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New advance in prostate cancer management

...accurate, resulting in thousands of men undergoing unnecessary surgery for prostate cancer. The Checkerboard TM...may ultimately prevent thousands of men undergoing unnecessary surgery, with its often associated severe side effects including incontinence and impotence. Prost...

Ultrasound may mean end to classic stethoscope

...aren't any. This could mean patients end up having unnecessary procedures. Some doctors are studying how much training is necessary for primary care doctors to use this equipment. If it turns out that the average doctor with several months of training can learn to use this well, I think it will proliferate. ...

Blood test for diagnosis of heart attacks

...of cases of chest pain, it would cut the number of unnecessary hospital admissions. It would also mean that patients who are currently misdiagnosed would get the treatment they really need from soon after their arrival at hospital. Doctors have known about the blood test - which looks for an enzyme called crea...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

...ng intent in the subject line, as well as avoiding unnecessary electronic messages such as "Thanks." In addition, don't be afraid to take yourself offline and use an "out of office" reply while in meetings or taking downtime. Source: HP Mental health on medindia: Depression is one of the most common mental ...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

...ng women. Tobacco related diseases cause 650,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the EU countries. The research team calculated lung cancer deaths in the 15 original EU member states and new members from central and eastern Europe. The figures provide a useful yardstick to measure a population’s exposure to s...

Warning Signs On Powered Baby Milk

...age of infant formula, which they said would cause unnecessary alarm. Source: WHO...

Eating disorder occurs due to increased weight consciousness

... shown that Anorexia occurs in persons who have an unnecessary increased weight//consciousness. Researchers have found that eating disorders occurs mostly in men. Eating disorders occurs one in ten people. The reasons for this disorder are mostly due to people with increased weight consciousness, family pressu...

X – Rays Found To Increase Cancer Risk

... they agree that a general goal should be to avoid unnecessary X-ray procedures. For example, they point out that up to 30 percent of chest X-rays may not be necessary and doctors need to think carefully about the benefits for and the risk to their patients for each examination....

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

...ng all stage I patients chemotherapy would lead to unnecessary adverse events with no survival benefit for the majority of patients. For the study researchers analyzed data from 13 trials. They found patients who received any adjuvant chemotherapy had a lower risk of death and recurrence than those who did not ...

The Use Of MRI For Screening Of Breast Cancer Questioned

...se-positive results. MRI resulted in twice as many unnecessary additional exams than mammography, and three times as many unnecessary biopsies. Thus researchers say the drawback of MRI screening is that it has a lower specificity tha...

Unnecessary Pap Smears

...y , researchers say that routine // Pap smears are unnecessary for women who have undergone complete hysterectomies for non-cancerous diseases. Since most of these women no longer have a cervix, they are no longer at risk for cervical cancer. A survey done by researchers on American women found that 69 percent o...

The Use Of Antibiotics Questioned

...ially, when this treatment reduces the overall and unnecessary use of antibiotics to treat sore throats. Researchers say throat cultures, or throat culture confirmation of negative rapid test results, continue to be necessary in children to ensure optimal identification of GAS pharyngitis [strep throat]....

The Effectiveness Of Screening Tests Questioned

... dressing, anyway. Regular self-exams just lead to unnecessary surgical biopsies and greater anxiety among women. Specialists believe the same results would apply to testicular self-examination as well and suggests health officials who tout these exams believing they can’t hurt are failing to take these adverse ...

Cancer Risk From Exposure To Diagnostic X-Rays

... they agree that a general goal should be to avoid unnecessary X-ray procedures. For example, they point out that up to 30 percent of chest X-rays may not be necessary and doctors need to think carefully about the benefits for and the risk to their patients for each examination....

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...ons, such as frequent and longer hospitalizations, unnecessary use of emergency room and highly expensive intensive care services." Rational use of medicines means good prescribing and full adherence to the prescriptions. "Health professionals witness the need for better patients' adherence to the treatments t...

Alternative Therapy in HIV Patients

...to accurately report their use, thereby preventing unnecessary adverse effects....

Better Prostate Cancer Test

...est for prostate cancer and eliminate the need for unnecessary biopsies for many men. Bob Miles has had three biopsies of his prostate after blood tests revealed elevated levels of PSA -- a protein that when elevated indicates the possibility of prostate cancer. "Every time they take a section through the prosta...

Cervicogenic headache can be identified with a fibromyalgia test

... migraines, leading to inappropriate treatment and unnecessary pain. Researchers conducted a study of 40 men and 160 women who were administered the fibromyalgia examination to detect the presence or absence of neck pain that might be causing a headache. Researchers found that out of the group of subjects, whose...

Use of CT scans to detect lung cancer questioned

...ing for lung cancer. They claimed that the harm of unnecessary testing for lung nodules detected by the CT scan that turn out to be benign,// and the costs of the scan far outweigh the number of lives saved by annual full-body CT screening. Following this, the National Cancer Institute has begun an eight-year t...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...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 development. But it's useful to know that a nurse can perform as well as a doctor...

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