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Unnecessary Pap Smears

Millions of women may be unnecessarily screened for cervical cancer, according to a new study. Acc...archers say about 10 million women are still being screened unnecessarily. Researchers conclude that the task force’s recommendations either have not been hear...

New Heart-Screening Device ,An Accurate Predictor Of Heart Disease

... to determine artery stiffness. Patients were also screened with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to confirm the device’s effectiveness. Results show the screening device was an accurate predictor of heart disease. Patients who are in the early stages of heart disease experience a hardening or stiffness in t...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

...roup received secondary TEP, performed after being screened from a population of head and neck cancer patients who had already had their tongues and voice boxes removed. After six months, researchers say all the patients who received a secondary TEP were satisfied with their speech intelligibility results. H...

Colonoscopy Could Also Identify Heart Attack Risk

...ers say both men and women older than 50 should be screened for colon cancer....

Schizophrenics On Medication At An Increased Risk For Developing Diabetes

...ents treated with these agents should be routinely screened and counseled to reduce risk, and provided early interventions....

Analyzing The Risk Factors For Diabetic Neuropathy

...200 people with type 1 diabetes who were initially screened for neuropathy between 1989 and 1991. None of the patients had the condition, which is characterized by loss of feeling or painful tingling in various parts of the body, at the initial screen. All patients were followed for about seven years. On anal...

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...sleepiness and loud, persistent snoring, should be screened and treated....

Understanding The Link Between Celiac Disease And Osteoporosis

...to suggest if everyone with osteoporosis should be screened for the condition. For the study 270 people were e...y their study raises the question of who should be screened for celiac disease and when, hence they suggest that further study be done inorder to more clearly d...

MRI screenings may be better to identify breast cancer

...e genetically. These women will benefit from being screened for breast cancer from early adulthood. Screening young women for this purpose is done more accurately by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans as dense breast tissues reduce effects of mammography at this age. Researchers had studied 649 women in ...

Oral cancer screenings to reduce the mortality rates

...97517 eligible participants of the study, 91% were screened at least once, 55% twice, and 30% were screened three times. The people who were found positive on the screenings, 63% of them had undergone the med...

Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children

...hich DNA drawn from the blood of the patients were screened for common genetic variations. The researchers had narrowed down their study on gene codes for enzymes, which are involved in the metabolism and reaction to chemotherapy drugs used in treating cancer. The results had showed that for children in the ...

Obesity in the Middle age can increase risk of developing dementia

...s. Medical recordsduring the period 1994-2003 were screened fordiagnosis of dementia and other diseases. The study revealed that obese individuals had a 74%more risk of dementia as compared to those who hadnormal weight. Overweight people had 35% greater riskof developing dementia. Body Mass Index equal to o...

Diabetes diagnosis may be the signal for psychiatric illness in children

...ren suffering from diabetes should be compulsorily screened for mental illnesses in order to treat them early....ental illnesses and developmental problems must be screened for incidence of diabetes type 2 disease. Reference: Pediatric Diabetes, June 2005...

Screening For Prostate Cancer May Reduce Mortality Rate

...enefit is demonstrated even among men who were not screened regularly as part of a screening program. There may be greater benefit from an organized screening program." "Just by chance alone you're going to be picking up some of those prostate cancers, and those people wind up getting labeled as prostate can...

Genes to Extend Longevity Discovered

...chool, Boston and University of California, Davis, screened for genes that could increase yeast lifespan via Sir2 gene. According to the study published today in the advance online edition of Science, “Yeast and Drosophila lacking the Sir2 gene do not live longer when subjected to calorie restriction, suggest...

Heart can repair itself after heart attack

...mpared them with 10 normal hearts. The researchers screened the tissue for the expression of Ki-67, a protein that is present only in dividing cells. The major finding of the study was that heart's capacity to regenerate myocytes increases immediately after a heart attack. The origin of these newly formed hea...

Gum disease may be caused by blood clotting gene

...control" group of 75 people with healthy gums were screened for two variations of fibrinogen genes that increase levels// of the protein. Fifty-one percent of people with gum disease had one or both gene variations, compared with 30% of the control group. The findings, which were presented at the annu...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

... at Cleavland University,we advocate that women be screened for bone density by age 60 but there is a lack of awareness on the part of both physicians and patients to do the scans. Cotman said physicians and patients may not be motivated to screen for bone density loss because up to five years ago there was n...

Heart grows new cells

...mpared them with 10 normal hearts. The researchers screened the tissue for the expression of Ki-67, a protein that is present only in dividing cells. The major finding of the study was that heart's capacity to regenerate myocytes increases immediately after a heart attack. The origin of these newly formed hea...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

...creening. They found that those women who had been screened were 44% less likely to be diagnosed with a later ...nificant differences in regard to treatment in the screened and unscreened groups due to the fact that stage II breast cancers, although classified as 'late sta...

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