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Is It Worth Having Surgery to Remove Your Tonsils?

...waiting. But despite these promising results, an editorial in this week’s journal warns that, until we have more evidence about the longer term benefits of surgery, it is difficult for doctors to provide firm advice to patients. The main problem with the trial is that the follow-up period was relatively sh...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

... factor for a severe recurrence. An accompanying editorial by Marina Berenguer of Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain considers the conflicting data from these studies and others that came before and suggests that advanced donor age together with steroid pulse therapy and over immunosuppression can explain dif...

Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms

...y the American Thoracic Society. According to an editorial commenting on the research, the failure of the infliximab to provide any therapeutic benefit in COPD patients was unexpected because the drug has proven effective in treating other inflammatory diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's ...

Drug Therapy can Reduce Preterm Births and Decrease Lifetime Medical Costs

...onic illness in children." That statement, from an editorial authored by Joanne Armstrong, MD, MPH, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and Senior Medical Director, Women's Health for Aetna, also appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. It reinforces why the resu...

Despite Control Efforts HBV Found to Transmit After Dental Surgery

... the authors of both the paper and an accompanying editorial say the case reinforces the case for universal HBV...ettings, they conclude. But in the accompanying editorial two infectious diseases specialists question whether such transmission can really be said to be rare...

Bio-Rad Gets Life Science Industry Awards – 200

...ite, The Scientist’s unique blend of authoritative editorial content has attracted a loyal following among life scientists around the world. The bond between The Scientist and its readers translated into a real interest in recognizing those companies upon whose products they rely. Scientists value the magazine...

Can Our Hospitals Cope In A Disaster?

... beds to enhance disaster preparedness.” In his editorial for the MJA, Dr Andrew Robertson, Chief Health Officer for the WA Department of Health, suggests a few steps to enhance public hospital disaster response. “Temporary hospital facilities could be created within public hospitals by preparing caches ...

Working Up Potential Living Liver Donors

...pient, they should have a say." An accompanying editorial by Robert Fisher of Virginia Commonwealth University applauds the high proportion of living donors who made it to surgery in the report by Chan et. al. He also supports expeditious workups at experienced transplant centers for "high urgency" recipien...

High Dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

... subsequent reduction in lung cancer risk. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, York E. Miller, M.D., of the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Robert L. Keith, M.D., of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Denver, wrote: “Although the data at present are certainl...

High-dose Inhaled Corticosteroid Use for COPD Could Cut Risk of Lung Cancer

... subsequent reduction in lung cancer risk. In an editorial on the research in the same issue of the journal, York E. Miller, M.D., of the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Robert L. Keith, M.D., of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Denver, wrote: "Although the data at present are certainly ...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Under Consideration in Europe

...e every year, including 1,120 in the UK. In an editorial published last year, The Lancet called for mandatory vaccination against HPV for girls in all EU member states once they are 11 or 12. The issue has been controversial, as some parents fear such vaccines against sexually transmitted viruses could...

Bowel Cancer Screening Program

...ted to the implementation of the program. In his editorial for the MJA, Professor Finlay Macrae, Head of Colorectal Medicine and Genetics at Royal Melbourne Hospital, says there are some uncertainties about whether the health system can cope with the extra need for colonoscopies that will be generated by the...

NCPAP Decreases Cerebrovascular Risk in OSA Patients

...sleep apnea patients," said Dr. Minoguchi. In an editorial on this research in the same issue of the journal, Brian J. Murray, M.D., of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and the University of Toronto, Canada, wrote:"The article by Drs. Minoguchi and colleagues provides further important observations on the a...

Take Heart If Your Parents Died at a Ripe Old Age: Framingham Heart Study

...nge the risk factors?' ", Benjamin opines. In an editorial about the article, Dr. Clyde B. Schecter of Albert Einstein College of Medicine expresses his queries, "Heart disease accounts for a large enough proportion of all deaths that any factor that promotes exceptional longevity almost inevitably must lead...

Time to Overhaul Australia's Medicines Safety Surveillance System

...s has several advantages,” Prof Stanley said in an editorial written with Dr Eric Meslin, of Indiana University, USA, in the same issue of the MJA. “However, there are also potential disadvantages associated with such a data linkage system. “We must be able to demonstrate to the community that linking data...

No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...g safety crisis in the United States.// A recent editorial published in Health Economics finds no scientific ...atively affects the well-being of consumers. The editorial points to a study that the social benefit from reducing drug approval times from 1979 to 2002 —a sum...

MRI Contrast Agent Linked to Complication in Renal Patients

... American Society of Nephrology. An accompanying editorial identifies specific groups of patients in whom gadolinium exposure should be avoided, at least until more information is available. Meanwhile, another study in the March CJASN reports "remarkable" improvement in an NSF patient treated with a drug cal...

Giving Nitroglycerin During Labour Improves Babies' Health

... American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. An editorial in the journal commends “the excellence of their clinical research” and “the study design, execution and report.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Exercise Has No Effect on Knee OA: Study

... progression of the disease. In an accompanying editorial in the current issue Marian A. Minor of the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO notes that the Felson study helps to clarify the understanding of the relationship between knee OA and physical activity by using precise definitions of OA, using vali...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

... Clinic report appears as the featured article and editorial topic in the Jan. 16, 2007, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Significance of the Mayo Clinic Research These results identify a tragic situation that could, with increased medical surveillance, potentially be prevented...

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