familial cancer syndrome withneurologic comp...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
...year in the United States, almost 15,000 women are diagnosed withcervical cancer, and 5,000 women die of the disease, according to NCI. "This is a disease that affects young women," Rose said. "When a womandies at the age of 30, the impact is devastating to her family and society ingeneral. In ...National Cancer Institute awards Wistar Institute $6.6 million for melanoma research
...xpectedthat approximately 44,000 new cases will be diagnosed and 7,400 people will diefrom the disease. By the year 2000, it is projected that one in every 75Americans will develop melanoma during their lifetime. Though early diagnosiscan improve a patient's prognosis, great strides must still be made in the...Narcolepsy network issues national 'wake up' call
...mptoms of the condition so that it canbe correctly diagnosed and properly treated. "Most people with narcolepsy are unaware they have a specific, treatable medicalcondition. Even worse, it can take up to 15 years from symptom onset beforethey obtain an accurate diagnosis, because their condition is often mist...Scientists use bacterial toxin to kill brain tumors
...or Research Centre.Approximately 20,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumors each year in Canadaand the United States. "This discovery could be very promising because theverotoxin makes a two-pronged attack on the tumor: it destroys tumor cells andshuts down the tumor's blood supply." While earlier HSC rese...For heart disease patients, depression takes heavy toll
..." The researchers followed 157 patients with newly diagnosed coronary arterydisease confirmed by angiography. Shortly after diagnosis, nurses interviewedthe patients about their symptoms of depression and other mental illness as wellas their ability to work and perform other daily activities. These assessments...MGH study shows mitral valve prolapse not a stroke risk factor
...ith cardiovascular conditions such as stroke, they diagnosed thecondition in from 10 to 15 percent of apparentl...eoplewho had experienced strokes or related events diagnosed mitral valve prolapse in40 percent of those studied, implying that the condition was a serious riskf...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
...torof the NHLBI, "It may mean people who have been diagnosed with mitral valveprolapse should consult their phy... anxiety for those in whommitral-valve prolapse is diagnosed in an outpatient setting," she said. Dr. Benjamin noted the value of conducting this study i...Phobias deter chronically ill from seeking regular treatment
...disorder topped the list of psychiatric conditions diagnosed among thosewithout ongoing care for their chronic conditions. Depression, alcohol disorderand obsessive-compulsive disorder ran close behind, the 1993-96 follow-upstudies showed. "We found it somewhat surprising that phobic disorders figured so impo...Hope protects bereaved, HIV-positive men
...d in HealthPsychology in 1994 which found that men diagnosed with AIDS who had moreoptimistic attitudes about their illness had significantly longer survival timesthan their more pessimistic counterparts, regardless of bereavement status....Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent
...an estimated 400,000 newcases of heart failure are diagnosed each year. Worldwide, it is estimated that20 million people suffer from this condition. For people with heart failure, thefive-year mortality rate is estimated at 50-60 percent. In addition to thenumber of deaths directly attributed to heart failure,...Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
...s BMJ. Although more than a third of cancers are diagnosed in people aged over 75 years of age, this group is less extensively investigated and receives less treatment than younger patients, say the authors. They say that this need not be the case as some elderly people can tolerate chemotherapy, surgery an...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
...ncer Center. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the second leadingcause of cancer death in American men. Although most of the time the cancer isdiagnosed and treated at early stages, some tumors do spread. "The progression of the disease involves a number of steps, including discret...Stress common in AIDS victims who respond well to drug therapy
...Care." According to Brashers, individuals who are diagnosed with HIV or AIDS often mustnegotiate any number of life priorities,for example, types of financial support and work status, personal relationshipsand long-term plans. The renewed prospectof living requires "renegotiating" many of the realities that t...Oxygen reduces effects of retinal detachment
...e may want to consider supplying oxygen topatients diagnosed with retinal detachment while they await surgery. ...therapy need not be specialized. "Patients diagnosed with retinal detachment should be provided withoxygen immediately," he said. This will protect the c...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...mick says. PATIENT CARE: The number of newly diagnosed cancer patients seen at four of the UCSF andUCSF-affiliated medical centers is approximately 3,200 per year. More important,the number of patient visits has increased steadily--from 17,000 in 1995 to31,000 in the past year--as UCSF has consolidated a...Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...dhave begun learning language and speech. Children diagnosed that late must playcatch-up with others their age, through special educational and therapeuticefforts. Still, the incidence of hearing problems in most children is extremely rare, asshown by studies stretching back to the introduction of ABR in the l...