Preventive treatment helps avoid Hepatitis B relapse during chemotherapy
...ne significantly reduced hepatitis B reactivation, allowing chemotherapy to continue in these cancer patients, the study suggests that lamivudine therapy decreases the severity of clinical hepatitis if it develops during chemotherapy. "The beneficial effects of preemptive therapy on the severity of hepatitis ...Scientists discover genetic profile of an often-misdiagnosed chronic allergic disease of children
...bserved in patients with acid reflux disease, thus allowing the two diseases to be easily discriminated. Although EE is more common in males than in females, the genes expressed in the esophagus did not vary dramatically between males and females with EE. Of the 574 genes, the investigators found that the exp...Increased role for PET imaging could improve cancer care
...ment of a tumor's response to a particular therapy allowing physicians to better tailor a patient's treatment, according to Malik Juweid, M.D., associate professor of radiology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Writing in the Feb. 2 issue of the New England Journal of...Elsevier to publish Journal of Clinical Densitometry
...atures will include a comprehensive search engine, allowing users to search JCD alone, or to include hundreds of other Elsevier journals and MEDLINE in a single query; options to sign up for e-mail alerts; and more. The Journal will also be accessible through Elsevier's institutional subscription service, Sc...Obesity may be factor in accelerated type I diabetes in some patients
... the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. Type 2 diabetes results from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency....Conscientious objection in medicine should not be tolerated
...ble with being a doctor. The argument in favour of allowing conscientious objection is that to fail to do so harms the doctor and constrains liberty. This is true, says the author, but when conscientious objection compromises the quality, efficiency, or equitable delivery of a service, it should not be tolera...Home paper shredders pose serious injury risk to toddlers
...ome paper shredders ranged from 13 to 16.5 inches, allowing easy access to toddlers. Additionally, every machine tested by the CPSC was found to potentially allow a child's fingers to contact the cutting blades. Moreover, the control switches on many models did not have on/off switches. Some models even ha...HIV subtype predicts likelihood of early death from AIDS
... ability to bind to key receptors on immune cells, allowing subtype D to kill more quickly. Additional blood analysis showed that with subtype A, the virus bound only to one kind of receptor, CCR5, to infect the cell. But 25 percent of subtype D virus bound to both CCR5 and another receptor, CXCR4. Indeed,...First disease-specific (breast cancer) protein library opens new drug paths
... a model system mimicking cells of a human breast, allowing them to study on a broad scale how these proteins might contribute to the development of breast cancer. Through this comprehensive approach, they identified potentially novel functional activities for both well known and lesser-known breast cancer-a...Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging study launched nationwide by National Institutes of Health
...d before memory decline and other symptoms appear, allowing the effectiveness of drugs to be evaluated at the earliest possible time. The $60 million, 5-year ADNI study is the most comprehensive effort to date to identify brain and other biological changes associated with memory decline. The project was begun...Macrophage signaling may affect hormone resistance in prostate tumors
...se the activity of androgen antagonists to change, allowing the expression of androgen target genes in the tumor cells. The research team describes the signaling pathway involved in this process, involving several proteins that may be potential drug targets in the future. Steroid receptors (the proteins that ...Study finds room for improvement in angioplasty, shows what can be done to cut risks
... risk of suffering complications might be thereby allowing doctors and nurses to customize the treatment before, during and after that patient's angioplasty. Each doctor and hospital in the study also received quarterly reports about how they measured up against the others in the project, on many different m...Blood test can predict long-term risk of death in patients with shortness of breath
...atment but also to estimate longer-term prognosis, allowing us to identify patients needing more intensive treatment and follow-up," he adds. "The next logical step is to evaluate treatment interventions for those with higher NT-proBNP levels to see if we can reduce their considerable risk for death." Januz...Problems at World Anti-Doping Agency will 'drive innocent athletes out of sport'
...s left at room temperature for more than 48 hours allowing bacteria to change the nature of the sample. "WADA's procedures for collecting and analysing samples do not usually follow the minimal guidelines for preserving the integrity of samples," said Dr Rushall. "Similarly, the WADA banned-substances list ...Flesh-eating bacteria escape body's safety net
...se an enzyme that degrades these DNA nets, thereby allowing the organism to escape the neutrophil net and spread in body tissues. The UCSD team used a molecular genetic approach for their studies, knocking out the gene encoding the DNA-degrading enzyme from a pathogenic Strep strain that was originally isolat...European Union's 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease
...about 715 per head (around 485 more per US citizen allowing for adjustment for price differences between the two economies). "We must emphasise that the aim of our study was not to judge whether countries were spending too much or too little relative to others," said Mr Leal. "Establishing the cost of an illn...First diagnostic indicator for Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) identified
...entrations may provide a means of early diagnosis, allowing patients to receive relief from symptoms years earlier. "For the first time we have the possibility of developing a test that can definitively say whether or not a patient has ALS," said Dr. Pasinetti. "Such a test would eliminate the need for patien...Senate RadCARE Bill would improve quality of patient care, says SNMTS
...c training standards are voluntary in some states, allowing individuals to perform medical imaging procedures ...correct patient positioning and technical factors, allowing for accurate diagnosis and treatment," added Cronin, who speaks for the 8,000 nuclear medicine techn......, why can't we do the same thing with health data, allowing those who need access to medical data to be able to do so, no matter if they are in a doctor's office or in a community hospital nearby or a medical center across town? "This paper provides strategies and priorities for partnering to change the comp...