UVa Health System doctors study surgery to stop epileptic seizures
...es a year for no longer than two years. "The clear benefit of this study is that if early surgery pro... current to arrest seizures when they begin. "It's clear that the modern goal of epilepsy treatment is to free patients from seizures without causing side ef...Test accurately predicts aggressiveness of breast cancer
...s of later stages of breast cancer. But it was not clear how effective it would be in very early stages of the disease. Dr. Monica Giovannini and colleagues from the University of Verona in Italy analyzed 4,250 patients with early invasive breast cancer and correlated Ki67 levels with tumor size, nodal sta...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, June 7, 2005
...training and oversight of health care workers, and clear procedures and responsibilities for reporting and investigating outbreaks. Editorial writers call the sharing saline bags and reusing syringes in the study situation "egregious" and the failure of the hospital (in which the for-profit clinic was loca...Multi-drug resistant TB persists in California
...countries. "The findings of our study have several clear implications for TB control efforts. First, the fact that the majority of MDR TB cases were foreign born highlights both the importance of international TB control (prevention of MDR development and transmission abroad) as well as the need to expand ...Chronic infection may contribute to frailty in older women
... frail than those who had either alone. "It is not clear why, with age, some people become frail, but frailty has been linked to inflammation," said Heidi N. Schmaltz, MDCM, lead author of the study. "Patients who are frail are more likely to be hospitalized, fall, develop disability, and die than their pe...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...sity in Stephenville, Texas. "The evidence is very clear that physical activity has decreased dramatically in the last 10 to 20 years," Dr. Malina says as the technology revolution of the 1980s produced more sedentary options for children while their caloric intake has essentially remained the same. "Ou...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...sity in Stephenville, Texas. "The evidence is very clear that physical activity has decreased dramatically in the last 10 to 20 years," Dr. Malina says as the technology revolution of the 1980s produced more sedentary options for children while their caloric intake has essentially remained the same. "Our c...National medical and public health groups sue EPA
... the new lawsuit in response to the mercury rule's clear threat to public health.. Physicians, nurses, and other public health professionals will ask the federal courts to overturn the weak mercury rule to protect Americans' health. (Copies of the filed legal documents and state-specific fish advisories w...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
... found in her torso, but the scan showed a single, clear malignancy in her knee. "That scan and the ones I have had done every four months since then have kept me alive," says Kiske. "They have found malignancies when we weren't even looking for them and in places where we didn't realize there was a proble...Panel calls for a new look at treatments commonly used for chronic insomnia
...cohol, despite the numerous risks involved and the clear evidence that alcohol actually has a negative over...t of these treatments for long-term use. There's a clear need for more research to fill this gap." The panel's full statement discusses the specific challen...Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
...the different rates at which children eliminate or clear topotecan from their bodies. Such differences mean that the standard drug of topotecan might help some children; in others, the drug might be either too little to kill cancer cells or so high that it produces unacceptable toxicity. However, by closel...Novel approach for eradicating prostate cancer wins award for young Hebrew University researcher
...em. By thus combining NCRs with immunoglobulin, a clear marker is created that will not only make it more feasible to identify cancerous prostate cells at an earlier stage, but also opens the way to facilitate targeted, immunological destruction of those cells. Using mice into which human prostate cancer ...Tight glucose control lowers CVD by about 50 percent in diabetes
...iabetes than in people without diabetes. It's now clear that high blood glucose levels contribute to the development of heart disease," said David Nathan, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital, who co-chaired the DCCT/EDIC research group and presented the results. "The good news is that intensively con...New research evidence on anger in children and adults
...younger cohort, people now in their 30s. It is not clear if this is because anger was measured at slightly different ages or because the 1970 cohort were more stressed and depressed as well as more likely to 'act out'. Angry children do not necessarily become angry or unhappy adults. But there does appear...Seven deadly sins: A new look at society through an old lens
...h but in the failure of politicians to communicate clear policy platforms and to reach out to habitual non-voters. That failure seems deeply embedded at the UK level but is also present in the devolved nations despite extravagant claims made in the 1990s about a new politics of better participation for ord...Stem cells grown in lab mirror normal developmental steps
...urnal Blood, the Johns Hopkins team demonstrated a clear similarity between how human embryonic stem cells specialize into blood cells and how blood cells develop in human embryos. "Our findings provide an unparalleled opportunity to study the basic questions of human development, like 'Where does blood ...Study examines characteristics of cancers of the esophagus
...denocarcinoma (type of cancer) of the esophagus is clear for tumors located along the tubular portion of the esophagus, regardless of whether Barrett mucosa (a condition where the cellular lining of the esophagus has been changed, often caused by gastric reflux) is found, according to background informatio...Some male breast cancer patients may have unnecessary radiotherapy
...ale breast makes it harder for surgeons to leave a clear margin of healthy tissue when they remove the tumour, so men are perceived to be more at risk of the tumour recurring in the breast area. But an analysis of 60 male breast cancer patients and more than 4,000 female control patients, showed that gende...Revealed: The true cost to the nation of multiple pregnancies
...t of the treatment cycle alone. However, it seems clear to me that it is equally important to count the costs of hospitalisation, delivery according to the method of delivery, and neonatal care. This gives a much better view of the reality. "The resulting figures show that multiple pregnancies have a ver...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...up care? So far, no study has been able to offer a clear explanation as to what causes disparities in health care - either in terms of access or treatment quality. To answer this question, Ma suggests more research. The key, she said, is more detailed data that better represent the nation's minority popula...