Heat therapy for cancer may be key to 'Lance Armstrong Effect'
...at affects the scaffolding and might be one of the reasons treatment can cure tumors such as Lance Armstrong's." Support for the theory came from an unrelated study by researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of men with undescended testes, a fairly common birth defect in which the genitals ...Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
...emaker, Dr. Ruiz-Arango says. That's one of many reasons why when patients have heart rate problems, doctors struggle with the best treatment approach, often opting for the least-invasive options. Transvenous pacemakers can increase infection risk in already-compromised patients. Also gaining adequate ac...Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision
...roperty of not having blood vessels, but the exact reasons for this had remained unknown. These results, published in the July 25, 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in the July 17 online edition, not only solve a profound scientific mystery, but also hold great promise f...Women still get lower-quality heart attack care than men, despite hospital improvement efforts
... under which the study was performed. While the reasons behind the persistent differences are unclear, Eagle and his colleagues speculate that it may have something to do with the fact that women heart attack patients tend to be older, and as a result doctors may not feel that women patients can derive as...Medication use linked to farmers' injuries
...Researchers were able to identify several possible reasons for this, said Dr. Don Voaklander, one of the study's authors and a professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Queens University also worked on the study. "The first is that pain, unmasked when they stop u......eatening liver disease, especially in infants, for reasons that have been unknown. Many infants who develop this complication die within a year of diagnosis, unless they can be weaned off PN or receive a liver/small intestine transplant. In the July issue of Pediatrics, researchers at Children's Hospital Bo...Highlights from the July 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
... suggests that calcium supplements taken for other reasons (e.g., prevention of osteoporosis) may have a small beneficial influence on reducing weight gain, particularly among women approaching midlife." Education Level May Determine Sources of Nutrition Information for Older Adults Less-educated older ...Taking medicine regularly (even placebo) is good for you
...t of participants with poor adherence. Possible reasons for this effect are that participants with good adherence to study drugs (even placebo) may also have good adherence to other healthy behaviours, which could independently affect the risk of mortality, explain the authors. Conversely, participants wi...Oral conditions, dental caries worldwide
.... (Australia) Caries and its effects are the main reasons for tooth extraction in underprivileged adolescents, and greatly improved preventive efforts are required. (Bangladesh) Dentists can play a critical role in the early identification of high-risk oral cancer lesions, but they need increased education...Estrogen plays different role during stress in black and white teens
...ilator. Estrogen is believed to be one of the main reasons women have lower rates of heart disease than men until after menopause, says Martha Castles, research manager, who is presenting the research. "We are now thinking that when black girls are under stress, they are losing all the protective effects of...More effort needed to prevent human rights abuses
...ough, writes Professor Luis Justo. One of the main reasons for reopening the discussion about the duties of health workers in the "war on terror" and its ethical implications is the existence of the so called biscuit teams (behavioural science consultation teams or BSCT). These teams operate in US military p...Reduced antibiotic prescribing is associated with increased hospital admissions
...cal University of South Carolina. "There are good reasons to focus on reducing antibiotic resistance in the community; however, the focus needs to be on encouraging the judicious and appropriate use of antibiotic prescriptions and not a blanket limit on the use of antibiotics. "The increase in hospital adm...Stalking poses serious public health problem
... stalked than whites, data showed. Basile said the reasons aren't clear, but that there may be differences in how people report stalking. "Stalking continues to be a public health problem at a magnitude comparable to that measured in 1995 to 1996 [in the National Violence Against Women study]," the new stud...Older women have far fewer mammograms than they report
...en. The study was not designed to illuminate the reasons for the gap between actual mammograms received and self-reported data -- only to measure it. But Kagay surmises that several factors may be at play. "Some respondents may misremember a screening mammogram from, for example, three years ago as having...Simple strategies to reduce lab test requests could save time, money, & unnecessary treatment of PTs
...and 2004. While there are many potential justified reasons for this rise, evidence suggests that unnecessary ordering of tests could also be contributing to the increase. Unnecessary tests waste resources and time, and could lead to unnecessary investigation and treatment of healthy individuals with false-po...Pancreatic cancer surgery can help those over 80, Jefferson surgeons find
...er age 80 doesn't make much sense, there have been reasons not to operate on these individuals. "The take home message is, if an experienced group of surgeons safely perform the right operation, the patient likely will do fine," Dr. Yeo says. "Patients usually can leave the hospital in a week and can be on a...Patients with history of cancer at increased risk for acquiring and dying from sepsis
...o combat the underlying malignancy are some of the reasons for patients' increased susceptibility to sepsis. Dr. Martin says that although sepsis can occur in anyone, there are certain factors that make sepsis more likely. "People of older age are more likely to develop sepsis, and certain co-morbid medical ...US suicide rates fell as fluoxetine prescriptions increased
...cation caused the fall. There may have been other reasons why the suicide rate declined. Nevertheless, they argue that their findings are helpful in shedding light on the ongoing debate about whether fluoxetine (and other "SSRI antidepressants") might trigger an increase in suicide. "Although the current...Organ transplants just as successful in those with mental retardation
...rejection, according to Martens. "One of the main reasons for organ failure is that patients may not take their immunosuppressant medications as regularly as they should," she said. "But we don't see that with the MR population, probably because they have caregivers who are making sure they follow their in...There's no modern substitute for some old-fashioned one-on-one
... made an impression on me and he's one of the main reasons I'm a pediatric surgeon today."...