Perceived Risks Of Breast Cancer Are Vastly Overestimated
...f breast cancer is one in 26. This risk should be understood in the context of other serious threats to life. For women who smoke and live to age 75, for instance, the risk of dying of lung cancer is three times as great as dying of breast cancer. Contact: Dr John Bunker, Visiting Professor, Cancer Research C...Low Socio-Economic Status Heart Patients Need More Than Just Aggressive Cardiac Procedures
...l care that can be either out ofreach or not fully understood by most low SES patients. Tung, who is on the faculty at the Duke Clinical Research Institute,prepared theresults of his study for presentation Tuesday (Nov. 10) at the 71st scientificsessions of the American Heart Association meeting. ...New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
...bright,wealthy, highly educated person who clearly understood the consequences,choose to neglect his health? "I realized he had no way the calibrate the benefits of his medications,"Roizen said. "In his terms, he could not assess the 'net present value'of drugs designed not to cure current disease but to preven...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
...ate that the girl - the onlywitness to the crime - understood the importanceof telling the truth in court. "You've got this really smart little kid, and alawyer who does not know how to ask questions,"says Dr. Lyon, Ph.D., J.D. "Because the lawyerdoesn't understand how to approach the child, shedoesn't get to s...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...man, Furth argues that theChinese medical body was understood as androgynous. Chinese culture, developing indepe...basis of gender differences, orthat bodies must be understood as sharply individuated rather than bound up incollective life. Chinese physicians had long worked w...Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases For New Breast Cancer Biopsy
...s in nuclearmedicine and pathology. And I think we understood the pitfalls and how to avoidthem." At UNC-CH, sentinel lymph node biopsy candidates receive an injection ofradioactive tracer material around the primary tumor. In the operating room,blue dye is injected into the same area. "So in the operating roo...New Approach To Attacking Alzheimer's Disease Studied
...se in a unique way. The compounds target a little understood enzyme calledbutyrylcholinesterase, which has recently been shown to be elevated in thebrains of patients with AD. Details about the research will appear in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry,published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the worl...Effects of nicotine influenced by housing and gender
...ifferences in human smokingbehavior. If we better understood how social influences affect smoking, we alsomight be able to develop more effective smoking cessation and smoking preventionprograms," Faraday said. The research was supported by funding from the Uniformed Services University ofthe Health Sciences, ...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
... they admit that many aspects of obesity arepoorly understood and that therapies often are unsuccessful in the long term. Changes in lifestyle are the cornerstone of obesity therapy. Eating less andincreasing physical activity usually help obese patients lose weight, and losingas little as 5 percent to 10 perce......d the inflammatory response. Because of what is understood from studies in cell culture and now in animalmodels about the action of TZDs, the Penn Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center hasjust started enrolling patients in a clinical trial to see if the drugs will bean effective treatment for ulcerative colitis....Non-drug techniques help reduce symptoms of fibromyalgia
...n A. Rossy, MA, head of the study. FMS is a poorly understood rheumatologic disorder that leaves those afflictedwith fatigue, painful 'tender points,' and difficulties with sleep andfunctioning throughout the day. Rossy and colleagues examined data on more than2,000 patients in 33 studies of drug treatments --...Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...mory. Nonetheless, GVD bodies have remained poorly understood by scientists becausethey have been stubbornly difficult to locate within autopsied brain tissue. Until now, no good markers for GVD bodies were available to scientists studyingAD. The new work not only enables researchers to use CK-1 as a molecular ...Female medical students more patient-centered
...ctitioner's attention to 'illness,' the problem as understood by the patient, rather than 'disease,' the problem as defined biomedically. The second perspective is concerned with the practitioner's attitudes and behavior in relation to shared decision making. In the study, data collected from 153 first-year...Personal story aims to improve 'connections' between hard of hearing and the hearing world
... that speaking too loudly or shouting to be better understood creates a distortion of words and sounds -- not greater understanding. "It's more important to speak slowly and more distinctly to a partner or loved one who is hard of hearing," she says. "If one person has hearing loss and the partner knows it and ...Work overcommitment impacts the heart
... higher risk for heart disease, but it's not fully understood why. Recent research conducted by scientists from The Netherlands may help detail the physical mechanism behind this association. "Individuals who score high on overcommitment are competitive, impatient, have a high need for approval, and are unable...Parents want more communication when infants are being treated in hospital intensive care nursery
...fants' outcome better than previously thought, and understood the prognosis. Even after physicians counseled parents about the improved survival rates for very premature infants, a significant proportion feared their child would die in the NICU or at home after discharge. In Singapore and Malaysia, parents mo...... medical potential. For over twenty years we have understood the inflammation fighting power of the SOD enzyme but we have been unable to reproduce the beneficial effect in a stable drug form. We have now achieved this and can safely and dependably reproduce the superoxide fighting effect in numerous animal m...New dental anesthetic promises better pain control for patients
... which, in turn, is because the anesthetist hasn't understood the patient's anatomy," Reader said. "So I studied the anatomy. But it didn't help. We gave more anesthetic, but that didn't help either." Reader also tried numbing additional nerves at the ...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...ase research. For more than twenty years, we have understood the free radical fighting power of the body's natural SOD enzyme, but until recently, we have been unable to reproduce the beneficial effect in a stable and selective drug form," said Dennis Riley, MetaPhore's Vice President of Research & Development...