UCI receives major grant to develop 'gene signature' for prostate cancer prognosis
...ent. As part of the study, Mercola will organize a prospective clinical trial at UCI. "We are aiming to meet a critical unmet need in prostate cancer treatment," Mercola said. "Up to 30 percent of men with prostate cancer do not need radical treatments like radiation or surgery, and this test will allow us to de...Drinking tea associated with lower risk of ovarian cancer
...f ovarian cancer," the authors conclude. "Because prospective data on this relationship are scarce, our findings need confirmation by future studies."...Debilitating jaw and neck pain targeted through $19 million NIH support, multidisciplinary center
...ct, which is the nation's first large multi-center prospective study on pain, Maixner said. Researchers expect that several hundred volunteers will develop TMJD during that time. Those patients will be further evaluated genetically, medically and psychologically to identify factors contributing to their pain and...Moderate to severe sleep-disordered breathing can lead to stroke
... 53. "Our longitudinal analysis provides the first prospective evidence that sleep-disordered breathing after adjustment for age and sex is related to significantly increased odds of suffering a stroke over the next 4 years," said Dr. Bradley. "Although our analysis cannot shed light on the pathway by which sle...Coffee and tea can reduce the risk of chronic liver disease
... iron overload. This is the first study to take a prospective look at the relationship between coffee and tea consumption and chronic liver disease in the general U.S. population. "While it is too soon to encourage patients to increase their coffee and tea intake, the findings of our study potentially offer p...Large-scale study proves volunteer operated defibrillators are life-savers
...torical cohort of 692 acted as comparisons for the prospective study, which involved 702 similar patients between... found that three out of a hundred patients in the prospective study survived to one year without any neurological problems, compared with under one out of a hundr...Increasing role of acetaminophen in acute liver failure in the United States
...xamine this hypothesis the researchers conducted a prospective study of patients presenting with acute liver disease to any of 22 academic centers participating in the Acute Liver Failure Study Group. Of 662 consecutive patients over a six-year period between 1998 and 2003, 275 had acetaminophen-related acute li...Emergency bypass surgery on angioplasty patients drops 90 percent
... of registry data from the Mayo Clinic only, not a prospective trial at multiple institutions, although Dr. Singh noted that the registry is very large. In an editorial in the journal, John A. Bittl, M.D., F.A.C.C., from the Ocala Heart Institute, Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida, said that while...Thyroid condition associated with increased heart failure risk among older adults
...total mortality," they continue. "Because no other prospective study has assessed the risk of CHF events in subje...ge, our results should be confirmed in other large prospective studies, including those in younger populations," the authors conclude. "Further investigation is a...Inflammatory markers may help predict stroke risk in middle-aged people
...dent ischemic stroke. The researchers conducted a prospective case-cohort study of 12,762 apparently healthy middle-aged men and women in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, who were observed for about six years. The final sample size for the analysis was 960, including 194 ischemic stroke ca...Depressed heart patients skip medications, have elevated stress hormones
...he Heart and Soul Study, an ongoing, multi-center, prospective cohort study of psychosocial factors and health outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease that is in its fifth year. The study is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs Epidemiology Program, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the...Older women who receive pelvic irradiation for cancer have increased risk for pelvic fracture
...prevention. Such strategies should be evaluated in prospective studies. In addition, changes in irradiation techniques for high-risk individuals to minimize the irradiation dose received by bone should be investigated."...Pitt reports re-opening of carotid arteries in stroke has high success rate with stenting
...nts who may need more aggressive treatment. Future prospective studies are necessary to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from this form of therapy." Dr. Jovin added that early restoration of flow in the occluded ICA may improve the symptoms of acute stroke, prevent worsening and reduce long-te...Multiple-birth babies, boys have higher risk of defects
...milar mothers, Tang said. This information allows prospective parents, especially those considering fertility treatments that will increase their odds of having multiple children, to make more informed choices, said Michael Resnick, Ed.D., a pediatrics professor and a co-author of the study. Informed decisions...International multi-center study confirms value of blood test to diagnose heart failure
... from the MGH published the PRIDE study, the first prospective American trial measuring NT-proBNP in patients co... was the same for all age groups. Analysis of the prospective value of NT-proBNP testing showed that patients who died within a little more than two months after ...Drinking decaffeinated coffee may be harmful to heart health
... now, researchers had not reported on a randomized prospective study looking at the mechanism of how a particular kind of coffee consumption increases ApoB and LDL-cholesterol. "There is a real difference between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee and, contrary to what people have thought for many years, I be...Statins reduce the risk of stroke and death after carotid artery surgery
...results in stroke. "We now have several randomized prospective trials of patients with significant carotid artery disease that have shown that among patients who are either treated medically or undergo carotid surgery, the long-term stroke risk is significantly reduced among patients who underwent successful car...Mayo Clinic finds chronic cough patients report a miserable existence
...s condition and to serve them better. In a 12-week prospective study, the researchers surveyed 146 consecutive chronic cough patients about how chronic cough affects them. Patients completed a questionnaire about cough-related difficulties and sufferings prior to medical evaluation and again six months later. Of...Iressa does not improve survival for patients with the most common form of lung cancer
...ng cancer but, it will now be important to conduct prospective studies to identify and validate the molecular markers which predict for their maximal effect" (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published comment)...Measuring certain enzyme activity in urine shows promise for detection of bladder cancer
...ma, in particular for high-risk subgroups. Further prospective studies on larger patient populations are needed to assess the promising diagnostic role of urinary telomerase and to define the ability of this assay to detect low-grade tumors and disease recurrence before it becomes clinically evident, which is es...