International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...h issue every 30 seconds somewhere in the world a woman is diagnosed with this disease," says Dr. Paul Goss, the ExCel research study chair. "Thousands of women have already beat breast cancer thanks to recent research on aromatase inhibitors. As a result, we think this could be an effective approach ...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...ater and, in the 1956 Olympics, the first American woman to win a gold medal in her sport; Peter L. Salk, M.D., vice president and scientific director of the Jonas Salk Foundation and the eldest of Salk's three sons, all of whom received one of the earliest test vaccines; John Troan, former editor of the P...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
...icine, describes the fragmented care of an elderly woman at his hospital whose death from kidney failure (super-imposed on a malignancy) could have been avoided. "The hospital care was spread across three sites, delivered by six teams and by numerous members of within each team, while the information pass...Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
...and situational vulnerability (degree to which the woman is experiencing different types of stress when she began the relationship), the authors found common experiences and cultural differences among the women. Five sub-categories of relational vulnerability emerged: 1) external orientation or the degree...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...l cancer screening interval in an HIV-seropositive woman with normal cervical cytology. The researchers found that after two years, "there were no large or significant absolute differences in the cumulative incidence of SIL" between the two groups of women. "In this observational cohort study, HIV-serone...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
... pain or symptom patterns. They may misdiagnose a woman with heart problems as her symptoms do not follow the more typical 'male' patterns learned in training. Women's patterns need to be better understood, outlined and reported to clinicians". Next steps Professor Priori says, "We look forward to wo...Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
... Life, which highlights the case of an 84-year-old woman with advanced dementia whose advance directive states that she does not want artificial nutrition or hydration. Over the course of her illness, her family and physicians conflict about the use of a short-term feeding tube and intravenous hydration. ...Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...tion asked about or recorded than white women. "A woman with a family history of breast cancer is at greater risk of developing breast cancer than women without relatives with breast cancer and as such, many guidelines recommend more intense breast cancer screening for women with positive family histories...MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
If a mammogram or sonogram suggests that a woman has breast cancer, an MRI should be done to help determine whether there actually is a cancer and if so, what are the woman's best treatment options, a new study shows. The study, done in a large community hospital, found that MR images, which were a...MRI better than current standard in assessing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
... show. If the chemotherapy is successful, then the woman may be able to undergo breast-conservation surgery rather than a mastectomy. Currently, it is standard practice for the physician to do a breast examination to non-invasively assess whether the chemotherapy was effective, said Eren Yeh, MD, an inst...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...hirty-three percent of men. The relative odds of a woman meeting the criteria but not receiving the surgery were approximately double that of comparable men. The author, Cheryl B. Travis, explains, "There was compelling evidence of a pernicious gender bias and a general failure to treat women in a proacti...Study examines three-day antibiotic regimens for treating bladder infection in women
...the first-line treatment for acute cystitis if the woman has no history of allergy to the drug and if the likelihood of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance is low. In areas where the likelihood of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance is high (greater than 20 percent) or in women who have risk fact...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
...short form. There were no falls or injuries. One woman dropped out of the program at six weeks due to recurring health problems. Following completion of the study, one-fourth of the women have continued the Tai Chi program at the community center. All participants were given a CD-ROM of a Tai Chi master...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...who did not have a college education. The older a woman was in the study, the more likely she was on aspirin therapy. The researchers also found that 70 percent of the women taking aspirin were on the higher dose of 325 mg daily, when research suggests that 81mg is just as effective and has fewer side ef...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
... at a minimum, HT does not help the postmenopausal woman beyond the osteoporosis benefit and can actually harm the aging woman, why has there been resistance among many physicians and women to changing beliefs and practice patterns?" the researchers ask. They conclude that the conflicting interests of wom...Changing chemistry helps explain estrogen threat to the heart
..." says Dr. White. "Menopause is adaptive because a woman is not supposed to have as much estrogen when she gets older because it can kill her." He holds up a graph plotting the dramatically dropping rates of tetrahydrobiopterin over a woman's life, a drop that parallels the drop in estrogen levels. "We hav...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
...centration of air pollution to which each pregnant woman and her baby were exposed. Study participants exposed to air pollution levels below the average were designated as having "low exposure," while those exposed to pollution levels above the average were designated as having "high exposure." "We observe...International trial of two microbicides begins
...t inactivates HIV as well as other pathogens. Each woman in the trial will be placed at random into one of four equally sized groups. One group will use BufferGel before each act of sexual intercourse, one group will use PRO 2000, one group will use a placebo gel, and the final group will not use any gel. ...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...milar to the bone mineral density increase after a woman stops breast feeding. "The potential loss of bone density is one consideration of the many that go into a woman's choice of contraceptive method," Dr. Scholes said. The researchers wrote that it is impossible to know what the women's bone density wou......list since September 2004. Before the surgery, the woman had been subject to severe low blood sugar coma attacks, and her glucose control has been transformed by the transplant....