Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...roduction. Predisposing factors must be understood before researchers can develop useful prevention or treatment strategies. -- Measurement of a subjective symptom. More than 20 different assessments are used to diagnose fatigue, from single-question scales to multidimensional measurements of a patient's p...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
...of a particular disease. It also protects children before they are at risk of infection, and vaccines available today can immunise individuals for life with no need for additional booster vaccinations. Disadvantages include cost-effectiveness in countries of low endemicity and concerns about adding another ...Smokers given more help to quit since GP performance pay introduced
...greatest in the groups with the poorestperformance before these incentives were introduced and among ethnicm...s. GPs should be givingthis advice to all smokers, before they develop specific smoking-relateddiseases. That's what the NICE (National Institute for Health a...What's the fat content? Whether or not you notice depends on how you think
... for collectivistic or individualistic tendencies before rating similarities among products. In the second and third, participants were manipulated to tend toward collective thinking or individualistic thinking, and the fourth compared undergraduate students originally from North America and East Asia. T...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...lso more likely to: have had sexual intercourse before age 13 have been pregnant drink and drive or have ridden with a drinking driver carry a weapon have been in a fight on school property in the past year have feelings of sadness or hopelessness almost every day for at least two weeks have attemp...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
...uthors write. Identification of this subpopulation before treatment would have tremendous clinical utility. ...t linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in men before treatment. No statistically significant association was noted between any SNP and the presence or ab...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...ow much longer will uninsured persons have to wait before "we, as a nation, decide to provide health insurance to every person living in the United States." Two Studies: Medical Residency Work-Hour Cap Doesn't Damage Patients' Health and Improves Outcomes in Some Diagnoses (These articles are publis...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
... a group of children who have been monitored since before they were born. Our findings were consistent with the view that snoring forms part of the spectrum of allergic diseases in childhood, he said. While the study findings are limited to children with rhinitis, Dr Marshall explained the observed asso...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...rs were more likely to have had sexual intercourse before age 13; have been pregnant; drink and drive or have ridden with a drinking driver; carry a weapon; have been in a fight on school property; have feelings of sadness or hopelessness almost every day for at least two weeks; and have attempted suicide. ...New drug development facility helps move medicines to market
...reclinical trials of new drugs, which are required before human trials and subsequent release to the market. Business Development Manager, Rose-marie Pennisi said TetraQ, which received $8.1 million from the Smart State Research Facility Fund in 2005, had now established its position in the market. Sh...Drug shows activity against brain metastases
...41 patients, there was a period averaging 15 weeks before the disease progressed again. About one-fifth of patients did not experience any worsening of their disease for 6 months or longer. Eric Winer, MD, of Dana-Farber, is the studys senior author. Other authors are from centers in several European coun...Exploring better ways to determine when to change the course of treatment
Counting circulating tumor cells before and after the start of treatment for patients with...lar drug, we could switch to a different treatment before growth of the cancer is seen on a CAT scan," said Neal J. Meropol, director of the gastrointestinal ...MRI detects cancers missed by mammography in breast cancer patients
...EJM study. Detecting contralateral breast cancer before a newly diagnosed patient is treated is important,... more accessible, and uniform across institutions, before it can be widely used, and cautions that cancer centers that use MRI also need to be able to perform...Study supports activity of GEMZAR in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer
...T4 being the most advanced. A biopsy was performed before treatment for the biomarker component of the study. Patients received a first sequence of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide (90/600 mg/m2) for three cycles followed by a second sequence of paclitaxel and GEMZAR (150/2500 mg/m2) for six cycles. Trea...Getting the word out: Babies are born to be breastfed
...campaign, up from 54 and 35 percent, respectively, before the campaign. "I was amazed by the findings. The evaluation shows that this kind of community intervention can create a social environment that is more supportive for breastfeeding," says Christine Olson, Cornell professor of nutritional sciences. Th...Fat protein cuts blood vessel inflammation, may help heart, Jefferson scientists find
...intact physiological system. It's a necessary step before going to humans. These results suggest that perhaps restoring this protein could be important to preventing atherosclerosis and vascular disease." They used a technique, intravital microscopy, which permits researchers to illuminate blood vessels u......e results in animals. Much more research is needed before any possible human anti-aging drug could emerge, Miller says. Even if this agent turns out to be good for mice, it wont be possible to tell without careful studies of humans whether NDGA is beneficial, useless, or harmful to people. Occasionally,...VA tops private hospitals in infection-control study
...gluconate (2 percent) on the skin as an antiseptic before insertion, rather than povidone iodine or alcohol Replacing catheters as needed, rather than every 4 to 7 days Using antimicrobial catheters, but only if other precautions do not reduce infection rates Krein and ...Study explains why patients with OSA are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...ding coronary disease." More research is needed before these results can be applied clinically, according to Dr. El Sohl. While CPAP is currently used to treat OSA, looking for circulating apoptotic endothelial cells as a marker to fine-tune the therapy is one potential application. This may potentially ...Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes
...archers measured the level of HBV DNA in the blood before the start of chemotherapy. They also gathered other potentially important prognostic information, like age, sex, total bilirubin and presence of cirrhosis. Over the course of each patients treatment, the researchers monitored blood counts, renal and ...