Biopsy may underestimate prostate cancer in obese and overweight men
...between biopsies and prostate cancer also may help physicians improve patient treatment, said Freedland, who also holds an appointment in surgery at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "If we can determine through additional biopsies that an obese or overweight man has more aggressive prostate cancer,...Lung cancer screening regimen provides opportunity for cure
... early and promptly treated. It is critical that physicians and the people being screened understand the impor...kers considering CT screening should talk to their physicians and, if they decide to be screened, go to an imaging facility with a multidisciplinary team of physi...Treatment of in-hospital cardiac patients is focus of Jefferson University presentations
...ir dose increased. The researchers suggest that physicians who are caring for hospitalized chronic heart failure patients who are already on a beta blocker regimen when hospitalized, should weigh the benefits of reducing or stopping the beta blocker. Those patients whose initial inpatient beta blocker dose w...A remedy for what ails medicine
...tional need to realize the full potential of women physicians and researchers in the biomedical sciences. Everyo... Studies Research Center at Brandeis. Many women physicians and scientists believe that the current organization and culture of academic medicine disadvantages ...Who gets heart failure? Race takes back seat to diabetes and high blood pressure
...cher Hossein Bahrami, M.D., M.P.H., the message to physicians is clear, warding off heart failure in African Americans requires aggressive treatment of diabetes and hypertension. Whether through increased screening or greater emphasis on drug therapies, these are two risk factors that must be brought under con...Family members most often source of whooping cough in young infants
...ey frequently have milder cases of the disease and physicians still perceive pertussis as a childhood disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends that adults and adolescents be given a tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis booster (Tdap) in place of the tetanus-diphtheria (Td) booster t...EVEREST data on use of tolvaptan published in JAMA and featured at ACC
...e long-term outcome trial. Additionally, treating physicians could choose conventional therapies for their patients, including diuretics, digoxin, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, aldosterone blockers, -blockers, nitrates, nesiritide and/or hydralazine. "EVEREST adds to the collection of data...MRI contrast agent can detect heart attack in the making
...ight spot in heart disease research may soon allow physicians to peer directly into patients' blood vessels and ...ion by 79 percent. The new technique would allow physicians to diagnose unstable plaques before they rupture, and save lives by identifying the highest risk pat...General physicals prompt needed cancer screenings
...one recent survey found 97 percent of primary care physicians said they recommend appropriate cancer screening t...Fenton said. "These visits may afford primary care physicians the opportunity to discuss and recommend cancer screening when indicated, and physicians' recommenda...Pain control after surgery reduces days of hospitalization
...a day, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine physicians reported today during the 81st Clinical and Scientific Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Fla. Being able to decrease the time that patients spend in the hospital helps to reduce the pat...Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
...d. In other instances, he added, fa/LCI could help physicians pinpoint suspicious cells during a traditional biopsy procedure, making it less likely for a cancerous lesion to escape detection. Wax and his former graduate student John Pyhtila reported in the March 2007 issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy that ...Trans-Atlantic Healing Collaborative gets underway at DFCon 07
...ative was launched March 21, 2007, at a meeting of physicians and worldwide thought leaders in conjunction with DFCon 07 ( www.dfcon.com ), the diabetic foot global conference held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. Dr. Armstrong is co-chair of DFCon; DFCon 07 runs March 22-24. This internationa...Studies highlight 'real world' use, safety of drug-eluting stents
...City. "The only way to test drug-eluting stents as physicians really use them is to include an unselected population, just as you would find in the community." So far, the MATRIX Registry has enrolled more than 1,500 patients treated with the Cypher stent (Cordis, Johnson & Johnson), which slowly releases a co...Preventive health exams may provide opportunities for cancer screening
...ventive health examination may afford primary care physicians the opportunity to discuss and recommend cancer sc...and guide the development of interventions to help physicians make the most of preventive health examinations."...Computerized reminders boost mammography screening rates
...to manage chronic and preventive care, we can free physicians to focus on the individualized needs of their patients." ...Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms
...the nanoparticles could soon allow researchers and physicians to directly track cells used in medical treatments...used in such treatments by MRI imaging would allow physicians to monitor the treatment's success or failure. The nanoparticles called "nano" because they meas...Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
.... Recently, it has proven beneficial in assisting physicians in selecting therapies by visualizing a patient's heart metabolism. The PET and Recovery Following Revascularization (PARR-2) study looked at patients with poor left ventricular (LV) function and used PET imaging to guide therapy choices, seeking to...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ne Katrina. The network, made up mostly of family physicians and administrators, took responsibility for 3,700 ...that may aid in future disaster planning: family physicians are an invaluable asset because of their breadth of knowledge and skills, integrated health netwo...iPods help docs improve stethoscope skills
Patients rely on their physicians to recognize signs of trouble, yet for common hear...rage rate of correct heart sound identification in physicians is 40 percent. After the session, the average improved to 80 percent. Proficiency with a stethosc......ent option sunitinib malate has already become for physicians managingmetastatic renal cell carcinoma" said Dr. Robin Wiltshire Medical Director, OncologyEurope. Clinical Studies The European Commission's full marketing authorization for Sutent in January 2007 wasbased on data from a large phase III mRCC tria...