Other highlights in the March 2 JNCI
... rates achievable through different strategies for invitation to colorectal cancer screening, Nereo Segnan, M.D., of the Centro Prevenzione Oncologica Regione Piemonte and Azienda Sanitaria Ospedaliera S Giovanni Battista in Torino, Italy, and colleagues conducted a multicenter, randomized trial of Italians age...Smokers welcome help in quitting when offered at clinic visits
... smokers who were invited, 68 percent accepted the invitation for treatment. Those smokers who tend to have more trouble quitting--women and African American smokers--were especially likely to accept treatment. Of those who accepted, passed the screening, and were assigned to the "free choice" condition, 75 pe...2004 Dean Award to Steven Levy
... award-winning dental students and has lectured by invitation in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The selection committee judged him to be doing meritorious epidemiological research in the tradition of the late H. Trendley Dean. This prestigious award is presented annually by the IADR and is supported ...NIH to host symposium: Medicine in the media
...you are among the first journalists receiving this invitation to apply to participate in this symposium, in particular because of the important role you fill in communicating meaningful, and often critical, health information to the public. While there will be no charge for participating in the symposium, spac...Novelty contact lenses offer great looks great risks
...the lenses with friends as well, providing another invitation to infection. "Novelty lenses are fine, but they should be prescribed, fit and maintained like any other lenses," said Damien Macaluso, M.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology, Division of Cornea and Refractive Surgery in the OHSU School of Medici...Duke Cancer Center, ABC2 join to test brain cancer drugs
...and move them into clinical trials." The open invitation to researchers is expected to encourage pharmaceutical companies to submit their approved and experimental anti-cancer drugs (for breast, colon, lung cancer, etc.) to Duke for further testing for their potential utility against brain cancer, since th...Husbands of fibromylagia sufferers in slightly poorer health, more depressed than other men
... clinical study, and their spouses had accepted an invitation to participate in the present study. When study participation is voluntary, Bigatti points out, those who are dealing poorly with their situation or who are under extreme stress generally dont have the strength or time to participate. Future rese...Visionary physician pioneers alternative clubfoot treatment
...e University of California, San Francisco. At the invitation of UCSF faculty member Eliana Delgado, MD, he will demonstrate the method to a group of San Francisco area orthopaedic specialists by treating 20 infants with clubfoot. Ponseti has conducted similar teaching clinics around the world, including acade...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
...akes a cell grow and divide. Too much mycspells an invitation to cancer, where cells grow uncontrollably and invade othertissues. Now scientists have found that myc is even more powerful than theyanticipated: The gene also has a role in disabling the molecular signals, the"brakes," that cells rely on to...