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New blood test greatly reduces false-positives in prostate cancer screening
A new blood test used in combination with a conventional prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening sharply increases the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, and could eliminate tens of thousands of unneeded,...
African-American women with advanced breast cancer often forego vital treatment
A new study finds that nearly one in four African American women with late stage breast cancer refused chemotherapy and radiation therapy, potentially life saving therapies. Published in the 1...
Physicians can lead health care reform through payment and delivery system reforms
New York, NY, May 20, 2009?Physicians can and should play a leading role in achieving health care reform by working towards comprehensive reform of the way health care is paid...
Swine Flu Is Still Here
While the streets of Mexico City once again host the packed crowds, dense traffic, and general activity familiar to capitolinos before the outbreak of swine flu, other cities have now...
Infection control 'urgently needed' to curb spread of XDR-TB among health care workers
Healthcare workers in South Africa are at a significantly increased risk of developing drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, in a trend which threatens to further exacerbate the already beleaguered healthcare systems...
Electronic Patient-centered Approach To Capturing Data From Cancer Patients Improves Care And Research
Wireless, personal computers used by cancer patients to log their symptoms help improve the patients' care and further cancer research, according to a new study.
Key Proteins Needed For Ovulation Identified
Researchers have identified in mice two proteins essential for ovulation to take place. The finding has implications for treating infertility resulting from a failure of ovulation to occur as well...
Chronic Infection Now Clearly Tied To Immune-system Protein
A new study finds the cross-talk between 'killer T-cells' and 'helper T-cells' can only happen in the presence of interleukin-21, a powerful immune-system protein. Researchers say if interleukin-21 is missing,...
Ginger Quells Cancer Patients' Nausea From Chemotherapy
People with cancer can reduce post-chemotherapy nausea by 40 percent by using ginger supplements, along with standard anti-vomiting drugs, before undergoing treatment, according to scientists.
Many People Misjudge Their Degree Of Cancer Risk
Working with a population of individuals at risk for gastrointestinal cancers, researchers have learned that many people misjudge their actual degree of cancer risk and, therefore, their true need for...
Health Plans Would Add to Controls on Insurers
Senate proposals would require people to have health coverage and rein in marketing by insurance companies.
Crusading NY health chief picked to head CDC
NEW YORK (AP) -- For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New...
Researchers: agent provides treatment option for women with hot flashes
A pill used for nerve pain offers women relief from hot flashes, Mayo Clinic researchers report at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Determining success or failure in cholesterol-controlling drugs
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a complex network of interactions between drugs and the proteins with which they bind can explain adverse drug effects....
Bird Flu Dies in Our Cold Noses
A new study blames humans' cold noses for preventing a bird flu pandemic.
Should parents share the results of BRCA genetic testing with their children?
If you learned that you were at high risk of cancer because you carry the hereditary BRCA1/2 gene mutation, would you tell your children? A recent study at Fox Chase...
Gene signature may predict patient response to therapy for gastrointestinal tumours
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Centre uncovered a genetic pattern that may help predict how gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) patients respond to the targeted therapy imatinib mesylate (Gleevec). Moreover, their...
Old diabetes drug teaches experts new tricks
Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Centre reveals that the drug most commonly used in type 2 diabetics who don't need insulin works on a much more basic level than...
Immunotherapy effective against neuroblastoma in children
A phase III study has shown that adding an antibody-based therapy that harnesses the body's immune system resulted in a 20 percent increase in the number of children living disease-free...
Gene hunters target child kidney failure
Researchers are zeroing in on the genetic abnormalities predisposing to vesicoureteric reflux (VUR), one of the most common causes of urinary tract infections and kidney failure in children, reports a...
Smoking Interferes With Recovery From Alcohol-related Brain Damage
Excessive drinking can damage the brain, especially the frontal and parietal cortices. Some of this damage is reversible with abstinence from alcohol. New findings show that chronic cigarette smoking is...
Swine Flu Not an Accident From a Lab, W.H.O. Says
The World Health Organization is working to debunk rumors started by an Australian virologist.
1 in 5 Americans Admits Peeing in Pool
One in five people admitted to peeing in a swimming pool in a recent poll of Americans.
Type 2 Diabetes Rears Its Ugly Head Long Before Diagnosis
Signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes can present themselves as long as 10 years before diagnosis and most people have no idea before the damage is done.
School-age lead exposures most harmful to IQ
High concentrations in children’s blood also linked to brain-tissue losses and future criminality
Healthy Teen Weight Behaviors Linked to Regular Self-Weighing
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study of 130 overweight adolescents, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that frequent self-weighing is associated with positive behaviors and...
Physical therapy beneficial for critically ill patients in ICU
Interrupting the sedation of critically ill patients to offer brief physical and occupational therapy may improve their ability to function independently when discharged from hospital, researchers have found.
Man suing hospital for unneeded mastectomy
NYACK, N.Y., May 14 (UPI) -- A 28-year-old man alleges in a lawsuit against a hospital in Nyack, N.Y., he underwent a mastectomy as a result of a...