Top anti-arthritis drugs cause skin disease
...-2 inhibitors family, when it was revealed that it poses a significant risk of heart attack and stroke. Similar findings were reported for other cox-2 inhibitors, although they are still on the market. This study shows that another family of anti-arthritis drugs, Tumour Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-alpha) bl...Risk of womb cancer varies according to the type of HRT used
... more common than endometrial cancer, combined HRT poses the greatest overall cancer risk." In an accompanying comment Louise Brinton and colleagues (National Cancer Institute, Maryland, USA) state: "The important clinical question is how hormones can be prescribed in a fashion that will allow women to rec...Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...for transplantation, the authors note that it also poses some risk to an otherwise healthy donor. Therefore...ents of retransplantation with LDLT. Although LDLT poses risk to the donor, it is, as practiced, a valuable technique in pediatric transplantation to help ov...Italian law on ART brings problems for doctors and patients
...w." Although new embryos cannot be frozen, the law poses problems for those which were frozen before it came into force. "What will happen to these embryos?" asked Dr. Cattoli. Commenting on the result of last week's Italian referendum, after which the law on assisted reproduction will stand because of a...Weight-loss surgery produces unexpected drop in heart disease risk, Stanford researchers find
...ng to the bariatric surgery society. The procedure poses about a 2 percent risk of mortality and requires lifelong changes in eating habits - but it's a life-saving operation for most morbidly obese individuals, Morton said. "This operation is reserved for morbidly obese people, not the pleasantly plump,"......reus or MRSA, has reached epidemic proportions and poses a major threat to the public health. The UCSD team proved for the first time that the golden pigment that coats the surface of Staph is not just for decoration; rather, the molecules that give the bacteria its golden hue also help it resist killing ...National Academies news: Coeur d'Alene Superfund site
.... EPA correctly concludes that environmental lead poses health risks to some basin residents, the report says. The agency's finding that lead in the environment -- as opposed to lead in house paint -- is the main source of children's health risk from lead also was warranted, and EPA's emphasis on cleanin...Study warns against global use of old asthma medicines for kids' coughs
...orman says. Given the challenges chronic coughing poses for children, Chang and colleagues say methylxanthines should be considered as a potential treatment, but only after more research and only with careful awareness of its side effects. "Knowledge is always desirable," Gorman notes. "While methylxanth...Only 51 per cent of hospital staff followed hand washing guidelines before hygiene campaign
... cent to 96 per cent. "Hospital acquired infection poses a very real and serious threat to all who are admitted to hospital" says Sile Creedon. "Pathogens are readily transmitted on health care workers' hands and hand hygiene substantially reduces this transmission." The research also looked at how hand ...Poland loses record numbers of doctors to the UK
...pharmaceutical industry. The career structure also poses problems, effectively preventing many doctors from specialising - leaving them no choice but to leave Poland if they want to gain expertise in a chosen area. The lack of new diagnostic technologies and treatments also spurs doctors to seek opportuni...MR spectroscopy helps identify cancerous breast tumors
...seases. Generally used for the brain, spectroscopy poses no known health risk to patients and typically adds only seven to 10 minutes to the MR procedure. For the study, four radiologists evaluated 55 breast MR imaging cases that had findings confirmed through earlier biopsies. The evaluations were do...Robotic technique shows promise in weight-loss surgery, Stanford study finds
...rican Society for Bariatric Surgery. The procedure poses about a 2 percent risk of mortality and requires lifelong changes in eating habits. But for many morbidly obese individuals, the operation is life-saving. Gastric bypass procedures are notorious among surgeons for being technically complicated and di...GlaxoSmithKline announces FDA approval of Fluarix
...nd older. Influenza can reach epidemic levels and poses a significant threat to public health, particularly among the nation's oldest and youngest citizens. Influenza vaccination is the primary method for preventing influenza and its severe complications. Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, said...Largest ever Asian smoking study reveals cardiovascular health risks
...ians and 100,000 Australasians, shows that smoking poses the same risks to Asian men (and an even greater risk to Asian women) as compared to Western populations. The study also makes clear that there are real benefits to be gained, in terms of huge numbers of lives to be saved, by effectively implementin...Air pollution found to pose greater danger to health than earlier thought
...er Los Angeles' tailpipe-emission-driven pollution poses a greater danger than that in the eastern United States, where power plants and factories contribute more heavily to pollution. They also plan to better understand pollution's effects on diabetes, and will use more specific measures to assess polluti...Biomarkers used to predict recurrent disease in hepatitis C transplant patients
...is not highly effective in transplant patients and poses additional problems for these individuals, who may have difficulty tolerating the potent drugs it involves. However, antiviral therapy might be useful for those patients likely to develop fibrosis, if they could somehow be identified. Hepatic stellat...Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions
...Asian religious institutions said they believe HIV poses only a minimal risk for the Asian community, Chin and colleagues found, and most respondents said that HIV prevalence was relatively low or nonexistent in their respective communities. Others felt the community would be too uncomfortable discussing H...Five questions that need to be addressed at international flu meeting
...ge parts of the world. This vacuum in surveillance poses the most serious risk to human health. 3) How to tackle the intellectual property rights for antiviral drugs? Ramping up production of the antivirals, oseltamivir and zanamavir, is an urgent priority. 4) How to administer antivirals? The efficacy of ...Adolescents who watch smoking in movies are more likely to try smoking
...ke parents aware of the risks a movie with smoking poses to the adolescent viewer, and include an antismoking preview on all DVD movies that depict smoking. "Those measures have a minimal cost to the movie industry," said Sargent. Co-authors of the study, in addition to Sargent and Titus-Ernstoff, are Mad...ANA encourages nurses and health care workers to get vaccinated against flu
...nd older. Influenza can reach epidemic levels and poses a significant threat to public health, particularly among the nation's oldest and youngest citizens. Vaccination is the primary method for preventing influenza and its severe complications. Additional Survey Findings Nearly all registered nurses s...