Women diagnosed with cervical cancer tend to have good long-term survival, but they often have specific risk factors for developing a cancer later in life: a history of smoking, infection with the human papillomavirus, and/or treatment with radiation therapy.
The drug pentoxifylline appears to have limited benefit in the first-line treatment of mouth ulcers due to recurrent apthous stomatitis, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Childhood obesity may be associated with a condition known as otitis media with effusion, which consists of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Research presented today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research confirmed that there is now an effective treatment option for colorectal cancer patients for whom all other treatment options have been exhausted — cetuximab.
A drug that slows disability and reduces relapse rates in multiple sclerosis (MS) has been found to also reduce vision loss in patients with relapsing MS. Vision loss is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms of MS.
Amid growing concern about the accumulation of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in fish and other aquatic organisms, scientists in Texas are reporting development of the first method that can screen fish for several different groups of drugs at the same time.
Neurologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have found that many patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis are not taking or being prescribed drugs approved to treat the disease.
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco.
The EU Osteoporosis Consultation Panel, supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, is meeting on April 18 in Brussels, Belgium, to begin preparations for a second EU-wide audit on the status of osteoporosis in Europe.
Grandparents of adopted grandchildren relate to them as an integral part of the family ? just as they relate to their biological grandchildren. This was revealed in research conducted at the University of Haifa School of Social Work.