Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...ves do not increase the risk of premature death or illness beyond the levels already associated with smoking. Accordingly, they urge smokers to remember that regardless of the findings from testing, there remain significant risks from smoking even "additive-free" cigarettes. Next Steps LSRO will now embark...Guidelines for following pediatric cancer survivors aim to reduce medical complications
...d by national experts hold the promise of reducing illness and death among adult survivors of childhood cancers. These guidelines, published by a team co-led by a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigator, are published in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO). While not des...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...ey function were significantly less aware of their illness compared to similarly affected men. The researchers determined actual kidney function from blood and urine tests and estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR), a measure of how well the kidneys are filtering waste from the blood. Lack of awareness ...A new vaccine against Salmonella
...tself to be efficacious in mice infected with this illness and is currently being employed on experimental farms of Hipra laboratories in Gerona, a compnay involved in the control of pathogens in birds. Low efficacy of vaccines applied Farmyard fowl and their derivatives are recognised as the most importa...Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease
...ey function were significantly less aware of their illness compared to similarly affected men. Lack of awareness may be due in part to most doctors' sole reliance on a test that measures the blood level of a substance called creatinine. Unfortunately, the test is affected by muscle mass and other person-to...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...ugh effective medical therapies are available, the illness results in severe asthma exacerbations, causing 46...though it has no known etiology, sarcoidosis is an illness in which abnormal clusters of inflammatory cells called granulomas form in many organs of the body, ...Researchers find circulating tumor cells in long-term cancer survivors
...opulation in check, making breast cancer a chronic illness in these patients, he said. The next step, Dr. Uhr said, is to investigate the mechanisms for how the body and the cancer cells peacefully coexist. Such studies could reveal new ways to control cancer. "It is also important to determine what changes...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
... surgical site infections remain a major source of illness and number approximately 500,000 per year. In the post-hoc analysis, patients in the MRSA subgroup treated with ZYVOX had microbiologic success rates of 87 percent compared to 48 percent for patients on vancomycin. Clinical cure rates for ZYVOX-tr...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...t of CreutzfeldtJakob disease (CJD) as a foodborne illness not only created a worldwide scare but also focused attention on the mechanisms of transmission of the infective agent, the scrapie prion protein (PrP Sc ). Mishra et al. were surprised to find PrP Sc associated with ferritin, a protein clearly abun...Immigrants, beware: Living in the United States is fattening
...ion has produced a major burden of obesity-related illness and death. Immigrants are the fastest...er annual household incomes; less education; lower illness burden; and less access to good health care than U.S.-born respondents. Fewer of the foreign-bor...First blood test to diagnose paralyzing, blinding disease
...ughly one-third of patients diagnosed with MS-like illness may actually have NMO. Without the new blood test, classic NMO can only be distinguished from MS by the extensive spinal cord lesions it inflicts spanning three or more segments of the bony spine, and by lack of MS-type lesions found by magnetic res...Anniversary of one of the largest hepatitis A outbreaks in the US brings experts together
...ave had an enormous impact on communities, causing illness and even death. Unfortunately, many of these cases could have been prevented through vaccination." Hepatitis A can affect anyone, as evidenced by the recent outbreaks in areas across the country. According to the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
... Lyme disease is the leading cause of vector-borne illness in the United States. Approximately 23,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported in the United States in 2002. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped bacterium spread through the bite of a blacklegged tick. Symptoms can include ...Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
...dying. Researchers noted that symptoms of terminal illness are often difficult to identify and illness trajectories hard to predict, resulting in additional care-giving burdens, late decisions about hosp...'Signal' identified that enables malarial parasites to target blood cells
...e journal Science. Malaria is a blood-borne illness transmitted by mosquitoes. Forty percent of the world's population lives at risk for infection, and between 200 and 300 million people are afflicted each year, particularly in underdeveloped and impoverished tropical and sub-Saharan countries. ...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
...dern science and medicine to the problem of mental illness in children. The Dinner is the primary fundraising event for the NYU Child Study Center; all proceeds support the programs and initiatives of the Center. Past honorees include: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani, Tipper Gore, Governor ...Elderly with advanced chronic diseases burdened with symptoms
...atients to describe their subjective experience of illness and have been shown to be associated with important health outcomes in hospitalized cancer patients. Little is known regarding the symptoms experienced by adults with a variety of advanced diseases who are not hospitalized or enrolled in hospice. ...Diabetics with mental disorders at increased risk for diabetic complications
...od blood sugar control as diabetics without mental illness and are more likely to suffer one or more diabetes complication including loss of kidney function, loss of sensation in the feet, and visual problems (including blindness) than diabetics without mental illness, according to a study published in the D...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... the number of affected relatives and their age at illness and death, patients' perception of risk also includes other factors, including their personal experience of a relative's disease and sudden or premature death. The authors point out that conflicts between patients' and clinicians' understanding of he...American Thoracic Socety journal news tips for December 2004 (first issue)
...evere pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This illness is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The new drug is an oral, dual endothelin receptor antagonist. In HIV, endothelin is believed to be produced excessively, causing vasoconstriction, cell proliferation, fibrosis, ...