Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...dy is the first to report prostate cancer survival data for Korean, South Asian and Vietnamese men living ...ic populations in the process. Interestingly, the data to date show that compared to non-Hispanic white Americans, some Asian ethnicities, such as Japanese...Survival differences by race most apparent in advanced stages of breast cancer
...ncer Society, a retrospective analysis of survival data demonstrates that within each stage, African American women had larger tumors and were more likely to have disease that had spread to nearby lymph nodes. After controlling for those clinical factors the racial disparities in survival persisted. The ...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
... study, 41 subjects were recruited from the larger data pool. Twenty-seven had received the Taiji/Qigong intervention; 14 were from the studys wait-list control group, and another 9 individuals who did not participate in the exercises were added to balance the size of the control group. Sub-study partic...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
...ummer of 2003. Demographic, medical and functional data were collected when individuals entered the hospital, and they were assessed again after 28 days and one and two years. Fifty-eight percent of patients died within 28 days. Patients who died: more often came from an institution for the elderly (...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
... living in St. Louis. That larger project gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that project began, diabetes already was very common in this population. More than 25 percent had the disease at the time initial interviews were conducted. T...Drug interactions with warfarin
...elet agents. This real-world study of prescription data from general practices observed much higher rates of bleeding than those derived from a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. The authors write that physicians should be aware of these risks to better assess their patients therapeutic riskbene...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...he study, Dr. de Lemos and his colleagues examined data from the ongoing Dallas Heart Study, which is evaluating risk factors for heart disease in a large, multiethnic, urban population with a median age of 45. The new substudy focused on a group of 2,744 participants who had noninvasive imaging tests to ...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...n identified patients with newly diagnosed COPD by data collected from five health plans. The study examined patients aged 40 years and older, and determined if patients with a new diagnosis of COPD had received spirometry in the preceeding 720 days. Of the 5,039 eligible patients identified, only 32% we...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...poke to participants in their homes. They gathered data about health status, access to medical care and de... living in St. Louis. That original study gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that s...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...elp us learn more about kidney disease and provide data that could spark new investigations. This fits in with NIHs focus on a bench-to-bedside approach to translational research as a way of expediting clinical cures in all disciplines. Researchers at the Center are working to delineate the genetic and ce...Investigators uncover intriguing clues to why persistent acid reflux sometimes turns into cancer
...ler said. This hasnt been proven, but we have some data that supports that. In research available online prior to printing this month in Diseases of the Esophagus, Drs. Souza, Spechler and colleagues demonstrate that bone-marrow cells come into play to regenerate the esophageal lining in rats that have ...Reanalysis of controversial meta-analysis says writing off rosiglitazone may be premature
...tazone was prescribed. Now, a re-analysis of the data used in the Nissen and Wolski analysis - using dif...ug Administration advisory committee reviewing the data on rosiglitazone's safety. At the conclusion of hearings, the panel recommended that Avandia carry n...Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
... USRDS update assembles the most recent nationwide data on the incidence, treatment, and outcomes of ESRD ... In 2004, the most recent year for which complete data were available, 104,364 Americans (approximately 0.03 percent of the population) started dialysis or...New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...or Cousins said the projects aim is to use the new data to identify priority actions to ease suffering, save healthcare dollars and to help patients get on with productive lives. Results are expected by the end of the year and are likely to recommend more government resources to deal with the issue of p...Women with migraines and visual symptoms may have higher stroke risk
...d evidence that this was the case, but had limited data to address this question. Other investigators should confirm our findings of an increased risk of stroke associated with recent onset of probable migraine with visual symptoms....Bioengineering to prevent iron deficiency?
...hytate. The authors conclude by calling for more data on the functional consequences of iron deficiency, eg. on immune function and cognition in infants and children. Due to the risks of untargeted supplementation in malaria-endemic countries, new strategies are urgently needed to provide additional die...Preventive treatments in elderly people needs rethinking
...e benefits. We should not carry on extrapolating data from younger populations and using linear models that use absolute risks of disease rather than all cause mortality and morbidity. If we do, the only ones to benefit will be drug companies, with increasing profits from an ageing population consumed b...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...n stand-alone Part D coverage in 2006. But using data from the Health and Retirement Study, the researchers were able to go beyond the official statistics to show that rich and poor were equally likely to sign up for Part D and private coverage, and to lack coverage. Wealthy elders were much more likely...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
...animpressive image with quantitative physiological data associated withit. Instead of just saying, it looks like the blood flow is lower, wehave developed methods so that we can quantify blood flow," Dr.Molitoris said. Development of techniques to get images from deeper in tissues.Currently m...Drug-eluting stent controversy explored in the American Heart Hospital Journal
... of patients dying after stent implantation. These data indicate that DESs cause both substantial impairment in arterial healing characterized by lack of complete re-endothlialization (the re-healing of the inner surfaces of vessels after stenting) and persistence of fibrin, a protein that indicates blood...