Archive for the ‘World’ Category

A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word “carcinoma” scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday. They said the term carcinoma creates a lot of worry in women who fear they will develop cancer, even though long-term survival rates for DCIS are excellent, approaching 100 percent. “We’ve had ... Full story

Testing a baseball pitcher’s shoulder strength before the season starts may predict the player’s chance of an arm injury later, a new report says. Such knowledge could help the pitcher avert the injury by changing conditioning strategy, the study’s author said. A five-year study of 144 professional baseball pitchers linked injuries to a player’s strength in three shoulder movements: prone external rotation, seated external rotation and ... Full story

In recognition of September as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, many of your male patients (and their wives) may have been reading, hearing and seeing news reports, commercials and public service announcements encouraging men to be screened for the disease. However, the AAFP has concluded that current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening in men younger ... Full story

Inhibiting the action of an enzyme called TAK-1 reverses pancreatic cancer resistance to chemotherapy, a finding that could lead to the development of a new way to treat the disease, researchers say. Pancreatic cancer is resistant to every currently available anti-cancer treatment. “During the past few years we have been studying the role played by a cytokine or regulatory protein called transforming growth factor-beta in the ... Full story

¿Cuánta importancia tiene el uso del suelo agrícola de cara a reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero? Mucha, en opinión de los principales científicos del mundo dedicados a la gestión del suelo en las grandes extensiones áridas. Estos especialistas, que se reunieron en la capital argentina de Buenos Aires del 22 al 24 de septiembre para tratar sobre el cambio climático y la ... Full story

A study in mice suggests lack of sleep may play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. The findings, reported in the journal Science, are some of the first to link sleep with the development of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia. Researchers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis studied levels of amyloid beta — a protein that accumulates in ... Full story

If you feel as though you drool too much, studies suggest you should seriously consider surgery to take care of it, say researchers. Drooling is tough to treat, point out authors of a paper from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. That’s because some of it is due to physical problems, and some is due to faulty wiring in the brain. However, among those patients ... Full story

Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it is recalling some lots of infants’ and children’s Tylenol because of a possible bacterial contamination of the popular pain and fever treatment. Tylenol products being recalled were manufactured between April and June 2008, the diversified healthcare giant said. The company identified 21 varieties of the products, which come in various flavors and forms, and 57 different lot numbers, affected by ... Full story

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) today welcomed one-year data from the SPIRIT IV clinical trial comparing the XIENCE V (PROMUS ) Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System to the TAXUS Express2(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System. The results support the benefits of paclitaxel-eluting stents in diabetic patients. The trial enrolled 3,690 patients, including 1,140 diabetics, the largest diabetic subset ever studied in a drug-eluting stent clinical trial. The Company ... Full story

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has appointed a new head of operations at its latest gathering. Mark Todd, the MP for south Derbyshire, has been voted in as chairperson-elect of the charity’s board of trustees by its members at the 24th annual general meeting of the MND Association. He has held his position as an MP since the first Labour election of the new era in ... Full story