Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...use most studies have aggregated all Asians into a single racial category, ignoring the diverse ethnicities that make up Asia. The few that have tried to analyze by Asian ethnicity have typically analyzed only a few ethnicities, missing significant Asian-American ethnic populations in the process. Interes...Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...f retinal ganglion cell damage in glaucoma, but no single cellular or molecular cause satisfactorily explains the condition in all patients, Dr. Caprioli writes. Long-term variability may disrupt homeostatic mechanisms. Irregular and large IOP fluctuations may cause a loading and unloading of stresses, and ...Comparison of obstetric outcomes between on-call and patients' own obstetricians
...al care. They performed a cohort study of all live single term births between 1991 and 2001 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montral. In all, there were 28,332 eligible deliveries attended by 26 obstetricians; 21,779 (76.9%) of the women were attended by their own obstetrician and 6,553 were attended by an...A woman who heard voices with her own speech impairments
...ined and the woman could only speak and understand single words or short sentences. These symptoms got worse...e voices of hospital staff in short sentences and single words, just as with her speech problems. She believed the voices to be external and real. The author...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...ed for transfusions and chelation are life-long. A single dose of Exjade works throughout the entire day, removing excess iron -- including highly toxic labile plasma (unbound) iron -- from key organs such as the liver and heart. Pierre Acklin, Ph.D., was Head, Analytical and Imaging Sciences for the D...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...at leg movements and adaptations are directed by a single control circuit in the brain. The ability to train the right and left legs independently opens the door to new therapeutic approaches for correcting walking abilities in patients with brain injury (e.g., stroke) and neurological disorders (e.g., cere...Controlling prescription drug expenditures: a case report of success
... of Managed Care. Other studies have found that single cost-control strategies such as increasing co-payments can decrease prescription drug spending, said lead author David P. Miller, M.D., assistant professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Howe...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...nt with shortness of breath. In this study, the single largest ST2 analysis to date, the researchers confirmed ST2 as a novel marker of heart failure, finding the highest levels among participants with the disorder. More striking, elevated ST2 levels strongly predicted the risk of death during the year ...Early-childhood intervention may improve well-being through young adulthood
...from low-income households. They also show that no single intervention is enough: good early-childhood education needs to be accompanied by (among other things) adequate health care and needs to be followed by quality K-through-12 education. Such programs could, among other benefits, reduce the number of pr...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
...s note that current models of care that focus on a single disease that dominates health care, or the care management model directed toward patients with multiple illnesses and disability, do not recognize the importance of geriatric conditions on quality of life and as markers for decline and disability. ...Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes, as reported in Science
...ding the sustained delivery of chemotherapy from a single injection. Moving from a sphere to a cylinder, you could conceivably deliver two or three or four different drugs in one injection, one to one part of the body and others to other parts of the body all through the same self-assembly, he said. Alt......d the Ravens test was striking: For example, not a single autistic child scored in the high intelligence range of the WISC, yet fully a third did on the Ravens. Similarly, a third of the autistics had WISC scores in the mentally retarded range, whereas only one in 20 scored that low on the Ravens test. The ...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...bout 1.5 in.), all were completely eradicated by a single treatment, along with 14 of the larger tumors. Seven more of the 16 remaining larger tumors were eradicated after a second treatment, for a total 93 percent success rate for all 125 tumors. The results, reported in the August issue of the American Jo...Medical residents unclear about TB guidelines
...rvey about TB to 131 medical residents attending a single teaching conference at each of their respective institutions in 2005. The residents came from four different urban medical centers in Baltimore and Philadelphia, which both have a moderate prevalence of TB. Just under half of the questions were a......strict the mobility of patients to a hospital or a single room. Thulasi Bai and S.K. Srivatsa of the Sathyabama University in Tamil Nadu, have developed a wearable cardiac telemedicine system that allows post-cardiac patients renewed mobility. Thulasi Bai's prototype Bluetooth heart monitor records peri...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...s hundreds of x-ray cathodes to be fabricated on a single silicon wafer. (Monday, July 26, 2007, 5:12 PM, Pa...a mobile C-arm to acquire a full-volume image in a single rotation around the patient. While the image quality achieved with early cone-beam CT prototypes i...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...lthcare, a service that touches the lives of every single EU citizen, as well as newcomers, said Pascale Blaes, Director of the ESMO Political Office in Brussels. The Round Table session on cancer, on Thursday afternoon, 12 July, will be chaired by Dr. Joaquim Gouveia, with prominent participation of Dr. ...Holograms make for better vision tests
...ne, developed by the same researchers, for using a single hologram to measure another important property, the spherical refractive error of the eye. Summary In this new test, patients view a hologram consisting of sunburst patterns; by reporting which sunburst lines appear clearest, the eye doctor can o...'Cars' imaging reveals clues to myelin damage
...scope, two laser beams are overlapped to produce a single beam having a new frequency representing the difference between the original two beams. This new frequency then drives specific molecules to vibrate together "in phase," amplifying the signals from those molecules.......rk out . . . about a year ago. Physician: So youre single now. Patient: Yeah. Its all right. Physician: (laughing): It gets tough. Im single as well. I dont know. Were not the right age to be dating, I guess. So lets see. No trouble urinatin...