Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...CAM practitioners were consulted, but over 6% were treated by their family doctor. Most had learnt about CAM from friends (56%), family (29%) or the media (28%), while 18% were informed by their physician. Under 10% had heard via the internet. Overall, patients tended to be satisfied and felt their particula...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
... considered incurable who had not been previously treated with any other form of therapy received a single course of treatment with the Bexxar therapeutic regimen, a radioactive antibody injected into the bloodstream that targets and kills cancer cells. Of the 76 patients enrolled in the study, 95 percent r...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...ss (both homeless and those with housing) who were treated by San Diego County Adult Mental Health Services (... the homeless patients with serious mental illness treated in AMHS. Latinos contribute 23 percent of the general population, 19 percent of the AMHS patients, ...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...how the most common type of primary brain tumor is treated found that care does not always follow established... of patients with newly diagnosed malignant glioma treated in the modern era. Some common practice patterns are in keeping with published literature (e.g., use...Neoadjuvant and adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer give equivalent survival, study finds
...e a recurrence of their cancer compared with women treated with chemotherapy later, according to a new study ...,000 breast cancer patients. The patients had been treated with systemic therapy either before or after surgery and/or radiation therapy. There was no differen...New research could help physicians tailor asthma therapy in children
... and/or elevated signs of allergic inflammation be treated daily with inhaled corticosteroids. Their findings also suggest that, in those children who have no elevated signs of allergic inflammation, a therapeutic trial of either medication can be conducted to determine which works best....Feb. 1, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...or dying found that about 80 percent of both those treated at home and those treated in the hospital improved without side effects, complications, or the need to change antibiotics (Art...New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...led diagnosis with an MRI scan and/or who were not treated successfully with surgery. The study, published i...percent show a herniated disc serious enough to be treated with surgery. And, of those patients treated with surgery, about one-third do not experience relief...LA BioMed medical/research briefs January 2005
...inal aorta, during a three-year period in patients treated with a Powerlink System," said Dr. White. To contact Rodney White, MD, please call David Feuerherd at 310-215-0234 / 310-222-2820 or e-mail him at df@issuesmanagement.com . Reverse epidemiology: a spurious hypothesis or a hardcore reality? Sourc...Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
...lities and differences in how pain is assessed and treated amongst various racial and ethnic minority groups. Data from the articles in this themed edition provide evidence that African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and other racial and ethnic minorities do not receive optimal care in treatment for...Patients with previous heart attacks may not benefit from pacemaker implant
... of patients with congestive heart failure who are treated with specialized pacemakers a costly and invasive treatment to electrically resynchronize their hearts fail to respond....Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...as a special metabolic test that required drinking treated water with tracers to monitor the person's metabolism as a way of providing researchers a measure of compliance that test subjects were eating only meals prepared for them by hospital staff. A dedicated kitchen staff to cook 20,000 meals over the te...Cooling lessens brain damage in sick newborn babies
...ristol University. Most of the English babies were treated in the Bristol hospitals. It was discovered some years ago that when the brain is starved of oxygen at birth damage does not occur immediately; instead, as Professor John Wyatt of University College London points out, "a chemical cascade is triggered...CT venography increases detection of dangerous blood clots
...lot problem. "Studies have shown that inadequately treated deep vein thrombosis is associated with recurring pulmonary emboli," said lead author, Matthew D. Cham, M.D., a radiology resident at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. In a large-scale study, Dr. Ch...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...ich patients with mild to moderate depression were treated with antidepressants or cognitive therapy, said Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, professor of psychiatry and director of UT Southwestern's mood disorders research program. "The effect you find using aerobic exercise alone in treating clinical depression is si...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...hors note that in 2001, 29.2 million injuries were treated in U.S. emergency departments. Of those injuries as many as 1.3 million are possibly attributable to drinking what is considered a nonhazardous amount of alcohol. The authors assert that preventing these injuries could result in a considerable benefi...Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...id. In English, months of the year are treated as containers. People say "in January" or "in February." Other languages treat months as surfaces. For example, "on January" or "on February." Despite the difference, there is a metaphor at work, Kemmerer said. "The cross-linguistic ubiqu...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
...m rural Alabama. The men were told they were being treated for "bad blood" and were denied treatment for the disease. Distrust of the government's role in HIV may translate into distrust of public health prevention messages about HIV and condoms, Bogart said. "Public health professionals need to acknowledge ...Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife strongly linked to risk of dementia
...iabetes, and smoking have long been considered and treated as risk factors for cardiovascular disease. A new study has concluded that these same cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in middle age may also increase significantly the risk of dementia in old age. The study of nearly 9,000 northern Californians is p...Communication between primary-care physicians and patients can reduce medication-related problems
...tudy, we tracked ADEs in a group of patients being treated in primary-care practices. We expected that the same percentage of outpatients would have ADEs as had been found in studies of hospitalized patients about 7 percent," says the study's lead author, Saul N. Weingart, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Cent...