Large portion of late-stage breast cancers associated with absence of screening
...to reach women who have never been screened or who fail to get regular mammograms," said Stephen Taplin, M.D., M.P.H., a senior scientist in NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences and lead author of the study. "The challenge is to put this knowledge into practice." The study was based ...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
... a large number of items. In some cases vision can fail to cope and accidents result. Examples include 'looked but failed to see' accidents in which sober drivers run into highly visible, stationary police cars in broad daylight. To reduce the incidence of these events, a large amount of research in psych...Problematic behaviour of dementing patients exacerbated
...family members can exacerbate the problems if they fail to deal with these adequately. De Vugt's doctoral research was part of the 'Maastricht Study of Behaviour in Dementia' (MAASBED). In this study, 199 dementing patients and 119 care-providing family members were followed over a period of two years. Th...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
...y of the cholesterol-fighting drugs called statins fail to fill their prescription often enough -- or stop filling it altogether, even though statins give the most benefit if used long-term. Not surprisingly, patients' out-of-pocket costs for these drugs are a contributing factor. Patients whose insura...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...can be used to improve care for those patients who fail to get routine eye screenings. Click here to view a pdf of the complete article. A Randomized Clinical Trial of the Effect of Intraoperative Saline Perfusion on Post-Vasectomy Azoospermia By Timothy G. Schuster, et al Flushing the prostatic en...Approach of holidays has no effect on time of death
...d Freedland say. In many cases, these studies also fail to explain any mechanisms that would delay or advance death. Their review appears in the May issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. This hypothesis, first presented in a sociology journal 30 years ago, suggested that people who would have other...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for May 2004 (second issue)
...from their prior experience, were deemed likely to fail medical treatment based on their resistance patterns and/or extent of disease. According to the researchers, among the 162 patients for whom there was sufficient data to evaluate outcomes, 137 (85 percent) converted their sputum cultures to negative...Even health-conscious women going without colonoscopy
...ge of even these apparently health-conscious women fail to get screened for colon cancer, the No. 3 cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer and breast cancer. In a presentation on May 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine, and in a recent talk at the American Roen...Licensed alcohol establishments continue to sell to intoxicated patrons
...killed, underpaid youthful staff. Retailers often fail to provide even the most basic training or supervision of these workers. Given these conditions, the higher rates of violation among younger servers are predictable." Mosher had several suggestions regarding what measures could encourage compliance ...Living wills don't work, study says
...e choose the treatments they would like when dying fail to meet five key criteria for success. Worse, the...evidence about living wills demonstrates that they fail all five tests that would have to be passed for them to work," says co-author Angela Fagerlin, Ph.D....For foster children, unstable placements have higher healthcare costs
...mprove the delivery of mental health services that fail to consider the global health of children in foster care may fall short in addressing the needs of children in foster care," said Dr. Rubin. "Such results support the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation for specialized health programs to p...Nitric oxide links bulk of sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease
...etic mutations in parkin that cause the protein to fail are thought to contribute to the disease in two ways. First, parkin's normal targets -- including itself -- are not marked for destruction as they should be. Second, any abnormal proteins can't be marked for destruction, either. Both failures likely ...Personalized treatment goal of IU breast cancer study funded by $10 million DoD grant
...ividual drugs for advanced breast cancer routinely fail to benefit the majority of women treated. As a result women with advanced disease are faced with progressively less active, progressively more toxic therapy," said Dr. Sledge. "The tragedy of modern therapy is not just its toxicity; rather, it is tha...Further studies comparing rehydration therapies would waste resources, say researchers
...s much preferred and in the one or two percent who fail to respond, we can always start intravenous rehydration at that time." Despite the current guidelines, oral rehydration therapy is still being underused, especially by physicians in high-income countries. Increasing its usage worldwide could prevent ...Carnegie Mellon interactive-video DVD helps teens avoid sexually transmitted diseases
...ued to have sex, were less likely to have a condom fail from incorrect usage. Girls who watched the DVD were less likely to report having contracted an STD than girls who had not seen the DVD. Downs said girls can watch the DVD while they are sitting in a doctor's waiting room--on average, teenagers wait...Duke scientists overcome immune resistance in dendritic cell vaccines for cancer
... T-cells are curiously tolerant to the antigen and fail to act on its threat. Yang and his team studied why this tolerance occurs by creating an animal model that mimics the same T-cell tolerance that occurs in cancer patients. They compared the behavior of dendritic cell vaccines in the mice against that...Day-care services could be option for pregnancy complications
...eterm premature rupture of the fetal membranes can fail to manifest signs of sepsis until it is overwhelming. A larger sample might have included patients with a rapidly developing illness, for whom hospital care would have made a difference"....Embryonic stem cells induced to develop into bone marrow and blood cells
...bling or an unrelated or cord blood registry often fail to develop tolerance to the recipient or patient into which they are infused an often-fatal complication after bone marrow transplantation that is known as graft-versus-host disease. But in the study, after embryonic stem cell transplantation the m...Mayo Clinic researchers discover gene mutations that 'ignore' stress, lead to heart failure
...he body's state of stress. When this happens, they fail to decode the metabolic signals that synchronize the flow of potassium and calcium. Implications of Research In principle, researchers can apply these findings to other patients with heart failure and look for other stress-reactive proteins that m......ant, or, alternatively, a mutated ABCA3 gene could fail to transport out lipids toxic to surfactant function," he says. Researchers zeroed in on ABCA3 as a candidate gene for unexplained surfactant deficiency in full-term infants because of other ABC genes' links with human diseases, the cellular...