Doctors must work together better to improve survival in teenage and young adult cancer patients
...y over the treatment of this age group, with seven specialist TCT units established and more planned. In addition, in August 2005 NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) had recommended that all under-19s should be treated in wards with services specially designed for them and access to ag...Lack of specialist training for nurses is failing adolescent cancer patients
...t always cared for appropriately because a lack of specialist training for nurses means that staff are not neces...hind paediatric services in terms of the number of specialist facilities and the education of staff within them. In the UK there are still insufficient numbers o...New handbook addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health issues
...ccording to Michael D. Shankle, M.P.H., a research specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), department of infectious diseases and microbiology and editor of the newly published The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guid...Exercise reduces menopausal symptoms and improves quality of life
...of the study the exercise group averaged 2.80 on a specialist social well-being scale and the control group average 2.86. By the end of the study the exercise group has risen to 2.91 but the control group had fallen considerably to 2.16. The exercise group also increased their average scores on scales measuri...Patient care dramatically improved using best practice
...lation that ensured cancer patients the right to a specialist oncologist's opinion. Many European countries still do not offer such a right. Now the Netherlands leads oncology treatment once more. Dr Emil Rutgers, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute (which first showed the potential of gene signatures in pro...Experts call for balance in addressing under treated pain and drug abuse
... Howard A. Heit, MD, a pain and addiction medicine specialist who has collaborated with the DEA. AAPM President Scott M. Fishman, MD, presents the collision of the war on drugs with efforts to improve pain care. Jennifer Bolen, JD, Former Assistant US Attorney with the United States Department of Justice, makes...Older breast cancer survivors shared care study
...rcent, respectively) than survivors who saw only a specialist or generalist (not both). Mammography rates for the later group were only 76.3, 70.05 and 66 percent, respectively, for the three years of the study. The team looked at National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Result (SEER) data,...Molecule targets and kills tumor cells, starves blood supply
...rials, and few of those are approved. UIC research specialist Senthil Radhakrishnan is co-author of the study. The study was funded by the UIC Department of Medicine, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health. UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal resea...Diabetic patients often overestimate healthy body weight
...said Dr. McTigue, who also is an internal medicine specialist associated with the University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Institute (UPDI). "One participant selected a BMI in the underweight range as 'healthiest.' " Among respondents whose BMI measurements classified them as obese, 66 percent identified overweight or...Formula feeding, early introduction of infant food may not contribute to childhood obesity
... than BMI," says Hillary Burdette, M.D., nutrition specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and lead investigator of the study, which appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This distinction is important, say the researchers, because adiposity, rather than weight, ...Tomorrow's medical researchers to be nurtured in Manchester
...ng fellowship, at the same time as launching their specialist clinical training. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has committed up to 50 million over 10 years to deliver what will then form the next part of the clinical academic training pathway; 'new blood' senior lectureship posts allo...Acupressure relieves low back pain
...ted 129 patients with chronic low back pain from a specialist orthopaedic clinic. All patients completed a standard disability questionnaire before being randomly allocated to two treatment groups: 64 patients received six sessions of acupressure and 65 patients received physical therapy. Results were analysed ...Global toll of glaucoma set to reach 80 million by 2020
... image problem, writes Dr Rupert Bourne a glaucoma specialist at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire and senior lecturer at the International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "The fact that it is irreversible, difficult to detect, and difficult to treat means that it...Simple system predicts mortality of older Americans with 81 percent accuracy
...cording to lead author Sei J. Lee, MD, a geriatric specialist at SFVAMC. "There's a real need for this kind of prognostic index, for several reasons," says Lee, who is also a research fellow in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. For patients and caregivers, predicting ne...Conscientious objection in medicine should not be tolerated
...mic of bird flu or other infectious disease that a specialist decided she valued her own life more than her duty to treat her patients. Such a set of values would be incompatible with being a doctor. The argument in favour of allowing conscientious objection is that to fail to do so harms the doctor and constra...48 hour access target for UK sexual health clinics impossible
... of sexual health leads in primary care trusts and specialist clinicians, due to be published in the next few weeks, is expected to reveal a similarly gloomy picture. "There is clearly a continued crisis in GUM services in the UK," write the authors. " to neglect this area will not just mean patients inconvenie...Life-threatening lupus responds to stem cell transplant therapy
...says co-author Yu Oyama, MD, an autoimmune disease specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and assistant professor, Division of Immunotherapy for Autoimmune Diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine. "A center effect on survival has also been reported for stem cell transplantation in malignancies," says ...Computer systems assisting orthopaedic surgeons
...dic research and could be applicable to many other specialist areas of medicine. Patients benefit from a fast an...d benefit from these results when applied to other specialist areas of medicine. "We are already at the limit," says Templier, "between focused retrospective and ...Warning of risk to breast cancer patients from vaginal oestrogen
...where regular monitoring of plasma oestradiol with specialist assays is available. Other non-hormonal vaginal moisturising gels or creams should be used in most cases." She said it was impossible to generalise about all vaginal oestrogens. However, given that a similar effect was seen with Premarin cream, cauti......team, headed by Vered Stearns, M.D., breast cancer specialist at the Kimmel Cancer Center, will be studying in the trial are pain, inflammation, and changes in the structure of the duct network. Other areas for study include image-guided injections that could be rigged as "duct-detectors" to help pinpoint earl...