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Sports Doctors too few for 2012 Olympics

...eans they need time off work." He added that the length of the training program would mean that doctors would have to begin training next year at the latest to be ready for 2012. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: "The work of the speciality will be of wide nation...

Improved Treatment Raises Medulloblastoma Survival Rate

...l rates while reducing the amount of radiation and length of chemotherapy following surgery in average-risk patients from levels used in standard treatments, according to Amar Gajjar, M.D., co-chair of the St. Jude Department of Oncology and director of its Neuro-Oncology Division. The chemotherapy for aver...

Upgrading Donor Lung Quality to Improve Availability

...without compromising recipient pulmonary function, length of hospital stay or survival. The study appears in the second issue for September 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society. Implemented in 2001, the SALT donor-management p...

REG1A and its receptor EXTL3 signal the recurrence of colorectal cancer

...neral, its level of expression correlated with the length of time before the disease recurred--as REG1A expression levels increased, disease-free survival decreased. Patients with higher expression levels also tended to have lower disease-specific survival, meaning less time before they died from their d...

Heavy Industry Could Trigger Lung Cancer Risk

... The researchers interviewed study participants at length about their lives, including full histories of whe...) and more than 10 km away (Zone C). The average length of time that all participants had lived in the area was over 55 years. After taking account of smo...

A Woman's Sporting Ability Is In Her Fingers!

... a woman's sporting ability may be measured by the length of her fingers//. Researchers said that the findin...fourth finger ratio was calculated by dividing the length of the index (second) finger by that of the (fourth) ring finger. Study participants were also aske...

Osteoarthritis May be Sign of Faster “Biological Ageing

...lected by the gradual shortening of telomeres, the length of DNA which caps the tips of chromosomes. A host ... 160 people with hand osteoarthritis, the telomere length was significantly shorter than among those without the disease, even after taking account of influen...

Arimidex-Herceptin Combo Therapy For Breast Cancer-Clinical Trial Findings

...) from AstraZeneca to their treatment improves the length of progression free time by 4.8 months. A Phase III clinical trial sponsored by Roche showed that Arimidex alone inhibited the progression by just 2.4 months after which the cancer continued to progress. Hormone sensitive breast cancer is seen in ...

Computer-Driven System Reduces Patient Mechanical Ventilation Time Significantly

... reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and length of stay in the intensive// care unit (ICU), as compared with the traditional physician-controlled weaning process. The study, which was conducted in five medical-surgical ICUs in Barcelona, Brussels, Créteil, Geneva and Paris, appears in the secon...

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Rat

...of cells - already being planned -- along the full length of the spine to affect upper body nerves and muscles as well might lead to longer survival in the same rats. “We only injected cells in the lower spine, affecting only the nerves and muscles below the waist,” he noted. “The nerves and muscles above...

Breathing Training Helps Decrease Risk of Complications After Graft Surgery

...ve an effect on patient illness and risk of death, length of hospital stay, and overall use of resources, ac... force and a decrease in the incidence of PPCs and length of hospitalization. We consider this to be an important presurgical intervention that appears to be ...

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

...lief therapies included clinical outcomes like the length of labor, the need to use instruments to assist labor and trauma to the perineum. Seattle-area doula and childbirth educator Penny Simkin — who was not involved in the Cochrane review — said "many of my students choose to use acupuncture, but mostl...

Kids Help Other Kids to Protect Their Hearing from Personal Music Devices

...hich indicate potential hearing loss as related to length of time the music is played at that volume. Their advocacy efforts included three steps: crafting public service announcements, designing warning labels on products, and calling for regulations to ensure the volume dials on all personal music playe...

Drinking Red Wine Cuts Risk of Colorectal Cancer

... The resveratrol content of wine is related to the length of time the grape skins are present during the fermentation process. 'The concentration is significantly higher in red wine than in white wine, because the skins are removed earlier during white-wine production, lessening the amount that is extracted...

Smoking Cessation Therapy May be Harmful for ICU Patients

...between the NRT and control groups. The median ICU length of stay for the NRT group was 24.4 (16.1 – 63.6) h...) hours for the control group. The median hospital length of stay was 29.6 (18.3 – 127.1) hours, compared with 46.2 (19.8 – 117.3) hours for the control group...

Drug Prescribed for Migraines and Seizures Increases Risk of Kidney Stones

...ce rate may be an underestimation due to the short length of observation and the lack of ongoing kidney-stone surveillance and data collection for this drug, said Dr. Sakhaee, holder of the BeautiControl Cosmetics Inc. Professorship in Mineral Metabolism and Osteoporosis. “There is a legitimate concern fo...

'Good' And 'Evil' Clones Of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia cells

...one at diagnosis correlated significantly with the length of the first clinical remission, and the more of the subclone that was present, the quicker the patient relapsed. Ms Choi said: 'I believe it is important to know that these cells are actually more resistant and aggressive from the very beginning, ...

Even 6 months or more of hormone therapy treatment does not impact longevity of prostate cancer patients

...cts vary significantly depending on the amount and length of time the hormone therapy is given. Potential side effects include reduced sexual desire, impotence, hot flashes, weakening of the bones, breast tenderness or breast growth, as well as other conditions. The study reviewed 579 patients who were tr...

Complications Resulting From Bariatric Surgery Vary With HealthGrades Ratings

... programs have shorter hospital stays. The average length of stay was 21 percent shorter in five-star hospitals, as compared with the national average * If all hospitals performed at the level of a five-star rated hospital, 3,297 out of the 86,520 patients studied could have potentially avoided one or mor...

Adding Radiation Therapy For Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer May Offer Benefit

..., but does not appear to significantly improve the length of survival, according to a study in the November 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on men's health. Gregory Swanson, M.D., of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, presented the findings of the study today at a JAMA media briefi...

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