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...ticles in popular science magazines rather than in specialist periodicals, something that regular bibliometric m...ncer research is published in magazines other than specialist oncology journals," says Jonas Lundberg....Breast cancer drug receives FDA approval
...sitive breast cancer. Dr. Edward Romond, a cancer specialist and researcher at UK HealthCare's Markey Cancer Center, was instrumental in researching and analyzing the results of two massive clinical trials of early-stage breast cancer patients who received Herceptin in combination with chemotherapy. The result...Increased patient demand for prostate test has serious implications for cancer services
...half a per cent of the doctors surveyed reported a specialist interest in male health, despite prostate cancer being the commonest male cancer and current drives to improve awareness of the disease in primary care. Data from all the first PSA tests ordered by doctors during the survey period (2003-2004) were...Depression, not antidepressants, increases mortality risks in heart failure
...nts for their disease, or at least refer them to a specialist for treatment, but physicians also should ensure that the patients receive adequate follow-up attention, Jiang said. "Physicians need to know if their patients are experiencing side effects of their medication, or if the initial dose is correct," s...Manmade protein shows promise for cancer, macular degeneration
...eneration," says Dr. Balamurali K. Ambati, corneal specialist at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Ambati is corresponding author of the study published in the November issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. The body can produce new blood vessels t...Telemedicine robots help improve health
...er the tyranny of distance and improve delivery of specialist medical care to the bush. Eliza, who began work...ng the need for families to travel to the city for specialist care. Local doctors take the robot to the bedside and thanks to a video-link, established via the...Columbia pediatricians, Anne Gershon and Richard Polin, awarded top honors
... York, NY October 10, 2006 An infectious disease specialist and a neonatologist from the Department of Pediatr...estament to Dr. Gershon's work that as a pediatric specialist she has been elected to a top leadership role within our nation's most prestigious infectious diseas...Mesh can make weight-loss surgery safer
...esity is likely to drive this form of surgery from specialist centres to general hospitals....AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
... patients," says Dr. Rodriguez, infectious disease specialist at the Case Medical Center, a partnership of University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. "We hope that this study will provide impetus for a more thorough understanding of the mechanisms of HIV-induced damage to the i...All intravascular devices pose risk of bloodstream infection to patients, study finds
...esearcher and infectious disease and critical care specialist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, says the findings offer "hard data" that IVDs pose a risk to all recipients. "We thought this analysis might provide a unique opportunity to wave the flag and convince both health care ...The Starr Foundation launches multi-institutional cancer consortium
..., it is headed by Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., a leading specialist in DNA replication. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Canc...as cancer. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., D.Phil., a specialist in coronary heart disease risk and lipid disorders, serves as Provost for Medical Affairs and Dean o...'Egg on your face' may be more dangerous than you think
...November 2004 and December 2005 researchers at one specialist department monitored more than 18,000 patients requiring eye treatment. Of these, 13 patients had sustained injuries as a result of being assaulted by a raw egg. Twelve of the patients were men, whose average age was 27. Most of the cases were clus...Nearly nine of 10 who seek individual market health insurance never buy a plan
... to care (didn't fill a prescription, didn't see a specialist when needed, skipped a recommended test, treatment, or follow-up, or had a medical problem and didn't go to a doctor or clinic) compared with one-quarter (25%) of those with deductibles under $500. One-fifth (22%) of those with higher deductibles too...Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
...lly." "It was awesome," said her doctor, diabetes specialist Louis Philipson, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "It was cool," he added, with uncharacteristic abandon, "way cool." It was also lucky. Lilly suffered from an unusual form of diabetes caused by a genetic mutation rather than th...Ageism endemic in health services
...ggests redesigning stroke services and integrating specialist and primary care responses to the management of transient ischaemic attacks in a similar way to the approaches developed for coronary heart disease, which have led to a welcome reduction in the degree of related ageism. Ageism will always prosper w...Frontline NHS staff should be trained to tackle alcohol misuse
...illion people. About 217m is currently spent on specialist alcohol treatment, compared with the 20bn estimate...n? Most conurbations in England have one or more specialist alcohol units, which are usually run by psychiatrists and largely deal with complex problems. These ...Scientist-astronaut sends T-cells into space
...U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and a payload specialist aboard space shuttle flight STS-40 in 1991, will send human T-cells up to the International Space Station aboard ISS Soyuz 13. That science mission, operated by the European Space Agency, is scheduled to launch from Baikonur between September 14 and ...Even Superman couldn't win battle with pressure ulcers
...r. Madhuri Reddy, a geriatrician and chronic wound specialist who conducted the study at Women's College Hospital in collaboration with Baycrest. "We found that the majority of published studies which have examined interventions to prevent pressure ulcers have been inadequate in their design and have not gene...Childhood sleep apnea linked to brain damage, lower IQ
...ains," says lead author Ann Halbower, M.D., a lung specialist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. "This is truly concerning because we saw changes that suggest brain injury in areas of the brain that house critical cognitive functions, such as attention, learning and working memory." While researchers ha...Botox injections may improve facial-wound healing, minimize scars
...ible scars," said Sherris, an ear, nose and throat specialist who came to UB from the Mayo Clinic in 2004. "This study is the culmination of work that Dr. Holger Gassner and I started at Mayo Clinic about seven years ago. The reason this works is because wide scars are the result of the local muscles pulling ...