Radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles the risk of rectal cancer
...eginning five years after treatment. Guidelines of multiple agencies and professional societies underscore the importance of colorectal cancer screening for all individuals 50 years of age and older. Approved tests include barium enema, FOBT, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy. However, flexible sigmoid...Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
...or autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Autoimmune diseases arise when too many T-helper 1 cells are produced against one's own body. With this approach, it may be possible to stop or limit these diseases. Professor Barry Kay from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospi...UK approval procedures will drive research overseas
...otal delay of 150 days. Research studies requiring multiple NHS sites should build in substantial lag times before research processes can be initiated, say the authors. "We anticipate that failure to address this new obstacle to health service research will block evaluation work and accelerate the migration o...Neurology Now magazine launches at AAN meeting
...including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, and stroke, among other conditions. The premier issue will feature a cover story about actress Teri Garr who has been living with MS for several years....Breakthrough in national diseases
...ession and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and myocardial infarction" will be published on the Nature Genetics website on Sunday 10 April at 1.00 p.m. (Eastern US Time)....Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...nd dry mouth. The noninvasive test, which analyzes multiple protein biomarkers in the tears using highly sensitive mass spectrometry, shows promise in early clinical studies as the first simple test for identifying the disease, the scientists say. Sjgrens affects between 1 million and 4 million Americans, pri...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
According to a new study, smokers who receive multiple abnormal results using computed tomography (CT) to...rease smoking cessation rates. Therefore, perhaps, multiple abnormal findings may provide a psychological push for a smoker to quit. Seeking to test that hypoth...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...to individual vaccine antigens after incorporating multiple antigens into combination vaccines and underline the importance of assessing the immunogenicity of all coadministered vaccine antigens in prelicensure trials. The Pnc9-MenC vaccine as tested may not be a suitable replacement for individual MenC or pn...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...rs, suggesting that a new treatment could apply to multiple cancers. Debinski and colleagues identified the protein while studying glioblastomas, the most common form of brain tumor. Glioblastomas are considered the least curable of all human cancers. Like other tumors, glioblastomas require their own blood s...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
... antiviral therapy that could be effective against multiple hemorrhagic fever viruses." Senior author James M. Cunningham, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues discovered two cellular enzymes that the Ebola virus co-opts and uses to cut up one of the v...Cost-effectiveness of drugs may vary across borders
...lly. This research was conducted within and across multiple countries in Western Europe to assess the generalizability of the cost-effectiveness of new pharmaceuticals. While health results of clinical studies of drugs tend to be transferable from one area to the next, the cost-effectiveness of drugs is depen...Drug may help MS patients with laughing, crying spells
MIAMI BEACH A new drug may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have a condition that leaves them unable to control their emotions, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., April 9 16, 2005. Called pseudobulbar ...Study shows surprising decreased surgical infection risk after age 65
...ctively collected data on thousands of patients in multiple hospitals undergoing various surgical procedures, found that the infection risk increased by about 1 percent per year between the ages of 17 to 65 years but then decreased by about 1 percent per year after age 65; indeed, there were no surgical site ...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...rned off, or whether the chocolate compound exerts multiple independent effects on diverse cellular processes. That will be the subject of future studies here." Co-authors of the study from Georgetown University are first author Danica Ramijak, Nicole Thompson, and Linda Metheny-Barlow. Leo Romanczyk from M...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...I-sponsored Patient Navigation Research Program at multiple sites. The purpose of the Patient Navigator Resea...ored Patient Navigation Research Program (PNRP) at multiple sites. The NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities is already conducting several pilot pati...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...tic mutation during treatment. Cross-resistance to multiple drugs suggests a poor prognosis and likely involves biochemical mechanisms that are different from those linked to single-drug resistance. The investigators sought to identify the specific pattern of gene expression in ALL cells that is linked to de...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
...mpact on risk of heart disease in siblings who had multiple risk factors that gave them a high FRS score. In this group with a high FRS score, obese siblings had twice the amount of coronary heart disease as those who were overweight - 40 percent and 20 percent, respectively - and double the rate in siblings...The Neurosciences and Music in Leipzig: Registration boom and over 140 posters
...to date. In addition, seven in-depth sessions and multiple lectures have been scheduled, reflecting the entire international research scenario (from May 6th to 8th). The topics covered will comprise ethology and evolution; music and language; mental representations; developmental aspects and impact of music ...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...lood samples was measured and the researchers used multiple linear regression to examine its associations with scores from 12 neurobehavioral tests. First-visit data were obtained in 2001-2002. Participants also completed a food frequency questionnaire to determine fish consumption levels "In summary, the stu...Findings about anti-cancer agent could make it more effective
...nt works could help us combine treatments to reach multiple targets," said William Gmeiner, Ph.D., professor o...doctors could combine it with other drugs to reach multiple treatment targets. For example, FdUMP[10] could possibly be used in combination with drugs that empl...