Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...bilities to stratify these patients based on their risk of invasive cancer are needed," Li and colleagues wrote. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 58,400 new cases of in situ breast cancer are expected to occur among women this year. Of these, approximately 85 percent will be DCIS. The s...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...oes not heat up heart tissue and does not pose any risk to the staff in the operating room. The injected dye lights up blood flowing through the veins and arteries in real time, an action that can be projected on a screen and saved. This new technology provides in several minutes the same informatio...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
...rld. Obesity is also associated with an increased risk of various types of cancer. Children and adolescents are becoming more and more obese and are also developing these complications. In the U.S. this has meant that the next and coming generations may be the first in modern history to be sicker and a...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...ascinating is that we found the nearly same excess risk of misdoses of placebo that we found in misdosing ...indicated an association between HRT and a lowered risk of heart attack. "However, when the randomized, scientific studies were done the opposite was proven...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
...study findings show that traditional heart disease risk factors are more strongly associated with risk of death from cardiovascular disease than newer, emerging risk factors in older people with chronic ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
..., several patient factors identified as related to risk of incorrect dosing are also markers of higher risk of death, thereby limiting inference about the cause and effect relationship of incorrect dosing and...Study shows statin use before or after stroke improves recovery
...suggest that, unless contradicted, all patients at risk for ischemic stroke or recurrent ischemic stroke should probably be treated with statins to reduce their LDL levels to 60-70mg/dl," said study author Majaz Moonis, MD, MCRPI, DM, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and director of the S...Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...th before and after a long race and examines their risk factors for developing hyponatremia. It recommends individualized fluid-replacement consumption by all competing athletes. "Researchers of the study found a surprisingly large number of runners had actually gained weight during the race and their so...Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
...wash dishes or when taking a shower. There is also risk of exposure when using triclosan laden moisturizers as they may also react with chlorine in the water," said Vikesland. Vikesland and his associates have conducted research closely mimicking conditions found when washing dishes in the home. The resul...Bugs in the gut could help doctors develop individualised healthcare
...individual, maximising efficacy while reducing the risk of an adverse reaction. According to an article published this month in Nature Reviews Microbiology the researchers believe that gut microbes, which influence both the biochemistry and immune system of the host, could play a key role in modulating ho...Smoking doubles risk of degenerative eye condition
The risk of macular degeneration increases with age and is ... up, how long ago. After taking into account other risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease, the results showed that current smo...Prenatal sonography has no effect on the intellectual capacity of the developing child
... not. "The results are reassuring in terms of the risk that routine prenatal sonography has lasting effects on the development of the foetal brain," says Ms Kieler. "It is important to remember, however, that the study reflects the effects of how ultrasound was used in the 1970s. Scanning procedures have...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
...mental health was good. This was almost double the risk of men in the same circumstances, who ran nearly a...uicide themselves. This was around three times the risk of women bereaved by suicide. Men might be less likely to seek support, or have untreated or undete...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...teroids to reduce airway inflammation and minimize risk of severe asthma attacks and airway scarring that ...e of the steroids did not significantly reduce the risk of severe attacks or prevent loss of pulmonary function," Boushey stressed. The six-city study invol...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
... those who took the drug donepezil were at reduced risk of progressing to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disea...olipoprotein E-4 (APOE-e4), the only known genetic risk factor for late-onset AD. While the overall rate of progression to AD was greater in this group, use...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...ment patients treated with donepezil had a reduced risk of progressing to Alzheimer's disease compared to ...an patients treated with vitamin E or placebo, the risk of progression to Alzheimer's disease was the same among all three treatment groups by the end of th...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
... on a personality test have a moderately increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease decades later. T...n anxious or pessimistic personality are at higher risk for developing Parkinson's disease up to several decades later," says James Bower, M.D., Mayo Clinic...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...surgical removal of both ovaries doubles a woman's risk of developing Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism...he time of the surgery, the higher her risk. "The risk is higher for women with both ovaries removed; however, it may also be somewhat increased when only ...NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
...tant task of increasing the inventory of cords, or risk slowing patient access to this vital, life-saving resource of cord blood." The NMDP is governed by an independent board with representation from cord blood banks, transplant centers, transplant medicine and patient advocacy organizations. In additio...One-meter waistline predicts high risk of diabetes and heart disease
...th a waistline of one meter or more are at serious risk of insulin resistance - an early stage in the deve...sulin resistance and to identify those at greatest risk (therefore those who would benefit most from lifestyle changes), they conclude....