The Lancet Oncology (TLO) and The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
...years) HRT use. The review highlights the need for prospective controlled trials in healthy women as well as those at higher risk of breast cancer or with a personal history of the disease. A case for geriatric oncology The increase in cancer incidence with increasing age is becoming more obvious and more impo...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...o enroll in the study, investigators evaluated all prospective participants using the C-KIDDIE-SADS GAD and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria. The anxiety symptoms had to be present for at least six months and the participants could not be depressed as me...Health-care expert proposes overhaul of long-term care financing
...insurance "more affordable and less off-putting to prospective buyers," he wrote. He focuses his criticism on various Medicare restrictions that "no longer make sense" in the context of today's long-living American. He zeroes in, for example, on the distinction between physical and mental impairments. Medicare...News tips from the June issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association
... study, he says. The research was compiled from a prospective follow-up study of 2,419 Finnish men between the ages of 42 and 60 and was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute....New approach to post-transplant lymphoma shows promise
...y remaining elusive. Porcu says this is the first prospective analysis of a uniform approach to treating kidney transplant patients who develop PTLD with antiviral therapy plus graduated reduction in immunosuppression. These results appear promising for what is often a fatal disease, says Porcu, noting previou...Stress not linked to breast cancer relapse
...ay explain the contradictory results. "We took the prospective study as the more robust, and the results suggest that women with breast cancer need not fear that stressful experiences will precipitate the return of their disease," they conclude....Generation x-tra large: Americans getting fatter younger, study finds
...l Hill, studied data on 9,179 people from a large, prospective study, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Men and women in the study were born between 1957 and 1964 and have been followed for more than two decades....Mount Carmel is first health system in Ohio to install Bridge Medical patient safety software
...d," said Sheets, "we can begin collecting valuable prospective and retrospective patient and medication-use data. InfoPoint allows us to analyze this data and extract important information for use in patient care. Experts have found that 'the best-managed hospitals make extensive use of technology.' Our new part...New NCI grant will support Jefferson trial to study test to diagnose colorectal cancer spread
...GCC is as good as it appears," he says. "This is a prospective trial in which patients are staged and then we see how they do. In the past, the study was retrospective - we knew what happened to the patient. There's no bias in this trial - we don't know what will happen." Dr. Waldman isn't sure that one marker w...Simple reminder can help patients avoid dangerous infection
...fection of the heart's inner lining or valves. The prospective survey study appears in the June 24 on-line rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The risk of developing bacterial endocarditis is small but the disease can be life-threatening, according to the study's senior...Kytril more effective in controlling chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting
...al, Stony Brook, N.Y., USA, presented results of a prospective study designed to determine response to antiemetic therapy while undergoing intravenous chemotherapy for lymphoma or malignancies of the lung, larynx or uterus.1 Kytril provided significantly greater control of acute chemotherapy-induced nausea and v...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (first issue)
...nd asthma in childhood, investigators in the first prospective study of the finding found no association between antibiotic use in the first year of life and subsequentdevelopment of asthma, allergic rhinitis, or eczema at age 5. The investigators studied 498 infants who were born to parents who had a history o...Aspirin within two days of ischemic stroke reduces deaths
...rature, looking primarily for well-designed, large prospective studies in which patients were randomly selected and blinded (they didn't know what type of therapy they were receiving). They found evidence from the published trials that giving 160 325 mg of aspirin within 48 hours of stroke onset offers a "sm...Timely antiretroviral therapy essential for best prognosis in people with HIV-1 infection
...nalysed data on over 12,000 adult patients from 13 prospective studies from Europe and North America. The patients had not received antiretroviral therapy previously and started HAART with a combination of at least three drugs. 870 patients developed a new AIDS event and 344 patients died. More advanced disease...High cholesterol elevates women's risk of stroke death
...rs followed participants in eight large, long-term prospective studies that formed The Women's Pooling Project (WPP). They evaluated stroke risk factors in 24,343 women with no history of heart attack, coronary chest pain, or stroke. They were 30-97-years old (average 52) at the time of enrollment, with 17.4 p...Increased risk of ovarian cancer is linked to estrogen replacement therapy
...k between hormone use and ovarian cancer. A large prospective study published last year (JAMA 2001;285:1460-1465) showed that postmenopausal estrogen use for 10 or more years was associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer mortality, and a recent Swedish study (J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 2002;94:497-504) report...Genetic variant reduces immune response, yet protects against atherosclerosis
...other five-year follow-up. The Bruneck Study was a prospective survey of the natural history of atherosclerosis, and what made the study population interesting to the Duke researchers was that it included detailed information of patients' immunological status, as well as ultrasound studies of the major arteries ...Panel calls for greater attention to cancer patients' pain, depression, and fatigue
...nd fatigue alone and together in adequately funded prospective studies; all patients with cancer should have optimal symptom control from diagnosis throughout the course of illness, irrespective of personal and cultural characteristics. The primary sponsors of this meeting were the National Cancer Institute and...Drug to lower cholesterol also slows calcium build-up in arteries
...of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. This is the first prospective study to exam how lipid levels affect the progression of calcium build-up. Researchers found that calcium in the coronary arteries progresses if left untreated. They also found that lipid-lowering therapy (in this case cerivastatin) can slow that p......ic cancer, according to results from a large-scale prospective study published in the August 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Kristin E. Anderson, Ph.D., Aaron R. Folsom, M.D., and their colleagues at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health examined the use of aspirin and o...