Services that help women understand the way that their inherited genetic make-up influences their risk of getting breast cancer ease distress and decrease their levels of cancer worry. There is, however, insufficient evidence to make recommendations about the best way of delivering these services.
As a birth-control surgery technique grows in popularity, a new review of studies underlines the importance of physician training for no-scalpel vasectomies, a method that is more difficult to learn than conventional surgery.
“ACP strongly believes in the goal of widespread adoption and use of health information technology to improve quality of care,” Michael H. Zaroukian, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., told the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality today at their hearing on “Consumer Controls for Sensitive Health Records.”
Abbott Diabetes Care announced the launch of its FreeStyle Lite? blood glucose monitoring system for people with diabetes after receiving a 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Health, and the Honourable George Abbott, Minister of Health for British Columbia, announced that British Columbia will establish a Patient Wait Times Guarantee for radiation therapy by March 31, 2010, to be supported by $76.4 million in federal funding. British Columbia will also be eligible to benefit from the $400 million in new funding for Canada Health Infoway, and the $30 million for pilot projects as announced in Budget 2007.
Minnesota’s bill to protect seriously ill patients from arrest for using medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation cleared another critical milestone today as the Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division passed S.F. 345 ? the medical marijuana bill ? 6?4.
Indian government committed to providing second-line drugs free of cost to people who develop resistance to the existing treatment for HIV /AIDS.
Reclast? (zoledronic acid) has received US regulatory approval as the first new treatment in nearly a decade for patients with a bone condition known as Paget’s disease, estimated to affect about one million people in the US alone.
Selenium may offer an intervention strategy for the treatment of prostate cancer according to results of a study from the laboratory of Allen Gao, PhD, which will be presented by Yan Hu, PhD, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) at the 2007 centennial meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), April 14-18, in Los Angeles, CA.
Access to antiretroviral therapy for advanced HIV infection in low- and middle-income countries continued to grow throughout 2006, with more than two million people living with HIV/AIDS receiving treatment in December 2006, a 54 per cent increase over the 1.3 million people on treatment one year earlier in these countries.