The sharp decline in the rate of new breast cancer cases in 2003 may be related to a national decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), according to a new report in the April 19, 2007, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
A team of researchers led by Professor Richard Gordon and Associate Professor Michael Stowasser has found primary aldosteronism (PAL) ? a type of high blood pressure that can be cured by surgery ? to be ten times more common than was previously suspected. Once thought to be rare, the Endocrine Hypertension Research Centre found PAL in 10% of all hypertension sufferers, making it the commonest known curable cause.
Researchers have developed a way to use three types of microscopic imaging techniques simultaneously to analyze living tissue and learn more about the molecular mechanisms of multiple sclerosis, information that could help lead to earlier detection and new treatments.
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.
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.
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) found that patients who received a later stage cancer diagnosis were likely to be living in an unsafe neighborhood, using public transportation and traveling at least 45 minutes to get to a doctor’s office.
In an editorial published in the April issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Malaz Boustani, M.D., M.P.H., of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., writes that assessing the safety of older drivers is not a responsibility that should reside with the primary care physician.
Experts agree that people who have had three or more potentially precancerous adenomatous polyps removed during a colonoscopy should be “rescoped” in three years to make sure the polyps do not recur.
A survey of stomach and kidney cancer patients in Los Angeles revealed that those who were diagnosed in a late stage of disease ? when cancer is harder to treat successfully ? were likely to be older, living in an unsafe neighborhood and traveling at least 45 minutes to get to the doctor.
Indian medical doctors of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital (LNJP) called off their strike on the third day after Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri assured them that their demand for security would be looked into.