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Breast Cancer Patients Follow-up Devalued

...nised that reduced clinical workload was the major benefit of discharging their patients to primary care, but had concerns. Mr Donnelly said: "Specialists felt that changes to the primary care infrastructure would make them more likely to discharge earlier. These changes included increased GP education and...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

... response and remission long term is a significant benefit to patients." Separate data also presented at DDW today show the significant impact of UC on patients' productivity, employment and social activities. A survey of 1,000 patients who rated their UC symptoms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being very se...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...study suggests that the relationships offer little benefit to tiny babies unless the laboring mother is transferred before the delivery to a facility with sophisticated obstetrical and neonatal support. "It's not good to move these kids around," said Phibbs. "The best way to transport a very premature infant...

Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury can Be Predicted Using MRI

...suggests that MRI may predict which patients would benefit the most from decompressive surgery," Dr. Fehlings said. He added that MRI should be performed on all patients with acute SCI whenever feasible as it provides information with prognostic value and serves to guide the clinician to optimize clinical ...

People With Physical Disabilities can Now Play Music With Their Nose!

...n though it required a lot of effort. "The added benefit of all of this is that the children are working on their head control," said Leaf Miller, a professional musician and an occupational therapist at Rehab Programs in Poughkeepsie, NY. "It can also be adapted for speech language pathologists to use f...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

...occur in all of the population. Of those who could benefit from the LASIK procedure, approximately 5% have chosen to undergo this procedure in the decade since LASIK was introduced. Presbyopia occurs in everyone, so eventually, any person can be a potential customer. Financial analyst, Gary Hager of Manalo...

Advanced Cancer Treatment Brings New Hope to Michigan Patient

...mely limited. Patients and their families will all benefit from having this new line defense in the fight against cancer right here in Michigan'. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor is among a growing number of elite hospitals in the country to incorporate the $4 million CyberKnife System as an essentia...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

... into the hands of clinicians and patients who can benefit most.' 'Teenaged cancer patients present special treatment challenges,' said Gary Dahl, MD, pediatric oncologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University and a principal investigator for the Re-Mission Outcomes Study. 'The Re-Mi...

Dog Owners More Active, Leaner

...he study. 'More dog walking appears to be a health benefit of living in walkable neighborhoods.' The American College of Sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 20,000 international, national, and regional members are dedicated to advancing a...

Folic Acid may Help to Cut Down the Stroke Risk

... trials are needed before we can conclude that the benefit of continued use of previously deemed 'safe' vitamin supplements outweighs the risk of other adverse cardiovascular disease outcomes."...

New Drugs Hold Hope for HIV Patients

...hers found that HIV patients in deep salvage could benefit the most from these drugs. Hence for patients in deep salvage, 2007 may be comparable to the landmark events of 1996, when the near miraculous effects of combination therapy were first observed, the authors wrote. The findings of the study were p...

FASgen Announces New Diagnostic Research Test for Steatohepatitis

...for serious liver disease and those most likely to benefit from proactive therapy. About FASgen, Inc.: FASgen, Inc. is a drug development company founded in 2000 by four distinguished Johns Hopkins researchers to create new therapeutic products based on the selective inhibition of fatty acid biosynthesis. ...

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

...he research indicates that the approach also might benefit patients with certain kidney disorders. The scie... is also exploring the possibility that ManNAc may benefit people suffering from diseases that involve damage to the cell layers of the kidney that are require...

Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans

...tively say that one carbon nutrients either pose a benefit or a hazard to most people, but they note that it is the best analysis that can be performed outside of a randomized clinical trial....

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

... it works and lots of people stop smoking, it will benefit everyone." But some organizations have criticised Nices draft approval, pointing out that it has recently turned down other treatments for cancer and Alzheimers. Anti-smoking group ASH welcomed the move, but Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Sm...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...women and their families. Organizations that can benefit from the toolkit include CARE International, the A...s settings where emergencies have occurred and can benefit people, particularly women and infants, displaced by conflict or natural disasters occurring domesti...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

...est chance of identifying those patients who could benefit most from treatment with AZD0530 in the future."About AstraZenecaAstraZeneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare ser...

Arsenic Poison can Make Longer Life of Leukemia Patients

.... "This study shows that even more patients will benefit if we give (arsenic) earlier in the course of treatment," said Dr. Bayard Powell, hematology professor at Wake Forest medical center in North Carolina, and the lead author of the research delivered at the meeting of the American Society of Oncology (...

Advanced Breast Cancer: Study Reveals White and Black Women Have Different Survival Rates

...w that improvements in breast cancer survival only benefit white women and that the disparity between black and white breast cancer patients is widening. The study evolved as a follow-up to recent research of Sharon Giordano, M.D., assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Breast Medical Oncolo...

Lymphoma Patients Maybe Helped by Adding Radioimmunotherapy to Chemo

... a slow-growing type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, may benefit from chemotherapy followed by radioimmunotherapy. Over 90 percent of study patients responded completely to the treatment and since only a short-course of chemotherapy was used, side effects were limited and well-tolerated. Radioimmunotherapy was d...

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