Plastic Surgery :: Plastic surgery patient safety advisory on Medi-spas
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issue patient safety advisory on Medi-spas.
Medicine
Breast Cancer :: Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence
Radiotherapy after breast conserving surgery for breast cancer reduces recurrence and prevents development of additional breast tumors in older women with early stage breast disease, according to a new study.
Breast Cancer :: Radiation therapy reduces cancer recurrence in older breast cancer patients
Radiation therapy after lumpectomy and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer.
Muscular Dystrophy :: Common blood pressure drug treats muscular dystrophy
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The results are reported online this week at Nature Medicine.
Imaging :: Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus data.
Skin :: Caution needed in winter months to protect skin from overdrying and sun exposure
The delayed winter weather has finally arrived in Western Pennsylvania and with the colder, drier air and bitter wind, people must take precautions to care for their skin.
Model language unveiled to help clinical researchers disclose financial conflicts
There is near-universal agreement about the need for clinical researchers to disclose financial interests to research participants, but until now there has been little guidance available on exactly how to do it. Using an empirically-based approach, team creates new tool to do the right thing.
Hypertension :: Differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center analyzed the data from 22 randomized clinical trials, and have found significant differences between antihypertensive drugs. ACE-inhibitors and the newer angiotensin receptor blockers, or ARBs prevent people from getting diabetes, and the older diuretics or beta-blockers, increase the chance that a person becomes diabetic, compared to either placebo (inactive sugar-pills) or calcium channel blockers according to a study published in the January 20, 2007 issue of the Lancet.
Fertility :: Most fertility clinic Web sites do not conform to ad guidelines
The majority of fertility clinic Web sites do not adhere to their own association’s advertising guidelines, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study published in the January issue of Fertility and Sterility.
Cancer :: Buckyballs used as ‘passkey’ into cancer cells
Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new way to use Rice’s famed buckyball nanoparticles as passkeys that allows drugs to enter cancer cells.