Fully endoscopic micro-surgery puts a former Jr. Olympic athlete back on the marathon trail
... to the Los Angeles bureau of PEOPLE,his tumor was diagnosed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Medical interventionbegan, but it soon became apparent that Baker would need a highly specializedtype of surgery to remove the benign tumor, which was secreting prolactin, afemale hormone that suppressed his body's tes...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...which regulatesthe body's use of calcium. Children diagnosed with DiGeorge can show aconstellation of disorders, from heart disease to impaired thymus function, butMarkert and her team used the transplant technique only on babies born with nothymus tissue. "We don't want to transplant tissue that will ...Yale cancer center to test cervical cancer prevention drug: NCI grant funds research
...sk HPVs, and anestimated 15,000 American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. While routine Pap screening has significantly reduced the rate of cervicalcancer in this country, it remains a leading cause of cancer death in many otherparts of the world. There are approximately 500,000 cases of ce...Changing approaches to treating gum disease
...ld be used only when abacterial infection has been diagnosed and the condition is serious enough toneed treatment. Finding ways to deal directly with the bacteria that cause periodontal diseasehas become increasingly important as researchers have discovered links betweenperiodontal disease and cardiovascular ...No evidence to suggest breast cancer is linked to stress
...32 women in the Leeds area. They found that women diagnosed with breast cancer were no more likely to have exp...erienced any more stress in their lives that those diagnosed with a benign breast lump. Protheroe and colleagues say that stressful life events are common (abou...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
...ase, and upto 200,000 newcases of the wet form are diagnosed in the United States each year. During the double-blind study, 609 patients (including 35 at Hopkins) wererandomlyassigned to verteporfin or placebo treatment. Patients had follow-up examsevery three monthsfor up to two years; they received addi...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...resident Marcia Litt was one of them. When she was diagnosed withbreast cancer at age 48, Marcia was worried ab...ronic illness and rare geneticdisorders. Lenny was diagnosed with Gaucher disease in 1986, and has learnedfirst-hand the struggles patients with such conditions ...Misinterpretation of heart rhythm recordings may cause unnecessary treatments
...night says. "It is veryimportant when a patient is diagnosed as having ventricular tachycardia that theactual recordings of the rhythm be carefully reviewed." He adds, further studies are needed to determine how widespread the problem isand to create a greater awareness of the phenomenon, both in the medicalco...Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet - October 19, 1999
... three-yearperiod, 38 inmates and five guards were diagnosed with active tuberculosis.Researchers also found that 43 percent of people in the city with newlydiscovered tuberculosis in this period had spent some time in the jail beforediagnosis. An editorial says inmates in jails are a well-defined risk group t...Researchers uncover gene related to acute leukemia
...ukemia Society ofAmerica, 12,500 new cases will be diagnosed and some 7,900 persons will die fromacute leukemia this year. About half of all acute leukemias are caused bychromosomal translocations, Hiebert said. A chromosomal translocation happens when chromosomes--the structures containinggenes--break and re......ng a treatment decision for prostate cancer. When diagnosed with prostate cancer, most men are presented with ...tum or anus. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second most common cause of death in American males. With prostate-specific antigen (......d who smoke. There are more than 12,000 new cases diagnosed per year in the United States. Head and neck canc...rouble swallowing and hoarseness. When someone is diagnosed with head or neck cancer, treatment may include surgery to remove the cancerous cells, radiation the...UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
...75,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among American women, according to the American Cancer Society. In the UF study, Masood studied FNAB specimens taken from patients with breast lesions who were examined between 1990 and 1997, categorizing the samples using the standard criteria emplo...Pets can tame high blood pressure
...king medication and it was still high enough to be diagnosed as high blood pressure if sustained over a period of time," Allen says.The medication-only group had double the stress response as those who had a pet in the room during the test, she says. Systolic blood pressure, the pressure when the heart beats,...Staying involved helps breast cancer survivors
...n decisions relating to follow-up tests. Of women diagnosed 20 years ago or longer, 41 percent reported no inv...al treatment decisions. Only 7.5 percent of women diagnosed three to five years ago remained uninvolved. This research was supported by a grant from the U.S. Pu...More bad news for cocaine users: Drug can triple risk of aneurysm
...rtery aneurysms are rare, even among patients with diagnosed heart disease," says Satran. "We've known for some time that cocaine use can trigger sudden heart attack and stroke, but until now, we didn't know that cocaine can also increase an individual's risk of developing aneurysms in the heart arteries." T...Study examined switching rates between Allegra® (fexofenadine HCl) and Claritin®
... Roughly three-quarters (73.2 percent) of subjects diagnosed and treated with AR received NSA treatment. -- Of the AR subjects who filled a NSA prescription in the spring of 1997, nearly half (46.2 percent) also filled prescriptions in fall 1997 (89.2 percent filled the same brand of NSA). -- AR was mo...... of cancer at diagnosis, and blacks are more often diagnosed at a more advanced stage than are whites. Dr. Dignam suggested that possible reasons for this late diagnosis may be less access to or utilization of health care resources that would result in earlier detection, or more aggressive forms of the diseas...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...t to the source: families with more than one child diagnosed with autism. By studying such families, the researchers can look in detail at sections of chromosomes that are the same in affected children. When they looked in detail at a section of chromosome 15 in 63 families with at least one autistic child, t......udy of 60 brains taken postmortem from individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, unipolar depression or bipolar disorder with psychosis, and individuals with no psychiatric abnormalities. They correctly identified those that came from psychotic patients by testing for levels of reelin. Controls in the experime...