Less cognitive impairment seen in women taking drug for osteoporosis
...ing cognitive impairment. The 5,386 women who were screened for dementia completed the 15-item Geriatric Depression scale and six cognitive tests at the beginning of the trial and once a year during the trial. Their scores at the end were compared to their baseline scores, and women suspected of cognitive imp...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
...icate that women with PCOS should automatically be screened for the metabolic syndrome, to prevent the risk of early-onset cardiovascular disease." After reviewing medical charts for 161 women, study investigators identified 106 women (46 women with PCOS and the metabolic syndrome; 60 women with PCOS alone) f...Controversy in dyslipidemia guidelines
...o are at low risk of coronary artery disease being screened and prescribed statin therapy, which will increase cost for little overall benefit. Jacques Genest and colleagues, members of the Working Group on Hypercholesterolemia and Other Dyslipidemias, comment on the data used by Manuel and colleagues and qu...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...neering at Washington University in St. Louis, has screened a large number of molecules to find which ones have varying affinity, or attraction, to a sugar that binds nerve repair drugs called heparin, as well as a nerve repair protein called nerve growth factor. Sakiyama-Elbert ran a library of viru...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...millions of women who are already infected must be screened and treated. If there is widespread resistance to vaccination, it will take even longer for its benefits to become clear. Vaccines are producing good results in clinical trials, and the first could be licensed as early as next year. GlaxoSmithKline ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (second issue)
...ctive treatment for the disease. The investigators screened 14 cytokines/chemokines (immunoregulatory proteins) in the blood of 23 patients with SARS and 25 non-SARS patients with atypical pneumonia. The SARS patients were separated into 4 groups, according the disease's course: early stage---2 days after on...Genetic screening for iron blood disorder feasible in the workplace
...800 adults, in their workplaces in Australia. They screened the samples for the HFE mutation and identified 47 participants who had two copies of the mutation and 1338 individuals who had one copy of the mutation. 46 of the 47 newly identified carriers took steps to prevent or treat iron accumulation. Almost ...Abnormal liver tests in a Mediterranean population
...a random sample of residents 12 years or older and screened 1645 participants for abnormal liver values, antig...d body mass index. More than 12 percent of those screened had abnormal liver values, with prevalence increasing with age. The age-trend was mainly due to chro...New guidelines recommend screening HIV-infected patients for kidney disease
...fection. All patients diagnosed with HIV should be screened for proteinuria and kidney function. "One of the major goals of the guidelines is to say we need to be doing screening for patients at higher risk, and if these patients are at higher risk for conditions like HIVAN, then perhaps we should be treating...Study of iron overload yields surprising results
... that will help policymakers decide whom should be screened for hemochromatosis and iron overload, when should they be screened, and what screening methods should be used. At the start of the study in 1999, it was known that most cases of hemochromatosis in Caucasians result from a mutation in the hemochromot...Internet program launched to prevent blindness in diabetic patients
...ents with diabetes. "Medicaid patients are rarely screened and are at risk of becoming blind," said Ramon Velez, M.D., M. Sc., the principal investigator. Diabetes is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States and Velez said the study will determine if early referral to ophthalmologists ...Misunderstanding real cost a barrier to mammography
...r Society recommends all women age 40 and over get screened annually, mammography remains underutilized, especially among poor and minority women. Studies show that nationwide, roughly 25 percent of the women who should be getting mammography have not had an exam in the past two years, and nearly 40 percent o...Procedure setting, technique and cost are key for effective colorectal cancer screening
... recommend that anyone over the age of 50 years be screened for colorectal cancer (CRC) using one of the stand...y pre-cancerous polyps--was 25.2 percent among the screened subjects. The investigators noted lower than average polyp detection rates among clinicians with sh...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...fe." The study also shows that newborns should be screened for Krabbe's disease, Kurtzberg said. In current practice, they are not. Dr. Mel Levine, director of UNC's Clinical Center for the Study of Development & Learning, said Escolar and her colleagues are breaking new ground in uncovering the inborn lesio...Visual screening could prevent 37,000 deaths from mouth cancer worldwide
...firmation of mouth cancer. Over 87,600 people were screened at least once, over 53,300 twice, and over 29,100 three times. Of 5145 positive screens, 3218 complied with referral. Among these, 835 had benign lesions, 2,252 were diagnosed with oral pre-cancers, and 131 with invasive oral cancer. Follow-up reveal...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
Heart patients should be screened for psychological distress and, if necessary, referred for help from mental health professionals, according to the authors of research published (Thursday 9 June) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal[1]. The recommendati...Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...5 who are also sexually active should be regularly screened for Chlamydia. The pilot study was launched in Baltimore, Md., in part because of the city's high prevalence of STDs. In 2003, the last year for which statistics are available, Baltimore had the sixth highest incidence (reported new cases per year...New data show low testosterone more likely in men with diabetes
... Diego. Results of this multi-center study, which screened more than 2,000 men, also found sexual dysfunction...adism in men. Physicians at 95 sites in 26 states screened 2,162 men (mean age = 60.5) for low T and diabetes. Hypogonadism was defined as total testosterone ...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...nts with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes should be screened for retinopathy," said Emily Chew, M.D., of the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which funded the study. "We advise good control of blood glucose, blood p...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
... change imaging protocols so that a patient can be screened for medical conditions from head to toe, such as cancer. Kathleen Kiske, 50, is one of the patients in the initial clinical studies. Diagnosed with melanoma in her torso, the south St. Louis County resident underwent chemotherapy, radiation therapy ...