New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
...effect has been ascribed to lower screening rates, less use of diagnostic tests, and less access to health care. For African Americans and whites with the same stage disease (Stage II or II...TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
...s who need them most. Today's TB treatment reaches less than half of TB patients and is difficult to complete due to its complexity and length (four drugs for 6-9 months). Resistant strains have emerged and practically defy treatment with strains resistant to three of the four first-line drugs. TB is a l...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...e been reported in patients who have abstained for less than 6 months before undergoing transplantation. Although several previous studies analyzed the rate of alcohol relapse after liver transplantation and its influence on patient survival and transplant success, researchers had previously not studied p...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
...ddition, while several studies have suggested that less immunosuppression may seem to be a viable strategy in minimizing progression of hepatitis C post-transplant, the authors found the situation to be more complex. They state that "the rapid withdrawal of steroids (but also of azathioprine) prevalent in...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... shallow bottom topography, a collision may remain less likely," Drinkwater states. "A lot now depends on the ability of the tides and local currents to free the southernmost end of the iceberg, and to close the gap between the iceberg and the ice tongue." Ice in motion B-15A is the largest remaining s...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...f normal human brain cells, they will hopefully be less likely to cause side effects, which have plagued many promising Alzheimer's drug candidates, Good says. She notes, for instance, that experimental vaccines targeting beta amyloid proteins have been tried in animals, but these have triggered severe im...Acupuncture relieves pelvic pain during pregnancy
...cture group and the stabilising exercise group had less pain than the standard group in the morning and in the evening. Reduction of pelvic girdle pain as assessed by the independent examiner was greatest in the acupuncture group. Acupuncture or stabilising exercises as an adjunct to standard treatment of...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
...sta Rica and Cuba stand out as countries with GNPs less than $10,000 and yet life expectancies of 77.9 and 76.5 years. The paper also illustrates how some governments are rising to the challenge: In Sweden, the new strategy for public health is "to create social conditions that will ensure good health...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...dy predicts that Stop-Smoking Services may deliver less than 1% of the 2010 target of a 5% fall in smoking prevalence. Government targets on reducing smoking ignore the health inequalities gap says the author, which is made more disturbing given the poorer health of these communities. Despite being the ...Genes for alcohol consumption identified
... alcohol. People without this variant might derive less pleasure from alcohol, and may therefore drink less. The large-scale study, published in The Pharmacogenomics Journal [March 2005], provides evidence that particular human genes can influence behaviour. It is being hailed as an important advance in...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...treating women, insufficiently familiar with their less 'traditional' presentation profiles. Women are und...l trials and their CVD clinical manifestations are less well charted and outlined to the medical professional in their initial or ongoing training. There i...PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
...een. The single-use capsule is passed naturally in less than 24 hours. "The main use of the PillCam ESO right now is to find pre-cancerous changes in the esophaguses of patients who had had acid reflux for more than five years," said Dr. Charles Ulrich, associate professor of internal medicine. "It also c...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
... One reason is that sexually active pledgers were less likely to use condoms at first sex than non-pledge... Breckner and Bearman also note that pledgers were less likely to seek and obtain STD-related health care, possibly because of increased stigmatization or m...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
...veloped to reduce obesity, children today may live less healthy and shorter lives than their parents. "In addition to the enormous economic costs of obesity, the personal toll is incalculable," Ludwig said. "The rapidly escalating prevalence of childhood obesity and its most feared complication, Type 2 di...Specialist care gives better rate of survival
...nts who were elderly and living in rural areas had less access to specialty care. We now know that only a minority of heart failure patients are seen in specialty heart failure clinics where it has been shown that outcomes are improved. These clinics tend to be located in specialty academic centres, which...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...zophrenia, where participants have had the illness less than five years; chronic schizophrenia, where participants have had the illness for more than five years; and healthy age-matched "controls," for comparison. Those at ultra-high-risk had been pre-screened for schizophrenia symptoms, revealing that s...Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...a is concerning because we don't believe there are less reconstructive procedures that need to be performed," said Scott Spear, MD, ASPS president. "We are not positive, but we have some concern the insurance market is suppressing the ability of patients to get needed reconstructive plastic surgery proced...Massive weight loss patients create mass appeal for body contouring procedures
...the trend for many cosmetic patients is to turn to less invasive options for facial procedures, plastic surgeons are seeing patients choose invasive procedures when dealing with lower body contouring. Rather than liposuction to contour the lower body, patients are turning to procedures like thigh lifts, ...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...This study was funded by the USDA. "Obviously, the less fat you eat, the better off you are. But if you're going to eat high fat foods, then adding HPMC to it might help limit the damage," says Wallace H. Yokoyama, Ph.D., a research chemist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Albany, Calif. "In o...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...985 and 58 percent practiced in a setting in which less than a quarter of the patients were racial or ethnic minorities. Results indicated that physicians who were female, or black, or who treated a large number of minority patients in their practices were more likely than other cardiologists to report th...