Women In Government report on eliminating cervical cancer
...f proven to have precancerous cell changes, can be treated earlier than might have otherwise occurred. This may be particularly important for women from more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups because many of these women have less opportunity to be screened regularly. Unfortunately, while 46 states and t...New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...troesophageal reflux, should have those conditions treated as well. Such conditions often become more troublesome during pregnancy. "As important as medications are for controlling asthma, a pregnant woman can reduce how much medication is needed by identifying and avoiding the factors that make her asthm...National Academies advisory: Report assesses health implications of perchlorate exposure
... recently, patients with hyperthyroidism have been treated effectively and safely with moderate doses of perchlorate for up to two years. Perchlorate has been administered to healthy subjects in doses ranging from 0.007 mg/kg to 9.2 mg/kg per day with no changes in thyroid hormone production to suggest any ...Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...mined 69 patients diagnosed with rectal tumors and treated in the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. The patients were asked to indicate the length of two time periods: how much time passed between when they first experienced a symptom and when they realized it w...Care of rural stroke patients improves with telephone support
...and safety concerns. For this study, patients were treated at small rural hospitals with telephone support fr...ter for care. The study compared those who were treated in the rural hospitals and transported to those who were treated at the stroke center. "Overall, ...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...patients, regardless of their expected outcome, be treated in the cardiac catheterization lab if there is a chance they may benefit from angioplasty. "Our numbers, although at times above the state average, reflect the deaths of patients who came to us critically ill," says Ling, director of the cardiac cat...Penn study may lead the way for first medication to treat cocaine addiction
...ehavioral therapy (CBT). Thirty participants were treated with Modafinil; and 32 were given placebo. The pr...that there were no serious adverse events in those treated with Modafinil, and none of the patients failed to complete the study as a result of any side effect...Gene vaccine protects mice against development of Her2/neu breast cancer
...n the experiments, three groups of seven mice were treated with three injections of a vaccine. The "control" arm received a VRP vaccine that contained an influenza protein, and the other two groups received one of two different doses of the VRP-neu vaccine. Researchers then implanted a HER2/neu-positive tumo...'Healthy' patients with abdominal lymph nodes seen on CT do not need follow-up imaging
...ses. Researchers examined CT scans of 120 patients treated in the emergency room following blunt abdominal trauma that had no history of an illness that may result in lymphadenopathy. Other than evidence of trauma, the patients were healthy and CT scans were normal, said Brian C. Lucey, assistant professor ...The sustained benefits of very early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF-alpha therapy
...and quality of life than the patients who had been treated with conventional DMARDs alone. "This appears to emphasize the importance of not only adequate disease suppression over time, but also of rapid disease suppression for optimal improvement in these outcomes," notes the study's author, Mark A. Quinn. ...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...inding, it could change the way RA lung disease is treated as well as the design focus of drugs developed to ... from other forms of lung disease -- and should be treated differently. RA lung disease detection can be improved through the technological advance of co...Jefferson scientists find zinc may help prevent esophageal, oral cancers
...s reversed.The rats lacking dietary zinc were also treated with COX-2 inhibitors, celecoxib (Celebrex) and indomethacin. They found that the rats treated with the COX-2 inhibitors had a reduction in both COX-2 and cellular proliferation in the esophagus....Study suggests isolation of patients with MRSA does not reduce cross-infection in ICUs
...sitive patients were not moved to a single room or treated as an infected group of patients unless they were at risk of spreading other serious infections. Standard precautions were practised throughout, with hand hygiene encouraged at all times. Patients' characteristics, staff hand-washing frequency, and M...No advantage of combination drug therapy for chronic hepatitis B Infection
...ronic hepatitis B infection. Patients successfully treated for chronic hepatitis B are less likely to develop cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancer. Previous research has suggested that treatment either with standard interferon or nucleoside analogues is only around 20% effective at best. Harry Jansse...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...spectively, out of every 1,000 applicable children treated at the hospitals in the study. The numbers are ris... safety of hospital care for newborns and children treated in general hospitals. That study, by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and AHRQ, ...Anti-psychotic drugs may be associated with increased risk of diabetes in schizophrenia patients
CHICAGO Patients treated with the atypical anti-psychotic agents clozapine ...schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were treated with clozapine, olanzapine, or another medication, risperidone. Participants were given a diet to ...Study links sexual behavior, genetic factors to increased risk of kidney infection in women under 50
... percentoccur in essentially healthy women who are treated on an outpatient basis. The studys findings suppo... interviewed 242 women, age 18 to 49, who had been treated for kidney infections at Group Health outpatient medical centers. They also collected information ab...Heart failure patients treated for diabetes with insulin have increase in mortality
...anced heart failure patients with diabetes who are treated with insulin faced a mortality rate four times higher than heart failure patients with diabetes treated with oral medications. IMPACT: The new study may help raise awareness among physicians and patie...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...ients with similar levels of disability who can be treated by standardized rehabilitative programs. Prosthesis with suction suspension system better for amputee with active lifestyle This study compares pressure applied to the residual limb with pin and suction suspension systems to identify causes of...Poor response to chemotherapy does not mean poor outcome for patients with rare breast cancer
... a retrospective study of six clinical trials that treated 1,034 women with stage II and III invasive breast ... don't think anyone realized the disease should be treated differently," Cristofanilli continues. "Now we need to think about revising our clinical approach an...