Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...treatment as a strength of the study. "The highest incidence of prostate cancer death is not reached until 11 years after treatment, so 15-year data is significant," he says. "In contrast, five-year data is less meaningful." Dr. Zincke recommends that patients with cT3 prostate cancer seek a surgeon who perfo...Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...according to the World Health Organization. Higher incidence of lower respiratory tract infection (such as bronchitis and pneumonia) as well as middle ear diseases and worsening of asthma have been attributed to environmental tobacco smoke. The results show the need for more public health efforts to ban smoki...Top anti-arthritis drugs cause skin disease
... studies need to be carried out to investigate the incidence of skin disease in patients on therapy, but this study reveals clinically significant adverse effects of TNF-alpha blocking therapy....Sex hormones hold key to higher rates of abdominal aortic aneurysms in males
...r the age of 65, but the mechanism for this higher incidence has remained unknown. Researchers at the Universi...ed that removing the male sex hormones reduced the incidence of aneurysms in male mice to the same lower levels seen in the females. In this new study, the resea...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...ital-based parent education program can reduce the incidence of abusive head injuries caused by shaken baby syn...r information about the responders. The regional incidence of abusive head injuries among infants and children less than 36 months of age was tracked from Dece...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...ts from a different large trial found an increased incidence of lung cancer among smokers receiving beta-carotene.) Participants were followed for a median of 52 months. Compared with patients given a placebo, patients who received alpha-tocopherol supplements had a higher rate of developing a second primary c...Diuretics best initial therapy for both black and nonblack patients in treating high blood pressure
...perior to a thiazide-type diuretic in reducing CVD incidence in racial subgroups. ALLHAT was conducted between February 1994 and March 2002 in 33,357 hypertensive U.S. and Canadian patients aged 55 years or older (35 percent black) with at least 1 other cardiovascular risk factor. Participants took either a C...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...ons, sampling for HPV DNA and cervical smears. The incidence of persistent infection or disease with HPV 6, 11,...ese countries, in addition to further reduction in incidence of cervical cancer, universal HPV vaccination might decrease the medical, psychological, and economi...Data show cyclosporine inhalation solution improves long-term survival in lung-transplant patients
...e regimens have not been effective in reducing the incidence of chronic rejection or prolonging survival in lung-transplant patients. CyIS could be a breakthrough therapy to address this unmet need." The randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled pivotal study of CyIS was conducted at the University of Pit...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...ediatric Heart Transplant Study Group compared the incidence of rejection and survival in 395 pediatric patients surviving greater than two weeks post-transplant, ranging in age from one day to 17.9 years, with initial immunosuppression of cyclosporine and either CellCept or azathioprine (AZA). They found tha...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
... calculated a dramatic 38 percent reduction in the incidence of breast cancer in women who used tamoxifen. However, the medication is not without significant side effects, including increased risk of endometrial cancer, pulmonary embolism, painful sexual intercourse, stroke, and cataracts. These risks fuel pub...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
SEATTLE Since 1980, the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, one of the m...issue has been accompanied by a flattening in the incidence of true invasive breast cancer. Both trends suggest that widespread mammography screening, along wit...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
...controllable risk factor for heart disease and its incidence is on the rise. An estimated 4.5 percent of adults have physiological evidence of chronic kidney disease. The rate of kidney failure in the U.S. has doubled in the past decade. Chronic kidney disease was defined in the study by an estimated glomerula...New LASIK research reveals unexpected finding: Key to better-than-20/20 vision is in the flap
...to make the corneal flap, surgeons found a greater incidence of high and low spots and irregular hydration on the corneal surface, factors that can compromise the tissue ablation, and with it the visual outcome. Multiple clinical studies show the IntraLase laser provides for better vision by creating an op...Alternate view for pathology of AD
..., the correlation between the presence of NFTs and incidence of disease does not necessarily dictate a causal relationship" said lead author, Hyoung-gon Lee, Ph.D., a research associate in the Department of Pathology at Case. "In fact, since NFTs are produced in response to a variety of disease conditions, the...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...itioning babies on their backs reduced the general incidence of sudden infant death, doctors and nurses have tended to position all babies on their backs. Some specialists, however, have reported that babies with respiratory distress go to sleep more readily when held upright over a person's shoulder. If laid ...Study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
...atment also had no effect on total mortality or on incidence of stroke. Men and women were included in the study if they had stable coronary artery disease following a previous cardiac event such as a heart attack, angioplasty or cardiac bypass surgery. Azithromycin was selected because of its proven effective...New study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
...atment also had no affect on total mortality or on incidence of stroke. Men and women were included in the study if they had stable coronary artery disease following a previous cardiac event such as a heart attack, angioplasty, or cardiac bypass surgery. Azithromycin was selected because of its proven effecti...Anti-malarial drugs given to infants can protect them for two years
...ccinations (2, 3 and 9 months of age), reduced the incidence of malaria by 59% in the first year of life when compared with a placebo. (See Lancet 2001; 357: 1471-77) In their latest study they extended follow-up to two years to see if the risk of malaria increased during this period. They found the opposite: ...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
...hod of screening on the prevention of colon cancer incidence or death. Virtual colonoscopy is safer, although traditional colonoscopy has a very low rate of complications. CT imaging reduces to almost nothing the chance that a colon exam cannot be completed, and it does find incidental conditions such as k...