Test can predict spread of eye cancer to liver
...re should receive more frequent and more intensive surveillance to monitor the spread of the cancer. Many also may be candidates for pre-emptive therapy of some kind. Melanoma of the eye is relatively rare, diagnosed in only about seven people per million each year in the United States or about 2,000 cases annu...September/October Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...d for concludes this study. Using a sophisticated surveillance system, 562,317 acute care hospital discharges were evaluated and 13.8 percent (77,666) were associated with at least one medical injury. Patients who sustained a medical injury were more likely to be older, have a higher comorbidity index and exper...Heart Rhythm Society publishes final recommendations for heart patients
...ger to patients. Should establish a post-marketing surveillance advisory panel of independent expert advisors to assist FDA with this function. Congress: Should recognize the FDA needs the appropriate resources, funding and focus to perform post-market surveillance, analysis and reporting. A 15-member t...Tamiflu significantly reduces the risk of death from influenza
...older at-risk individuals". The population-based surveillance study was conducted during the two consecutive influenza seasons on a total of 512 patients who were admitted to hospital for illness associated with a positive test for influenza in Ontario, Canada. Over half of patients, mainly those with underlyin...Study finds 1 in 523 children and adolescents have diabetes
...EARCH for Diabetes in Youth. SEARCH is the largest surveillance effort of diabetes among youth under the age of 20 ever conducted in the United States, said Ronny A. Bell, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a SEARCH co-investigator. It ...Latest influenza science and recommendations presented in new release
...en more articles, discussing subjects from disease surveillance to special human populations to animal disease issues, complete the collection. The supplement concludes with a set of recommendations by the authors for better preparing the nation for an influenza pandemic, including: boosting vaccine research, d...Proposal calls for sweeping changes at US Food and Drug Administration
...g Safety within FDA "for continuous post-marketing surveillance and regulation." They say the center should be given adequate funding and staff to take advantage of the valuable data for safety monitoring already collected in private and public databases. The conditional drug-approval policy could be modeled on ...Adult survivors of childhood cancer face long-term health problems, says co-author of national study
...aid Dr. Meadows, is the need for continued medical surveillance of adult survivors of childhood cancer. "Fewer than 20 percent of these patients are followed by an oncologist or at a cancer center, but they clearly have special medical needs and higher risks," she added. There are currently 270,000 survivors of p...Drug prescribed for migraines and seizures increases risk of kidney stones
...f observation and the lack of ongoing kidney-stone surveillance and data collection for this drug, said Dr. Sakhaee, holder of the BeautiControl Cosmetics Inc. Professorship in Mineral Metabolism and Osteoporosis. "There is a legitimate concern for the occurrence of kidney stones with long-term topiramate treatm...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...ons for pandemic influenza. Developing disease surveillance initiatives to strengthen the capacity of health care providers in the detection, screening and reporting of health data, particularly for vulnerable and "silent" populations. Examining the impact of increased life expectancy and other demographi...Enbrel provides sustained clinical improvements for ankylosing spondylitis for up to 3 years
... function, improvement in AS symptoms, and ongoing surveillance to assess the incidence of adverse events. The study is a 96-week open-label, multinational, phase 4 extension study in 59 patients with AS who completed each of two earlier trials, a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and a ...Inexpensive test detects H5N1 infections quickly and accurately
...otential to be a valuable tool in global influenza surveillance efforts." The MChip has several advantages over the FluChip, a flu diagnostic previously developed by the same research team, says Dr. Rowlen. While the FluChip is based on three influenza genes--hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA) and matrix (M...Peer and family support tops needs of young adult cancer survivors
...were having adequate health insurance and on-going surveillance and assessment of long-term effects of treatment. Despite dramatic improvements in childhood cancer survival rates, studies show the incidence of cancer in adolescents and young adults has actually risen higher than in children and older adult pa...OHSU findings may improve how people with chronic heartburn, precancer of the esophagus are screened
...ancer the need for a cost-effective screening and surveillance system was long apparent to Jobe, who also is an associate professor of surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "However, given the relative rarity of esophageal cancer compared with the high prevalence of...November/December 2006 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... at highest risk for breast cancer may need closer surveillance than the general population of women and need to be encouraged to seek care from their primary care doctor if they develop breast symptoms, rather than taking reassurance from a negative screening mammogram.Discovery of Breast Cancers That Occur With...'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens
...ory Network have developed a new tool for pathogen surveillance and discoverythe GreeneChip System. The GreeneChi...ans need a comprehensive set of tools for pathogen surveillance and detection." GreeneChip features include a comprehensive microbial sequence database that integ...New 'GreeneChip' identifies multiple pathogens rapidly and accurately
...rove the capacity for emerging infectious diseases surveillance and outbreak response....'Erectile dysfunction' drugs heighten natural anti-cancer activity
...oxide to help bring the immune system back down to surveillance levels after an "attack mode" response to foreign material. The impotence drugs seem to reverse this process, stopping the production of nitric oxide by MDSCs thereby allowing other immune cells to "see" the cancer and attack it, says Paolo Serafi...Hajj pilgrims should get flu jab to avoid pandemic
...nvenient and should be readily acceptable. Virus surveillance to identify newly emerging strains is also urgently needed, they say. The World Health Organisation must work with the Saudi authorities to minimise the risk of the influenza virus spreading among pilgrims (and the rest of us). A coherent internat...HIV burden in India may be much lower than official estimates
...tained using the official method based on sentinel surveillance in large public-sector hospitals. Dandona et al.... groups. Public hospitals included in the sentinel surveillance have disproportionately high rates of HIV due to referral of patients with HIV by private practition...