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Screening bypasses radical breast surgery

... introduction of a breast screening programme, the rate of mastectomy - removal of the breast - for cancer...ppening all round the plave. At the same time, the rate of breast conserving surgery went up by 50 per cent. In this operation, the lump from the breast is ...

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...tment," Menzies said. "If detected early, the cure rate for melanomas is 90 percent. But when detected late, chances of survival drop to around 65 percent. "I've used the device and it has detected melanomas that look like benign moles and that would not have been detected in a routine clinical examinatio...

Errors in medication

... The researchers feel that this evidence of a high rate of medication errors in many of the institutions in the sample supports the implications of the Institute of Medicine report that the medication delivery and administration systems of the nation's hospitals and skilled nursing facilities have major s...

Reasons why men die earlier

...emales, the males suffer a disproportionately high rate of parasitism. The authors also show that male-biased parasitism is the general rule among mammals, and that it is most extreme in those species where male-male competition for mates is most severe. Taken together, these findings suggest that male-bi...

Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack

...sium in 5,800 patients with acute STEMI. The death rate at 32 days for those given magnesium was 15.3 per cent, compared to 12.2 per cent for those on placebo. In other words, there is no survival benefit in giving magnesium for patients with this condition on a routine basis....

Role of wives of Alcoholics

... psychiatric disorders and did not report a higher rate of alcohol abuse themselves. Marc Schuckit and colleagues from the Healthcare System interviewed 250 women whose husbands had been involved in an earlier study of sons of alcoholics. Ninety-two of the women had husbands who developed alcoholism. They...

Usage of coil better in brain haemorrhage

...nefit over surgery in brain haemorrhage. The death rate from subarachnoid haemorrhage// - caused by a burs...al surgery. With the coil, the death or disability rate at one year was 25 per cent, compared to 35 per cent in the surgery group. Clearly, the coil offers ...

Calcium-blocker delays atherosclerosis than beta-blockers

...nt ways. The calcium-channel blocker decreases the rate at which calcium flows into cells and so interferes with the contraction of heart muscles. The beta-blockers make the heart beat more slowly. The researchers measured the development of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries in the neck using ultr...

Pain relieved by ionized bracelets

...looked identical. The participants were asked to rate their pain at intervals during the 25 day study. Both groups reported significant improvement in pain. There was no difference in pain relief between those wearing an ionized bracelet and those wearing a placebo. It looks as if there is a powerful 'p...

Pregnancy shouldn't be dissuaded in older age

...were 52 clinical pregnancies for a total pregnancy rate of 45.5 percent.42.1%. Of the 70 women in the series, 40 (54.5 percent) had live births. Three women carried two consecutive pregnancies. A total of 42 donors provided [eggs] for the 45 deliveries. In 26 cases (58 percent), the delivery was the mothe...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

...rove the patient's quality of life by reducing the rate of cancer recurrence at or near the original tumor...atients in the surgery-only group had a recurrence rate of 8.2%. They concluded that radiation before surgery can improve local control of the disease. Drs...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

...n with antibiotics for these patients.// The death rate among adults diagnosed with bacterial meningitis is high, especially in patients who also have pneumonia. Researchers from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam conducted a study to determine if treatment with a corticosteroid could be beneficial ...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...rtant in such an assessment, while for nurses, the rate was one in eight. The doctors ordered nearly twice as many unnecessary tests as the nurses. However, it's unlikely that nurses can completely replace junior doctors in doing this kind of work, because it's a vital part of a doctor's career developmen...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...difference in survival between the two groups. The rate for the simvastatin group was 85.4 per cent and fo...se who did not go on simvastatin straight away the rate was 60.5 per cent. The researchers think the difference is due to the effect of statins on the arter...

Depressed women show signs of earlier onset of Perimenopause

...ith with a history of depression had 1.2 times the rate of perimenopause than women with no history of depression. Women who showed more pronounced depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study had twice the risk of an earlier perimenopause and those women who took antidepressants had thrice the risk ...

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...sh their hands five times a day for a year and the rate of illness was measured. The researchers found tha...end of the hand washing program after one year the rate of respiratory illness, such as flu and bronchitis, was down 45 per cent compared to the period befo...

Ketoconazole 2% more effective in treating Seborrheic Dermatitis

... at week four. They also found that the recurrence rate of the disease was significantly lower in the group receiving ketoconazole than in the group receiving zinc pyrithione. Researchers therefore concluded that Ketoconazole 2% shampoo is significantly better in treating severe dandruff or seborrheic de...

Women who quit smoking during pregnancy tend to relapse

...men on Medicaid were found to have the lowest quit rate and the highest relapse rate. The researchers concluded that the study provided the impetus for targeting anti-smoking therapies at women who have quit during pregnancy to help reduce the danger to infants and older children from second-hand smoke....

H.Pylori testing recommended in patients with peptic ulcer

...ere given antibiotic therapy. They also found that rate of testing for the infection increased from zero i...increase of 95 per cent from zero was seen, in the rate of treatment for those with H.Pylori....

Kidney function can be affected by lead exposure

...tion therapy had an improved glomerular filtration rate (GFR) compared to those on placebo. It was also found that the rate of decline of the GFR, which is a standard measure of kidney function, was also slowed down with che...

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