Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...s. The authors conclude, these results argue that traditional prognostic factors for survival from prostate cancer (stage, grade, treatment, age, year of diagnosis, and socioeconomic status), do not explain why most Asian men have better survival compared to whites, but they do explain the poorer survival of So...Patient-centered approach can backfire
...cially older patients, prefer a doctor with a more traditional "doctor-centered" or "paternalistic" style, someone who spends less time explaining a condition and seeks little patient input when it comes to treatment decisions. The study showed that when those patients are matched with patient-centered doctors w...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
... this is the first study to examine the effects of traditional Taiji intervention on the response to influenza vaccine in older adults. While the Chinese have long believed the exercises result in a range of physical, mental and spiritual benefits for practitioners, until recently, evidence has been largely an...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...er measures of obesity did not discriminate beyond traditional risk factors, whereas WHR did. The results are most astonishing and may be influenced by the age distribution of the study, Dr. Erbel added. During life, the likelihood of coronary artery calcium increases more in men than in women. It may be that ...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...g recent Hispanic immigrants as they replace their traditional cultural beliefs with those of white Americans, ac...skills by an immigrant group, which often replaces traditional cultural beliefs, practices and social patterns. In general, recent Hispanic immigrants are more f...Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals
... indicator of poor classroom attendance than these traditional factors or any others. Researchers attempted to control for the socioeconomic differences among students by selecting inner-city schools that were homogeneously among the citys poorest. More than 80 percent of students at these schools were eligib...Wireless technology shows promise in diagnosing pediatric intestinal disease
...ive tests, anesthesia or radiation related to more traditional scanning techniques. Professor de Angelis is hopeful about the technology, but does encourage caution in pediatric use. Our experience, which includes the largest number of pediatric patients reported in literature, confirms that this technology is...Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
...ff can have dangerous side effects, he says. The traditional treatment of ultraviolet light and medication, while it can control the lesions and be used long term, may cause squamous cell carcinoma the second most common form of skin cancer, Dr. Hsu says. Some of the most effective anti-dandruff shampoos also...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
...ssociated with fewer inhospital complications than traditional gastric bypass. Bariatric surgery has been demonstrated to be highly effective for those with morbid obesity, but the relatively new procedures are not yet regulated or a credentialed surgical subspecialty, said Samantha Collier, MD., HealthGrades ...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
...thod to combat HIV/AIDS, potentially replacing the traditional cocktail drug approach. The new approach proven accurate in lab tests merges the features of two antiviral agents into one drug, achieving the same effect as when two or more drugs are taken separately. The cocktail approach most commonly prescri...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...uffalo are developing a solid state version of the traditional x-ray image intensifier, one which relies upon ele...ections. The researchers compare images from a traditional CT and the MiniCAT for imaging of the temporal bone, the portion of the skull that contains the inne...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
... Gould, a preventive cardiologist, has been using traditional PET imaging throughout his medical career to detec... matching the PET and CT images. Alternatively, traditional or pure PET without the CT component is less subject to this problem. However, Gould cautioned: Al...New study shows Rescue Remedy is an effective all-natural stress, anxiety reliever
...ounter stress reliever with a comparable effect to traditional pharmaceutical drugs yet without any of the known adverse side effects, including addiction. Rescue Remedy, manufactured by Nelsons, contains five flower essences: Rock Rose to alleviate terror and panic, Impatiens to mollify irritation and impati...Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides high contrast, 3-D look at breast cancer
...hemoglobin and scattering parameters obtained with traditional diffuse optical tomography, or DOT. With the continued development of molecularly-targeted exogenous fluorophores, the research helps pave the way for diagnostic tools based on optics that will provide improved sensitivity and specificity between he...Report calls for new directions, innovative approaches in testing chemicals for toxicity to humans
...es in these pathways. Over time, the need for traditional animal testing could be greatly reduced, and possibly even eliminated someday, says the report. For the foreseeable future, however, targeted tests in animals would need to be used to complement the in vitro tests, because current methods cannot yet...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...ntional medical IPA data frommembers enrolled in a traditional health maintenance organization (HMO). The recent ...wer pharmaceuticals than HMO patients who received traditional medical care,Dr. Winterstein said. Moreover, doctors of chiropractic succeeded in diagnosing and tre...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
..., gathered from controlled trials, than their more traditional counterparts. As new safety data emerges, restrictions in prescribing may be implemented. Many drugs are not tested on children before they are licensed because of the difficulties of including children in clinical trials adds Dr Jeffrey Aronson, ...Heading to Siberia: UH signs agreement with Russian Academy of Sciences
...h endeavors, creating scholarly communities across traditional lines. Past and current collaborations between faculty at UH and researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences have bolstered this new formal agreement, giving the opportunity for many areas of the university to be involved in research with the ...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...e idiosyncratic responses came from people outside traditional married relationships who had no kids. "This suggests that when people have innovative family lives, they have to innovate about end-of-life issues, as well, because they can't just knee-jerk go to a spouse or a child," says Carr. With nontraditio...... cancer that is not considered to be curable using traditional treatments. Even if patients initially respond to treatment, the disease almost always comes back and becomes more difficult to treat. The study followed 76 patients with follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system, who received...