Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...than whites. Japanese-Americans, for example, had significantly lower hazard ratio compared to non-Hispanic white ...4% lower). In contrast, South Asian-Americans had significantly higher hazard ratio compared to non-Hispanic white Americans (40% higher). The study should help p...Patient-centered approach can backfire
...n't work for everybody. In fact, some patients are significantly less likely to follow doctors' orders and feel satisfied with their care when physicians take the patient-centered approach. According to the UI study, recently published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, patients are most satisfied with care a...New treatment boosts muscle function in myasthenia gravis
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A new type of treatment significantly reduces the severity of muscle weakness in myasthenia gravis (MG), giving hope for a new class of drugs to treat neurological disorders, according to a study published in the August 14, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Ac...Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...w-up examination13 years laterthe visual field was significantly worse in the group with greater fluctuation in IOP...of patients with progressive visual field loss was significantly larger in the group with more fluctuation. Our results suggest that glaucomatous visual field dama...Even low levels of weekly exercise drive down blood pressure
...stolic blood pressure and waist and hip girth fell significantly in both groups of walkers. Overall fitness also increased in the walkers. Falls of a few mm in blood pressure and shrinkage of a few centimetres in hip and waist circumference are enough to make a difference to an individuals risk of dying from a...New study shows promise in reducing surgical risks associated with surgical bleeding
...safety profiles, although antibody development was significantly lower in patients treated with rhThrombin compared with bThrombin (1.5 percent versus 21.5 percent, respectively)....Reanalysis of controversial meta-analysis says writing off rosiglitazone may be premature
...y the New England Journal of Medicine linked it to significantly increased risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death. That article was based on a meta-analysis conducted by Dr. Steven Nissen and Kathy Wolski of 42 clinical trials involving 27,847 patients for whom rosiglitazone was prescribed. Now, a re-an...Using MRI for diagnosis could help prevent breast cancer progression
...men with MRI-only diagnosed disease did not differ significantly from those of women with mammography-diagnosed DCIS. The higher sensitivity of MRI was not associated with an unduly high number of false positive diagnoses - the positive predictive value of both methods was comparable, with 55% for mammography, and...Warfarin better than aspirin at stroke prevention in elderly people with atrial fibrillation
...rterial embolism, and intracranial haemorrhage was significantly lower in patients on warfarin than in those on aspirin, adding that their results show that warfarin could safely be used much more widely by older people. They conclude: We recorded no evidence that anticoagulants [warfarin] were more hazardous th...Despite claims, not all probiotics can treat diarrhea say experts
...ce were also recorded. Duration of diarrhoea was significantly lower in children receiving Lactobacillus GG and a mix of four bacterial strains than in patients receiving oral rehydration alone. The three other preparations had no significant effect. Secondary outcomes were similar in all groups and no side ef...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...l benefits as the process generates less waste and significantly reduces energy needed to produce para-xylene. Jeevan S. Abichandani, Ph.D., is the Research and Development Manager at Univation, an ExxonMobil joint venture. He received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982....Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...ss as long as old age doesnt inherently interfere significantly with the ability to make muscles out of the protein in food. We wanted to know if there is some reason your grandmothers body, for example, cant stimulate muscle growth in response to eating the same protein-rich meal that you eat, which might over...Long heat waves boost hospital admissions
Summer heat waves significantly increase pressure on hospitals, according to research published in the online open access journal, BMC Public Health. The good news for hospital staff is that scorching weather must last four or more days before admissions rise significantly. Giuse...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...y at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. These findings significantly enhance our understanding of motor skills, effective therapeutic approaches and the true adaptive nature of the brain. The walking adaptations studied here represent a form of short term learning from practicing on this unusual treadmill. Investiga...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...duration of four weeks (range, 1-10 weeks) and was significantly associated with reductions in weekly EDR. The cities that implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions earlier had greater delays in reaching peak rates of death, lower peak rates of death, and lower total number of deaths. There was a statistically ...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
...shed studies that have raised public awareness and significantly changed the way sports concussions are managed. Im...t the functioning of a network of brain regions is significantly associated with both the severity of concussion symptoms and time to recover, said Jamie Pardini, Ph...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
... in the abdominal wall that is not the navel, were significantly less likely to be obese than mothers of babies without birth defects. The reasons for an association between maternal obesity and a spectrum of structural birth defects are unknown, the authors write. Both animal studies and human studies provide s...Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
...foods - chicken nuggets, fries, carrots and milk - significantly more children pegged the McDonald's product as tas...s, the studies also found that the advertising was significantly more concentrated in children's television programming. The growing concern is not falling on deaf...Trial stops after stroke and mortality significantly reduced by blood
...ollege London,suggest that lowering blood pressure significantly reduces both strokeand mortality in the over-80s. A number of earlier trials had demonstrated that reducing blood pressurein the under-80s reduces stroke and cardiovascular events. However,previous smaller and inconclusive studies also suggested t...New research finds high prevalence of smoking among physicians in China
...gs are noteworthy because physicians who smoke are significantly less likely than their nonsmoking counterparts to advise their patients to quit smoking. As a result of this survey, the China Center for Disease Control has instituted an antismoking campaign that targets physicians and medical students and promotes...