Jefferson trial looks to improve diagnosis of prostate cancer
...rous to the patient. It may not be important if we miss tumors with fewer vessels because we think they will be less dangerous." Cancers that are vascular-rich, he notes, are more likely to spread. While prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the Western world and the second leading cause of c...First large doctor-patient e-mail study finds positive attitudes on both sides
...or office visits patients make, nor the number who miss their appointments. These results, from the first large randomized, controlled study of e-mail communication between physicians and patients, will be presented on May 4 by researchers from the University of Michigan Health System at the annual meetin...Writing email about traumatic events can improve health
...ys than their counterparts and were less likely to miss class because of an illness, according to the study, which looked at about 150 college students. "Overall, these results suggest that even when administered through e-mail, the emotional writing treatment still produces positive health outcomes," Br...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
... difficult to control. These are the children who miss school because of headaches, stomachaches, vomitin...resent as children given to superficial illnesses; miss school for headaches or stomachaches. These are the kids constantly going to school nurse for minor...Eye drops delay onset of glaucoma in people at higher risk
...ugh they see things clearly in front of them, they miss objects to the side and out of the corner of their eye. Without treatment, people with glaucoma may find that they have no side vision. Over time, the remaining vision may decrease until there is no vision left. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Stud...Students join scientists in search of asthma triggers
...st common chronic illnesses that cause children to miss school, and Baltimore City school children suffer from some of the highest asthma rates in the country," says Carol Blaisdell, Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children and Associate Professor of P...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
...atch that bus.' Or maybe 'I think you're going to miss that bus should I suggest an alternative route?' "By the same token, if it senses that you're lost, it might say, 'Hey, I think you need help.' That gives the person the option of saying, 'No, I know what I'm doing.'" The device will be designed to...Methadone treatment may improve completion of tuberculosis therapy in injection drug abusers
...t conditions, substance abusers are more likely to miss doses of the TB medication isoniazid (INH) and that direct observation of preventive treatment is less effective in substance abusers than in other TB-positive individuals. In the study conducted by Dr. Steven L. Batki at San Francisco General Hospi...Risk from breast cancer susceptibility gene may be exaggerated in most studies
...rred by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations alone and, thus, miss opportunities to develop truly effective prevention strategies for women who are genetically susceptible to breast cancer that are based on a broad understanding of causative factors," they say....Anemia drug reduces transfusions and chemotherapy-related fatigue
...antage of darbepoetin alfa could allow patients to miss less time from work and potentially increase compliance, the researchers say. They add that further studies are under way to examine the possibility to administering darbepoetin alfa at an even lower frequency, such as every two to three weeks. In an...Treatable depression often accompanies even mild memory loss
...ivers." But, they said, primary care doctors often miss early symptoms of dementia and mild cognitive impairment. "Neuropsychiatric symptoms are often not recognized until they have become severe leading to hospitalization or institutionalization."...Heavy menstrual periods associated with economic loss
... light or normal bleeding. Economically, women who miss work because of heavy periods lose about $1692 a year, the researchers found. "We were not surprised by the findings," said Cumming. "I think that the problem has been underrated and probably underreported by patients to their employers. But to those...University of Pittsburgh researchers link gene to depressive disorders in women
...r antidepressant for a patient is largely a hit or miss proposition that often leads to multiple medication trials before the depression remits. Side effects are common and can be debilitating."...Family friendly work policies may need to be refocused
...person at home. " Work Conflicts with Family: you miss an important family event because of having to work late, and job worries distract you when you're at home. " Family Conflicts with Work: stress at home makes you irritable at work, and responsibilities at home reduce the effort you can devote to you...Premenopausal breast cancer linked with place of birth, residence at time of menarche
...where the women lived when they were diagnosed, we miss something important." The study positioned the clustering of premenopausal cases in an area near the border between Erie and Niagara counties in Western New York. The project piggybacks on a case-control study of breast cancer in Erie and Niagara ...Life-saving imaging techniques developed at Oxford University
...sist a radiologist detect microcalcifications must miss few, if any, clinically important clusters, but equally must not signal too many false positives. With the increasingly vast number of mammograms to be analysed from screening programmes, automated computer-aided detection methods are a necessity. A...Docs see missed opportunities for adult, kid vaccinations
...of the problem lies with healthcare providers who miss opportunities, such as sick visits, emergency room visits or visits during which a sibling or parent is being seen, to administer needed vaccines," say Yemisi Adetunji, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues. ...INEEL researchers develop medical imagery breakthrough
...r the tiniest change, Lancaster worried they might miss something. "They just stare at them to try to find differences," said Lancaster. "I said, 'Man, that's so archaic,'" Lancaster decided to test his doctors' powers of perception with and without CDS. "I took an image, altered it ever so slightly, bro...Text messages could lead to health inequalities
... in higher socioeconomic groups are less likely to miss appointments and thus are more likely to receive better health care, he concludes....Newborn screening is cost-effective in detecting rare but treatable genetic disease
... has MCADD mustbe vigilant that the child does not miss feedings. If a child cannot eat for some reason, parents bring the child to a hospital to receive intravenous nourishment and preventdisease complications. When the researchers projected their cost model over a 70-year period, they predicted that the...