Intraperitoneal chemotherapy administration prolongs survival for women with advanced ovarian cancer
... the importance of referral of women with known or suspected ovarian cancer to physicians with special expertise and training in the surgical management of ovarian cancer. The IP therapy was shown to improve survival even though only 42% of patients in the IP therapy arm of the study completed all the prescrib...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...d to treat African sleeping sickness, but which is suspected of having anti-cancer properties. This study is led by Patrick Lynch, M.D., in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medicine and Nutrition. A clinical trial testing whether Celebrex can repair precancerous lung damage in current and former smokers. Jo...Disruption of gene interaction linked to schizophrenia
...aid. Although dopamine and glutamate systems were suspected to contribute separately to the development of schizophrenia, researchers had not found a clear connection between them, according to Zakharenko. However, the present study clearly shows this connection. Specifically, when PRODH activity is low, prol...Radiologists tackle diagnosis of puzzling football injuries
...dical Center in Pennsylvania. At first, Dr. Towers suspected that the unusually high percentage of lateral meniscal tears was associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. ACL tears are fairly common among elite college football players, and 80 percent of meniscal tears that occur in association with...Increasing role of acetaminophen in acute liver failure in the United States
...of the University of Washington and her colleagues suspected that patients with acute liver failure from unintentional acetaminophen overdoses would have more severe disease and worse outcomes than patients with intentional overdoses. To examine this hypothesis the researchers conducted a prospective study of ...Epidural leads to less pain, more assisted deliveries
... States, England and Australia. "It's always been suspected that epidurals slow down your labor," said Anim-Somuah. The study confirmed that the nerve block lengthens the stage during which the mother must push the baby through the birth canal. This leads to greater use of medication to stimulate contractions...Researchers zero in on the possible cause of Kawasaki disease
...sease was originally described, investigators have suspected an infectious cause, but, until now, none has been identified. The research group was led by Anne H. Rowley, M.D., professor of pediatrics and of microbiology/immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children's Memorial...NHLBI research highlights at American Heart Association's scientific sessions
...premenopausal) undergoing coronary angiography for suspected myocardial ischemia, a heart condition characterized by reduced blood flow. Hormones measured included estradiol, estrone, FSH, LH, free testosterone, sex-hormone binding globulin, androstenedione, and DHEA-S. Glucose and insulin were also measured....Stress echo tests shown to predict cardiac death, illness in higher-risk women
...75 who underwent a certain type of stress test for suspected coronary disease. Investigators concluded that the test, known as dobutamine stress echocardiography, provided valuable information that could help doctors predict future fatal heart problems. "Our research is extremely important because women in thi...Physicians slower to incorporate newer heart drug treatments
...cific therapies in saving lives -- focus on giving suspected heart attack patients anti-platelet medications, heparin, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (clot inhibitors) or beta-blockers within the first 24 hours of admission. The guidelines also call for prescribing such drugs as aspirin, beta-blockers, ACE i...Clinical decision system helps reduce inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing
...ient-specific information that was input about the suspected diagnosis, such as the presence or absence of specific symptoms and signs. Therapeutic recommendations included over-the-counter medications for symptom control as well as prescription antimicrobials. In the study, antimicrobial agents were grouped i...News briefs from the journal CHEST, November 2005
...challenge (SIC) on 47 hair stylists (mean age 25), suspected of having occupational asthma. Average overall duration of exposure to persulphate salts was seven years. Results showed that 51.1 percent of patients were diagnosed with occupational asthma, of which 87.5 percent of the cases were attributed to pers...New drug could substantially reduce deaths from heart attack
.... The treatment should be considered routinely for suspected heart attacks, state the authors, as it can safely reduce mortality in hospital for a wide range of patients. About 10 million people have heart attacks every year worldwide. Although improvements have been made in emergency treatment, the risks of e...Mayo Clinic: Sinusitis is common yet often overlooked cause of chronic cough
...ns had obtained CT scans for 132 of these patients suspected of having sinusitis, with significantly abnormal results indicating sinusitis in 49 patients, or 37.1 percent. The more severe the sinus abnormalities found in the CT scans, the more likely the patients were to be ultimately diagnosed with sinusitis ...Shortness of breath without chest pain can signify the presence of high risk heart disease
...for stress testing by their physicians who knew or suspected they had coronary artery disease based on their sy...est pain are of value in identifying patients with suspected coronary artery disease who should undergo functional testing." Marwick also noted that in the pati...Broccoli sprouts, cabbage, ginkgo biloba and garlic: A grocery list for cancer prevention
...gh temperatures releases a chemical called PhIP, a suspected carcinogen. Epidemiological studies have shown that the incidence of breast cancer is higher among women who eat large quantities of meat, although fat and caloric intake and hormone exposure may contribute to this increased risk. Diallyl sulfide (...New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection
...t notion. Brain tissue specimens from 11 patients suspected of having SSPE were examined. Five of the 11 patients with samples and 7 additional SSPE patients identified in case reports were related to infections during the resurgence of measles in the United States during a drop in measles vaccination rates b...Doctors call for urgent review of cancer initiative
...as introduced in 2000, says that any patients with suspected cancer should be seen by a hospital specialist within two weeks of being referred to their GP. "It's not surprising that the two-week wait hasn't had an impact on survival because the delay between the referral from primary care and the first speci...PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection
...rgely non-circumcised populations, researchers had suspected that circumcision might offer some protection against HIV transmission. However, because the lower infection rates in the circumcised groups might be due to some other difference between circumcised and uncircumcised populations, the only way to test...Heart attack death rates found higher in hospitals treating larger share of African Americans
...lume, region of the country, or urban status. "We suspected that these differences could have been caused by the higher rates of poverty among the elderly African-American population, but this was not the case," Skinner notes. Moreover, he notes, the differences could not be attributed to the likelihood of t...