Radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles the risk of rectal cancer
...ate of survival associated with prostate cancer, a large number of men are left at risk for long-term consequences of their cancer treatment, including the development of other cancers. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results ...Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...warnings about the dangers of second-hand smoke, a large percentage of families have no rules that limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke. A study involving 1,770 parents and guardians in New York and New Jersey finds that in nearly half of homes and more than half of family cars, children are exposed ...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...d Research and Learning) Network, has an extremely large number of practitioners, and the largest and most diversified patient population in the nation, permitting us to knit these dentists together for research projects that can deliver powerful solutions to the day-to-day problems confronted in dental of...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...Trends in Cognitive Sciences. "This now presents a large scientific challenge. Given that the impaired behavior in those individuals with prosopagnosia is a function of the brain, we need to identify the neural system that has given rise to this altered pattern of behavior," Behrmann said. "The detective w...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...ts in the antidepressant group, which was twice as large as the other two, were treated with paroxetine (Paxil). Lithium or desipramine was also given, as necessary. After 16 weeks of treatment, patients in both the medication and cognitive therapy groups showed improvement at about the same rate; howe...Consumers not getting accurate information about smokeless tobacco
...smokeless tobacco without caveat". Furthermore, "a large portion of websites directly stated or implied that the risks from smokeless tobacco and cigarettes are similar". The websites of organisations including the U.S. National Cancer Institute and other government agencies, the American Cancer Society, a...Pediatric use of complementary and alternative medicine
... and colleagues analyzed 2002 claims data from two large private health insurers in Washington state. Because Washington state requires private insurers to cover claims for services from CAM-licensed professionals, insurance claims provide a database for investigating the frequency, predictors and expendit...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...ime the patient was on dialysis. The study was not large enough to determine how long a person can remain on dialysis and still receive a cardiac benefit from a kidney transplant. "Our conclusion," says Dr. Wali, "is that your best chance of survival, if you have both kidney failure and heart failure, is ...Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...ndreds of thousands of constraints, and an equally large number of bids. Expressive competition allows procurement specialists to get results in seconds, not months, and explore more alternatives. The process helps drive out unnecessary costs, find new savings opportunities, and build long-term supplier re...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...unded on a period of only nine years, and possibly large variations of climate or epidemics over a larger time-scale cannot be taken into account. This model will consequently have to be tested over longer periods and on a finer spatial scale, in order to study these variations in more detail and assess th...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
... and I hope that it can play a role in helping the large number of individuals in the U.S. who suffer from alcohol dependence." Naltrexone was approved in pill form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994 for treating alcohol dependence. It belongs to a class of drugs called opioid antagonists, f...ALLHAT study findings for racial sub-groups show diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...American Medical Association. ALLHAT is the first large scale trial--with 33,357 participants--to compare diuretics, calcium channel blockers, and ACE inhibitors as initial therapies in a population with a substantial number of black participants. The study concludes that diuretics are either similar or s...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...ar into the trial because results from a different large trial found an increased incidence of lung cancer among smokers receiving beta-carotene.) Participants were followed for a median of 52 months. Compared with patients given a placebo, patients who received alpha-tocopherol supplements had a higher ra...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...lity is due largely to the opportunity to enroll a large number of very physically active men and women and to readily track over time any ACL injuries that may occur, as these will be treated in the central orthopedics department of each service academy, he added. "This study provides a way for the Army......ng wound care products and procedures. There are a large number of products, which claim to promote healing, but McAdams argues, "If you can't monitor them you can't prove they work." All this is done without the need to take bandages off which can affect the healing process. "It's a system which could be ...Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...lammatory bowel disease in which the lining of the large intestine becomes inflamed and ulcerated, and most commonly affects people between 15 and 40 years of age. Ulcerative colitis can be attributed to an immune disorder or heredity, among other things, and is characterized by abdominal cramps, bloody d...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...ls and injuries that are a bane of old age. But a large new University of Michigan Health System study suggests that the real culprit may be the underlying insomnia, rather than the medications used to treat it. Residents with untreated, or partially treated, sleeplessness have a much higher risk of falls...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...stead, the study finds that people with relatively large financial assets before they became disabled repor...Since disability of some form or another strikes a large percentage of Americans, and increases as people grow older, the issue will only become more importa...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...ong-term study of various risk factors, based on a large national sample of older adults with arthritis. T...ving arthritis or rheumatism and were drawn from a large national study of health among people of traditional retirement age. 64 percent of the patients wer......een tested for safety and effectiveness, and yet a large majority of older adults are using them. This tells us there is a serious need for more consumer education." Hong conducted the study with Catherine Montalto, associate professor, and Vibha Bhargava, a graduate student, both in consumer sciences at O...