Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...y detection, pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and seldom is detected in its early stages. The new technique could lead to the first screening method for pancreatic cancer in asymptomatic patients, said Vadim Backman, developer of the technology and professor of biomedical engineering at Northwesterns Rober...Screening for behavioral health first step to getting treatment
Waltham, MA Health plans seldom require screening for substance abuse and mental health in primary care even though it can improve detection, according to a new Brandeis University study published in the July issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. This may be a missed o...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
...g. causes with strong social objectives), "bankers seldom lend for an unfamiliar product," according to Mr. Usher. "Solar Home Systems were unfamiliar gambles. The Indian Loan Programme used a competitive market development model to help banks enter the sector, remove information and perception barriers wh...How plastic is your brain? UH engineer seeks answers
...overies, but adults with similarly severe injuries seldom recover as well. That's because babies' brains are in the process of organizing themselves and are able to assign tasks normally performed by the damaged areas to the still-functioning portions. Because adult brains are already organized, they h...Kenya moves toward national food and nutrition policy
...ood and nutrition policies are often developed but seldom fully implemented. Taking them from paper to approved policy, and from policy to funding and effective programs is a challenging, multi-faceted process, requiring involvement from many government groups that sometimes see themselves as unrelated. "......t less than 250 years old. CTVT is a serious but seldom fatal disease. Unless the dogs are already in poor condition, the tumours usually regress three to nine months after their appearance, leaving the dogs immune to re-infection. But that leaves enough time for the dogs and bitches to pass the tumour ...Whooping cough 'endemic' among UK school children
...long immunity. Yet general practitioners in the UK seldom diagnose or even consider pertussis in older children. It is perceived as a disease of very young children who have not been immunised and who have classic features such as whoop. So researchers set out to estimate the proportion of school age chil...New research addresses taboos around the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on patients' sex lives
...A and their sex lives and healthcare professionals seldom discuss the issue with their patients" explained C. Ziegler, project manager of the Danish Rheumatism Association. "Forums such as the EULAR congress provide a platform for discussion and debate, enabling patients and healthcare professionals to bene...Careers of elderly deserve better: ANU study
...ions under which people live in nursing homes have seldom been an election issue. Although we pay lip service to valuing the aged and recognising the difficult, important and socially useful work that carers do, it often appears that our actions fall well short of our rhetoric. It is time to re-engage with ...Mothers use evasive action to protect sick children from smoking fathers
...ucation group and 50 per cent of the control group seldom or never intervened. The control group (14 per cent) were twice as likely as the education group (seven per cent) to take no action at all. "When we spoke to the mothers during our 12-month follow-up, some of them expressed concerns about the confl...Prescription flip-side: Guidelines for medication withdrawal
...ated cholesterol, provide no immediate relief, are seldom entirely without side effects and can be quite expensive, especially for the elderly who often take many different drugs. Such medications may be appropriate for a 65-year old with mild heart disease but at some point in the next 25 years patient an...Reactions to last DTaP vaccine not prevented
... upper arm (or thigh) in about 1 in 100. But it is seldom serious and usually does not hurt. "Often children don't notice they have it," said Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH, a senior investigator at Group Health's Center for Health Studies and the study's lead investigator. "But it can concern parents, leading t...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...ing the study," he said. "But unfortunately, it is seldom done at many organizations." The study was published this week in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study was conducted at four private hospitals in different cities in the Northeast. All the hospitals were owned by t...Cancer survivors require distinct care
...mely familiar with the consequences of cancer, and seldom receive explicit guidance from oncologists, the committee found. Furthermore, the lack of clear evidence for what constitutes best practices in caring for patients with a history of cancer contributes to wide variation in care. Besides being at r...Opening wide for new clues about lupus
...ook at tissue from a person's tonsils, a technique seldom used to study the immune system, has provided doctors with key information about just what goes wrong in patients with lupus to cause their immune systems to attack themselves, causing symptoms like joint pain, fatigue, and other complications like k...Once-dreaded leprosy 'replaced' by tuberculosis, say researchers
... TB bacteria is that those with leprosy, which was seldom fatal, were weakened to the extent that they became highly vulnerable to the "big killer," tuberculosis. This was exacerbated by the lives of deprivation that the lepers were forced to live as social outcasts. Ultimately, the scientists theorize, so......izens of the night-time economy. Binge drinking is seldom linked with alcohol-related diseases, with accidents in the home or with domestic violence. Indeed, since publication of the government's alcohol strategy, where a binge drinker is described as someone who drinks to get drunk, the term has become a r...