Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researcher finds breast implants don't cause cancer
...isk for lung cancer, but McLaughlin attributes the outcome to the number of women with implants who are smokers, rather than any effects from the implants. "Women in Sweden who have breast implants smoke much more than the general population." McLaughlin said the take home message is women with breast impla...Endurance walking test distances improved significantly for COPD patients
...ested in large controlled studies with appropriate outcome measures. Heliox is also easier for the patient to tolerate during exercise than noninvasive ventilation, but the two treatments will need formal comparisons. However, before any further development in Heliox therapy for COPD, improved methods of del...Combination of interventions can substantially reduce incidence of malaria in people with HIV
...ub-Saharan Africa. Malaria can worsen the clinical outcome for people with HIV, and is more common in HIV- infected adults. ART is linked with HIV virus suppression and decreased mortality in HIV-infected people. Previous studies have shown that preventive treatment with the antibiotic co-trimoxazole can red...Taller people more likely to develop atrial fibrillation
...brillation, there is no therapeutically applicable outcome from the study, because you can't alter your height as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation!" Prof. Feneley said....Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants
...unction, and therefore a reliable indicator of the outcome of the procedure. The study used a simple non-inva...ivided into two groups based on liver function and outcome following the transplant (as measured by traditional methods such as bilirubin concentration). Group...Using HPV testing to screen for cervical cancer
... more easily monitored, provides an objective test outcome and can easily be automated." Since only persistent HPV infections are thought to be associated with pre-cancerous lesions, they suggest that procedures need to be developed for repeat testing to detect infections that may be transient, especially in...High good cholesterol trumps low bad cholesterol for heart protection
...ierney. This study was repeated with stroke as the outcome rather than heart disease, and the same results were the same: HDL cholesterol was a strong predictor of stroke, and the LDL cholesterol was not. Current guidelines for treating cholesterol focus only on LDL cholesterol. That's not enough: they shou...Young patients more likely to die in countries where health care is funded by private insurance
...icate that the relative lack of progress in cancer outcome among TYAs in the USA is due, at least in part to the lack of health insurance," he said. However, he warned that even in countries where there was national health insurance for all, this didn't necessarily guarantee access to good diagnosis and trea...Daughters of Indian immigrants continue trend of giving birth to small babies
...America didn't significantly improve or worsen the outcome for the Asian-Indian infants. In contrast, although infants of foreign-born Mexican-American women closely mirror white infants in weight, the infants of U.S.-born Mexican-American women didn't fare as well, despite the fact that their mothers were m...Premature baby ventilation trial cleared of causing long-term harm to participants
...und that there was no evidence of poorer long-term outcome in the CNEP group. In fact, the team found that language and visual/spatial skills were substantially higher in the CNEP group than in the standard treatment group. Professor Marlow states: "In the original study report, there were advantages to chil...St. Jude develops more affordable ALL follow-up test
...limited resources an affordable way to improve the outcome of ALL treatment for many children by reducing chemotherapy side effects. A report on this new technique appears in the March pre-publication online issue of Blood. The test measures minimal residual disease (MRD)--the small number of leukemic cells...Rodeo cowboys bounce back quicker after suffering whiplash
...show, he was explaining how Canadians have a worse outcome than those recovering from similar injuries in other countries. Since we are all anatomically built the same way, he said, the cultural expectations of injury and the way we treat them is part of the problem. One of the callers suggested looking at r...Cedars-Sinai researchers discover treatment for deadly brain tumors and infections
...he co-senior author of the study." Now through the outcome of our most recent study, we have the developed a delivery system to produce this protein and we know how it works." Through the pre-clinical trial, researchers used a viral vector to encode the Flt3 Ligand gene and deliver it safely into the brain. ...Method for avoiding sudden death
... These deaths are thus certified because the fatal outcome is unexpected. It affects apparently healthy perso...eople but who lead normal lives. In many cases the outcome itself is the first sign of the illness. Most cases have a cardiovascular origin. The cardiac rhythm...New international standards for tuberculosis care published
...nt and to report new cases of tuberculosis and the outcome of existing cases to local public health authorities. According to Dr. Hopewell, fulfilling these public health responsibilities is a big challenge for physicians practicing in the developing world. Most work in hospitals during the day and see pr...Potential prostate cancer treatment improvements discovered by researchers at Cedars-Sinai
...azer, M.D., primary author of the manuscript, "The outcome from the Phase II clinical trial merits further study in a randomized clinical trial to demonstrate the clinical benefit of this targeted therapy."...Oxford Immunotec welcomes UK NICE guideline on tuberculosis as disease incidence continues to rise
...usion of blood testing is a particularly important outcome for people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV, as well as transplant and arthritis patients. Crucially, the T-SPOT.TB test is the first reliable diagnostic tool for detecting TB infection in the immunocompromised. The 115-year-old t...Complex artery disease best treated with simple approach
...keep the artery from re-narrowing has improved the outcome of this kind of procedure, but the optimal method to treat bifurcation lesions has not been established. This study examined two ways of treating severe diseased arteries: by placing stents in both the main artery and the side branch or by stenting ...Access to antiretrovirals unlikely to reduce HIV infection rates
... but before they develop the symptoms of AIDS, the outcome on HIV prevalence depends critically on the behavi...mited amounts of antiretroviral drugs for the best outcome for their populations....Cardiac devices during hospital stays linked to better outcomes
...ad author of the presentation. "The improvement in outcome with early device placement is striking," Abraham said. "Unfortunately, many practitioners wait to consider use of these devices until after patients have been out of the hospital for some time, and most patients are unaware that they are available."...