Women With Mental Disorders And MammogramsWomen with mental disorders are less likely to have screening mammograms than women without mental illness, although.
the nature of the mental illness does play a role, according to a large study published by Indiana University School of Medicine and Richard Roudebush VA Health Services Center for Excellence researchers in the recent issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine. Prior to this study, little was known about whether the type........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/27/2006 5:12:54 AM)
Hypertension On The SpotlightThere may be as a number of as 70 million Americans with prehypertension. If these people can be treated pharmacologically to avoid or delay progression to clinical hypertension, there would be significant benefits to them and the overall health of the population. The recent TROPHY study seems to lead to that conclusion. However, two editorials reported in the recent issue of the American Journal of High blood pressure emphatically argue that........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/27/2006 4:29:14 AM)
Report On The Future Of GastroenterologyThe field of gastroenterology is changing and practitioners must embrace the advances and new technology to ensure their practice evolves with the field, according to a report released by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute's Future Trends Committee. The report, "The Disappearance of Screening Colonoscopy and the Transformation of Gastroenterology Practice," was developed from a consensus conference held in April 2006........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/25/2006 4:33:12 AM)
Genes And Perception Of PainA new NIH-funded study shows that a specific gene variant in humans affects both sensitivity to short-term (acute) pain in healthy volunteers and the risk of developing chronic pain after one kind of back surgery. Blocking increased activity of this gene after nerve injury or inflammation in animals prevented development of chronic pain.
The gene in this study, GCH1, codes for an enzyme called GTP cyclohydrolase. The study suggests that........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/22/2006 11:19:10 PM)
Smoking Impedes HealingOrthopaedic surgery researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified yet another reason not to smoke. Studying rotator cuff injury in rats, the research team found exposure to nicotine delays tendon-to-bone healing, suggesting this could cause failure of rotator cuff repair following surgery in human patients.
Smoking is implicated in a host of physical problems, from cardiovascular disease to lung........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/22/2006 8:33:13 PM)
Immune System And Fight Against TBA key aspect of how the body kicks the immune system into action against tuberculosis is revealed in research published recently. The authors, writing in Science, hope that their research could aid the development of novel vaccines and immunotherapies to combat TB, which is responsible for two million deaths each year.
The cause of TB is a slow-growing bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Researchers have known for some time that........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/19/2006 9:37:24 PM)
Ethnic Variations In Hormone Levels And Breast CancerScientists have known that a woman's natural hormone levels can affect her risk of developing breast cancer. A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) has observed that the natural levels of estrogens in post-menopausal women varies by ethnicity and race, and may explain the differences in the groups' breast cancer rates. The study appears in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Using data from........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/17/2006 9:46:43 PM)
Older Breast Cancer Patients May Be Under-treatedElderly breast cancer patients who received care in a community hospital setting may have been under-diagnosed, under-staged and under-treated, as per a report in the recent issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The number of older patients with breast cancer has increased along with overall elderly population, as per background information in the article. About half of patients with breast cancer are older than 65........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/17/2006 5:03:25 AM)
Studying Tumor GenomicsThe newly established Berkeley Cancer Genome Center, led by members of the Life Sciences Division in the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is one of seven Cancer Genome Characterization Centers to receive awards from the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute. Earlier today the two institutes, both part of the National Institutes of Health, announced a three-year, $35 million........Go to the Cancer-articles (Added on 10/17/2006 4:49:02 AM)
Asthma Linked To Soot From Diesel TrucksSoot particles spewing from the exhaust of diesel trucks constitute a major contributor to the alarmingly high rates of asthma symptoms among school-aged children in the South Bronx, as per the results of a five-year study by scientists at New York University's School of Medicine and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Over the course of the study, asthma symptoms, especially wheezing, doubled among elementary........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/16/2006 9:57:21 PM)
Drug Might Give Prolonged Arthritis ReliefScientists at Duke University have devised a new way to significantly prolong the effects of an anti-inflammatory drug, potentially making it useful for providing longer-lasting therapy for osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis.
