Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...ates of cT3 prostate cancer, as PSA testing is not conducted as frequently and more cancers are discovered late...ity to spread outside the prostate. This study was conducted as a single-institution, retrospective study of 5,652 men who had radical prostatectomy at Mayo Clin...Implanted medical device aims to lower blood pressure
...s part of a Phase II clinical research trial to be conducted by a limited number of medical centers in the United States. Called the Rheos Trial, it is funded by CVRx Inc. of Minneapolis. Karl A. Illig, M.D., chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery, is principal investigator for the Rochester trial site. Car...Study finds radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles risk for rectal cancer
...hool and Cancer Center, led the research team that conducted the study. "While the findings of our study do not suggest that prostate cancer treatment should change, we recommend that the potential for developing rectal cancer be included in conversations between doctors and patients when considering the indiv...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...chers analyzed results from tracer-gas experiments conducted by scientists at UCLA and UC Riverside. They measured the air in six empty school buses traveling through established routes in south-central and suburban Los Angeles, all areas within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Nine runs were made with...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, challenges the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines that antidepressant medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients. ...Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
...niversity of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She conducted a survey of 580 ethnically diverse Northern California ninth-graders in the first study to investigate adolescents' perceptions of the consequences of having oral sex as opposed to vaginal sex. The survey showed that these young teens considered oral...Consumers not getting accurate information about smokeless tobacco
...h more dangerous product." Phillips and colleagues conducted a systematic review of popular sources of information available on the internet, by looking at the content of websites that provide information about smokeless tobacco and health, found using a Google search. They found that of the 316 sites that we...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
...eks of treatment in a five-year longitudinal study conducted at 14 academic medical centers. A matched sample of 58 healthy volunteers underwent MRI and were compared on brain volume measures. "The principle new finding of this study is the significant difference in the course and magnitude of these changes b...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...ther health profession students." In a 2002 survey conducted by American Association of Anatomists (AAA) and the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology Chairpersons (AACBNC), more than 80% of medical school department chairs responsible for teaching anatomy acknowledged having difficulty recrui...AACR celebrates 20th anniversary of minority scholar awards
... of the most timely and significant research being conducted worldwide in basic, clinical, and translational cancer research. They have had the opportunity to meet formally and informally with many of those scientists presenting at the meeting to discuss their research, a true example of both role modeling an...Differential heart-attack risks among blacks, whites remain mystery
...ity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas conducted a statistical analysis that looked for a relationship between increased levels of Lp(a) and increases in coronary calcium, a leading indicator of coronary atherosclerosis. "We know from prior research that elevated plasma levels of Lp(a) are an indep...ALLHAT findings are 'color blind' in showing diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...or most patients. The multi-center ALLHAT study is conducted under a National Institutes of Health contract with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Barry R. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biostatistics in the UT School of Public Health is the Principal Investigator and a co-author of t...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...ngococcus transmission. The same analysis was then conducted on the atmospheric humidity index. It reinforced the message of these results, the lowest atmospheric humidity and the epidemic onset also corresponded to the sixth week of the year, 7 to 15 February. Thanks to this preliminary research, combining c...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...als of a medication for alcohol dependence and was conducted at 24 sites nationwide, including public, private hospitals and Veterans Administration clinics and tertiary-care medical centers. Other study authors included researchers from the medical schools at the University of Connecticut, Yale University, an...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
...ng to the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers. According to the research team, this may be the first randomized trial to demonstrate that a non-pharmaceutical approach can have positive effects on such physiological determinants of cardiovascular hea...Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
...d blood supply to the heart muscle). The trial was conducted from January 1999 to February 2003. Participants received either routine medical care (usual care); usual care plus supervised aerobic exercise training for 35 minutes 3 times per week for 16 weeks; or usual care plus weekly 1.5-hour stress managemen...Once-a-month injectable medication helps treat alcohol dependence
...orth Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., and colleagues conducted a study to determine the efficacy and safety of a ...omized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted between February 2002 and September 2003 at 24 U.S. public hospitals, private and Veterans Administr...Study examines effectiveness of anti-anemia drug in treatment of cancer patients
...e University of Cologne in Germany, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 27 randomized, controlled trials published between 1993 and May 2002. The trials had compared erythropoietin treatment versus no treatment in a total of 3,287 adult cancer patients. The likelihood of needing a blood transfusion was...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...iversit Laval in Qubec City, Qubec, and colleagues conducted a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, r...had ended. "This cancer chemoprevention trial was conducted in a population of patients at high risk of second primary cancers. There is some concern about the ......icians in Cape Town, South Africa. The study was conducted in South Africa with 64 women who were identified as mildly iron deficient after childbirth and 31 who were not iron deficient. At 10 weeks after childbirth, the women and their babies were videotaped interacting. Half of the iron-deficient women w...