Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
..." he explained. "The cumulative potential for side effects from the laxative preparation, the need for conscious sedation, lost sleep, time lost from work, the need to arrange for someone to drive the patient home, and risk for perforation exceed my threshold for what a good screening test should be." Colono...More evidence suggests statins help cut risk for advanced prostate cancer
...lved in cancer-risk reduction may include statins' effects on testosterone production, cell signaling, and inflammation. Or the drugs may play a role in changing prostate cancer cell membranes, which are rich in cholesterol. Prostate cancer is the leading cancer in American men. It strikes more than 230,00...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...se children. "It would be interesting to study the effects of using chest physiotherapy in an outpatient situ... Pooling the results they were able to compare the effects of giving HRT to 12,353 women, with giving placebos to 11,930 other women. They concluded that givin...Combination chemotherapy shows small survival benefit in advanced stomach cancer
..., scheduled for 2006, researchers will examine the effects of anticancer therapies still in clinical trials that specifically target stomach cancer cells...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
... according to a new review of studies. Memantine's effects are small but "clinically noticeable" after patients take 20 milligrams of the drug daily for 28 weeks, according to Dr. Rupert McShane of the University of Oxford and colleagues. The effect of memantine was measured by a variety of tests that rate a...Mercury levels and cognitive function investigated in adults
...ury and there was a lack of consistency of mercury effects in the different aspects of brain function, the researchers concluded that overall the data did not provide strong evidence that mercury at these levels had an adverse impact on cognitive function. "Mercury is a major global public health challenge. ...Findings about anti-cancer agent could make it more effective
...d that would be more effective and have fewer side effects than fluorouracil, one of the most common chemotherapy drugs for prostate cancer. Laboratory studies show that FdUMP[10] is 300 to 400 times more effective than fluorouracil at killing cancer cells and less damaging to normal cells. In addition to po...CML found to wield 'death factor' that kills normal blood marrow cells
...leukemia cells are believed to be resistant to the effects of 24p3, the researchers found. "This provides an understanding of how Philadelphia chromosome-positive cells can overcome and grow effectively in a crowded marrow environment," Arlinghaus says. "The disease may begin with a single translocation, but...Electroshock therapy speeds improvement in schizophrenia patients
...amage and suggests that for some patients the side effects of shock therapy may be more tolerable than those ...s, such as memory impairment. Others measured side effects often seen with antipsychotic drugs, such as tremor, slurred speech, inability to keep still, anxiet...Football players are sportsmen most at risk of injury
... to revisit the group 10 years later to see if the effects of training manifested themselves later in life. They got responses from 203 people (male and female) to a questionnaire. These were made up of 52 gymnasts, 22 soccer players, 57 swimmers, and 72 tennis players who were asked about musculoskeletal p...New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...ts more lives might be saved and debilitating side effects minimized if treatment of stroke patients was based on qualitative and quantitative imaging such as CT perfusion and CT angiography and not on generalized application of arbitrary time windows of three to six hours. Those windows can exclude some pa...Pregnant women with epilepsy face dilemma
... An additional concern could be possible postnatal effects of anti-epileptic drugs to the child which do not become apparent until school age. The Commission on Genetics, Pregnancy, and the Child of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) developed guidelines in 1989 for the care of women with epile...Genetic variation linked to alcohol dependence found in a Russian population
...as occurs in general anesthesia. Some of alcohol's effects appear to be mediated through GABRA2." This gene is often found in persons who do not become alcoholic, but its presence causes a small increase in risk that appears to be consistent across U.S. and Russian populations, Lappalainen said. It is not k...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...o this contentious area, helping us understand the effects of trauma in the family and the disruption of cognition and memory that can occur during and after childhood abuse." Freyd, a University of Oregon psychology professor whose theory of betrayal trauma explains why some people do not recall their abuse...High levels of immunosuppressant may lead to tumor recurrence
... immunosuppressant drugs shown to have anti-cancer effects are particularly promising for HCC patients....Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...who are pregnant or breast feeding. Potential side effects include localized irritation at the site of the electrodes, a rare occurrence that typically resolves within 24 hours. A repeat study is performed a year later and participants will receive a small compensation after the second visit. Participants w...54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...studies need to be carried out with respect to the effects of air travel on health, as there is little information on the physiological effects of flying on passengers currently available" adds Dr Rachel Deyermond, Consultant Anaesthetist. "Thi...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...r a wide range of possible diabetes-related health effects and implications for the NHS....High risk of second cancers in survivors of childhood soft tissue sarcomas
...s type 1. The authors concluded, "both treatment effects and genetic factors contributed to the increased risk of second cancers in this series of children with soft tissue sarcomas."...A broad retrospective review of the effects of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) on memory and other brain functions concludes that, while there may be transient short-term effects, the procedure itself probably does not cause late or permanent neurological effects. In an article publishe...