CT scans find tiny bladder, kidney & urinary cancers
...pt this technique for use in patients in whom they strongly suspect urinary abnormalities, such as those with prior cancer." Cohan will give a course on MDCTU at the RSNA meeting, along with several other leading national investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and the ...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...idelines or legal mandates, chaperone use has been strongly advocated for legal protection. The authors point out, however, that it is still unclear whether chaperone use actually decreases malpractice claims. Chaperone Use by Family Physicians During the Collection of a Pap Smear Mack T. Ruffin, IV, M.D...Experimental drugs show promise in halting brain tumors
...ave shown that four new and experimental drugs can strongly inhibit the growth of deadly brain tumors in animals, and they expect these promising results to hold true in humans, as well. In fact, one of the drugs -- ZD6474 -- significantly slowed the growth of three different types of brain tumors, a remarkab...More docs favor national health insurance, study reveals
...y percent of the doctors surveyed said they either strongly or generally opposed legislation to establish national health care. Only 26 percent supported a system whereby the federal government is the sole payer for health care services. A recent Harris Interactive poll showed that 81 percent of U.S. phy...Injured workers dissatisfied with compensation system
...re than one-third of the 290 respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "I felt pressured to get better faster than I was able to." Less than half reported being satisfied with their return-to-work experience and many reported experiencing high levels of stress and depression as a result of the...Heart failure consumes significant health care resources
...cterized by the inability of the heart to contract strongly enough. In a more newly recognized form of the disorder, known as diastolic heart failure, the heart beats normally but does not fill with enough blood. In both cases, the body is deprived of oxygen-rich blood. Systole is that part of the heart's pum...Caregivers of family members with dementia experience more health problems than noncaregivers
...be unique to caregiving." Also, reported health is strongly related to psychological distress, which say the authors, is higher in women than men, and likewise reported more by female caregivers than male caregivers. Older caregivers also reported more health problems than younger caregivers but did not diffe...More risk factors for heart disease increase Medicare cost
... with three or more risk factors. "Medicare costs strongly relate to middle-age risk factors. People need to pay attention to health when they are middle-aged or younger by the time they are older it could be too late. And if the government and the medical field want to reduce expenses, they should pay at...Scientists map maturation of the human brain
... more typical form) schizophrenia seems to be more strongly associated with later maturing temporal and fronta...during adolescence," says Matthews. "The findings strongly suggest that binge alcohol exposure during adolescence alters the neurobiology of the brain in a man...Exercise has a more powerful impact on the brain than previously thought
...ucted to mentally "urge" their muscles to contract strongly while doing low-intensity (30 percent of maximum level) exercises to strengthen their elbow flexor muscles. Others performed the same exercises with low mental effort--while watching television. Yue and his colleagues found that the muscles of the g...Among elderly, depression more prevalent in Hispanics and blacks
...sion. Physical limitations were the factor most strongly associated with major depression, more than doubli... finding that lack of health insurance coverage is strongly associated with frequency of major depression particularly implicates the need for health insurance ...Family's income, education affect depression and obesity in teens
...rsonal skills, whereas income's effect may be more strongly associated with material goods and services," Goodman suggests....Alcohol use increases the risk of hormonally sensitive breast cancers in postmenopausal women
... cancer. While our results suggest that alcohol is strongly associated with hormonally responsive types of breast cancer, they need to be confirmed by other researchers," said Li, also a research assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine...Improving physical fitness, insulin sensitivity may help latino children at risk for type 2 diabetes
...ures of the metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome strongly predicts both cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, so researchers believe that improving fitness would be a worthy way of deterring these diseases among such children. About 28 percent of heavy Latino children with a family history of type 2...Astrazeneca receives European approval for Seroquel; in bipolar mania
...eased risk of suicide.5 This lack of compliance is strongly associated with the occurrence of side effects, therefore, a well tolerated and effective treatment is pivotal to the successful treatment of this condition. Health authorities involved in the Mutual Recognition Procedure reviewed data from a compreh...Contrast mammography reveals hard-to-find cancers
...sive cancers. Eleven of the invasive cancers were strongly enhanced, one showed moderate enhancement and another was weakly enhanced. In another patient, a case of intraductal carcinoma in situ showed a weakly enhanced duct. The 12 benign cases either showed weak enhancement or none at all. Dr. Lewin said t...Health disparities between racial groups affect joblessness
... income, which appeared to be associated much more strongly with disparities in education," says study author ...ged 45 to 64. However, Bound says, income is more strongly affected by education: "Differences in education account for between 52 and 84 percent of the race/e...International physician survey reveals misperceptions about the toll of stroke on women
...ate lifestyle changes."Hypertension and stroke are strongly linked. Although there are a number of risk factor...han in Canada and the United States. This pattern strongly correlates with death rates from stroke in Europe.(3) Physicians appreciate the fact that hyperten...Sex selection for social reasons: religious and moral perspectives
...ach." Suppose the first child is a boy. If, as was strongly the case in the UK, they then want a girl, why not use technology to get this result? The rather strong resistance to the use of technology (or was it to the money needed to secure it?!) suggests that many people think there is something intrinsicall......sis and outcomes between the insured and uninsured strongly suggest that access to care plays a significant role in detecting aneurysms before they rupture," says senior author Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr., M.D., an assistant professor of vascular surgery at the U-M Medical School. "In other words, access is linke...