New techniques ease colon cancer procedures for patients
...essfully completed in all patients, with the scope reaching the cecum in the 10 patients and the terminal ileum in nine. Although speed was not an endpoint of the study, the cecum was reached in less than six minutes in three patients. The NeoGuide colonoscope allows for standard therapies to be given durin...New treatment for food poisoning
...d for the treatment of listeriosis, in spite of it reaching the infection sites more effectively than other antibiotics. Professor Vazquez-Boland said: "Our results illustrate that antibiotic resistance in the laboratory does not always mean that the drug will not work in the infected patient. This work bring...World Hypertension League calls for urgent action to get more hypertensive patients to goal
... of the importance of high blood pressure patients reaching the internationally-recognised goal of 140/90mmHg ...ans overestimated the proportion of their patients reaching blood pressure goal. Over half believed 70% of their hypertension patients are at their blood pressu...Long-term estrogen therapy linked to breast cancer risk
...0; only women who had begun estrogen therapy after reaching age 50; and only women who were at least age 50 and had undergone a hysterectomy, even if they had not gone through menopause. "In conclusion, we found that estrogen therapy was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer with longer-term use,...Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says study
... probably decades away, the amount of UV radiation reaching Earth is likely to remain elevated for some years," she said. "People still need to take precautions when spending time in the sun." Scientific evidence indicates ozone was relatively stable over the past few thousand years, said Weatherhead. ...Medical journals should ban drug adverts, say researchers
...mes emphasize their cheap advertisement rates when reaching out to drug companies. Medical journals, say the authors, sometimes argue that drug advertisements provide doctors with valuable information about drugs and diseases. "If medical journals accepted only advertisements for drugs proven superior in co...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
...e trended down during the first half of the 1990s, reaching its lowest level in the mid-to-late 1990s. And, once again, the ICD malfunction rate increased substantially between the years of 1998 and 2002." But, he adds, this analysis showed a substantial improvement in ICD reliability in 2003 and 2004, years...Brain study considers motor function, cognition with alcohol consumption
... the impact that alcohol has on motor skills, like reaching for and manipulating objects. In other words, the researchers are learning how people process visual information in concert with motor performance while under the influence of alcohol. "We found that the brain does a pretty good job at compensating f...When the cause is right, politics and surgery sometimes mix
...the ballot in 2004, but was given little chance of reaching the two-thirds majority needed for approval. Again, advocacy initiatives focused on patient education. The message focused on the benefits to patients, highlighting the plight of uninsured patients, the threat to the area's "safety net" hospital, an...Simplified dermoscopy techniques improve detection of malignant skin lesions in primary care
...f false negatives was reduced to less than a half, reaching 2%. Therefore, the use of dermoscopy among PCPs, along with training in the three criteria in order to classify lesions, could mean a reduction of the congestion of specialized offices and a significant improvement in the fight against skin cancer. D...Creative public-health approaches needed to improve folic acid intake in women
...ndations. Three public-health strategies exist for reaching the recommended daily dose-- supplementation, fortifying foods on a voluntary basis, and fortifying a staple food on a mandatory basis. Countries should choose the policy that is best suited for their circumstances, state Monika Eichholzer (Universi...Massive German floods monitored from space
...ea, was one of the hardest-hit areas with the Elbe reaching 7.63 metres almost three times its normal level on Sunday, threatening severe damage to 16th and 17th century houses. Flooding is estimated to be the world's most costly kind of natural disaster. With inundated areas typically visible from orbit, ...Delayed aortic trauma repair may improve survival
... die from blunt thoracic aortic trauma before ever reaching a hospital, and about 50 percent of those who do make it will die within a few hours," explains Dr. Reed, a vascular surgeon. "Unfortunately even if the aorta is repaired immediately," she adds, "the patient almost always has other, equally life-th...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, April 2006
... mass index (BMI) and age, with snoring prevalence reaching its peak in women ages 50 to 59. Swedish researchers surveyed 6,817 women regarding snoring habits and potential risk factors for snoring, including BMI, smoking habits, physical activity, alcohol and medication use, and menopausal and hormonal statu...UQ research will move medicines to market more quickly
...t international concern. "The number of new drugs reaching the market has fallen over the past five years. This is due to a lack of innovation in the pathway of preclinical trials, which are required before drugs move into human trials and then to the market," she said. "The centre aims to develop new tools......t as important as the kind of thinking involved in reaching the solution, and perhaps even determines whether the solution will be derived with a sudden insight. Participants in the new study were presented with a series of word puzzles. Each problem consisted of three words (for example, tank, hill, secret...Vitamin C depletion correlates with lower body fat, not weight loss during short-term diet
...y more in the vitamin C group, approaching but not reaching statistical significance, both groups lost an average of nine pounds, indicating that vitamin C depletion did not appear to affect the ability to lose weight in the short term. But because the study supported early findings in Dr. Johnston's laborato...Cincinnati surgeons report new treatment for often-fatal injury
...n as blunt thoracic aortic trauma--die before ever reaching a hospital. The aorta is the main artery that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to be distributed throughout the body. A severe blunt thoracic accident, usually a non-penetrating "deceleration" injury, can jerk the aorta forward and back again,...March/April 2006 Annals of Family Medicine Tip Sheet
...t care responsibilities. With cesarean deliveries reaching a record high of 26 percent of all births in 2002, the authors also assert there is a need by the medical community to reassess the growing practice of cesarean deliveries. Additionally, the study finds that breastfeeding was significantly associat...Cystic fibrosis research could benefit from multi-functional sensing tool
... can lead to a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues in premature infants and newborn animals. But little is known about how oxygen stress affects regulatory networks and alters chemoreceptors. To gain insights, the Georgia Tech researchers will study ATP, which is among the signaling mole...