Substantial 15-year survival gains from standard breast cancer treatments
...reatments halves the breast cancer death rate. The authors note that while chemotherapy and tamoxifen can have unpleasant short-term side-effects, any long-term side effects are much smaller than the long-term survival benefits. The analysis is restricted to trials that began by 1995, so none of the availabl...Study finds Herceptin may have role in bladder cancer treatment
... often as women. In addition to Hussain, U-M study authors were research associate Rodney Dunn and David C. S...disciplinary Urologic Oncology Clinic. Other study authors were Daniel Petrylak, M.D., Columbia University; Ulka Vaishampayan, M.D., Wayne State University; Pr...Blocking the Odc gene is effective in preventing cancers
...lty member at the Ume University in Sweden. Other authors of this paper include Ulrich B. Keller, Troy A. Baudino, Chunying Yang, Sara Norton, Jennifer A. Old and Geoffrey Neale (St. Jude); Lisa M. Nilsson (Ume University); and Debora L. Kramer and Carl W. Porter (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY)...Minority youths self-esteem grows, not shrinks over time
... self-esteem, compared to their Latino peers," the authors state. Latinos experienced the sharpest increase ...em that was comparable with their Black peers. The authors used questionnaires to examine the youths' self-esteem, family support, friendship support, and perc...Babies' cries linked to their health
...s that analyzed the acoustics of a baby's cry. The authors cite the characteristics of a cry that can indicat...the 'full message' of the cry," says LaGasse. The authors also note that parents tend to understand the nature of their babies' cries well, and stress the imp...Study concludes primary IGF-1 deficiency is a frequent cause of short stature
...stature, or short stature with no known cause. The authors concluded that Primary IGFD should be recognized as a diagnostic subset separate from idiopathic short stature. "As knowledge of the molecular basis of growth improves, new categories for classifying short stature are needed, especially with the adve...Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
... 100 percent resolution of all distant warts," the authors report. "In the interferon alfa-2b and saline grou... immunotherapy induces HPV-directed immunity," the authors write. "Indeed we have observed resolution of hundreds of flat warts in individual patients after in...Certain acne treatment does not increase symptoms of depression in adolescents
...eatment of acne improves depressive symptoms," the authors write. "Significant psychological stress has been documented among patients with even mild or moderate acne. This observation emphasizes that dermatologists must be cognizant of the relationship between skin disease and depression and be able to reco...High levels of estrogen during pregnancy associated with improvement in psoriasis
...ce area only returned to pre-pregnancy levels, the authors report. In pregnant women with 10 percent or great...vels did not correlate with psoriatic change," the authors write. "We believe that further examination of how estrogen may improve psoriasis is warranted. Whe...Improvements in critical care decrease risk of post-injury multiple organ failure
... adjusting statistically for all risk factors, the authors were able to determine that there had been a signi...of multiple organ failure decreased over time, the authors report. "The present study has confirmed that age, injury severity, and the use of blood transfusion...UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs
...ected, 60 percent develop chronic disease. Other authors include Dr. Ian M. Gralnek, MSHS, Dr. Gareth S. Dulai, MSHS, and Mary Farid, Division of Gastroenterology, VA Greater Los Angeles HealthCare System and Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Center for the Study of D...The link between physical activity and ovarian cancer
...ivity against ovarian cancer than lean women," the authors state. They note, however, that the decreased risk... not vigorous recreational physical activity," the authors state. They add that the results from Ontario suggest that work-related activity also affords protec...Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...vides a valuable resource for transplantation, the authors note that it also poses some risk to an otherwise ...ation but not owing to the graft type itself," the authors write. "Several factors contribute to this difference including recipients who are not critically il...Leading patient safety advocates assess progress in reducing medical error
... annually as a result of medical error? Two of the authors of the report, Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of ...ournal of the American Medical Association . The authors found that the report had a positive impact in three important areas of health care; how health care...Several factors can increase risk for recurrent blood clot
... event) rather than laboratory abnormalities," the authors conclude....Breast cancer chemotherapy regimen associated with life-threatening complications
...far below 0.10 percent in more recent trials," the authors write. "We observed a much higher rate of toxic de...utside of carefully designed clinical trials," the authors conclude....Other highlights in the May 18 JNCI
...he normal cell lines and tissues. In addition, the authors identified Triacsin c as an inhibitor of acyl-CoA ...d the growth of lung tumors in a mouse model. The authors conclude that acyl-CoA synthetase inhibition may be a novel strategy to induce p53-defective tumor c...Timing of introduction of gluten into infant's diet associated with appearance of celiac disease
...ase before any interventions are implemented," the authors write. (JAMA. 2005;293:2343-2351. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com ) Editor's Note: This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Autoimmune Prevention Center, Diabetes Endocrine Research Center, Clinical Investiga...Iodine deficiency, supplements affect thyroid cancer risk in children exposed to radioactive iodine
...n-related thyroid cancer in these situations," the authors write. In an editorial, John D. Boice Jr., of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Md., and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., raises questions for future research on the association between thyroid ca...MDCT overtakes ventilation-perfusion lung scan for diagnosing pulmonary embolism
... embolism by CT is a national trend. Several other authors have also published similar findings from other hospitals," said Jay H. Donohoo, MD, lead researcher of the study. According to the researchers, there are a number of reasons for the shift toward MDCT pulmonary angiography. "The current generation of...