Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...plains that many patients come to him for a second opinion after being told their cT3 prostate cancers could not be surgically removed. "It's considered inoperable by some urologists and referred to radiation oncology," says Dr. Zincke. "They think surgery can't be done because the cancer is outside the pro...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...ssential to minimise suffering and preserve public opinion that lethal injection is a near-painless death. Lethal injection generally consists of the sequential administration of sodium thiopental for anaesthesia, pancuronium bromide to induce paralysis, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart and c...Columbia study shows women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
... safe in women as they are in men. "The prevailing opinion has been that percutaneous coronary interventions including drug eluting stents are more dangerous in women and don't provide the same benefit, but our study shows that there is no scientific basis for this," said the study's principal investigator A...Emory holds national conference on HIV vaccine and drug research
... and Drug Development" will feature scientists and opinion leaders from institutions including the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and national and international academic institutions, as well as leading HIV scientists at Emory University. The conference will be held May 19 and ...'Sister Mary' the robo-doc to start making ward rounds at St Mary's Hospital
...is at a conference in California but their medical opinion is needed for a St Mary's patient or to deliver a lecture to junior doctors the RP6 robot provides an instant and global link at any time of the day or night. "Our robots certainly would never replace all doctors on ward rounds, but they are a commun...ESC releases new chronic heart failure guidelines
...t methods, collated by senior European experts and opinion leaders in the field. For maximal relevance, Guidelines must be well presented, practical and relevant to the clinician on both a national and local level. The formulation and continual update of such Guidelines is one of the primary activities of ...Queen's poll - Ontarians don't want to close institutions for those with intellectual disabilities
...untries, but never before in Canada. The telephone opinion poll was conducted over a three-week period, two months after the government announced its institutional closure policy in 2004. There were a total of 680 respondents, which represents 1 in 284 households, 1 in 626 adults across southeastern Ontario....Survey shows that physicians are more religious than expected
...eral Social Survey, which examines demographic and opinion variables in a sampling of U.S. households. The next step, said Curlin, who describes himself as an "orthodox Christian in the Protestant tradition," is to begin to look at how a doctors' religious (or secular) beliefs and values might influence th...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...ed civilian concerns, but this did not sway public opinion that the military was wasting its share of medication. "While the lack of a plan is the worst-case scenario, even a plan with no public input can backfire if it fails to win local support," says McGough, a research fellow at Hopkins' Institute of the...Quality measures need to be field-tested, researchers find
...icators combine "the available evidence and expert opinion to assess aspects of care for which evidence alone is insufficient, absent or methodologically weak," according to Jeroen A. Schouten, MD, of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and lead author of the article. Establishing the indicators' prac...Despite conflicting studies on obesity, most Americans think the problem remains serious
...ght and their impact on premature death.[1] A new opinion poll by the Harvard School of Public Health finds that most Americans have not changed their minds about the seriousness of the obesity problem and do not believe that scientific experts are overestimating the health risks of obesity. In addition, th...Reconstructive technique provides option for difficult nasal plastic surgery
... first group of patients, "Based on the subjective opinion of the surgeon and patients and the findings of the clinical examinations, a good to excellent functional result was obtained in 96 percent," the author writes. "Despite the complex deformity and complicated operative procedure, postoperative complic...Inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension
... European Food Safety Authority recently issued an opinion stating that current salt intakes in Europe far exceed nutritional requirements and may cause adverse health effects. The present study, conducted by Kripa Haldiya and colleagues from the Desert Medicine Research Centre in Jodhpur, India, provides ne...Australians speak: Find us a cure for cancer - fast!
... heart disease. Research Australia's annual public opinion poll, this year conducted by Crosby Textor, shows cancer is the single major disease striking fear in the hearts of Australians. Two in three (64%) want a significant increase in funding for cancer research, compared to one in four (23%) who want add...New non-surgical approach showing great promise in the treatment of challenging brain aneurysms
...re open surgery and a lengthy recovery. A second opinion brought Collins to Rush University Medical Center and Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN) neuroendovascular specialist Dr. Demetrius Lopes. Lopes recommended a new approach combining the use of intracranial stents and coil emb...Americans think commitment to health research should be stronger
...a theme issue on medical research. However, recent opinion surveys indicate that Americans also are increasin... 10 years of data gathered from national and state opinion surveys on public attitudes and perceptions about health care and health-related research. Data in t...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...ot only that of hospital epidemiologists and a few opinion leaders, conclude experts contributing to a global debate in the October issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The debate brings together viewpoints from across the world as MRSA experts share the challenges that individual countries face in tryi...Massachusetts General Hospital launches magazine that examines medicine's leading edge
...s of Medicine, is being distributed to thought and opinion leaders representing health care, business, philanthropy and public policy people interested in knowing what is going on today that may change the way medicine is practiced in the years to come. Time Inc. Strategic Communications, the custom publ...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...s, but those comparisons are often based on expert opinion and subject to bias. "When models or simulations are the best data available, appropriate skepticism is necessary," the authors write. As an example, they point to Cox-2 inhibitor drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex, which are more expensive, but no mor......a large number of cancer patients. "The prevailing opinion is that IMRT improves treatment outcomes," says Jaksic. "Crucially, IMRT reduces the side-effects patients often suffer from radiotherapy and improves accuracy of dose delivery, and these are the most important impacts in the treatment of cancer."...