New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
...ery, but in order to do that safely, blood flow is first rerouted around the aneurysm with a bypass. In a bypass procedure, a blood vessel is taken from another part of the body, usually the leg, and is grafted to a brain artery downstream from the aneurysm to maintain blood flow to that territory. This tr...Seattle inventor to receive Henry Heimlich Award
...e of Simulab Corporation, will be honored with the first Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. The award will be presented to Toly on April 16 at PCRM's 20th Anniversary Celebration, hos...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...care of childbearing families, Ct-Arsenault is the first to develop a pregnancy anxiety scale that can be u...oss. "In this sample, losses were primarily in the first trimester, while most of the women in the loss group were past that point in their current pregnancy...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...at causes these different forms, we have taken the first step toward early diagnosis and therapy tailored to each of the various subtypes." The American Cancer Society estimates that about 22,220 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during 2005. A woman's risk of getting ovari...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...uthors of the study from Georgetown University are first author Danica Ramijak, Nicole Thompson, and Linda Metheny-Barlow. Leo Romanczyk from Masterfoods, USA, and other collaborators also contributed. The full text of the study is available at http://gumc.georgetown.edu/communications/releases/release...Northwestern's cancer genetics program finds gene variants that greatly increase breast cancer risk
...r in today's Cancer Research journal. This is the first study aimed at determining whether various combina...way may predict breast cancer risk. It is also the first study assessing a cancer-related pathway by means of two functionally-relevant variants. Blood tests...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
...0 Sensitivity to Tarceva Depends on CDK2 In the first study, M. D. Anderson researchers found that loss of the CDK2 enzyme strongly correlated with a cancer's sensitivity to Tarceva. That means testing activity of CDK2, the enzyme that drives cell division, can reveal whether or not a tumor will respond...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...in Bethesda, MD. The vaccine, which will be tested first in 15 healthy adult volunteers, was developed for ...NV, initially isolated in Uganda in 1937, made its first U.S. appearance in New York City in 1999. The virus usually is transmitted to humans through the bit...Child magazine editor addresses region's first annual women's and children's health care conference
...n's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital is the first conference of its kind in the region and is geared to an audience of health care providers including nurses, social workers, therapists and child development specialists. Cicero, as senior editor of Child magazine, covers children's health and nutrit...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
...Circulation online April 19, is believed to be the first measure of additional risk from increased body mass index (BMI) in such populations (BMI equals weight in kilograms per height in square meters). People are considered to be obese when their BMI is greater than or equal to 30 kilograms per meter squ...Scientist works to reduce side effects of radiation therapy
...comprehensive program for patient care, and is the first center in the state to offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, a knifeless approach to brain surgery and radiation therapy....American Heart Association telephone news briefing
...ignaling the operator after the presentations on a first come, first served basis. Childhood obesity: It isn't a cosmetic issueNew American Heart Association scientifi...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
... Nursing, which explores parents' reactions in the first year after diagnosis. The intensity of the emotio...xplanation for their child's symptoms. "During the first year after diagnosis, parents rebuilt a new model of their world. Normality became a lifestyle adapt...Newborn's first week may be critical period for developing obesity in adulthood
Babies who gain weight rapidly during their very first week of life may be more likely to be overweight a...ing to a new study. The research suggests that the first week may be a critical period for setting lifelong patterns of body weight. Researchers from The Ch...Gastric bypass patients fare better as surgical programs' experience increases
...0.3 percent, according to the authors. But for the first 100 cases, the overall complication rate was 26 pe...ents. Major complications also decreased after the first 100 cases. The duration of the operation also decreased. Overall mean operating time was 138 minutes...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
STANFORD, Calif. - Anthrax first became a household name for many Americans in September 2001 when 22 cases of bioterrorism-related anthrax, including five deaths, were identified on the East Coast. Although the incidents were relatively isolated, they raised an important question: ...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...ential to bring the issue to public attention as a first step in reinforcing surveillance," said Dr Andreot...n diseases. When administered correctly within the first hour from the onset of a heart attack an effective dose of streptokinase can cut the risk of dying b...Variant in gene associated with telomeres predicts longer survival of deadly brain tumor
...r markers in most primary tumors, says the study's first author, Luo Wang, M.D., Ph.D., a research scientis... such as DNA repair genes and p53, but this is the first time we have found a genotype that has such a large effect on clinical outcome."...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...on, and evaluation of the proposed service. In the first year, 150 U.S. health professionals should be selected for the GHS service corps and deployed based on several criteria, including specific priorities that have been identified by each country's health ministry in conjunction with federal PEPFAR team...More evidence suggests statins help cut risk for advanced prostate cancer
...her cancers, such as breast and colon, this is the first to tie risk reduction to prostate cancer stage whi... Platz noted that "when cholesterol-lowering drugs first came onto the market almost 20 years ago, there was even concern that they might increase the risk o...