Employment prospects good for most cancer survivors -- but not all
...those who returned to work did so during the first year after treatment. The rate of return to work after four years was 84 percent. One worker out of eight quit work because of cancer within four years of being diagnosed, with women more likely to quit than men. The highest rates of quitting were amo...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...,000 people with end-stage liver disease die every year waiting for a suitable donor liver, according to b...survival and for shortened patient survival. "Five year graft survival was 72 percent for recipients of donors younger than 60 years and 35 percent for reci...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...D or stay in the hospital at least once during one year of follow-up, compared to nearly 30 percent who ha... United States, especially among children. In the year 2000, asthma resulted in 728,000 ED visits and 214,000 hospitalizations in patients under age 18, a...Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
...ng healthy cells, came to Wake Forest Baptist last year to direct the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence. Th...majority of the 17,500 brain tumors diagnosed each year in the United States are glioblastomas. Patients have a median survival time of nine to 12 months an...New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
...rnal of Ophthalmology. The findings are based on a year long study of patients attending the Royal Eye Hos...en lens types. Rates were 96 per 10,000 wearers a year for hydrogel lenses, compared with almost 20 per 10,000 wearers a year for silicone hydrogel lenses ...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
... two groups, but differed significantly at the ten year mark: 45.1 percent in the relapse group versus 85.5 percent in the abstinent group. "This unexpected finding could be explained by the higher mortality rate observed in the first group, mainly due to cancer and different cardiovascular events," state...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...ribution of the emissions, the variations over the year and their division into difference source categories which is of particular importance for emission monitoring are still very uncertain. Natural sources of methane are particularly uncertain, and anthropogenic emission estimates rely mostly on soci...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...ed safely away from icebergs and ice fields. This year also sees the launch of CryoSat, a dedicated ice-watching mission designed to precisely map changes in the thickness of polar ice sheets and floating sea ice. CryoSat, in connection with regular Envisat ASAR GMM mosaics and SAR interferometry a tec...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...he campus center and save the university $40,000 a year in electrical bills. NJIT also received a $215,000...system prevents 100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year from being released into the air. That's how much carbon dioxide would issue from a coal-burning pow...College alcohol problems exceed previous estimates
...ology that increased the estimated number of 18-24 year olds who were college students in 1998 led to an u...nd its consequences among college students for the year 2001. Their analyses included data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Cen...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...AP). Participants were followed-up at least once a year for an average of 10 years. Patients with untreated severe disease had a higher incidence of fatal cardiovascular events (1.06 per 100 person-years) and non-fatal cardiovascular events (2.13 per 100 person-years) than untreated patients with mild-mod...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...V infections in the United States was as high last year as it ever was. We are struggling to control this pandemic. We need to use every tool available to prevent new infections. Telling people to 'just say no' just doesn't work." "Ideology should not be driving our STI prevention strategy," adds Dr. S...... in the USA twice (in 1995 and in 1996) over a one year period. Over half of the students in the study w...d use of marijuana in 1995 were still using it one year later. Twenty-one well-established risk factors of adolescent substance use/abuse, including persona...Stroke awareness low among women, especially minorities
...n: Journal of the American Heart Association. Each year about 700,000 Americans have a new or recurrent stroke and nearly 40,000 more women than men die of a stroke, according to American Heart Association/American Stroke Association statistics. "Yet only one-third of women surveyed in 2003 said that the...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...iac mortality. The researchers concluded that each year after 1979, the risk of death from ischemic heart disease declined by six percent annually in women with left sided breast cancer compared to those with disease on their right side. Giordano cautions that death from ischemic heart disease may not pre...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...ith abnormal tests had a prostatic biopsy within a year of the initial screen. Of men with PSA readings higher than normal, 64 percent underwent biopsy within three years. The higher the PSA readings, the higher the biopsy rates. The biopsy rate in men with positive DRE alone was 28 percent. The initial d...Multi-center study shows direct link between residential radon exposure and lung cancer
...s with an estimated 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year related to radon exposure, according to EPA. A radioactive, invisible, odorless gas that comes from the decay of naturally occurring uranium in the earth's soil, radon can accumulate in enclosed areas, such as underground mines and homes. The initia...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...cted by annual questionnaires, except in the third year when participants attended a clinical follow-up vi...e highest level. Medical histories were taken each year for six years of follow-up. Only participants who were entirely free of clinical CVD and cancer at t...Postmenopausal breast cancer survivors at increased risk for bone fractures
...s number of fractures may be as high as 13,000 per year for the two million postmenopausal breast cancer survivors in the United States. Clearly, more research is needed to understand the fracture risk in this special population and to develop strategies to reduce the number of fractures among breast can...AACC and The Endocrine Society partner to promote patient education
...e's new Endorser program, which AACC launched this year in an effort to broaden support within the medical community for Lab Tests Online, the Internet's premiere public resource on laboratory testing. Lab tests play a vital role in medical decision-making, but often, doctors and patients don't make the t...