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Medical News Update from News-Medical.Net - 23rd April 2007

Cutting salt intake helps prevent cardiovascular disease
//Medical Research News
People who significantly cut back on the amount of salt in their diet could reduce their chances of developing cardiovascular disease by a quarter, according to a report on bmj.com today.
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Knocking out Mcl1 protein could aid leukemia treatment
//Medical Research News
An effective way to fight leukemia might be to knock out a specific protein that protects cancer cells from dying, a new study shows.
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Dental X-rays of carotid artery not enough to estimate stroke risk
//Medical Research News
Detection of calcified tissue in the carotid artery by dental x-rays is not enough evidence to estimate a patient's stroke risk was the conclusion of a systematic literature review published in this month's Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA).
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New method predicts hip joint decay from chemotherapy
//Medical Research News
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital say they have found the best way for predicting when patients will need future surgery to repair hip joints that have deteriorated because of pediatric leukemia or lymphoma treatment.
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Researchers want to learn if heart defect 'at heart' of some migraines
//Medical Research News
Researchers of the heart and headaches at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are combining efforts to determine if a common heart defect may be the cause of some forms of migraine headaches.
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Discovery of important clue to the susceptibility of individuals to Crohn's disease
//Medical Research News
Crohn's disease is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disorder of the intestinal tract that affects an estimated 0.15% of people in the developed world. Common symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea, but the disorder is often associated with debilitating clinical complications.
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Sleep - a big part of memory and learning
//Medical Research News
Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another.
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Remote monitoring for patients with chronic heart failure shows significant benefits
//Medical Research News
Researchers from Canada and Australia have found that the use of remote monitoring for patients with chronic heart failure has the potential to significantly improve clinical outcomes (mortality, morbidity and quality indicators).
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Nail guns injuries almost double since 2001
//Medical Research News
According to new statistics that would make Bob Vila cringe, the number of injuries from nail guns has almost doubled since 2001.
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University of Delaware scientist wins NSF career award for tissue engineering
//Medical Research News
Xinqiao Jia will never forget a visitor to her professor's lab at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, when she was working on her master's degree in polymer chemistry and physics.
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Grey literature in meta-analyses of randomized trials of health care interventions
//Medical Studies/Trials
Flooded with new health information every week, patients and their doctors look for ways to sort the best from the rest.
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Risk and outcome similar for bypass surgery, drug-eluting stents
//Medical Studies/Trials
Drug-eluting stent therapy and bypass surgery for coronary artery disease have about the same risk for a major cardiac event within 30 days after the procedures, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
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No survival benefit for gastric cancer patients who undergo intensive postoperative chemotherapy
//Medical Studies/Trials
A more intensive postoperative chemotherapy regimen for high-risk gastric cancer patients did not improve their survival, according to a randomized controlled trial in the April 18 Journal of the National Cancer Institute .
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Bike helmet legislation could make cycling safer
//Medical Studies/Trials
Legislation that requires people to wear bicycle helmets appears to increase use and decreases injury rates, according to the results of a Cochrane Review.
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Stem cells decrease ischemic injury and restore brain function
//Medical Studies/Trials
This is the impressive result of a study carried out by a group of researchers coordinated by Dr. Maria Grazia De Simoni of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy in cooperation with the Istituto Neurologico Besta (Milan) and the University of Lausanne.
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Translocation kidney cancer after chemotherapy in childhood
//Medical Studies/Trials
This article out of Johns Hopkins reviewed the risk of renal cell carcinoma occurring as a secondary malignancy after chemotherapy in childhood.
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Effectiveness of grief counselling to prevent complicated grief among families bereaved by suicide
//Medical Studies/Trials
A grief counselling programme for families bereaved by suicide does not reduce grief or depression, but may help to prevent perceptions of blame among close relatives and spouses, finds a study published on bmj.com today.
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Clioquinol shows promise in fighting cancer
//Medical Studies/Trials
Researchers from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI presented strong evidence today that an antibiotic typically prescribed for Alzheimer's patients could be effective in eventually treating certain types of cancers.
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Advanced age associated with poorer bladder cancer-specific survival in radical cystectomy patients
//Medical Studies/Trials
Traditional wisdom taught in urological residency has been that healthy octogenarians with bladder cancer may be offered radical cystectomy without a significantly increased incidence of postoperative complications.
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Aspirin may modestly reduce cancer risk
//Medical Studies/Trials
A daily dose of adult-strength aspirin may modestly reduce cancer risk in populations with high rates of colorectal, prostate, and breast cancer if taken for at least five years.
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Response to paper on ovarian cancer in the Million Women study
//Women's Health News
The Million Women Study (MWS) has reported new data on the risk of ovarian cancer in postmenopausal hormone users(1).
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Understanding personal genetic risk for familial breast cancer eases anxieties
//Women's Health News
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.
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Emergency contraception does not reduce unintended pregnancy rate
//Women's Health News
The morning after pill, may be a good option for individual women in crisis, but advance access to emergency contraception is no antidote for the national problem of unintended pregnancy.
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Breast cancer incidence continues to trend low in 2004
//Women's Health News
An extended analysis of cancer rates reinforces a strong association between use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and increased breast cancer incidence, according to research led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Cancer genetic risk assessment for individuals at risk of familial breast cancer
//Women's Health News
Since recent medical findings have revealed that some families have increased breast cancer risk, a number of people are turning to cancer genetic services to learn more.
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Providing emergency contraception before it is needed does not reduce pregnancy rates
//Women's Health News
Women who have unprotected sexual intercourse or experience contraceptive failure can seek emergency contraception to reduce their chance of unintended pregnancy.
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Lawmakers urged to provide much needed oversight of bioidentical hormones
//Women's Health News
Testifying before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, president of The Endocrine Society strongly urged lawmakers to increase regulatory oversight of so-called "bioidentical hormones," which have been inaccurately promoted as a safer and more effective alternative to traditional hormone therapies for women.
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Chinese herbs may help women with breast cancer
//Women's Health News
Using Chinese herbs either alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy may help protect a breast cancer patient's bone marrow and immune system, as well as improving the woman's overall quality of life.
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Obese women 3.5 times more likely to require a Caesarean
//Women's Health News
Liverpool scientists have uncovered the reason why overweight women have more Caesarean sections; they are at significant risk of their uterus contracting poorly in childbirth.
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Preoperative chemotherapy is safe for women with early stage operable breast cancer
//Women's Health News
Chemotherapy is frequently given to women with breast cancer after surgery to remove the main bulk of the tumour.
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