Treatment for early prostate cancer associated with type of specialist seen
...the treatment they themselves deliver, despite the fact that no one has shown one treatment for early stage prostate cancer to be better than another," said Thomas L. Jang, MD, MPH, a physician in the Department of Urology, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and co-lead author of the study. "It is very important...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...se patients as a group survived longer despite the fact that a significant number of them had to be given a lower dose of paclitaxel and for a shorter time than the U.S. patients because of toxicity. The U.S. group was predominantly Caucasian; 2 percent were Asian-Americans. To find clues to the differe...Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes
...udy was limited by a small patient cohort, and the fact that all had advanced disease, the authors concluded, Based on the present findings, the incorporation of anti-viral therapies to reduce HBV viral load should be considered as part of management for HCC patients undergoing chemotherapy. ...OHSU Cancer Institute researcher identifies protein marker for prostate cancer survival
...y cytokines released by the immune reaction may in fact fuel cancer progression. To the extent that our hypothesis proves true, C-reactive protein may be reflecting the overall intensity of the inflammation," Beer said. The finding that higher CRP is associated with shorter survival and a lower probabi...Mayo researchers discover overdiagnosis of long QT heart syndrome
... in diagnosis. Instead, this study has exposed the fact that sometimes the clues we use to suspect the diagnosis of LQTS can be misread, misinterpreted, mismeasured and mistaken, he explains. Significance of the Mayo Clinic Research The risk of underdiagnosing LQTS has been well established in recen...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
...ve a child so sometimes its hard to talk about the fact that women feel sad, or that its hard being a new mother, Sleath said. The Patient Health Questionnaire and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale are formal tools physicians and others can use to determine a womans risk of postpartum depression....Survey shows asthma not controlled in majority of patients
...ease was not controlled in 55 percent, despite the fact that most had health insurance and visited their h...y contributing to poorly controlled asthma was the fact that only a minority of patients reported having received a personalized asthma action plan from the...The general public lacks basic medical knowledge
...ge score was just 32%, and no one scored 100%. The fact that having a university degree, a medical background or personal experience of an illness only slightly improved individual scores is a particular cause for concern, the authors say, and may occur because people prefer to take health-related advice ...Study questions risks of anti-bleeding drug during heart surgery
...in, you will think you gave enough heparin when in fact you didn't." This interaction may explain some of the increased risks with aprotinin reported in previous studies. However, Dr White did not want to dismiss the importance of the previous studies showing harm. "Those studies were important, becaus...Dentists need more training in oral cancer detection
...lcohol as the least important risk factor, when in fact they are the two most important," he said. Two-thirds of the dentists had had oral cancer continuing education; however, 40 percent had trained more than two years prior to the survey. And training in risk counseling was rare, LeHew said. "There is...Both alcohol and neighborhood characteristics can affect intimate partner violence
...eir likelihood of engaging in IPV," he said. "The fact that there are gender differences in terms of how a neighborhood influences the relationship between drinking and violence suggests that, indeed, alcohol and intoxication have different effects on men versus women in terms of IPV." Cunradi plans t...Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
...rmal relationships with high-level NICUs, the mere fact that they have such a relationship is no guarantee that the lower-level NICUs are going to get the same level of results as can be obtained at the large high volume NICUs," Dr. Phibbs said. Dr. Phibbs and his colleagues determined that as much as 2...Tiny newborns face higher risk of death at community hospitals, Stanford/VA study finds
...n the study were born at such centers, despite the fact that more than 90 percent of the births occurred within urban areas with at least 100 very-low-weight births. The move away from regional centers is growing as increasing numbers of neonatal ICUs spring up at community hospitals around the state. Man...UQ researchers honored with leading fellowships
...sity of Queensland," Professor Siddle said. The fact that we have been successful with three Federation Fellows, two of whom have achieved the double honour of receiving a Fellowship a second time, reflects positively not only on the calibre of our applicants, but also on the environment at UQ in which...'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic activity of tumors, Stanford study shows
... Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. "But the fact that we saw strong connections between the imaging features and the molecular gene activity data suggests that this could be a promising and fruitful research direction." Much like being able to identify the aromas from wine once the lexicon of win...Vacuum cleaning ineffective in allergy avoidance
... the study results indicate vacuum cleaning may in fact change the distribution of dust mite allergen within the carpet, rather than removing allergen from all depths equally. Woolcock Researcher Jason Sercombe said that given that carpets are a major reservoir of dust mite allergen and vacuum cleaning ...To get blood pressure under control, combination of medicines may be best
...th their hypertension under control -- despite the fact that nearly all patients came into the study on ot... side effects in the study volunteers, despite the fact that doses were increased steadily. Only 1.8 percent of patients had an episode where their blood pr...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
...wn about their management structure other than the fact that chain ownership has a significant impact on patient care. This study examines one aspect of management structure. "If they (chain-owned nursing homes) are really not as good, we need to think about how to improve them," said Akiko Kamimura, a...Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
...d nanofiber technology takes full advantage of the fact that the shortest distance between damaged nerve endings is a straight line. It directs straightforward nerve growth and never lets them stray from the fast lane." ...Bali bomb lessons helped shape Australia's mental health response to terrorism and trauma
...without the lessons learnt from the first. "The fact that mental health nurses had become a recognised part of the hospital establishment between the two incidents meant that staff worked together in a much more co-ordinated way to help the victims of the second bombing" he says. "They also recognised ...