Breast tumor's biological traits guide hormone therapy
ORLANDO, Fla.--The characteristics of an individual patient's breast cancer can help physicians choose... The model revealed that the best treatment for an individual woman depended on whether her tumor was positive both for estrogen receptors (ER+) and progesterone ...Blocking the Odc gene is effective in preventing cancers
... cells, as well as the roles of Myc alterations in individual types of cancer, said Cleveland. So the discovery of the links among Myc, Odc and BL should help researchers develop new strategies for preventing cancers by focusing efforts on Odc. Normally, Myc accelerates cell division by suppressing two protein...Minority youths self-esteem grows, not shrinks over time
...hors explain. The results highlight the important individual differences in self-esteem and challenge one of the most common assumptions about adolescent development....Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
...e observed resolution of hundreds of flat warts in individual patients after injection of only one lesion. It is possible that local and distant responses of warts in subjects who received saline or interferon alfa-2b alone develop by the same mechanism as when antigen is injected and that many triggers of an ...Changing medication packages could help patients follow prescriptions, study suggests
...itional pill calendars usually a plastic box with individual compartments that can hold pills to be taken each ...s to be taken. Blister packages are cards in which individual pills are put in small plastic bubbles, and then backed with foil. A person pushes on the bubble, fo...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
... remission (defined as a Mayo score of =2, with no individual sub-scores >1) and mucosal healing (defined as an Endoscopy sub-score of 0 or 1). "Given that anti-TNF agents like infliximab appear to be effective in treating Crohn's disease, it made sense to explore its use in ulcerative colitis as well," s...Leading patient safety advocates assess progress in reducing medical error
...ss of safe practices that have been implemented in individual hospitals since the IOM report: Computerized physician prescribing decreased medical errors by 80%. Including pharmacist with medical team reduced preventable adverse drug events by 78% Standardizing medication practices reduced adverse drug event...Mayo researchers seek methods to make new cancer therapies available more quickly
...he 2005 ASCO conference were based on the study of individual patient data from 20,898 patients and 18 randomized trials. ACCENT is an international collaboration involving researchers throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. Dr. Sargent helped found the group about a year and a half ago to focus effort...Timing of introduction of gluten into infant's diet associated with appearance of celiac disease
...mmature immune system in a genetically predisposed individual at risk for celiac disease. Only then will it be possible to know the true effect of exclusive vs. partial breastfeeding, gluten amount vs. gluten timing, and infant cereal vs. follow-up infant formula on celiac disease risk and presentation," Dr. F...New method of administering anti-cancer drug may be more effective, safer
...ors to more accurately adjust doses to accommodate individual differences in metabolism, thus increasing treatme...opportunity for consistent and targeted dosing for individual patients," Shea said. Shea and his colleagues are developing a study of such tailored dosing and ho...Go to the tape: Video replay improves radiology residents' performance
...ive combination of traditional teaching rounds and individual videotaped feedback, similar to what sports instructors use to teach students proper form, is a beneficial educational tool for improving the performance of radiology residents, say researchers from McGill University Hospital Center in Montreal, Cana...Red delicious, Northern Spy apples have most antioxidants, chemists find
...ood Canada in Guelph, Ontario, also pinpointed the individual chemical compounds responsible for antioxidant activity in apples. The findings could lead to the breeding of hybrid apples that pack a heftier antioxidant punch. The report appears in the June 29 issue of the American Chemical Societys peer-reviewed...International medical journals amplify call for registration of drug trials
...Editors," will be released on www.ICMJE.org and on individual journal Web sites on May 23 at 5 p.m. EDT. Harold Sox, MD, editor of Annals of Internal Medicine, said that the editorial amplifies the drug trial registry concept that ICMJE first put forth in a joint editorial in September 2004. "Our first editori...New Seroquel data show significant improvement in compliance and cognition in schizophrenia
...many areas of social interaction, and can limit an individual from being able to benefit fully from rehabilitation programmes. That is why treating these symptoms effectively is so important." SEROQUEL has been licensed for the treatment of schizophrenia since 1997 and is available in 82 countries for the tre...Metabolic syndrome prevalent in heart attack patients
...etabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors in an individual that may precede type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to background information in the article. The definition for metabolic syndrome includes thresholds for waist circumference, concentrations of triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) choleste...Students who get drunk weekly have higher risk of injuries
.... "What it takes to make someone drunk varies from individual to individual." The overall goal of the $3.2 million Study to Prevent Alcohol-Related Consequences (SPARC) is to reduce the availability of alcohol to students and to help change campus cultures that promote drinking. The study uses such strategies a...Study shows Philip Morris pursued tobacco regulation to enhance its image
...atory efforts focused on framing tobacco use as an individual choice by informed adults to take a risk, which allowed the company to portray itself as a reasonable and responsible manufacturer of a risky product." The plan was to divide public health groups and to set Philip Morris apart from other companies i...Risk factors associated with elderly hospital deaths: Dependence on others and being too thin
...h in the hospital. "Previous reports have examined individual factors that influence hospital outcomes. Functional status, how sick the person is, and his or her nutritional status have all been shown to be important individually. We thought it was important to look at the interaction among these different vari...Mayo Clinic creates 'Office of the Future'
...uch more activity they need in order to meet their individual activity goals for the day. (They might need to take one more meeting.) * Walls near the track are essentially magnetic white boards (instead of fabric) for posting ideas and scribbling notes during the moving meetings.* Animated art projections ar......he biggest issues in health care today: protecting individual patients' privacy and improving the quality, safety and cost of medical care for all patients. In a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center report how their research on h...