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...e from a family physician (240); patients who were treated by an allergist (172); and those who chose to self...ater severity of those symptoms than did patients treated by an allergist and even those who self-managed their allergy symptoms after being diagnosed by a ph...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...nificantly increased for health-care professionals treated for substance use disorders if they have coexisting psychiatric illness or a family history of substance abuse. An article in the March 22 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Karen B. Domino, professor of anesthesiology ...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...dometrial cancer using tumor samples from patients treated at Duke University Medical Center. Cancers from 18 African-American patients were compared to those from 27 Caucasian patients who were matched according to stage, grade and cell type. It was found that distinct and different patterns of gene exp...Aloe vera: Natural, home remedy treats canker and cold sores
... study as showing that oral health problems can be treated with aloe vera. "Aloe vera can be taken both as the aloe vera juice and aloe vera gel. These are the two modes of delivery recognized by the FDA," says Dr. Wynn. Those interested in using aloe vera for oral health problems are encouraged to speak wit...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...ss than two percent of the participants were being treated with anti-cholesterol medication. Anti-cholestero... yet generalize the results of our study to people treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs." The authors emphasize that these findings do not provide a justi...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...ll the mouse if left unchecked. But when the group treated the mice with the collagen VII-blocking antibody, the skin cancer failed to spread, though the cancer remained. "This cancer isn't deadly unless it spreads," Khavari said. What's more, it appears that the antibody blocks only the cancer-spreading asp...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...reated severe disease and 372 with the disease and treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). P...th mild-moderate disease, simple snorers, patients treated with CPAP and healthy participants-- even after adjustment for potential confounding factors. Dr Ma...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...imated the number of patients that could have been treated with cognitive behavioural therapy in 2002, had the rise in prescribing not occurred and the associated costs been diverted to psychological treatment and therapists. Between 1991 and 2002, prescriptions per head for all antidepressants increased alm...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...drug dosages and procedures. Thus women are being treated as if they are men, despite the notable differences in their disease elements. Professor Priori says, "Doctors have formulas on pain in women and on heart disease symptoms but less training on non-typical pain or symptom patterns. They may misdiagno...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...ans from the hospitals at which they are currently treated so that they could have access to interventional treatments like cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery," Epstein said. "That's a huge number and its feasibility is debatable." Epstein also commented on the possible downsides from a regionalizati...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...cause pledgers are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for STD infections, they may be more likely to have those infections for longer periods than non-pledgers. "If pledgers have infections for longer periods of time than non-pledgers, this is a reason for concern," said Brckner. The authors said even...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...s, and only 5 percent said their own patients were treated differently depending on their race or ethnicity. ... that physicians who were female, or black, or who treated a large number of minority patients in their practices were more likely than other cardiologists to ...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...4 black high-risk patients with this syndrome were treated compared to the recommendations in the joint guidelines. The patient information was culled from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines?) d...Risk of cardiac death after radiotherapy for breast cancer has declined, study finds
...dy. Continued follow-up of the women diagnosed and treated in the late 1980s will be necessary to answer this question," the authors write. In an editorial, Jack Cuzick, Ph.D., of Cancer Research U.K. in London, discusses the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer and how this latest research ...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
... previous analyses had involved women who had been treated in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, decades not considered in the era of modern medicine. "Comparing women with breast cancer on the left side where the heart is located (therefore, more radiation is delivered to the heart) versus those with disease on th...New study shows how very low-carb diets take off the pounds
...ody water or because the carbohydrate calories are treated differently by the body than fat or protein calories," said Guenther Boden, MD, a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine and chief of the division of endocrinology/diabetes/metabolism at Temple University School of Medicine. "All the weight loss was ...Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
...s with failing physical health can be successfully treated for depression. Second, it shows that treating the depression also helps slow the physical decline." Dr. Callahan is director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and principal author of the article. Study participants were placed ran...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...n batteries. Measures of sentence production using treated and nontreated emotions were completed during baseline and treatment phases. Sentences were scored for accuracy by a trained rater blind to time of testing and analyzed visually and statistically. Data confirmed modest to substantial effects for both...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
...erall survival of 12.5 months compared to patients treated with the standard chemotherapy alone, who had a median survival of 10.2 months. This difference is statistically significant. Detailed results from this trial will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO) to b...'Speaker's cramp', a new type of involuntary mouth-, lip-muscle movement
...mptoms were reduced when the affected muscles were treated with Botox injections. Patients rated their speech difficulties on visual analogue scales, and video recordings for dystonia scores and neurological and odontological examinations were used for evaluation. Surface and needle electromyography (EMG) wa...