Breast cancer treatment reduces risk of heart disease
Women with breast cancer treated with the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen are at signi...eviewed the records of 3030 breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen and 4233 patients with other cancers not treated with tamoxifen. Women treated with t...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
... study compared the medical records of 1,136 women treated at M. D. Anderson for breast cancer to those of 1,088 healthy women who came to the institution for breast cancer screening. "Thyroid hormone and estrogen both share similar pathways in regulating proliferation and growth in the target cells, includi...COX-2 inhibitors associated with blood pressure elevation
...ant blood pressure elevation in study participants treated with COX-2 inhibitors versus those treated with NSAIDs or placebo. COX-2 inhibitors were associated with a blood pressure elevation compared wi...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...ance for CML approximately 95 percent of patients treated with Gleevec achieve remission there clearly is a need for therapies that produce longer remissions, are active against advanced disease, and can be used when Gleevec loses effectiveness," says Dana-Farber's James Griffin, MD, senior author of the s...Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections
... of UTIs during their lifetime. UTIs are typically treated with antibiotics. The researchers found that the E.coli causing the UTIs matched genetically with a sample of E.coli obtained from an animal source. They used E.coli samples collected over 40 years from the center to match up the bacteria causing U...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...f patients with congestive heart failure should be treated with an implantable cardiac defibrillator for the primary prevention of sudden death. This study, directed by cardiologist Alan Kadish, MD, medical director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute's Clinical Trials Unit, was published in the New Engla...Women successfully treated to prevent preterm labor at low risk for recurrent episode
...found that the large majority of expectant mothers treated to prevent preterm labor will deliver at or near t...ed near term or at term." While expectant mothers treated with magnesium for preterm labor commonly feel queasy or flushed, serious side effects are rare, acc...PCBs, fungicide open brain cells to Parkinson's assault
...sponses to PCBs in dopamine neurons. Investigators treated dopamine cells and other brain cells with PCBs and...roup shows that just as in exposure to PCBs, cells treated with low levels of maneb also undergo changes that disturb the balance in the antioxidant defense sy...Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...temic embolic events. Results showed that patients treated with ximelagatran (n=1,960) had a 1.6 percent per ...ompared to a 1.2 percent chance for 1,962 patients treated with warfarin (37 events). Those receiving ximelagatran experienced a 4.2 percent per year rate of ...Simpler blood thinning medication effective for preventing blood clots and stroke
...tion of liver toxicity) in 6.0 percent of patients treated with ximelagatran, usually within 6 months and typically declined whether or not treatment continued. "The SPORTIF V trial is the largest yet reported trial involving patients with atrial fibrillation for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism. L...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...with atrial fibrillation and from the doctors that treated them, adjusting their ranking of each drug based on quality of life measures. They quantified the risk for adverse health conditions such as mild, moderate or severe stroke and looked at other factors that affect quality of life such as the need for ...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
... these diseases have better outcomes when they are treated early, so a delayed diagnosis can have serious medical consequences," said Dr. Grimberg. For example, if celiac disease, an intolerance to proteins in wheat, goes untreated, it may raise a child's risk of other autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 dia...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...ble than intravenous fluid therapy (IVF). Patients treated with ORT do not require intravenous access, a potentially painful and difficult procedure in young children. Also, parents who learn to administer ORT correctly have acquired a skill that can be used at home for ongoing and future illnesses. A random...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...aptured the attention of the world. White, who was treated for his disease at Riley Hospital by IU physicians, died in 1990. In his Feb. 2 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush called for the reauthorization of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, which provides federal s...US FDA grants full approval to DOXIL(R) following submission of phase III data
...erall median survival was 14.4 months for patients treated with DOXIL and 13.7 months for patients treated with topotecan HCl; the p value was 0.05. The p value was not adjusted for multiple comparisons. T...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
...are usually left untreated. Moderate cases may be treated with local injections of corticosteroids, if patie...of the median nerve. The remaining 83 wrists were treated with local steroid injection. Patients in both groups were similar in age the median was 50 for th...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...delines, patients without alarm symptoms are to be treated with antisecretory drugs or other measures. But senior gastrointestinal specialists say that if patients are only referred once alarm symptoms are present, cancer may already be at an advanced stage - and too late for surgery. Professor Michael Griff...University of Washington joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical services
... with autism. According to parents some are being treated successfully for these issues. However, no organization of medical institutions has undertaken careful study and committed to establishing treatment guidelines for care. Making front-line physicians aware of such information and proven treatments i...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...ucture for better care to ensure that patients are treated and discharged appropriately. "We and others have...erapy. They also monitored how many patients were treated with aspirin-like drugs or anticoagulants within 48 hours, and the number documented as ineligible f...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...is suggests that you save $4,000 for every patient treated with tPA," Schwamm said. Arthur Pancioli, M.D., an...stroke treatment. Some hemorrhagic strokes can be treated effectively with surgery or catheter-based treatments that reduce disability from that condition, an...