The modified drug, which would be injected directly into arthritic joints, could last for several weeks rather than just the few hours the unmodified drug would last, the scientists said.
In their........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/15/2006 7:21:39 PM)
Leading Reason For Corneal TransplantsGuided by families with an unusual number of cases, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered the genetic origins of at least one form of Fuchs corneal dystrophy, FCD, the leading reason for corneal transplantation in the United States.
In one form or another, FCD's trademark deterioration of the cells covering the clear, outermost lens of the eye affects more than 4 percent of the population over 40. Late in life, the dystrophy causes........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/12/2006 10:16:45 PM)
Antioxidants Fish Oil And AMDThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces a nationwide study to see if a modified combination of vitamins, minerals, and fish oil can further slow the progression of vision loss from AMD, the leading cause of vision loss in the United States for people over age 60. This new study, called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2), will build upon results from the earlier Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). The original study........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/12/2006 4:53:07 AM)
Timing Of Spinal SurgeryWhen it comes to a devastating spinal injury, says spine surgeon Alexander Vaccaro, M.D., timing might be nearly everything. It's also a topic of great debate and discussion among orthopaedic surgeons.
Dr. Vaccaro, professor of orthopaedic surgery and neurological surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and his colleagues are trying........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/11/2006 4:44:19 AM)
Target For Leukemia TreatmentCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center today announced the publication of pioneering research identifying the crucial role and novel mechanism of action of the protein RhoH GTPase in the development and activation of cells critical to the immune system. The findings, along with other studies, suggest that RhoH GTPase may provide a target for therapeutic intervention in some types of leukemia. The paper is due to appear in an upcoming........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/9/2006 10:03:41 PM)
A new way to treat colon cancer? Researchers at University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute have discovered a new target for possible future colon cancer treatments a molecule that is implicated in 85 percent of colon cancer cases.
These findings were published online Oct. 6, 2006, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
By knocking out that is, genetically disabling a molecule called C-Terminal Binding Protein (CTBP) researchers were able to rescue zebrafish........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/9/2006 8:32:17 PM)
Genes Diet And Heart DiseaseScientists from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and his colleagues have found another link among genes, heart disease and diet. The study, published in Circulation, examined apolipoprotein A5 (APOA5), a gene that codes for a protein, which in turn plays a role in the metabolism of fats in the blood. The results show that people who carry a particular variant of APOA5 may have elevated risk........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/8/2006 7:11:51 PM)
Some Breast Cancer Patients Unhappy With Lumpectomy[imgl]/images/blog/lumpectomy.jpg[/imgl]Women with breast cancer often undergo a lumpectomy and radiation to save their breasts and avoid the need for additional reconstructive surgery. However, approximately one-third of all patients are unhappy with how their breasts look after undergoing breast conservation therapy and many would consider reconstruction, according to a study presented today at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/8/2006 6:14:30 PM)
Tumor Suppressor Promoteing Cancer Cell Growth?Researchers have shown that the tumor suppressor gene H-REV107-1 may actually stimulate tumor progression in some non-small cell lung carcinomas. The related report by Nazarenko et al., "H-REV107-1 stimulates growth in non-small cell lung carcinomas via the activation of mitogenic signaling," appears in the recent issue of The American Journal of Pathology.
Tumor suppressor genes function by regulating normal cell growth and proliferation.........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/5/2006 9:58:13 PM)
Food Sources Of DiseaseAs the recent U.S. outbreak of E. coli infections caused by contaminated spinach demonstrates, the safety of the food we eat cannot be taken for granted. Two studies in the Nov. 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, further illustrate the point, one adding a new bacterial culprit to the mix and the other showing that use of antibiotics as growth promoters in livestock increases the risk of antibiotic resistance in........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/3/2006 10:04:44 PM)
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Survivors of organized violenceA series of studies, conducted by a psychotraumatology research group headed by Thomas Elbert in collaboration with Penn State psychologist William Ray, has examined a group of people who have been exposed to different magnitudes of torture and found the appearance of dissociation (mental separation from the incident) long after the event. The research is published in the latest issue of Psychological Science.
