Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...hat if all women in the trial actually had been screened annually instead, there might have been as much as a 75 percent reduction in breast cancer deaths. "Considering the reasonable cost and the fact that the benefits outweigh the risks, there is no reason I can think of as to why women ...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...linicalCenter in Bethesda, Md. From 683 carefully screened individuals, theinvestigators enrolled 70 people with CFS, although only 66 were included in thefinal analysis. "The strict entry criteria were an important part of the studydesign," says Dr. Straus. The investigators rejected anyone for whom stero...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
... surgery planned. Prospective patients are screened via a bone scan that shows physiciansthe location of their tumors, and a questionnaire asking them to indicate theareas of their body where they feel pain. The two are compared to make surethey correlate. Patients in the trial receive a one-...Vinegar Offers Dependable Test For Cervical Cancer
...exuallyactive, fewer than 15 percent had ever been screened for cervical cancer. Colposcopy (high-powered magnification) and when necessary, biopsy, were used toconfirm abnormal results or to verify the few women controls who testednegative. In the second phase, 2,144 women received the visual inspe...New Chemicals Could Lead To First Bone Growth Pill
... the proteins themselves, Dr. Baindur's laboratory screened tensofthousands of compounds for the ability to stimulate BMPs. They have selectedthree --two synthetic chemicals and one natural product -- for pre-clinical development,andearly indications look promising. "This is the first report of small molecu......otentialcandidates for the procedure are carefully screened and apprised of possiblerisks. "While we are excited about the immediate and intermediate outcomes, westill need to learn more about the long-term consequences of the procedure," Dr.Makkar cautioned. "Compared to open heart surgery, the approach seem...Growth-Hormone Deficient Babies Are Normal Length At Birth, UB Study Finds
... and/or jaundice. Newborns are routinely screened at birth for hypoglycemia, which is apotential marker for CGHD, MacGillivray said. Babies who are hypoglycemic, orshow other signs that something is wrong, are tested further. All 46 infants inthis study required treatment for deficiencies in pitui......n?" Although as many as 25 percent of newborns are screened for "low blood sugar,"there is no agreement on what constitutes neonatal hypoglycemia (NH). Theauthors of the study set out to propose a new "working definition" of NH basedon medical literature. In searching for medical evidence upon which to base t...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...are organizations. Of 6,073 patients screened, 656 screened positive as men who consumed more than11 drinks or women who consumed more than 8 drinks a week; men who had consumed4 or more drinks or women who had consumed 3 or more drinks on at least twooccasions during the past 3 months; or persons who reporte......ntly increased risk, but the blood supply has been screened forhepatitis B since 1975. "The young infants we're immunizing are not IV drug abusers, they're notsexually active, and household contact is a very infrequent cause oftransmission," says Dr. Lehman. "But in about one-fourth of cases of hepatitisB, th...National Jewish researchers first to identify component in thymus that positively selects T cells
...rs andcan potentially attack the immune system are screened by the thymus and thendestroy themselves. However, some T cells, which later may cause an autoimmunedisease, pass throught the thymus because not all antigens that can be seen by Tcells are present in this organ. A positively selected T cell is allo...Moderate levels of worry can motivate women to get mammograms
...tle bit of worry can be a powerfulincentive to get screened for the disease, new research shows. Among more than 200 women who completed a cancer education program, those whoexpressed moderate levels of worry about developing breast cancer were mostlikely to receive a mammogram during the following year, ac...Infants of depressed mothers show atypical brain activity
...mothers were carefully assessed for depression and screened fordifficulties such as substance abuse that could affect their infants. Theresults of the study appear in the current issue of Child Development. EEG recordings were made during a non-social baseline situation and fouremotion-eliciting social situa...Revived drug prevents malaria, skirts drug resistance
...you'd better know what you're doing. We carefully screened for volunteers who knew what was goingon, whounderstood their consent papers, who knew the risks they were taking and whorealized the importance of being 100 percent compliant in their follow-up visits. We neededpeople who went into this with their ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet - October 5, 1999
...ing Sleep Apnea A new questionnaire effectively screened primary care patients for sleep apnea(Article, p. 485). During routine office visits to five Cleveland doctors, 744patients were given surveys about snoring, sleepiness, and obesity orhypertension. Based on their answers, 279 (37.5 percent) were cons...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
... patients with the telltale flu-likesymptoms to be screened for the disease. It also will allow researchers todetermine whether ehrlichiosis may be as widespread as Lyme Disease in theNortheast. The new ELISA test was developed by Dr. Jacob IJdo and Dr. Erol Fikrig in theRheumatology section of Yale Medical S...UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
... a sampling of breast tissue cells, which then are screened for malignancy. The method, Masood says, also can be used to look for the early cellular changes that sometimes lead to cancer in women who have one of an array of breast lesions, enabling practitioners to assess risk based on the degree and type of...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
... to be younger than their mates and were not being screened for potential heart disease." In many cases, one risk factor shared between spouses was high body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is defined as overweight while a BMI above 30 is considered obese. Macken's group found...How to spot drugs that misfire
...ually the combos could allow potential drugs to be screened against all human proteins in one go. Another big plus is that the combos can be made in cultures of human cells. This means that their proteins are identical to those found in people-unlike human proteins made by bacteria. The key to the process...Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
...eet some states' requirements that all newborns be screened for hearing loss before going home. In fact, it has already led the U-M to pick the more accurate test for its new universal screening program. The data may also help audiologists fine-tune their use of the quicker test to give the fewest false posit...