Study finds radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles risk for rectal cancer
...underwent surgery, a risk similar to that posed by having a family history of the disease. This is the first study to quantify rectal cancer risk associated with prostate radiation. The entire study will be published April 1, 2005 in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) journal Gastroenterolo...Radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles the risk of rectal cancer
...underwent surgery, a risk similar to that posed by having a family history of the disease. "Men who have had prostate radiation should be aggressively monitored for rectal cancer starting five years after treatment," said Nancy Baxter, MD, PhD, lead study author with the University of Minnesota Cancer Cente...Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...e over $41,000 per year were more likely to report having an entirely smoke-free home and to limit exposure outside the home. Exposure to all this secondhand smoke a Class A environmental carcinogen is especially harmful to children, according to the World Health Organization. Higher incidence of lower r...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...plained Dr. Ship. "Many dentists are frustrated by having to make clinical decisions everyday in practice that do not have a sufficient scientific basis. For example, "What should be the appropriate follow-up interval for a specific procedure or disease? Is it necessary to use a particular course of antibio...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...dren with this condition have been misdiagnosed as having autism. "The potential ramifications of CP are best captured in the words of one individual whom we have had the opportunity to test: 'I have always been a rather extreme introvert, uncomfortable in groups of people and in social activities. I sort ...Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
...te adolescents' perceptions of the consequences of having oral sex as opposed to vaginal sex. The survey sho..., feeling bad about themselves, feeling guilty, or having a relationship with a partner become worse. The study findings also showed that teens considered ora...Pediatric use of complementary and alternative medicine
...which pediatric CAM use will expand as a result of having insurance coverage."...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...airs responsible for teaching anatomy acknowledged having difficulty recruiting faculty to teach this important subject. "Whereas an adequate number of students are receiving training in gross anatomy, most are being lost as teachers during their postdoctoral years," the article's authors state. They attrib...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...ly don't have a choice to take nothing. It's awful having to present people with such difficult choices, especially when they're already stressed dealing with mental problems," he says. Noncompliance has long been a problem for schizophrenics, because of movement problems associated with older drugs, and be...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...as similar in both groups of patients. The rate of having a recurrence of the head and neck cancer or a second primary cancer was also higher during supplementation among patients receiving alpha-tocopherol than among patients receiving placebo but lower after supplementation had ended. "This cancer chemop...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...hat their study does not demonstrate directly that having more money and more assets shields a person from a psychological downfall when disability strikes. There could be some psychological factors associated with a person's ability to accumulate wealth that could also make them more resilient when they be...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...al activity across the five days, with black males having the highest average at 8.6 minutes and black females the lowest at 2.8 minutes. They averaged nearly 40 minutes of moderate activity daily. Not surprisingly, boys had less body fat than girls, says Dr. Gutin. White and black females averaged 29.8 per...Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
... level I centers are in danger of closing, despite having a positive effect on head-injured patients. That is, for me, one of the take-home messages." Study co-author Craig Newgard, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine, OHSU School of Medicine, agreed. "Our results suggest that some of the operat...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...alence of EBV-IgG antibodies the telltale sign of having a history of EBV infection than white subjects. However, another antibody, EBV-IgA, seen with repeat or reactivated EBV infection, was also more common in African Americans with lupus. EBV-IgA was found in 66 percent of African-American patients, ...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...ty. All patients in this study were diagnosed with having arthritis or rheumatism and were drawn from a large national study of health among people of traditional retirement age. 64 percent of the patients were female. The majority was also white, with 8.6 percent African Americans and 4.5 percent Hispani...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...ent gaining weight. Those adolescents who reported having an obese parent were more than four times at risk ...ese themselves versus their peers who reported not having obese parents. This was the case for both biological and non-biological parents giving evidence that...Case finds dental patients agreeable to tobacco interventions
...ns about their tobacco use and also thoughts about having their doctor or dentist intervene to help them sto...ation when wanted (89%). While the patients liked having information from their dentist or doctor about tobacco cessation programs, almost half (49%) had not...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...sured, respectively. Often, people shifted between having insurance and being uninsured. About 60 percent of...st once. Older age, male sex, poor overall health, having one or more chronic illness, and being uninsured at the start of the study were all associated with ...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
...nning. Patients were examined and characterized as having metabolic syndrome if they met at least three of the following criteria: waist circumference greater than about 40.2 inches in men or 34.7 inches in women; elevated blood triglyceride levels; low high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels; hig...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...with 2 to 3 percent of the general population have having amblyopia. Dr. Hertle and colleagues have demonstrated the effectiveness of treatment in a population previously thought to be untreatable." It is not known, say the study authors, whether vision improvement will be sustained in these children once t...