Those who experienced multiple........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/27/2006 5:01:17 AM)
Moderate Drinking May Boost MemoryIn the long run, a drink or two a day may be good for the brain.
Researchers found that moderate amounts of alcohol - amounts equivalent to a couple of drinks a day for a human - improved the memories of laboratory rats.
Such a finding may have implications for serious neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, said Matthew During, the study's senior author and a professor of molecular virology, immunology and cancer genetics at Ohio........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/26/2006 5:19:32 AM)
HIV-positive individuals with inadequate care In a first-of-its-kind study, UCLA scientists have shown that segments of the HIV-infected population who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care -- and yet are most in need of such services -- are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.
Prior studies had shown minorities, the poor and substance users who were receiving routine medical care for the HIV infection, and whose data could therefore be easily........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/26/2006 5:00:32 AM)
New Treatment For Obsessive-compulsive DisordersIn a paper published on-line in advance of publication in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, reports the surprising finding that the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI) medication, paroxetine, is effective in treating patients with compulsive hoarding syndrome.
The study of 79 patients........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/24/2006 6:04:28 PM)
Beliefs Could Have Adverse Effect On HIV RatesA review of research on the prevalence of HIV in the Middle East and North Africa has found that whilst cultural and religious practices may be behind a low prevalence of HIV in the region, they could potentially contribute to increasing the spread of HIV.
Research from the World Health Organisation, published in this week's BMJ, argues it is possible that some practices which are common among Muslim populations may contribute to decreasing........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/19/2006 9:44:44 PM)
Labor Induction Increases Risk Of Amniotic-fluid EmbollismA Canadian population-based cohort study has revealed that medical induction of labour increases the risk of amniotic-fluid embolism. The study was led by Dr. Michael Kramer, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Senior Investigator from McGill University, and would be reported in the October 21st issue of The Lancet.
Amniotic-fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare, but serious and even fatal maternal complication of delivery. While its........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/19/2006 8:55:31 PM)
Femara More Effective Than NolvadexScientists affiliated with the BIG-98 trial comparing Femara® (letrozole) to Nolvadex® (tamoxifen) have reported that longer follow-up confirms the superiority of Femara in postmenopausal women with early, hormone-positive breast cancer. The details of this follow-up study were presented at the 2006 annual European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) meeting in Istanbul in October.
Femara is an aromatase agent that is approved for........Go to the Cancer-articles (Added on 10/17/2006 9:55:52 PM)
Childhood Cancer Survivors May Have Low Birth Weight ChildrenFemale childhood cancer survivors may face pregnancy problems, including early deliveries and low birth weight children, as per a research studyin the October 19 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
New therapies for childhood cancer patients have increased survival, but a number of researchers are concerned about the long-term effects of the therapys, especially for patients exposed to radiation and chemotherapy.
Lisa B. Signorello,........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/17/2006 9:28:01 PM)
Vitamin D Can Fight Breast CancerVitamin D may help curb breast cancer progression, as per a research studypublished recently in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.
The authors, from Imperial College London, measured the levels of vitamin D in the blood serum of 279 women with invasive breast cancer. The disease was in its early stages in 204 of the women, and advanced in the remaining 75.
The results showed that women with early stage disease had significantly higher........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/17/2006 4:59:21 AM)
Broccoli's Cancer Fighting SecretsAfter all these years, mom was right. She knew broccoli was good for you, she just didn't know it was this good.
