Post-stroke tests not used often enough, especially in women
...gender in the use of electrocardiogram, or EKG, to examine heart rhythm, and the use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and CT (computed tomography) scans to examine the brain. Says lead author and neurology research associate Melinda Smith Cox, M.P.H., "Previous st...Eating foods with 'weak estrogens' may help reduce lung cancer risk
...h - making it the largest case-controlled study to examine dietary phytoestrogens and lung cancer risk in a U. S. population, according to the researchers. The researchers also found gender specific benefits for different classes of phytoestrogens. Men who ate the highest amount of soy-isoflavins lowered th...Higher consumption of some soy products, grains and vegetables linked to reduced risk of lung cancer
...nalyzed data from an ongoing case-control study to examine the relationship between dietary intake of phytoestrogens and the risk of lung cancer. The study included 1,674 patients with lung cancer (cases) and 1,735 matched healthy controls. From July 1995 through October 2003, study participants were perso...Massachusetts General Hospital launches magazine that examines medicine's leading edge
...trides and medical breakthroughs, but it also will examine setbacks and failures, controversies and conflicts. Our goal is to deliver solid, hard-hitting medical journalism in a manner that is informative and entertaining."...Long-term smoking is associated with up to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer
... Division. This study is the first of its kind to examine a wide variety of smoking parameters, such as how long and how often a woman has smoked, the number of pack years smoked, whether she was a former or recent smoker, her age at smoking onset, and whether she started smoking before her first full-term ...Chronic arthritis pain and the disappointment of u-opioid therapy
...g tissue inflammation. This study is the first to examine the impact on chronic inflammation. The rat models were randomly assigned to the different treatment groups: acute (48-hour) inflammation, chronic (1-week and 3-week) inflammation, and normal controls. Under anesthesia, endomorphin 1 was injected ...Examining how medicine is taught
... to test drive some of what they discussed as they examine their hidden curriculum. Some will be pursing concepts they had before they gathered; others are exploring ideas garnered at the conference. "Experimenting with some of these approaches is the way forward. We are not going to engage in long-term ca...Steroids reduce heart damage risk in children with Kawasaki's disease
...lobulin (IVIG). "This gap in knowledge led us to examine the benefits of steroids more closely. We looked at research worldwide and were surprised to find eight solid clinical trials showing the value of steroids in significantly reducing heart damage in children with Kawasaki's disease. Steroids, when com...Researchers find defects in adult stem cell niche may cause breast cancer
...ber 2005 issue of Tissue and Cell, is the first to examine the highly specialized microenvironment, termed the stem cell niche, which surrounds adult stem cells, and its role in breast cancer development. These niches are key regulators of stem cell activity in mammary tissue, and defects that develop in the...Use of kidney paired donation for incompatible donors could expand donor pool
...h.D., of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, examine the findings by Montgomery et al. "The individual organ recipients who undergo a successful transplantation have greatly improved expectations compared with those individuals who continue to undergo dialysis. Removing candidates from the transplant w...Breast cancer patients turn to reflexology for comfort
...nt of more than $3 million, they will more closely examine the benefits of reflexology in a controlled study. Women will be divided into three groups one will receive reflexology for four weeks, one a "placebo" foot massage for four weeks, and one will serve as a control group. Participants will be intervie...Lancet publishes proactive study: Diabetes treatment reduces risk of heart attacks & strokes
.... The PROactive study was also designed to further examine the safety of ACTOS in this high-risk patient group. The results demonstrated that adverse events reported in this study were consistent with the known safety profile. Known side effects of ACTOS, including weight gain, oedema, non-serious hypoglycae...National stereotypes common, mistaken, study reports
... cross-cultural research back into adolescence and examine age stereotypes around the world. Research already conducted by the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition has shown that stereotypes depicting older people as withdrawn and rigid are largely groundless and contribute to age discrimination. "People ...Fat rat enables studies of debilitating vascular disease
... edge. The goal of our lab is to use this model to examine vascular disease in other organs, especially the limbs." Dr. Stepp recently received a $1.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study these early vascular changes, called peripheral vascular disease, that can result fro...Aussie blokes dying for a health policy, say UWS men's health experts
...numbers, is just the tip of the iceberg.We need to examine the state of men's health much more closely, to see what lies beneath the surface before we go about trying to fix things." The experts say this will only come through increasing expenditure on specific men's health programs and developing men's he...CT colonography versus colonoscopy for colorectal cancer
...atively new imaging technology that can be used to examine the large bowel and rectum where these cancers occur. It is a noninvasive technique that reveals cancer lesions and polyps with nearly the same sensitivity and specificity as colonoscopy, without the risks of bowel perforation. This study by Heitman ...Study finds surprising links between depression, suicide, and epilepsy
...ared genetic susceptibility, and with studies that examine possible common underlying neurotransmitter abnormalities," said Hesdorffer....Errors in cancer diagnosis put patients in harm's way
Procedures used to obtain and examine tissue for cancer diagnosis are prone to error that frequently results in harm, according to a new study published in the November 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American...... a surprising finding from a study that set out to examine alcoholism's long-term effect on the brain and thi...e, the U-M-led team is launching a study that will examine the issue in adolescents, and plans to test the 172 men again soon. "We can't say that we've found a...Kids who drink early in life: What does it mean for their future?
...ild's environment." The next step, he said, is to examine the unique contributions of early AFD to later negative outcomes. "In particular, I believe that we will demonstrate that a strong family history of alcohol dependence or antisocial personality disorder does in fact contribute to an increased risk f...