How often should women get mammograms?
...r of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers sometimes dramatically the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 4...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...o have not yet received treatment. Following up on earlier promising research supported by NIDDK, participants' urine will be checked for substances that may, ultimately, lead to a definitive test for diagnosing IC and for measuring the effectiveness of potential treatments....HIV patients may be at risk of heart problems when taking protease inhibitor drugs
...ound of the Discovery Dr. Badley's research group earlier discovered that protease inhibitors affect "pore function" of "channels" in a specific cell type they were studying. Pore function in channels permits the exchange of biochemical signals within and between cells. After hearing of a case of heart rhyt...Study finds no reason for expectant mothers to shy away from early epidurals
...rate. "We hypothesized that the findings of these earlier studies linking epidurals to increased risk of ces...ys Dr. Wong. "For example, asking for an epidural earlier may be a marker for a bigger baby, which causes more pain early in labor and also increases the risk...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...ura Bush visited an inner city Baltimore classroom earlier this month, she observed first-grade students playing a game that promotes good behavior as they worked on a reading assignment. The first lady's words of praise for the "Good Behavior Game" shined the national spotlight on a classroom management tec...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...using the computer-based DCU compared favorably to earlier studies of the DCU delivered face-to-face. "The DCU program is the internet equivalent of two to three face-to-face sessions with a counselor," said Reid Hester, director of the Research Division at Behavior Therapy Associates in Albuquerque, NM. "I...A new method for early detection of disease outbreaks
...lth-care data should facilitate more automated and earlier outbreak detection and intervention. Besides diagnoses of known diseases, other indicators--such as primary complaints of patients coming to the emergency room or calling a nurse hotline--are being collected in electronic formats and could be analyze...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
...that women with hypothyroidism were diagnosed with earlier stage disease and smaller tumor size. The authors say, "The observed association between hypothyroidism and breast cancer may be due to the biologic effect of (the thyroid hormone) T3 at the cellular level," adding that further studies of thyroid reg...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...National Institutes of Health which Jones received earlier this year. That grant allowed Jones to conduct several focus groups with men and women and develop a series of digital video vignettes concerning trust, sexual pressure and high-risk sexual behavior. Researchers will create storyboards and produce 20...Newly identified gene cluster on mouse X chromosome provides insights into fertility
...ptive methods - either in men or women." Wilkinson earlier had discovered the founding member of this Rhox gene cluster, the Pem gene - now called Rhox5 - which, while normally restricted in expression to reproductive tissues, is aberrantly expressed in a wide variety of tumors, including carcinomas, sarcoma...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...ith the absence of screening. They also found that earlier identification through screening would lengthen life by 1.5 years for a person with HIV infection. In a population in which 1 in 100 persons has unidentified HIV infection (which is consistent with the CDC's recommended prevalence for screening), the...Contrary to previous findings, smoking is detrimental to patients with Alzheimer's
...brain regions critical to learning and memory. "In earlier work, we showed that plaques can induce tangles," said Salvatore Oddo, graduate student in the School of Biological Sciences' Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and the first author of the paper. "But that is only one way in which tangles can f...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...h begin to experiment with tobacco at increasingly earlier ages. So the need for tobacco use research along t...an ever." The new center's studies will build upon earlier research conducted by the USC Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center. Co-principal investigat...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...." The current study was conducted to follow up an earlier study of older women (18-39 years old.) That study found that the older women lost bone density while using DMPA and increased bone mass after discontinuing the contraceptive. However, the younger women in the current study both lost bone density a...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
... The research confirms and extends the results of earlier work by Drs Garson and Al-Chalabi in which they had found evidence of retroviral involvement in a group of UK patients with ALS. The present study on Americans with ALS, done in collaboration with Drs. Robert H. Brown, Jr. and Merit Cudkowicz at the...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
...ese children generally got their transplants at an earlier age, 8.9 years versus 11 years; spent more time on dialysis than their leaner peers and were more frequent users of peritoneal dialysis, which takes place within the body. With peritoneal dialysis, patients put a sugar-rich sterile solution called di...Rheumatoid arthritis patients have double the risk of heart failure
...e knew that patients with rheumatoid arthritis die earlier than the general population, and mostly from heart disease," says Paulo Nicola, M.D., Mayo Clinic research fellow in the Department of Health Sciences Research and study author. "We thought heart failure could be a reason for early mortality in these...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
... light' of transparency that Dr. Zerhouni promised earlier this week in his ethics reforms." Johnson continued, "However, we are eager for it to succeed. The proof is in the pudding. The coming months will tell whether NIH inspires and leads the community of researchers and scholars to accept the public trus...New study finds kelp can reduce level of hormone related to breast cancer risk
...mal study after obtaining encouraging results from earlier case studies of women with highly irregular menstrual cycles. "The most profound thing I found was that two women with endometriosis and a lot of menstrual irregularities experienced significant improvement in their symptoms after three months of tak...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
...ine therapy in our study, moving this treatment up earlier in the course of a patient's illness should be strongly considered instead of using it as a last resort or not at all. These results support the notion that there's a real possibility of putting chemotherapy on the back burner for this disease," says...