Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...cted as frequently and more cancers are discovered later than in the United States, allowing the cancers more opportunity to spread outside the prostate. This study was conducted as a single-institution, retrospective study of 5,652 men who had radical prostatectomy at Mayo Clinic for confirmed prostate ca...Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
...ir illnesses may face more expensive complications later in life. "Yes, individuals decide whether to seek preventive health care, but policy-makers need to realize there are greater external forces, such as subsidized health care, that are influencing those decisions." Barnes' findings are based on data o...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...e Pezcoller Foundation will hold an award ceremony later in the spring, at its location in Trento, Italy. Cantley will receive a cash prize of 75,000 and a medallion. "Dr. Cantley's contributions to cancer are profound," said AACR Chief Executive Officer Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.). "In addit...Early home environment and television watching influence bullying behavior
... of television watching at four years of age, with later bullying, reported at ages six through 11. Statistical methods were used to determine whether each predictor constituted an independent risk factor for subsequent bullying. Cognitive stimulation assessment was based on information on outings, reading...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
... can actively modify the 'soil' and prepare it for later metastatic arrival." While it is now accepted that tumors can stimulate development of their own blood supply, a process called angiogenesis, similar growth of new lymphatic vessels was not suspected until 2001. At that time Detmar and his colleagu...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...lity of the patients at six and 12 months and at a later follow-up visit after successful transplantation. Overall, after a kidney transplant, the heart's pumping ability improved in more than 86 percent of the patients. For 70 percent of the patients, pumping ability returned to normal or close to normal ...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...e can help analyze the jump from video replay at a later date. Other risk factors, including demographic, hormonal and anatomical, also will be examined, as will a comparison of elements that determine poor jump-landing technique between women and men and its prevalence. Preliminary findings based on 118...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
... for women: 7.6 percent of women had died one year later compared to 3 percent of men. Also, rates of major adverse cardiac events were also higher for women at one year: 23.9 percent for women compared to 15.4 percent for men. For the first time in a randomized, controlled clinical trial, stent use was ...Study: Level I trauma centers boost head injury survival
...a system since 1985; Washington's began five years later several level I trauma systems have recently closed, and 19 are threatened with closure, or may be downgraded to a level II center. Researchers attribute many closures to the high cost of operating level I centers and, in many cases, to a high volum...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...ompetitive tender for the state owned monopoly was later announced, British American Tobacco (BAT) and the German manufacturer Reemtsma each initially sought to secure a closed deal. BAT sought to acquire a monopoly position, bolstered by excise rules developed by the company that would uniquely favour its...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
... there were 63 cases of elevated bilirubin. DAIDS later retracted the safety report as incorrect. The IOM committee, based on its own analysis, determined that the DAIDS safety report initially used an incorrect upper limit of the normal range for bilirubin levels in newborns. When the correct upper lim...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...d women over age 55, the age group most at risk of later developing potentially fatal heart failure, a new four-year study reports. The findings by researchers at Johns Hopkins, to be published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine online April 11, call into question the effectiveness of national g...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...st always performed after surgery, sometimes hours later or even the next day. Fitzgerald said an angiogram can be done during surgery, but it's time-consuming, cumbersome and exposes everyone in the operating room to X-rays. "It would be ideal if the surgeons could see what they are doing so they...Smart plastics change shape with light
...dings of the National Academy of Sciences. A year later the researchers introduced thermoplastic, biodegradable shape-memory polymers and demonstrated a nifty application giving a flavor of the innovation potential in the medical field: a smart suture that ties itself into the perfect knot. That work was ...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...s early as possible, buying time for those who may later progress." Dr. Petersen and his co-investigators are optimistic about these findings and what they represent. Rather than focusing on the effects of the particular drugs tested, Dr. Petersen indicates he is enthusiastic about the underlying concept -...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...monstrated a higher degree of risk for Parkinson's later in life for those with anxious and pessimistic per...sful jobs." They also found that many subjects who later developed parkinsonism were both anxious and pessimistic at the time of personality testing many yea...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...ng Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism many years later in life. They also discovered that the younger a woman is at the time of the surgery, the higher her risk. "The risk is higher for women with both ovaries removed; however, it may also be somewhat increased when only one ovary is removed," says Walt...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...d in several physical and other leisure activities later in life," says Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins and senior author on the report. The study included 3,375 men and women age 65 years or older who participated in the Cardiovascular Health...SKCC's Gennadi Glinsky addresses predicting risk in cancer treatment outcome
...ne in internal medicine and general pathology. He later received his doctorate in experimental oncology and biochemistry from the Institute of Oncology Problems Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev....Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...ely aware of the risk of possible complications in later life and some expected their lives to be affected by the diagnosis for a long time. However, others felt positive and were relieved that their child was not going to die and that the diagnosis had enabled them to find a rational explanation for their...