New study shows sinus surgery can improve chronic fatigue
... "The entire body of available medical literature points to the same conclusion: functional endoscopic sinus surgery reduces the chronic fatigue of sinusitis," said Alexander C. Chester, MD, clinical professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Chester analyzed the 11 available publish...Novel imaging technique shows lymph nodes, metastases in breast cancer without surgery
.... Theyre not like bone or a major organ, Brechbiel points out. The NCI research has the potential not only to reduce doubt but also to remove much of the decision itself from the operating room. Brechbiel proposes, and has the preliminary data to support, an approach that would send the woman first to the M...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...derground, but until recently the amount of ground points that could be measured was very limited. "Back in...m (GPS). Using GPS we could increase the number of points measured tenfold during a weeklong campaign, down to half-centimetre accuracy. But the ground deform...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
... help develop social skills. But the study also points out possible broader consequences of declining family size in the United States. "We're involved in a huge social change that has ramifications for all of us that are largely unexplored," he said. "People are growing up with fewer siblings ...Study: Dementia often undiagnosed in clinical settings
...ementia often goes undiagnosed in primary care. It points to the need for heightened awareness among primary care physicians of the cognitive functioning of older patients, especially those experiencing adverse events that may be warning signs of dementia. While the study was conducted in the Portland-metro...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...one approach to reading may work harder at certain points in a reader's career, skilled readers use both sounds and spelling at the same time for reading almost all words. Many people hear a "voice in the head" while they read and researchers have debated whether this helps or hinders reading, says Seidenb...Study finds dramatic increase in thyroid cancer
...terval since Chernobyl." Additionally, the study points out that children two years and younger at the time of the accident were even more vulnerable, and that their cancers tended to be more invasive and expanded beyond the thyroid gland. A number of nuclear power plants in the United States have recentl...New way to tally death risk for heart patients could ease worry
...c, and create the risk-prediction tool to allocate points to patients. The researchers showed through statistical methods that the tool was highly reliable for predicting whether a patient will die or not, including in subgroups of patients (those with ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction, and non-ST-s...... two processes separate. Recent research from MIT points to the former as an explanation. Yuhong Jiang, Rebecca Saxe and Nancy Kanwisher, in a study to be published in the June issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the American Psychological Society, examined the brain activity involved in multitask...Study finds Velcade major improvement over standard therapy for relapsed multiple myeloma patients
...hasone-treated group," Richardson commented. "This points to a significant improvement in efficacy, which prompted the trial's Data Monitoring Committee to halt the trial early so all patients participating in the study could receive bortezomib." Manufactured by Millennium Pharmaceuticals of Cambridg...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...patterns and lung cancer rates among men and women points to the primary need to focus broadly on enhancing preventive interventions that will have similar relevance for all." In an editorial, William J. Blot, Ph.D., and Joseph K. McLaughlin, Ph.D., of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, ...Incentive-based intervention with nutritional component improves health status of children in Mexico
...ne. The rate of anemia in 1999 was 10.6 percentage points lower in the intervention group (44.3 percent) after 1 year in the Progresa program relative to that in the crossover intervention group (54.9 percent), who had not yet received Progresa benefits that year. In 2000, rates of anemia in the two groups ...Calvin professor invents lymphedema sleeve
...against the skin. I knew it couldn't have pressure points or seams on the inside. And it's machine-washable and dryable."...Jefferson researchers find combining two types of radiation therapy is better for brain cancer
...ry which entails delivering radiation to specific points in the brain while sparing normal tissue after whole brain radiation therapy helps certain patients with cancer that has spread to the brain live longer, says a new study by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.In as m...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...s measure helps us understand why people smoke and points us toward more individualized treatment for tobacco users." Previous measures concentrated primarily on physical dependence, including questions about number of cigarettes smoked, smoking upon waking and smoking when ill. The WISDM-68 provides a mor...Celebrities are root cause of rush to dentist
...ntures?', and were told to rank their answers on a points scale. The higher the score, the worse they perceived the problems to be. Losing teeth made a big impact on quality of life but once this was taken into account, the lowest total score was reported for the 70 plus age group, meaning they perceived ...Emory conference to educate health professionals about 'metabolic syndrome'
...ing intensively studied as well." Dr. Ziegler also points out that more work is needed to determine methods for early diagnosis of the risk factors that make up the Metabolic Syndrome at an earlier stage before they result in major health problems such as full-blown diabetes, heart attack and stroke."It's a...Specialized care from hospital to home improves the health of elderly with heart failure
...exceeding $24 billion annually. Further, the study points out that this patient group is representative of a growing segment of the U.S. population. Americans are living longer with chronic health problems and experiencing breakdowns in care during multiple transitions from hospital to home that affect the...Drug for depression helps irritable bowel syndrome, according to Pittsburgh study
...ved the well-being of people with IBS. "This study points out the benefits of this drug as a potential new and improved treatment for IBS, a disease that is very difficult for physicians to manage," said George Arnold, M.D., F.A.C.P., clinical professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of ...New findings on stroke prevention surgery should change medical practice
... more people should be getting the treatment and points out the need for screenings to diagnose the condition say researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "We now know definitively that we can reduce stroke risk by half with surgery to 'clean out' narrowed arteries leading to the b...