Task force recommends greater use of exercise testing in chronic disease
...ld be considering it as a diagnostic tool. It does require expensive equipment and trained staff, but our review showed that the benefits for a large number of patients suffering from chronic conditions can be considerable." One of the biggest problems for people suffering from chronic heart and lung disea...Aspirin reduces esophageal-cancer risk in people with most-aggressive form of Barrett's esophagus
... may help us identify high-risk patients who truly require frequent surveillance and low-risk patients who need no or less-frequent surveillance. For example, low-risk patients with no biomarker abnormalities at baseline had a zero percent cumulative risk of developing esophageal cancer for nearly eight year...USC-led study suggests exercise reduces risk of developing invasive breast cancer
...nuous forms of exercise activity. However, it may require substantial commitment of time to achieve this lower risk," concludes Bernstein. "This study showed that risk was lower for women who exercised at least 5 hours per week and our prior studies of other groups of women have suggested a minimum of 3-4 h...African scientists will train at Emory University in latest drug discovery techniques
...oping to develop anti-tuberculosis drugs that will require only two-week regimens. ...Multiple low-energy plasma skin treatments may help diminish facial wrinkles
... or wrinkle reductions, which may be effective but require a week or more for healing. Melissa A. Bogle, M.D., then at SkinCare Physicians, Chestnut Hill, Mass., and now at the Laser and Cosmetic Surgery Center of Houston, and colleagues gave three full-face, low-energy treatments to eight volunteers every...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...very high-risk women with heart disease (which may require a combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs). SEE ALSO NEWS TIPS From the women's focus issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association FOR RELEASE: 4 p.m. EST, Feb. 19, 2007 Age, not disparity in care, determines a woman'...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Feb. 20, 2007, issue
... followed by a colonoscopy. The I-FOBT does not require dietary restrictions as does the guaiac-based FOBT. An editorial writer says that I-FOBT is a potentially important test for colorectal cancer screening (Editorial, p. 309). It is a better test than guaiac-based FOBT for detecting occult bleeding a...Custom-made cancer cell attacks
...15 to 19. Individual therapy means patients will require fewer radiation doses and treatment sessions, says Ruth, who is director of the TRIUMF PET (Positron Emission Tomography) program at the University of British Columbia. And the patient isnt the only one who benefits. Doctors do not have to spend as m...MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...nstorm and test challenge ideas that he said would require clever problem solving, ingenuity, and some classic mess-making. Ball hopes that through this program, kids will be empowered to explore and embrace the elements of engineering that surround them each day. Program Expands to Recognize Other Except...Physicists set 'speed limit' for future superconducting magnet
...dream would be to have powerful magnets that don't require helium for cooling. Some day new materials might be discovered where this restriction is lifted, but it isn't possible at the present time." A superconductor, when cooled to its appropriate temperature, conducts electricity without any resistance....First-degree fetal heart block may be reversible
...s a 20 percent death rate and nearly all survivors require pacemakers. Joshua Copel, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale helped conduct the PR Interval and Dexamethasone Evaluation (PRIDE) study with a team of other researchers to evaluate an early mark......l methods for the production of such tiny capsules require preorganized structures or "molds" to shape hollow spheres and most methods require a lengthy, tedious synthetic or purification procedure. Korean researchers led by Kimoon Kim have no...Remote device allows cardiologist to monitor patients daily at their homes
... closely. The same information that would normally require a visit to the office every few months can now be downloaded to the physician at anytime without the patient ever leaving home," said Dr. Kousik Krishnan, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Rush. According to Krishnan, the LATITUDE system provides ad...Effectiveness of over-the-counter decongestant questioned in new study
...tive than placebo and suggests that the FDA should require additional studies to prove the drug's safety and efficacy. Dr. Leslie Hendeles, one of the study's authors, appeared on today's broadcast of Good Morning America to discuss the efficacy of OTC decongestants. The reviewed studies contained objectiv...Researchers: Few heart disease trials reporting sex-specific results
...ired inclusion of women and minorities but did not require reporting the data. The authors of the Proceedings..., and when journal editors and reviewers uniformly require such analysis." Physicians have gained important information that has improved patient care throug...New hope for septic shock patients
...ience acute kidney failure during septic shock can require dialysis for up to two weeks, which costs the national health budget $50 million annually. Nephrodynamicss research has focused on treating kidney failure during and after septic shock, but the drug it is developing could eventually treat other cau...Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
...ily seen by parents and by doctors and that didn't require any special laboratory or equipment to make this sort of prediction." Also involved in the study were Dr. Zora Rogers, associate professor of pediatrics; Dr. George Buchanan, professor of pediatrics and director of the Southwestern Comprehensive S...Dogs may be responding to psychological seizures, not epilepsy seizures
...," Krauss said. "People with nonepileptic seizures require psychiatric evaluation and behavior therapy. This study demonstrates the importance of establishing an accurate diagnosis of epilepsy before obtaining a seizure response dog." Study author Michael J. Doherty, MD, of the Swedish Epilepsy Center in Se...Research ethics committees in Africa report inadequate funding, staffing and training
...submitting articles to international journals that require the approval of a local research ethics committee ... international funders, aid agencies, and journals require it. "Research ethics committees are expensive, so some countries will not create them until they ...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...g to the paper. XDR-TB diagnoses to date (which require specialized laboratory facilities) "likely represe...SA). "Containing XDR-TB and selected MDR-TB will require an interdisciplinary approach and the synergistic cooperation of all organs of the state, including,...