Other highlights in the March 2 JNCI
...the sigmoidoscopy groups was higher in men than in women and lower among subjects ages 60 to 64 than among ... California, San Francisco, and colleagues studied women participating in the San Francisco Mammography Registry. They found that bone density was not relate...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...prohibit the use of chemotherapy regimens in older women with breast cancer who are otherwise in good gener...l new breast cancers in the United States occur in women 65 years of age or older," the authors note in background information in the article. "Systemic adj...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
... is three to four times more common among men than women and about 50 percent more common among African Americans than among whites. Because esophageal cancer is usually diagnosed at a late stage, most people with the disease eventually die. According to the American Cancer Society, 14,520 people will be...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
..."This minimally invasive surgery is the way to go; women have a quicker recovery, and are back in the workf...r function, preventing the usual incontinence most women experience after conventional hysterectomies. "For women who have a medical indication for a hystere...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...urate at interpreting the images and subject fewer women to the anxiety of false positives for cancer, when...Institute . Screening mammograms are the type most women get. These images are designed to discover any cancer that might be hidden in women with no breast s...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
...ard mammography. Approximately 25 to 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue, which decreases the chan.... This technique is well suited to find cancers in women whose mammograms may not be very accurate. Experts have long recognized that screening for breast ca...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...ss of the BiDil in its clinical trial of 400 black women and 600 black men. NitroMed, which intends to market the drug to African Americans after FDA approval, has noted that African Americans between the ages of 45 and 64 are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from heart failure than are Caucas...Study documents initial differences in sexual transmission of HIV between males and females
...he kind that infected their female partners. And, women infected by men had a greater number of variants than men infected by women. The selection of HIV-1 during sexual transmission: differences in gp160 diversity in male-to-female versus female-to-male transmission. Oliver Laeyendecker, Jordyn Gamiel,...Is caesarean section linked to postnatal depression?
Elective caesarean section does not protect women from postnatal depression, according to a study pu...pression. These findings challenge the theory that women at risk of postnatal depression should be managed differently, and should also help women make infor...History of broken bones overlooked when treating osteoporosis
...e University of Alberta. The joint study of 1,323 women who were receiving their first ever bone density tests, revealed a 40 per cent gap between those who should have received treatment according to guidelines and the number actually treated. The difference was that those with only borderline bone densi...Elderly receiving inappropriate prescriptions from their doctor's office
...entially inappropriate medications were greater in women than in men. However, recently reported information from medical offices shows that prescriptions of these medications for elderly people has not decreased. "The use of potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly continues to be pervasive t...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
... Washington and met with dozens of service men and women who could benefit directly from the good work of the people at Schepens. Their vital research will not only enhance the lives of our soldiers but also gives hope to every American who suffers from diseases of the central nervous system." Many tissue...Hormone therapy increases risk of urinary incontinence
...n alone has long been used to treat postmenopausal women and, until recently, was credited with many benefi...enopausal hormone therapy in 27,347 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years enrolled between 1993 and 1998. Existence of any UI symptoms was known for 23,2...Study examines three-day antibiotic regimens for treating bladder infection in women
...lin-clavulanate and ciprofloxacin for treatment of women with acute uncomplicated cystitis and used follow-up to evaluate the women for recurrent infection. Ciprofloxacin is in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics, a potent and...Contaminated needles not contributing to spread of HIV in Africa
...Prevention Study, which had recruited 1847 men and women aged between 15 and 54 to the three year study. The study collected a range of health and socio-demographic data including self-reported history of STD symptoms and whether the participants had received any medical injections or needle pricks. 40.3 p...World's biggest study of multi-million pound health problem launched
...lled LIFELAX, aims to recruit nearly 2,000 men and women with constipation aged 55 and over from 57 GP practices, making it the biggest study ever of the condition to date. LIFELAX will focus on the North of England, recruiting from practices in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, Teesside and N...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...is given to siblings or unrelated recipients. Many women altruistically choose to donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same ch...Migraine linked to risky heart health
...with a history of early heart attack. Both men and women with migraine overall were 1.78 times more likely to have a mother with a history of early heart attack....Physical activity linked to protection from Parkinson's disease
... 60 percent compared to those who did not. Among women in the study, strenuous activity in the early adult years was also linked to a lower risk of Parkinson's, but this relationship was not statistically significant, and there was no clear relationship between physical activity later in life and Parkins...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...Is are most beneficial will help narrow down which women should be offered the scans. Illes will also discuss her ongoing work examining how research studies handle those healthy subjects whose brains show sign of abnormalities, called incidental findings. These features could be harmless such as a benign ...