Survival differences by race most apparent in advanced stages of breast cancer
...mors and were more likely to have disease that had spread to nearby lymph nodes. After controlling for those clinical factors the racial disparities in survival persisted. The investigators say their finding that disparities in survival increased with more advanced disease was surprising and suggested that...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
... on the bathroom scale to tell us when middle-aged spread is getting out of hand. It might be better to keep...rol levels were taken into account. Middle-aged spread is not healthy, Dr. de Lemos said. We dont have to clean our plates. Its better to throw food out th...MRI finds breast cancer before it becomes dangerous
...ilk ducts into the breasts glandular tissue can it spread via blood and lymph vessels in the body. 'If we fi...s low-grade DCIS is relatively inert and may never spread beyond the milk duct (and thus may never pose a threat to the women affected), high-grade DCIS will ...NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
...ng the crucial mutations that would help the virus spread easily from person to person. Led by Gary Nabel... explains why bird-adapted H5N1 can infect but not spread easily between humans. About a year ago, the research team began asking what mutations help the v...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...conventional wisdom that the 1918 pandemic rapidly spread through each community killing everyone in its path. Although these urban communities had neither effective vaccines nor antivirals, cities that were able to organize and execute a suite of classic public health interventions before the pandemic swep...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
... a specific area of the brain but can then quickly spread to the rest of the brain "like a brush fire," Irazoqui said. "Once you find out where that focal area is, if you know the seizure is about to start you can suppress the seizure," he said. Rickus has developed a "living electrode" coated with spec...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...ther to encourage the best-performing hospitals to spread their good practice to the others. The first step ...m their advice. These long-term relationships will spread the message that co-operation is key to making the NHS do the best possible job for its patients. ...Why women get more migraines than men
...s characterized by dramatic waves of activity that spread across the surface of the brain. CSD may in turn t...imaging techniques to visualize the initiation and spread of CSD in anesthetized male and female mice. Female mice showed a significantly lower threshold for ......ether food crops accumulate antibiotics from soils spread with manure that contains antibiotics. Results from the study are published in the July-August 2007 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. The research was also presented in Indianapolis, IN at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Mee...Needle-stick injuries are common but unreported by surgeons in training
...ety and care for health care workers to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis infection. Makary says injuries could be greatly reduced by hospitals increasing the use of nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to reduce surgical workloads and adopting sharpless surgical techniques such as electric s...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...er, suffering more complications and continuing to spread the disease to their family and to their community. Clinical investigators based at Patan Hospital Lalitpur in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam have completed a study to see if they can improve the trea...Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
...the cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce the spread of pandemic influenza using Tamiflu prophylactically. It was predicted that this preventative approach is likely to be more cost-effective than treating symptomatic patients alone and may be an effective and cost-saving measure for reducing the impac...Award winning book co-edited by Rutgers College of Nursing Dean updated with new information
... this worldwide community, infectious diseases can spread rapidly around the world, making international surveillance and control of emerging infections vital to world health. The first edition of this book won the Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), which was also a Choice ...Predicting danger of flu pandemic rests on differences in affected population, says O.R. Forum
...ortance of forecasting and ultimately limiting the spread of disease while taking into account the different infection rates among those who might contract the disease. We allow for socially active people who interact with many other people on a given day, and we allow for relatively inactive people who int...Hormone therapy offers new hope for ovarian cancer patients
... this blocking mechanism could slow the growth and spread of disease. The study was funded by Cancer Research UK and involved 44 women with high oestrogen receptor (ER) levels, whose cancer had relapsed after surgery and chemotherapy. Scientists used a blood-borne tumour marker, CA-125, to track the pr...NIAID releases MDR/XDR Tuberculosis research agenda
...ldwide. Diagnosing, treating and controlling the spread of TB has become increasingly complicated because of the HIV/AIDS co-epidemic and the emergence of MDR and XDR TB, which threatens to set TB control efforts back to the pre-antibiotic era. According to NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID dev...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...y for stage III colon cancerin which the tumor has spread to the lymph nodesadditional chemotherapy is recommended to prevent tumor recurrence, Lurje says. While surgery alone is usually effective for treating stage II cancer, 20 to 30 percent of patients do develop tumor recurrence and die from the disease...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...ger tumors, or whose cancer was discovered to have spread to a number of lymph nodes, or who had HER2 + cancer that was further sub-typed as estrogen receptor (ER)-negative. So far, 118 patients in the trastuzumab treatment group have developed progressive disease, a second primary cancer or contralateral b...Drug shows activity against brain metastases
...er drugs as a treatment for breast cancer that has spread to the brain. Results of this study indicate that lapatinib, when given alone, has modest but real activity against brain metastases in women who have had multiple prior treatments for their breast cancer, said Dana-Farbers Nancy Lin, MD, the study......lioblastoma patients is 12-16 months. These tumors spread quickly to other parts of the brain, and because of this are difficult to treat and often recur. When the tumor recurs, treatment options are limited, and patients survive for an average of three to four months. "Existing treatment interventions ha...