Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
... the article points out that there is considerable disagreement in the medical community over the routine use of mammograms in women under the age of 50 and prostate specific antigen tests in men. The ethical issue becomes more complicated when doctors provide controversial screening tests because they fear a fu......linical trials, anendpoint that leaves no room for disagreement among physicians, the researcherssaid. "However, in the 1990s, we started using such endpoints as recurrentinfarction (heart attack) to determine whether or not a drug was effective,"Mahaffey said. "While most cases of reinfarction are obvi...Infrared Thermometers A Good Alternative For Use On Newborns
...stor. "There was a greater disagreement between rectal andaxillary temperatures in newborn infants under a radiant warmer, which may limit the use of infrared thermometers in this setting," Seguin said. ...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...econd-hand smoke becomes in air. The stark disagreement in the very same issue of the journal illustratesh...em up. And even respectedscientists are in serious disagreement or are undecided on how much passivesmoking contributes to the population's burden of heart disease....American cancer specialists disagree about the purpose of clinical trials
...Farber Cancer Institute suggest that there is also disagreement among oncologists in the United States about the purpose of clinical trials. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cancer Oncology in Orlando on May 18. Steven Joffe, MD, and Jane Weeks, MD, at the Dana-Farber C...Moderately high homocysteine tied to stroke, Alzheimers risk
...ealthy volunteers (average age 74). There is some disagreement among scientists about what constitutes an elevated homocysteine level. Here, researchers designated the upper quartile of homocysteine levels of the healthy volunteers 13.3 micromoles per liter (mol/L) or higher as an elevated level. They also ...C-reactive proteins: Should everyone be tested?
...cturers create different types of assays, there is disagreement in test results when different analytical methods are used. To address this issue, the CDC has taken several steps, including plans for an hsCRP reference system that will be used with low-grade inflammation serum values that are associated with high...Emory scientists contribute to study of key regulatory protein in neurodegeneration
...e Alzheimer's disease mechanism, but there is some disagreement about which one is more important," says Dr. Li. Pin1, part of a class of enzymes called prolyl isomerases, is known to regulate many proteins critical for cell division. Pin1 twists the joints of proteins in specific creaky places, allowing them ...Reach of sigmoidoscopies inadequate in many older women
... occur in people older than 65 years. Yet there is disagreement about the best way to screen for these cancers. Some professional and governmental organizations recommend colonoscopy -- a procedure that examines the entire colon and is performed on patients under sedation -- while others recommend screening with ...Doctors don't agree on diagnosis of uterine cancer
... AEH, they were surprised to find a high degree of disagreement with the initial diagnosis of most of the biopsies...was 42 percent. Underscoring the level of disagreement and difficulty in making an accurate diagnosis, even with the GOG review, was the fact that cancer w...Antioxidant controversy: Scientists seek measurement standards
...tioxidant measurements need to be standardized but disagreement on the best method to measure the beneficial compounds, which are thought to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease as well as fight aging, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease. "Right now, it's difficult to compare the antioxidant content of a ca...Studies reveal physicians' attitudes on end-of-life care
...ents, and respondents indicated their agreement or disagreement on a five-point scale, with "not sure" as a sixth ... disagree with assisted suicide, as shown by these disagreement rates: 30 percent for non-attendees, 33 percent for less-than-monthly attendees, 52 percent for mont...Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces
...h bad. However, all of the participants expressed disagreement with prejudiced statements and a personal interest in egalitarian behavior. Consistent with these conscious beliefs, in the fMRI phase of the study, when faces were viewed for longer periods of time, areas of the brain's frontal cortex that are invol...Physicians' response to religion-related conflicts in medicine
...ch patients used religious terms to describe their disagreement with medical recommendations. In general, the researchers found that patients most often refuse medical recommendations for religious reasons in scenarios of relative medical uncertainty in which treatment offers moderate possibilities of benefit, or...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...idespread. (Money is an issue, he said, as well as disagreement among experts over whether blanket or targeted screening is more effective.) The majority of HIV patients are diagnosed only after exhibiting symptoms that prompt testing: the CDC reports that more than 40 percent of patients don't learn of their inf...