Johns Hopkins develops pancreas cancer risk model
...g pancreatic cancer risk without the new model are slightly better than a coin toss at 61 percent, but PancPRO...ndividuals developed cancer, and PancPRO predicted slightly more at 31. Their published results appear in the April 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology...Help the Aged funds the University of Nottingham to research pain affecting older people
...he population of people under 16 is set to decline slightly (1)....Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
... Some patients with strokes in this area develop a slightly different condition known as motor neglect. This causes them to be slow to act toward the left side of their environment. It might, for example, make them slow to swat at a bug that lands on their left side. How to separate slowness to notice a sti...Phone-based therapy eases depression long term
...roved. Those who received phone-based therapy were slightly better at taking their antidepressant medication as recommended, but that did not account for most of their improvement. And effects were stronger for patients with moderate to severe depression than for those with mild depression. We were surprise...Health disparities in prostate cancer stem from lack of care, not lack of knowledge
... office. "In addition, African-American men were slightly less likely than white men to say they trusted their physicians. As with the other findings, lack of trust seemed to stem from the lack of a regular source of health care," Godley said. "This wasn't coming from some historical distrust from previo...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
...ged fat cells. The effects occurred at levels just slightly greater than those found in the stomach fluid of an individual eating a typical Indian or Thai diet, the researchers noted. Capsaicin worked by providing a biochemical signal that made fat cells undergo apoptosis, a mechanism in which cells self-dest...Steroid use fails to boost pregnancy rates in infertility treatments
...e studies of 650 women undergoing IVF revealed a slightly higher pregnancy rate among women who took the hormones. The review authors say the difference barely exceeds that which could be attributed to mere chance. At present, glucocorticoids should not be offered as a routine procedure in women undergoin...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
...iduals diagnosed with a stage III glioma, which is slightly less aggressive, survive 16 to 24 months on average. When the tumor returns after initial treatment -- which usually includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation -- the prognosis is even more grim, with an average life expectancy of three to nine mon...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
.... "Is the cardiovascular risk with blood pressures slightly above 120/80 mm Hg clinically important enough to justify the label of prehypertension?" asked the study authors. "The increased cardiovascular risk with prehypertension is certainly smaller than the risk associated with having diabetes (158 percent...Americans believe global warming is real, want action, but not as a priority
...arios," Leiserowitz said. Alarmists, he found, are slightly more likely to be liberal and to hold strong egalitarian values. Naysayers, who deny, discount or disbelieve the reality of climate change. "These people claim that there is no scientific evidence, blame global warming on media hype, or even hol...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...om the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill persists in an only slightly weathered form below the surface at some beaches along the Gulf of Alaska after 16 years and may persist for decades, researchers have concluded in a new report. It is scheduled for publication in the Feb. 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Science &...Hormone drug type makes survival difference in advanced breast cancer
...reast cancer in postmenopausal women. "They have a slightly improved efficacy over tamoxifen, and they have a much lower rate of blood clots in the legs and lungs," she said. "Aromatase inhibitors carry almost no risk of uterine cancer, and while that rarely happens with tamoxifen, it does happen." On the o...Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
...inful events in the first three years also were at slightly higher risk for later painful episodes. "Some doctors would think that if they have early pain, they are destined to have frequent pain later in life, but that's not necessarily the case," Dr. Quinn said. The swelling condition dactylitis did not...US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
...ysicians tended to start treatment sooner, using a slightly lower threshold to begin blood pressure medications. U.S. patients had lower average readings of 139/79 mm Hg versus an average of 139-144/80-84 mm Hg across the European samples. U.S. patients were more likely to have adequate control; 63 percent ...Study finds differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
...o inactive sugar-pills, diuretics or beta-blockers slightly increase the risk of becoming diabetic, whereas ARBs or ACE-inhibitors significantly decrease the risk. "Most other studies of the association between drugs used mostly for high blood pressure could have been confused by differences in the patients...SCAI issues clinical alert on drug-eluting stents and late thrombosis
...after stent placement showed that blood clots were slightly more likely to form inside a drug-eluting stent than inside a bare metal stent. It is not yet clear how large the difference in risk is, but available data suggest that in the types of lesions treated in the original controlled trials it is about 0.2...Ability of biomarkers to predict risk of heart disease, stroke appears limited
...s, the information provided by the biomarkers only slightly improved predictions based on such conventional risk factors as hypertension, cholesterol levels and smoking. "There has been a great deal of enthusiasm among cardiologists over the potential of biomarkers, but our findings suggest that we need to...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
...est history of alcohol dependence (25 years) had a slightly reduced brain volume (-0.19%), but that value is within the margin of measurement error. Volumetric brain recovery was signified by the patients brains expanding beyond their previous limits, with an outward brain edge shift for the outer regions and......tigators also say their device will likely be only slightly more expensive to use than mammography, and will be much more comfortable for women because much less pressure is needed to image a breast. "We hope that our studies will eventually show our device to be almost as sensitive as magnetic resonance i...Researchers show surprising interaction between genes, gender and hypertension
...ses to treatments. For example, men normally have slightly higher BP readings than women. Accounting for these differences, the researchers set out to test their hypothesis that the influence of genes on blood pressure and hypertension varies with a patient's gender. Ernst Beutler, M.D., of The Scripps Re...