International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
... To be eligible, women must be 35 years of age or older and have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Risk factors can include a woman's age, her family history of breast cancer, her age at first menstrual period and her age at first live birth. Initial results of the trial could be availab...Lack of clinical trial participation may contribute to lower survival rates
...y finds poor survival rates among young adults and older adolescents with some cancers may be partially exp...mong all ages overall as well as among younger and older patients have shown vast improvements over the past 25 years, the same has not been shown for patien...Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...article. Up to fifty percent of people 50 years or older have been screened for CRC by fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or lower endoscopy. Clinician advice for CRC screening can be a major force in a patient obtaining screening tests; however, clinicians face a complicated series of recommended testing stra...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...t group contained 788 men and 732 women, age 50 or older (median age 59). All patients received an initial low-dose, helical CT examination, with annual screenings over the next four years. CT depicted 3,356 nodules in 1,118 (73.6 percent) of the patients. The researchers documented 68 primary lung cancer...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...od or pneumonia in newborn babies and pneumonia in older children constitute 29% of all deaths. Undernutrition is an underlying cause of 53% of all deaths in children aged younger than 5 years. The investigators also calculated the total numbers and proportional distributions of deaths in children younger ...The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
...s in order to improve the health and well being of older persons and their families. It was created to help social work doctoral students overcome their greatest obstacles, such as limited teacher training and career guidance. These fellowships cultivate the next generation of geriatric social work faculty...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...rs between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who have normal cytology (cells) results and who test negative for oncogenic (cancer-associated) human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA. The recommended interval is 6 to 12 months for women with normal cytology and detectable oncogenic HPV." Women who are ...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...affecting mainly young children under 5 and adults older than 50. "Violence was the major cause of death in Muhajiria (72 percent), with all but one of the 25 violent deaths in men." "The prevalence of acute malnutrition was high, particularly in Kalma where nearly 24 percent of children younger than 5 y...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
... including age (whether the donor of the liver was older than 60) and weight (donor weight of more than 220...te. "In contrast, a graft from a donor 60 years or older transplanted into a status 1 or 2A recipient with a CIT of 12 hours or more would have only a 20 per...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... types of ice for example clearly delineating the older rougher surface of the Drygalski ice tongue from the surrounding sea ice. The Drygalski ice tongue is located at the opposite end of McMurdo Sound from the US and New Zealand bases. Large and (considered) permanent enough to be depicted on standard...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
... who had a longer hospital stays and was worse for older children. The extremely low refusal rate suggested that parents were willing to share personal data. These results reinforce the view that the logistics of obtaining consent for sharing information presents substantial challenges requiring new approa...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...rts. Women with heart disease are up to ten years older than men and present with much less obvious and stereotypical symptoms. Both the general public and medical professionals need to be sensitive to women's CVD symptom profiles and disease progression patterns, as these do not necessarily follow the m...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
... 20-39 (54 percent), 40-64 (25 percent) and 65 and older (39 percent) who did not receive vaccine, an effect known as "herd immunity." Increases in antibiotic resistance by S. pneumoniae are also a problem in other parts of the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. Resistance increased dramatically a...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...re as likely or more likely than whites to receive older and more established treatments such as aspirin, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and heparin for acute care, but were significantly less likely to receive newer drugs both on presentation and at discharge. "Clopidogrel, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibito...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
... overall quality of life of U.S. adults age 18 and older and found a wide range of differences. They said the disparities data may help develop new public policies and programs to close the gaps. "In general, the population subgroups most significantly and adversely affected were African Americans, Hispan...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...unger and healthier patients were more likely than older high-risk patients to receive intensive treatment and medical therapy," the researchers note. "Regions with more invasive treatment practice styles had more cardiac catheterization laboratory capacity; patients in these regions were more likely to r...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...le used at least 1 inappropriate medication; using older 1997 criteria it was 9.8 percent to 10.9 percent. ...f associated factors. Individuals aged 85 years or older and those living alone were less likely to receive inappropriate medications. "In Europe, use of pot...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
...osis. As many as 95 percent of adults 20 years and older have been infected with EBV, but show no symptoms. "Viruses that are associated with cancers typically target the cell cycle to gain control," says Robertson. "However, this is the first time that laboratory research into how EBV drives the cancer p...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...ess desirable than leaving it alone, especially in older men. "But the main thing is we don't know whether screening saves lives," says Gerald L. Andriole Jr., M.D., head of the Division of Urologic Surgery at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "Our study follows about 75,000 men, half of wh...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...king it difficult to diagnose. However, for these older pertussis sufferers, severe coughing episodes can ...up to 20 percent) in persons younger than five and older than 40 years of age. Initial symptoms may include malaise, sore throat and low-grade fever. As th...