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Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening

...nists, family practitioners, and urologists better assess the need for a patient to have a prostate biopsy and to identify those likely to have prostate cancer."...

Americans Optimistic About the War on Cancer

...sponsored by Abbott. The goal of the survey was to assess Americans' perceptions of cancer research and their outlook regarding new treatments. Opinion Research Corporation conducted the research....

Monogram Presents Results of First ETag Breast Cancer Studies

...pability enables the eTag technology to accurately assess signaling pathways that control cell growth, proliferation and survival. Dysregulation of these pathways has been associated with a wide variety of tumors, including breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancers. Many new therapeutic candidates tar...

Bush Seeks Doubling of AIDS-fighting Funds

...irst Lady Laura Bush would visit Africa in June to assess HIV/AIDS-fighting strategies in Zambia, Mali, Senegal and Mozambique, and report back on what works and what does not in battling the deadly disease. "She's going to meet with community leaders and visit with participants in HIV/AIDS programs durin...

Refugees No Burden On Health System

...ce difficulties in accessing hospitals would be to assess utilisation rates by length of time in Australia. 'It can be argued that recent arrivals would have less knowledge about the availability of hospital services than those who had been in the country longer.' The Medical Journal of Australia is a p...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...until they reach an older age when researchers can assess any onset of muscle weakness. In addition, NHGRI clinical researchers recently observed a temporary, but significant, improvement in muscle strength among HIBM patients who received intravenous immune globulin G an effect that researchers suspect wa...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...sults from the survey, believed to be the first to assess the prevalence of uncontrolled asthma among a nati... Asthma Control and Treatment (REACT) study was to assess the prevalence of uncontrolled asthma and the factors associated with the lack of control. Participa...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

A new resource to assess the reproductive health needs of women displaced f...fter receiving repeated requests for assistance to assess reproductive health needs in conflict settings. The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions on im...

Researchers Identify Genetic Mutations for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer

...cy, Vancouver, and colleagues conducted a study to assess the frequency of mutations in the CDH1 gene and whether these mutations occurred due to independent mutational events or common ancestry. The study included 38 families diagnosed clinically with HDGC, who were analyzed for CDH1 mutations. Twenty-si...

Long-term Use of Herceptin Does Not Increase Heart Failure in Patients

...these findings. The model will help oncologists to assess the risk of heart failure in individual breast cancer patients before treatment with Herceptin and chemotherapy. These findings, to be announced at the Womens Cancers press briefing at the meeting, will be published in Abstract LBA513 in the ASCO pro...

Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK

... healthcare associated infections. Inspectors will assess the cleanliness of wards, procedures for isolating infected patients, hand washing and the cleaning of equipment. Any trust found in breach of the code will be required to implement an action plan or face a public reprimand. The Commission has a new ...

HHS Buys Next Generation Smallpox Vaccine

...ystems. The purpose of these studies is to further assess the safety of the vaccine, and also to begin to assess how effective the vaccine will be based on the immune responses generated. The last case of smallp...

PET/CT: The Best Test for Women With Ovarian Cancer

...ncologists and medical oncologists- -were asked to assess the impact of the PET/CT on patient management. "The next step in this research will be to attempt to identify those patients with residual disease after the initial diagnosis and after initial treatment has been completed--with the hope of positiv...

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...of The Lancet, reviewed eight randomized trials to assess the efficacy of folic acid supplementation in stroke prevention(3). According to the researchers, folic acid supplementation reduced the relative risk of stroke by 18 percent or more. The benefit was even greater in those trials involving a longer ...

Jury Still Out on Cardiovascular Risk of Using HRT

...term effects of HRT on women in early menopause to assess conclusively the cardiovascular risks and benefits of HRT....

Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

..., of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute will assess predictive factors -- including age at diagnosis, gender, family history and race -- that may bear on mortality in Parkinson's disease. Other funded studies will examine aspects of PD including whether it is possible to identify PD subgroups based ...

HIV and AIDS Pregnancies Considerably Reduced- South African Health Minister

...etroviral therapy and monitoring and evaluation to assess progress and share research. She said We have re-launched the Government HIV and AIDS communication programme, Khomanani which has been allocated R190 million for a two year period. "This communication programme encourages responsible sexual behavi...

Standards for Measuring Narrowing of Carotid Arteries too Aggressive

...g of the carotid arteries. They used ultrasound to assess the narrowing and compared the results from ultrasound to those found using CT angiography. Both techniques produced similar results, with nearly identical measures of the size of the channel inside the artery. Further study of another 337 mild, mod...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

...rried out on animals, and more needs to be done to assess the drug's effect on humans. But Surmeier voiced cautious hopes it could be the first treatment to prevent or slow the progression of this devastating disease. The mainstay treatment for Parkinson's is L-DOPA, a drug that the brain converts into ...

Yoga to Be Scientifically Tested as Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

...ack pain. As a part of the course, the team will assess moves from the two most popular types of yoga - Iyengar yoga and hatha yoga. The research will involve more than 260 people between the ages of 18 and 65 who have had back pain in the past 18 months. The research will be lead by David Torgerson,...

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