Limiting angioplasty to experienced hospitals will not reduce access to care
...procedures less common than angioplasty, including pancreas and esophagus removal, coronary bypass surgery and pediatric heart surgery have reported small increases in travel distance or time for the majority of patients, she said....Antipsychotic drugs linked to insulin resistance in children
... properly use insulin, the hormone produced by the pancreas that helps cells absorb glucose and provides a source of energy to the body. The pancreas tries to keep up with the demand for insulin by producing more. Eventually, the pancreas cannot keep...Elderly cancer patients are significantly under-represented in cancer clinical trials
...ma, and cancers of the breast, lung, colon, ovary, pancreas and central nervous system were analyzed according to the following age groups: 65 and older, 70 and older, and 75 and older. The rates of enrollment for elderly patients for each cancer were compared to the corresponding rates in the U.S. cancer po...Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
...of glucose. Insulin is the protein produced by the pancreas that helps regulate blood sugar (glucose) levels. Compared to cells that were not exposed to anthocyanins, exposed cells were associated with a 50 percent increase in insulin levels, the researchers say. The mechanism of action by which these anthocy...Elevated glucose levels and diabetes are associated with increased risk for cancer
...ancreas, and bile duct in men and of the liver and pancreas in women. Of the 26,473 total cancer deaths in men and women, 848 were estimated as attributable to having a fasting serum glucose level of more than 90/mg/dL. For cancer incidence, the general patterns reflected those found for mortality. For perso...USC/Norris oncologists test new front-line therapy for pancreatic cancer
...e arsenal against pancreatic cancer. Cancer of the pancreas causes about 27,000 deaths each year in the United States alone. "Pancreatic cancer is a major health problem, because we do not yet have highly effective ways to deal with it," says Lenz, director of the gastrointestinal oncology program at USC/Norr...World-first living donor islet cell transplant a success
... injured from cold storage, transport time and the pancreas is severely damaged by toxins which circulate in the blood stream after brain death." "Our expectation is that these islets from near-perfect organs will work better, although it's too early to tell," he says. The recipients use the same drugs to pr...Infectious agent linked to mad cow disease found in organs other than the brain
... systems that are typically free of prions: liver, pancreas and kidney, in five different mouse models of chronic inflammation. After the mice were infected with prions, the team detected prion accumulation in the inflamed organs. They concluded that the spectrum of organs containing prions might be considera...Single-donor islet transplantation procedure shows promise for patients with type 1 diabetes
...received islet transplantation from a single donor pancreas were insulin independent one year later, according...eved with a single donor, as is also the case with pancreas transplants, to reduce the risks and costs and increase the availability of islet transplantation. ...