More than 41 million Americans need colorectal cancer screening
...AGA) journal Gastroenterology, sufficient capacity exists to screen the unscreened population within one yea...an increased demand. Although ample capacity exists for screening with FOBT, a test that is inexpensive and widely available, findings of this study sug...Got heart disease? The answer may be in your fingertips
...s the fingers, can be a sign that the same problem exists in the heart. In the study, researchers investigated the value of reactive hyperemia peripheral arterial tonometry (RH-PAT) by using a fingertip probe to assess the relationship between dysfunction in the heart region and dysfunction in extremities. ...Chemical cousin of anti-anxiety drugs holds promise for psoriasis treatment
...s very similar to that of psoriasis, the potential exists for our compound to be mixed with Retin-A to prevent these unwanted effects." In 2003, Florida-based GMP Immunotherapeutics, Inc. (a subsidiary of GMP Companies, Inc.) entered into an exclusive patent license and a sponsored research agreement ...Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
...scovered, biopsies are necessary to tell if cancer exists or not. But when such lumps are removed after suspicious mammograms, two-thirds are found to be benign. Dr. Wickstrom foresees this particular test for cyclin D1 which he has used to detect estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers in mice eventu...Aspirin underused to reduce heart disease risk in diabetic women and young adults
...men, compared with men. "A similar disparity now exists for use of aspirin for primary and secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in diabetes," said Stephen D. Persell, M.D., and David W. Baker, M.D., researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In a study in the Dec. 13/27 A...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
...ot exist," Goldman said. Because scant information exists on actual exposure levels experienced by individual service members -- a critical factor when assessing health effects -- the committee could not draw specific conclusions about Gulf War veterans' chances of developing lung cancer or any other health...Government solutions won't cure kids' obesity, survey says
...he adds, "relatively little scientific information exists on which of these interventions are effective in actual school, community and media settings." Overweight and obesity rates among children and teens have tripled since the 1980s, now reaching 15 percent of the child population....Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...lace for regular testing of pilots, and no program exists for the general aviation pilot." To better understand the circumstances of and identify specific risk factors involved in alcohol-related plane crashes, the Hopkins team studied medical records for 313 general aviation crashes fatal to the pilot fr...Many of George Bush's health policies likely to be controversial
... President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which exists in parallel with, and arguably undermines, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria by diverting needed resources. "Like other second term presidents George W Bush will have one eye on his place in history," say the authors. "The gre...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
... new therapies that may offer treatment where none exists currently, or that offers benefits over currently available treatments," says CISCRP chairman Ken Getz. "Another top reason people participate is to help advance medical knowledge. . . . They participate because they feel doing so may have an impact...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...y suggests. And the same "generation gap" pattern exists among both blacks and whites, though blacks of all ages have previously been found to experience more pain and more pain-related negative effects than whites. The study also finds that in general, blacks scored higher than whites on measurements of t...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...howed that a similar reflex in bladder contraction exists in people with SCI. In January 2005, the National Institutes of Health awarded Grill a 5-year, $1.8 million grant to develop a system to sense involuntary bladder contractions and trigger a calming low-frequency electrical signal. The project also se...Alcohol: Global burden on health similar to tobacco and high blood pressure
...ns. Professor Room comments: "A stark discrepancy exists between research findings about the effectiveness of alcohol control measures and the policy options considered by most governments. In many places, the interests of the alcohol industry have effectively exercised a veto over policies, making sure th...Suicidal behaviour caused by antidepressants 'cannot be ruled out'
...er clinical conditions to establish whether a link exists between use of SSRIs and suicide attempts. They found that patients taking SSRIs were twice as likely to attempt suicide compared with patients taking placebo. However, no increase in risk was seen when only fatal suicidal attempts were compared bet...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...onomic groups, so to find that such a divide still exists illustrates the work that still needs to be done," he said. Berger recommends that consumers get more involved in their health care. Women who have cardiovascular disease and are not taking aspirin therapy should talk with their physicians about th...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...ases." The Workshop report noted: "An urgent need exists for antiviral drugs to prevent and treat SARS. During the first global outbreak, various interventions were used in management, including antivirals like ribavirin, interferon, and protease inhibitors, as well as host immunomodulary agents, particul...Some HIV patients at risk of exhausting treatment options
...nts continue to improve. Currently little evidence exists to indicate that a large proportion of patients are starting to experience therapeutic failure, say the authors. However, for a small number, treatment options are in danger of becoming exhausted. New drugs with low toxicity, which are not associated...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...ew York. Because little peer-reviewed literature exists comparing PET to SPECT, the current standard, coronary PET scanning is considered experimental, although it has been used in Western New York for 10 years, Oliverio said. To help bring coronary PET scanning into the clinical mainstream, Merhige, Oli...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...ors write. "These results confirm that opportunity exists for improvement in vaccine administration in the United States to ensure that all children remain fully vaccinated and optimally protected from vaccine-preventable diseases throughout early childhood--the time when children are most at risk for illne......ncial limitations. "Significant cultural diversity exists in this country and cultural awareness, more precisely termed cultural competence, is at the core of any effort to fully address disparities in CVD," Bonow said. Under the research category, the authors discuss the need for genetic-based studies tha...