Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
... they are found. More than 40,000 U.S. women will die from the disease in 2005. "Small disease is curable disease," Ning said. "In pre-clinical trials, Cone Beam CT detected with certainty tumors between one and two millimeters in diameter, while standard mammography had trouble accurately detecting tu...Sex, gender and heart diseaseMUHC researcher leads Canada-wide team
...nvolved in cardiovascular disease. "More Canadians die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause, yet we know little about the differences in signs and symptoms, treatment and rehabilitation of this disease between men and women," says Dr. Louise Pilote--an epidemiologist at the McGill Univer...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
...nd Prevention. About 3,000 children 14 and younger die from traumatic brain injuries, 29,000 are hospitalized and 400,000 are treated in emergency departments at an estimated cost of $56.3 billion a year. Today, nearly 200,000 Americans live with a disability related to a spinal cord injury, with about 1...Black children more likely to die from traumatic injury than white children
... that black youth are more than twice as likely to die from a traumatic injury as are white children. "Trauma has a far greater impact on minority children than it does on white children," said Jonathan Groner, the study's lead author and a clinical associate professor of surgery at Ohio State University...The Lancet calls for higher tax on cigarettes
...sed with the disease this year, more than 85% will die before 2010. These deaths are the legacy of smoking habits from 20 years ago. Two decades from now, with smoking rates falling in many high-income countries, people living in low and middle income countries will be the worst affected, states the edit...New test for early detection of prostate cancer shows promise
... in the United States in 2005, and 30,350 men will die of this disease....Targeted cancer drug combined with low-dose chemotherapy shrinks tumors, slows ovarian cancer
... cancer this year and that about 16,210 women will die from the disease. Typically, ovarian cancer is treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, depending on how far the cancer has spread. To date, no standardized screening test is available to detect ovarian cancer. This study was sponsored by ...New preoperative chemotherapy and radiation regimen yields encouraging results for sarcoma
...Fla. "About half of high-risk sarcoma patients die despite surgery and radiation," Ryan said. "We wanted to see if the addition of this intense regimen could improve response to treatment." For the study, researchers completed enrollment of 27 research subjects in the multi-site, phase II clinic...Study demonstrates longest reported survival rate for locally advanced lung cancer patients
...cancer death among both men and women: More people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Interim results of a follow-up Phase III trial were also reported at the meeting. Results of that study, S0023, confirm the SWOG-9504 findings. Like SWOG-9504, S0023 evaluated concu...Statin use associated with reduced risk of pancreatic and esophageal cancers
...e diagnosed with esophageal cancer and 13,570 will die from the disease....Randomized trial of two therapies for acute lymphocytic leukemia finds survival advantage
...ll be diagnosed with ALL this year, and 1,490 will die from the disease. Treatment approaches for adult leukemia typically include chemotherapy, and may include stem cell transplantation....Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...e 1993, children under five are the most likely to die while waiting for a liver transplant, according to background information in the article. The need for small-sized grafts coupled with a critical organ shortage have necessitated a turn to alternative sources for children with end-stage liver disease...New stomach cancer therapy potentially more convenient and better tolerated
...stomach cancer during 2005 and another 11,550 will die from the disease. In addition to surgery, physicians today use a variety of chemotherapy drugs against stomach cancer. Yet researchers have not found a standard chemotherapy regimen that dramatically improves survival more than any other. One commo...Weighing the evidence: A forum to examine the latest news about overweight, obesity and mortality
...tle overweight won't kill you and fewer people now die per year as a result of health outcomes related to obesity. These reports seem to go directly against what the public has been hearing for years; being overweight or obese is linked to type II diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and premature de...Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
...in elderly patients. About 90 percent of those who die from influenza are aged 65 and older, despite the availability of vaccines. Part of the problem is that fewer seniors respond to vaccine the older they get. Researchers will attempt to bolster the immune systems of 50 local nursing home patients by i...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...is lost or not expressed in germ cells, they don't die as they do in zebrafish, but they frequently survive and become transformed in a way that produces germ cell tumors," Matin says. Evidence exists in humans that these tumors also arise during fetal development, and this is most likely due to a simila...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...egin to lose all cognitive and motor functions and die by the age of two, said the researchers. They are from Duke University Medical Center's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and The Clinical Center for the Study of Development & Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...tem, said Kurtzberg. Most infants with the disease die before reaching age 2.In addition, Kurtzberg added, the study adds to a growing body of evidence that cord blood can save children with other "lysosomal storage diseases." These include more than 45 diseases, such as Krabbe's disease, Hurler syndrome...Study finds drug works against scleroderma lung disease
...en therapy for scleroderma, and 60-70% of patients die within 10 years," said Donald Tashkin, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of the authors of the new study on the drug. Although previous studies have suggested that cyc......s. "Each year approximately 1,700 college students die from alcohol-related injuries," said Mary Claire O'Brien, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and public health sciences at Wake Forest's School of Medicine, which is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Our goal was to...