Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...rder to benefit other people. But egg donors don't quite fit this mold either, the authors note. Research subjects get some benefit from their participation whereas egg donors never get anything in return for their risk - stem cell research has yet to medically benefit a single person. What's more, when re...New MRI techniques may help patients avoid knee surgery
...autions that MR isotropic imaging is new and isn't quite ready to replace standard MR knee imaging. However, he is hopeful it could eventually supersede current knee imaging techniques. Meniscal tears and other knee injuries are commonly seen in all types of patients, Dr. Magee said. Dr. Magee will pres...Moderate to severe sleep apnea significantly raises stroke risk, study finds
... for people with moderate to severe sleep apnea is quite significant-double the risk of other well-known risk factors for stroke, such as hypertension or diabetes," said senior researcher Douglas Bradley, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology at the......diately after 9/11, but the percentages were still quite small (under 5 percent). On average people still preferred lower density neighborhoods,, but characteristics such as school quality became somewhat more important. But what was most striking was the much greater importance put on neighborhood safet...High blood pressure causes pathological scars in the heart
...h groups to the hypothesis that not everything was quite right with the idea that hypertrophy of the cardiac muscle was the answer to high blood pressure. They also believed that, masked by the hypertrophy, they might find decisive alterations which, in the long term, might suggest a prognosis of high bloo...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
... create such a range of interpretation that no one quite knows how to handle it. While we've been able to work with our legal office to make sure we're protecting privacy, other institutions may interpret the same law so strictly as to paralyze outcomes and quality research." In all, Eagle and his colleag...New haptics systems challenge stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze their way to recovery
...titutes of Health (NIH), the team has come up with quite an assortment of new applications. Some are designed to make stroke survivors stack, push or pour liquid out of three-dimensional objects in immersive environments, while other tasks force them to pick up objects and move them through cyberspace cor...New complicated grief treatment holds promise for millions, Pitt researchers report
...comparing treatments for complicated grief, we are quite pleased with the results," Dr. Shear explained. "Nevertheless, further study will enable us to help more of those who did not respond to treatment. The information that we obtained in doing this research will help the medical and bereavement support ...Most heart failure cases are discovered after patients are admitted to hospital
...een the two groups primary vs. secondary CHF are quite significant, said Amy Durtschi, a study co-author and a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy at Ohio State . On average, people with a diagnosis of secondary CHF stayed in the hospital about three days longer (9.5 days vs. 6.4 days) and their to...Diabetes knowledge has little effect on improving outcomes
...n measurements of glycemic control. "We found this quite interesting, since these patients had been hospitalized and recovered from a life-altering event, yet there was no difference between the groups in terms of glycemic control." In terms of mortality, the high-scoring group had a 6-month mortality rate...College students think favorably, but act timidly about organ donation
...ly to be potential donors. "The study was quite exploratory and descriptive," said Feeley, an asso...ntentions outright, but we did. What we found was quite provocative." The study involved a convenience sample of 271 students from UB and 231 stud...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
...urvey found that in the U.S., mental disorders are quite common; 26 percent of the general population reported that they had symptoms sufficient for diagnosing a mental disorder during the past 12 months. However, many of these cases are mild or will resolve without formal interventions. It is likely,...True cancer-causing genes revealed by new technique, say Stanford researchers
...ers. And although mice can develop melanoma, it is quite different thanthe human disease and is also not an ideal way of studying human cancer. Chudnovsky said that tricking the human cells to grow on mice was no smallfeat. "Normally the changes leading to cancer take 60 or so years todevelop. We telescope...Delaying radiation for prostate cancer does not affect outcome
...chytherapy. Treatment delays of several months are quite common for men diagnosed with prostate cancer and can cause patients concern and anxiety. While radiation treatment delays in other cancers are associated with increased mortality, little is known about the effect of delaying treatment on the outcome...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for June 2005 (second issue)
...n. The survival rates for early stage disease are quite high, approaching 80 percent in some series. However, the overall survival rates at 5 years are approximately 15 percent. At the start of the study, all patients who participated were characterized as high risk for lung cancer. Their mean age was 5...New research evidence on anger in children and adults
...m anger is an occasional experience and therefore quite normal and those for whom it is more persistent. In ESRC's new report Seven Deadly Sins, published to launch Social Science Week 2005, Dr Eirini Flouri and Professor Heather Joshi analyse data from the British birth cohort studies, which have recor...Stem cells grown in lab mirror normal developmental steps
...e blood cells for further investigation. "We were quite surprised to find that these steps proceeded spontaneously, without the need for stimulation by growth factors or other chemicals," says Zambidis. "It's likely that the same method of picking out certain kinds of cells could be used to study processe...Cancer researcher Susan Horwitz wins Alpert prize for Taxol work
...ping patients. The impact of Susan's work has been quite extraordinary in the cancer field," said Professor Dominick Purpura, MD, Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who nominated Dr. Horwitz for the prize. In fact, earlier this year, shortly after Dr. Horwitz was selected as winner of the prize, ...Conservative surgery preserves fertility in women with borderline ovarian tumours
... the recurrence rate with conservative surgery was quite high at 16.6% over an average 70-month period. "But we would recommend conservative surgery for younger women with unilateral BOT", said Dr. Poncelet. "Our data underlines the fact that it is an adequate option for these women, particularly if the......g therapy is ineffective. "Essential tremor can be quite debilitating and cause embarrassment in social situations. For instance, in a restaurant the person may have difficulty eating when they try to pick up a fork or spoon and bring food to their mouths," said lead guideline author Theresa Zesiewicz, MD,...