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New Model Predicts Whether Patients Will Be Free Of Renal Cancer 12 Years After Initial Treatment
Physicians and other researchers have developed a unique statistical model that predicts the probability of a patient being cancer free 12 years after initial surgical treatment.
Improved Foster Care Reduces Risk Of Adult Mental And Physical Illness, Study Finds
In the first controlled follow-up study ever to examine the long-term health effects of foster care programs, researchers from Harvard Medical School showed that the extremely high rates of mental...
New Kidney Protein Speeds, Improves Diagnosis Of Failing Kidneys
To tackle the gap between damage, diagnosis and treatment of acute kidney injury, a unique team of scientists, physicians, and medical students is focusing on a small protein found in...
Obesity And Depression May Be Linked
New research indicates people who are obese may be more likely to become depressed, and people who are depressed may be more likely to become obese. People who are obese...
Exposure Therapy May Help Prevent Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Exposure-based therapy, in which recent trauma survivors are instructed to relive the troubling event, may be effective in preventing the progression from acute stress disorder to post-traumatic stress disorder, according...
Little response after breast cancer test warning: MD
A physician who flagged serious problems at a St. John's pathology lab in 2003 was not consulted two years later, when Eastern Health realized its breast cancer testing was flawed.
Pollen vaccine hope for hay fever sufferers
Immune system is trained to tolerate pollen reducing symptoms such as sneezing, itchy eyes and a runny nose
Marijuana can causes brain damage
Long-term cannabis use causes brain abnormalities and psychotic problems equivalent to that of mild trauma in all patients, not just high risk ones, research has found.
Surgical conditions in Africa are given low priority despite causing death and disability
Two surgeons are calling on the international health community to recognize that surgical conditions account for a huge burden of disease in the developing world, and that the human right...
Earlier diagnosis giving Alzheimer's a new voice
(AP) -- Don Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day,"...
Toad Research Could Leapfrog To New Muscle Model
The deceptively simple, remarkably fast feeding action of toads and chameleons offers a new look at how muscles work. This fresh perspective could lead to designing more efficient electric motors,...
Globalization Exposes Food Supply To Unsanitary Practices
As the United States continues to import increasingly more of its food from developing nations, we are putting ourselves at greater risk of foodborne disease because many of these countries...
Vaccine May Double Survival In Patients With Deadly Brain Tumors
A vaccine aimed at inducing immunity to the most common and deadly type of brain tumor may stave off recurrence and more than double survival in patients, according to a...
Treatment Improves Walking Ability Of Parkinson's Patients
The use of electrical impulses to stimulate weak or paralyzed muscles, called functional electrical stimulation, is often used to help stroke or multiple sclerosis patients to walk.
Link Between Inflammation, Cancer Confirmed
Chronic inflammation of the intestine or stomach can damage DNA, increasing the risk of cancer, MIT scientists have confirmed. Chronic inflammation accelerated tumor formation in mice lacking the ability to...
Gene therapy involving antibiotics may help patients with Usher syndrome
A new approach to treating vision loss caused by Type 1 Usher syndrome (USH1), the most common condition affecting both sight and hearing, will be unveiled by a scientist...
Lucy Atkins: How worried should we be about a link between gum disease and cancer?
Researchers have found a link between gum disease and cancer. How worried should we be, asks Lucy Atkins
Animal research and second division Nobel prizes
Letters: Calls for Nobel prize for advancing medical knowledge without experimentation on animals
Brain tumor patient recalls surgery like Kennedy's
BOSTON (AP) -- As she lay on her side listening to the whine of a drill boring into her skull, Mindy Wanatick took comfort in a vision still within her...
Fewer than 1 in 5 patients receive treatment to prevent life-threatening blood clots
Fewer than 1 in 5 patients received post-discharge therapy to prevent life-threatening blood clots — venous thrombosis — after hip- or knee-replacement surgery, report Rahme and colleagues in a retrospective...
Molecular changes in brain fluid give insight into brain-damaging disease
Soon after an individual becomes infected with HIV the virus infects cells in the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system [CNS]). Although this causes no immediate problems, during...
HK experts use new cocktail to fight H5N1 in mice
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong have used a cocktail of three drugs which appeared to raise the survival rates of mice infected with lethal doses of the...
Genes may determine which smoking cessation treatment works best
Kicking the habit may soon become easier for the nation`s 45 million smokers. For the first time, researchers have identified patterns of genes that appear to influence how well individuals...
New method of managing risk in pregnancy leads to healthier newborns, better outcomes for moms
An alternative method for obstetric care has led to lower neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission rates, higher uncomplicated vaginal birth (UVB) rates, and a lower mean Adverse Outcome Index...
Doctor who led SARS fight in Toronto dies
Dr. Sheela Basrur, who became a trusted source of information through the SARS crisis in Toronto in 2003 as the medical officer of health for the City of Toronto, has...
Next-Gen Heart Stents May Feature Toothlike Coating [News]
When arteries carrying blood to the heart muscles become blocked, doctors often clear them by performing an angioplasty (inserting a balloon to open the narrowing passageways) and then inserting a...
Gene therapy slows progression of Batten Disease
Gene therapy that helps defective brain cells get rid of "garbage" appears both safe and effective at slowing down Batten disease, according to promising findings from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical...
Bush weighs in against Senate climate bill
(AP) -- President Bush weighed in Monday against a Senate bill that would require dramatic cuts in climate-changing greenhouse pollution, cautioning senators "to be very careful about running up...