Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
... years old," he says. "So, a 15-year survival is a long time." In addition to a favorable survival rate for the cT3 prostate cancer patients studied, the Mayo Clinic researchers also found urinary incontinence rates and complications were akin to those for cT2 prostate cancer. Some of the patients studie...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...logy. "Pharmaceuticals, while effective, offer no long term cure for the symptoms of depression. For many people, cognitive therapy might prove to be the preferred form of treatment." The study, which follows years of debate on the relative merits of cognitive therapy versus medication for more severe...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...ersons in the pipeline to reverse this shortage as long as the academic community provides incentives to encourage new faculty members to teach gross anatomy when they make the transition from postdoctoral fellows to junior faculty members....Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...s. 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 to receive a kidney transplan...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
... with mental problems," he says. Noncompliance has long been a problem for schizophrenics, because of movement problems associated with older drugs, and because many patients don't realize they are ill, he says. The newer class of drugs work effectively to silence the over-communication in the brain that ...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...y year, affecting 25 000 to 200 000 people. It has long been known that the timing of this epidemic and its spatial distribution within the "Meningitis Belt", situated between 10 and 15 North, are closely linked to climatic conditions. Involved in the AMMA programme ( 1 ), IRD and University of Paris-VII ...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...who were interviewed regularly and in depth for as long as nine years, before and after they suffered a health problem that left them disabled. The data are from the Health and Retirement Study, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research with funding from the National Institute on Aging. "Happine...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...er had to hunt him down to get him to stop playing long enough to come inside and eat a home-cooked meal. He's excited about helping another country learn from the mistakes and experience of his own and keep it from following in the tracks toward obesity and inactivity. Dr. Gutin came to MCG in 1991 from ...Depression overtakes back pain for incapacity benefit claims
..., 13bn are spent on benefits, and the reduction of long term sick leave is now a top government priority. Until recently, the most common causes of long term sickness absence were musculoskeletal disorders, in particular low back pain, but over the last...Children's Hospital, Oakland's Dr. Barbara Staggers wins prestigious award
...vironmental work, and education. Dr. Staggers has long been a champion and mentor of adolescents. She has devoted her life to increasing access to quality health care for minorities, particularly adolescents. Dr. Staggers is the director of three health clinics serving adolescents. Last fall, Dr. Stag...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
...n the study were women in their late 40s who had a long history of fibromyalgia, with average duration nine years, and had experienced moderate to severe pain and diminished quality of life. Prior to the trial, study participants discontinued all medications for pain and sleep disorders except for acetam...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...ysicians in emergency rooms who can assume that as long as the drugs are given carefully to the right pati...ficial drugs because of concern over misdosing, as long as the drugs are given carefully and errors minimized. Less concern about minor misdosing could lead...Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...ter station and take a drink. Over the course of a long race, they can dilute themselves." In addition pop...ation of sodium in runners both before and after a long race and examines their risk factors for developing hyponatremia. It recommends individualized fluid...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...l not be evident for decades, as it will take that long for vaccinated girls to reach an age when they might otherwise have developed cancer. Meanwhile, millions of women who are already infected must be screened and treated. If there is widespread resistance to vaccination, it will take even longer for i...Smoking doubles risk of degenerative eye condition
...heir smoking habits, and if they had given up, how long ago. After taking into account other risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease, the results showed that current smokers were twice as likely to be visually impaired as non-smokers. Those who had kicked the habit more than ...Smart plastics change shape with light
...own that the temporary shapes are "very stable for long times even when heated to 50 degrees C." "In our Nature paper, the basic principle of photo-induced shape-memory polymers is explained. We are currently developing medical and industrial applications using their photosensitivity," Lendlein said. Th...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
... and progressive loss of pulmonary function in the long run. What we can say is that the patients in our study, who all had mild asthma, did not have many severe attacks, and did not seem to be losing pulmonary function rapidly." The researches noted that patients who used the corticosteroids daily did ex...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...s of surgery were less likely to do as well in the long term as those individuals who did not. "A patient ...ced chance he will remain free of seizures for the long term," he says. "If someone doesn't have the first seizure until six months, chances are that person...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
...sources to deliver medication and oversee patients long term. HEALERS ABROAD: AMERICANS RESPONDING TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE CRISIS IN HIV/AIDS, new from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, offers the federal government a plan to mobilize U.S. health professionals and other experts who can t......ral indicators (such as surgical complications and long stays in hospital) because they carry out difficult operations on very ill patients, say the authors. The method therefore needs to be refined to deal with case mix variation. The authors also warn of the potential limitations of statistics, includin...