Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...ic for confirmed prostate cancer. The title of the paper is "Radical Prostatectomy for Clinically Advanced (cT3) Prostate Cancer Since the Advent of Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing: 15-Year Outcome." The first author is a former Mayo Clinic urology fellow, John F. Ward, M.D., Division of Urology, Naval M...Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...sease. The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment paper tells the story of a transformation within the system, says Kellogg, who is a clinical psychologist in Kreek's laboratory "We are hoping this study, which describes the experience of using contingency management from the vantage point of each group o...Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
...ared to lean animals, Beck said. Co-authors of the paper were medical student Patricia Sheridan and Dr. Joyce Harp, associate professor of nutrition in the schools of medicine and public health....Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...ental Biology conference in San Diego, Calif. The paper is titled, "Maternal Iron Deficiency Impacts Mother-Child Interaction." The authors are Murray-Kolb; Dr. John L. Beard, professor of nutritional sciences; Dr. Rick O. Gilmore, associate professor of psychology; Dr. Douglas Teti, professor of human de...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
A paper in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how two tobacco companies attempted to influence plans to privatise the state-owned tobacco industry in Moldova. Moldova, a small, agriculturally dependent state of 4.3 million people is Europe's poorest ...New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...to choose to undergo testing for lung cancer." The paper is authored by physicians from Rhode Island Hospit...mize surgeries on patients with benign tumors, the paper notes. "There have been major improvements in the methods used for finding lung cancer over the past...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...ivatives are used as flameretardants in adhesives, paper and textiles....ARVO annual meeting features over 6,000 presentations
...nology. The Annual Meeting will include over 6,000 paper and poster presentations. In addition, special recognition awards will be presented during the five-day meeting including: The Proctor Medal The Cogan Award The Friedenwald Award The Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology Th...Bugs in the gut could help doctors develop individualised healthcare
...from Imperial College London, and an author of the paper comments: "The discovery that these gut microbes p...Ian Wilson, from AstraZeneca, and an author of the paper adds: "This growing realisation that the gut microflora may have effects that cannot be predicted fr...Smart plastics change shape with light
... open. What about staples that open on command, or paper clips that relax as soon as you don't need them an...essor Robert Langer of MIT. Langer co-authored the paper with Andreas Lendlein, Hongyan Jiang, and Oliver Jnger. Lendlein, a former MIT visiting scientist, i...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
...Institutes of Health (NIH). The researchers, whose paper is published online today in Science Express, identified two cellular enzymes Ebola virus must have to reproduce. When those enzymes are blocked, the virus loses most of its infectivity, the scientists found. Ebola virus, like the Marburg virus now a...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...layed by microbes in human health and disease. The paper by Eckburg and Relman is intended as the first of several studies looking at how microbial communities vary according to host, diet, geography, disease and other variables. To distinguish individual bacteria among the hundreds of types in the samples...Adolescent health ill-catered for in the NHS
...the health needs of young people in the UK, says a paper in the BMJ this week. While the health of children and older people has improved considerably, young people have fallen through the gap in targeted services, argues Dr Russell Viner, the UK's only consultant in adolescent medicine. Mortality rates fo...Can hospital data detect poor performing doctors?
...ividual cardiac consultants have been published. A paper published online by the BMJ today extends this theme to more general measures of clinical quality where death may not be the outcome. The authors investigated whether routinely collected data from hospital episode statistics could be used to identify...Prostate cancer therapy - study suggests new molecular screening theory
... says Dr. Marne Landstrm, the senior author of the paper published in the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry. "We found that 2-ME works through a protein called Smad7, and that artificially lowering the amount of Smad7 in prostate cancer cells reduced 2-ME's ability to cause cell death. This findi...Alternate view for pathology of AD
A new paper from researchers at the Case Western Reserve Unive...ey are a protective response to the disease. Their paper appears in the April issue of the journal Trends in Molecular Medicine . The tangles, called neurof...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
... lives." Lesley Lowes and her team hope that their paper will help health professionals understand the emotional trauma faced by parents and the support they need to cope with the challenges posed by their child's illness. "Twelve months after diagnosis, many parents continued to be aware of their loss, wh...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
...east expensive." Owens is the senior author of the paper in the April 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. As he and his co-authors note, their findings highlight "the critical need for distribution systems that can provide prophylaxis and vaccination rapidly for hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
...d secure?" The experiments described in the Neuron paper do exactly that. Michael Rogan trained mice to recognize that they were safe from danger (mild electrical shocks) when they heard a particular sound. He then recorded what happened in the mice brains before and after they heard the safety sound. As e......erapy. None currently exist, but a newly published paper by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis points to a promising treatment. This research, published today online by Nature Medicine, was funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the Natio...