Novel prostate cancer marker may lead to earlier diagnosis and fewer repeat bioposies
... certain whether a man has prostate cancer without performing multiple biopsies over time," said Robert Getzenberg, Ph.D., senior author and professor of urology, pathology and pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "By testing for EPCA in men with high levels of PSA, we may be able to...Researchers to pinpoint relationship between obesity-associated diabetes and heart disease
... degrees, insulin resistance prevents insulin from performing its job, which is to take the sugar from food and distribute it throughout the body for energy. "Up to 80 percent of obese people compensate for their insulin resistance by oversecreting insulin and therefore don't become diabetic. In the remaining 1...Advances in prevention and treatment research hold promise for 'pipeline'
...bbit model. McCormick and her colleagues are now performing research focused on improving these novel vaccines against papillomaviruses through research funded by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program. "The key to preventing reproductive tract cancers caused by H...Active lifestyle reduces risk of endometrial cancer
...e activities such as walking for transportation or performing household chores can reduce a woman's risk for endometrial cancer by as much as 30 percent-40 percent. "This adds to the growing body of literature indicating that high levels of physical activity are associated with reduced risk of some cancers, inc...Exercise improves cancer survival, reduces cancer risk, scientists say
...ion between such ordinary activities as walking or performing household chores and reduced risk of endometrial and breast cancers, and between walking and improved rates of breast cancer survival. Another demonstrates that moderate exercise decreased the levels of a blood marker that predicts lower survival fr...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...f Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS). In contrast, performing this task reliably is beyond even the most advanced computer-recognition systems. In the April 2 issue of Science, Sinha and colleagues show that a specific brain region known to be activated by clear images of faces is also strongly activated by ver...Two-stage weight loss surgery for high-risk, morbidly obese patients reduces surgical risk
...gh Medical Center (UPMC). "Our study found that by performing this less drastic surgery first, allowing the pati...nt to lose a substantial amount of weight and then performing the laparoscopic Roux-en-y, mortality was greatly reduced." The study followed 75 patients who under...Time-reversal acoustics research promises medical breakthroughs
...eries of implanted devices like pacemakers without performing surgery. Dr. Alexander Sutin, an acoustics expert and senior scientist at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ), is a co-author of six papers to be presented at the Acoustical Society of America's 75th Anniversary Meeting in May 2004 (New Yor...Extended lymph node dissection fails to increase long-term survival among gastric cancer patients
...al praised the study, noting that "the debate over performing a D1 or D2 lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer should be put to rest." "Clinical and scientific research teams of surgical, medical and radiation oncologists should concentrate their efforts on training surgical residents and fellows to perform a com...Operative time increases when training surgical residents in the operating room
... compared the operative times of academic surgeons performing four common surgical procedures before and after the introduction of a post-graduate resident into the operating room at a community teaching hospital. Between January 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002, four academic surgeons performed operations without a ...Avian influenza outbreaks create concern about human infection Mayo Clinic researchers warn
...ns for preventing the spread of the virus, such as performing thorough and frequent hand washing using soap and water or alcohol-based hand rubs. The virus can be killed with heat (132 degrees Fahrenheit for three hours, 140 degrees for 30 minutes or 158 degrees for one minute) or common disinfectants such as a...Making music could be bad for your skin
...e the authors of the study. "During practicing and performing there is a permanent contact between the instrument and the musician's skin of varying intensity. Apart from aggravating previous skin conditions, specific dermatologic conditions may develop that are directly caused by playing a musical instrument."...Preliminary results are promising in Alzheimer's gene therapy trial
...ticipants. Bakay is an experienced neurosurgeon in performing stereotactic injection who participated in some of the surgeries performed at UCSD. The University of California holds the patent to this therapeutic technology. The exclusive world-wide licensee is Ceregene, Inc. a San Diego-based biotechnology comp...AAN 2004 Public Leadership Award goes to Leon Fleisher, musician who overcame dystonia
...ome misshapen. Decades of grueling practice and performing on the piano, beginning at the age of four years old, resulted in Fleisher's suffering from focal dystonia. Focal dystonia is a particular form of the disorder that most commonly affects people who perform repetitive and synchronous movements over a ...Botulinum toxin can help musicians with dystonia
...usicians, and it often affects highly accomplished performing artists. It leads to the end of the performing career in more than half of them, and we have few treatments that are effective and long-lasting." T...Americans spend more on health care but are not healthier
...er than other countries in only a few areas, while performing worse in others. This raises the question of what Americans receive for all of the money devoted to health care." The international group of researchers worked together as The Commonwealth Fund International Working Group on Quality Indicators. Data ...Plain radiographs and dedicated CT may become unnecessary in detecting lower spine fractures
...onstruction may soon do away with the necessity of performing plain radiographs and dedicated spinal CT imaging in trauma patients, according to a new study by researchers from Boston Medical Center and Boston University in Massachusetts. The retrospective study involved 100 emergency room patients with abdomin...Carotid artery surgery could substantially reduce stroke among high-risk patients
...estigators of the ACST are to be congratulated for performing well a monumental task. They are to be commended for their cautionary concluding remarks. Carotid endarterectomy with any less skill than exhibited by ACST and ACAS surgeons quickly casts the procedure into the list of "risk factors for stroke"."...New findings on stroke prevention surgery should change medical practice
... M.D., a neurosurgeon at Wake Forest Baptist, said performing the surgery while the patient is awake allows even higher-risk patients to have the procedure with a low rate of complications....Prostate cancer marker could lead to earlier diagnosis say Univ. of Pittsburgh researchers
... certain whether a man has prostate cancer without performing multiple biopsies over time," said Robert Getzenberg, Ph.D., senior author and professor of urology, pathology and pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "By testing for EPCA in men with high levels of PSA, we may be able to...