"Everyone knows broccoli is good for you and that it contains compounds known to lessen the occurrence of some types of cancer. We want to know how these compounds work and what their specific targets may be," says Janet V. Cross, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Cross........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/17/2006 4:30:12 AM)
Novel Therapy For Prostate CancerA team of University of Iowa Health Care researchers has launched an important clinical trial of a novel therapeutic that may eventually lead to new treatments for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The Ad5-TRAIL gene therapy for prostate cancer research trial is a Phase I study designed to test the optimal dosage at which the therapeutic agent can safely be given to patients.
The clinical study is being co-led by Thomas Griffith, Ph.D.,........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/15/2006 7:31:44 PM)
Kidney Damage After Heart SurgeryThe incidence of kidney damage associated with coronary artery bypass surgery has increased significantly over the past 16 years in the United States, but the rate of death from such damage has decreased significantly during the period, according to a new analysis.
In their analysis of more than 5 million discharges from hospitals across the United States, the researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that the incidence of acute........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/15/2006 6:44:19 PM)
Test To Predict Response In Pancreatic CancerBy slicing up bits of patient tumors and grafting them into mice, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialists have figured out how to accurately "test drive" chemotherapy drugs to learn in advance which drug therapys offer each individual pancreas cancer patient the best therapeutic journey.
Eventhough "xenografting" with either cells or fresh tissue is already used widely to test cancer therapies, the Hopkins design is personalized to........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/11/2006 9:01:16 PM)
Poultry And Antibiotic ResistanceClinic researcher and colleagues have found.
Results of the nearly $1.4 million three-year study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, are in the November 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Edward Belongia, M.D., Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wis., and colleagues examined poultry exposure as a risk factor for antibiotic resistance in Enterococcus faecium, a gut........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/10/2006 10:24:26 PM)
Celiac Disease And Cognitive DeclineMayo Clinic scientists have uncovered a new link between celiac disease, a digestive condition triggered by consumption of gluten, and dementia or other forms of cognitive decline. The investigators' case series analysis -- an examination of medical histories of a group of patients with a common problem -- of 13 patients would be reported in the recent issue of Archives of Neurology.
"There has been very little known about this correlation........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/9/2006 9:29:03 PM)
How Cancer-drug Resistance OccursUsing the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a mechanism by which cancer cells become resistant to a specific class of drugs.
They found that a mutation in a single protein in the worm renders a potential new cancer drug ineffective. The drug is a derivative of a compound called hemiasterlin. Because hemiasterlin compounds are being tested as a way to fight multi-drug........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/9/2006 8:26:15 PM)
Exercise For Older AdultsFor many older adults, a visit to the doctor is not complete without the bestowal of at least one prescription. What if, in addition to prescribing medications as necessary, physicians also prescribed exercise? Ann Yelmokas McDermott, PhD, a researcher in the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University, and Heather Mernitz, PhD, now of the Nutrition and Cancer........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/8/2006 7:20:37 PM)
Antidepressants After Plastic SurgeryIt has been proven that plastic surgery can improve self-esteem, but can it also act as a natural mood enhancer? A significant number of patients stopped taking antidepressant medicine after undergoing plastic surgery, as per a research studypresented today at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2006 conference in San Francisco.
"Plastic surgery patients are taking a proactive approach in making themselves........Go to the What-media-blog (Added on 10/8/2006 5:29:29 PM)
New Fodder For The Next Clean Air FightNew research from researchers at Harvard University measured secondhand tobacco smoke in cars and found pollution levels that are likely hazardous to children.
"The levels were above the threshold for what's considered unhealthy for sensitive groups -- people like children and the elderly -- as determined by the Environmental Protection Agency," said lead study author Vaughan Rees, Ph.D., a research associate at the Harvard School of Public........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/3/2006 10:23:03 PM)
Links Between Drugs And Human DiseaseA research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new kind of genetic "roadmap" that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells.
Called the "Connectivity Map," the new tool and its uses are described in the Sept. 29 issue of Science and in separate papers in the Sept. 28 early edition of Cancer Cell.
The three papers show the........Go to the The-cancer-blog (Added on 10/3/2006 10:17:50 PM)
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