Higher consumption of some soy products, grains and vegetables linked to reduced risk of lung cancer
...t in both never and current smokers but less so in former smokers," the authors report. Reduction in lung ca...d those who had never smoked, but less apparent in former smokers. In women, statistically significant joint effects were evident between hormone therapy use ...Long-term smoking is associated with up to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer
...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 pregnancy. "We found a 30 to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer among women who were current or long-term smokers, women who started smokin...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
... that demonstrated excess MDD among long-abstinent former alcoholics, state the authors. Coexisting substance dependence disorder and MDD predict poor outcome among clinic patients. A decade ago, many treatment leaders discouraged treating MDD in patients with substance dependence on the grounds that arre...Cancer treatment illustrates UI, private sector partnership
...echnology, chief scientific officer at Coley and a former UI professor of internal medicine, were in Iowa City to meet with UI officials and community and state leaders to discuss CPG 7909's status and potential as a treatment for lung and possibly other cancers. "This is a shining example of how the public...Use of pulmonary artery catheterization does not show benefit for severe heart failure patients
...widespread use, or at the very least relegate this former common monitoring tool to salvage therapy of an extremely small and select number of patients. The need to question the routine use of this monitoring modality was quite real and the results of the last 5 years of study most valuable. Once again the ...American Academy of Pediatrics awards top honors to leading child development expert at Brandeis
...lius Richmond, founding director of Head Start and former Surgeon General of the United States; child analyst Anna Freud; and pediatricians T. Berry Brazelton and Benjamin Spock, whose books on child development are consulted by millions of parents around the world. Dr. Shonkoff is founding chair of the Nat...Opening wide for new clues about lupus
...t Paul Dutcher, M.D.; technician Jennifer Barnard; former post-doctoral researcher Amedeo Cappione III, Ph.D., now at Guava Technologies; and former graduate student Aimee Pugh-Bernard, Ph.D., now at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. ...NSAIDs show promise in preventing mouth cancer but pose heart risk
...drugs (NSAIDs) reduces the risk of mouth cancer in former and active smokers but increases their risk of dea...how promise in reducing the risk of oral cancer in former and active smokers. The magnitude of risk reduction is comparable to quitting smokingOral cancer pre...Elevated blood levels of a protein are linked to asbestos-induced cancers
...e lining surrounding the lungs; 45 were current or former smokers, who had no previous exposure to asbestos; and 76 patients suffered from pleural mesothelioma and were undergoing surgery. Those individuals exposed to asbestos for less than 10 years showed the lowest levels of osteopontin. Those levels dou...Hodgkin disease survivors face higher risk for stroke later in life
...he study were senior author Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, a former family practice professor at UT Southwestern, now with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and researchers from UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the Food and Drug Administration, the University of Minnesota, St. Jude Children's Rese...Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection
...ong a random sample of 538 adult residents from 12 former commercial plasma-donating villages in Shanxi Prov...ies. HCV rates were 8% in all participants, 28% in former plasma/blood donors, and about 3% in non-donors. Selling blood or plasma was the strongest independe...Stanford study reveals protein's Jekyll-and-Hyde role in cancer growth
... Even more unexpected was what happened next - the former cancer cells matured. Like juvenile delinquents steered away from a life of crime when a bad influence is removed, the immature blood cells not only ceased their bad behavior once the menin was gone, they resumed productive lives. They completed the ...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...ace and Emery Beardsley Chair in Ophthalmology and former Keck School dean; William B. Schwartz, professor o...anquada, Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and former Keck School dean. "As the Institute of Medicine celebrates this milestone, it is a great pleasure to...Columbia study shows how doctors may manage blood glucose levels during heart surgery
...sthesia division. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, M.D., former director of cardiac anesthesiology at Columbia University and who has since joined the Duke Clinical Research Institute, also contributed to the research....Wistar emeritus professor Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
...ovirus, polio, and varicella and collaborated with former Wistar scientists Dr. Hilary Koprowski and Dr. Tadeusz Wiktor on a vaccine against rabies and with Dr. H. Fred Clark and Dr. Paul Offit on another against rotavirus, now awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration, with a decision expecte...17th annual medical ethics conference to focus on global and personal issues
...erg from Dartmouth, will be joined by more than 20 former fellows who studied medical ethics at the MacLean Center and return each year to share current projects. This session takes place Sat., Nov. 12, at the University of Chicago Hospitals, 5812 S. Ellis Ave., Room P117. The Center's aim is to foster a n...UVa researchers show that a natural carbohydrate can help lower blood sugar
...eph Larner, MD, PhD, professor emeritus at UVa and former chairman of the department of pharmacology, who has been studying the molecule for nearly two decades. Larner and his colleagues isolated INS2 from cow livers, determined its chemical structure, synthesized it, then injected the compound into diabeti...Largest survey on depression suggests higher prevalence in U.S., reports Mailman school
...crease in risk of current MDD among long-abstinent former alcoholics, and studies that identified genetic factors common to MDD and alcohol dependence. The NESARC also found strong relationships between MDD and anxiety disorders. In addition, MDD was strongly associated with personality disorders, but the ...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...fety System; Group Health physician Marc Mora, MD, former chair of the committee that establishes formulary policies for Group Health; and Group Health pharmacist Jennifer Berg Hrachovec, PharmD, MPH. The five principles, described in more detail below, are: 1. Give more weight to true experiments than to m......percent) were nonsmokers, and 98 (48 percent) were former smokers. After reviewing clinical characteristics, smoking history, comorbidities, survival, performance status, and pulmonary function tests, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, found there was no significant d...