February Online Tipsheet from the American Psychiatric Association; 1) Eating Disorders: Not Just a Western Phenomenon, 2) Violence Rises When Compliance Falters, 3) Newer Antipsychotics Improve on Infertility Side Effect, 4) REM Sleep Plays Part in Detecting Depression, 5) Would-be Doctors Experience Decrease in Discrimination
When a patient makes a request for assistance with suicide, the physician's response should not be a simple yes or no. Instead, the caregiver should engage the patient in a dialogue exploring the meanings behind the request. Only then can the physician determine whether the request is "rational" or driven by other factors, writes a Columbia-Presbyterian psychiatrist in JAMA.
A Cleveland Clinic study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that multiple sclerosis not only destroys the protective sheath around nerves, but also cuts nerve fibers. Such a finding suggests MS may be more similar to diseases that cause irreversible neurological impairment, such as Parkinson's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, this knowledge also provides hope that new therapies can be developed to benefit patients in the early stages of MS.
Updated labeling for CASODEX tablets recently cleared by teh FDA includes new survival data from one of the largest advanced prostate cancer research studies ever conducted.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) researchers delving into the fundamental mechanisms underlying one form of leukemia have learned how to interfere with the genetic changes that lead to this potentially fatal type of cancer.
Sea Grant Cold Weather Story Tip Sheet 1) Cold Weather Survival - First Aid For Hypothermia 2) Winter Sports Safety - Dangers of Thin Ice 3) The Right Clothing For Cold Weather
Forget that adage about how men sweat but women perspire. We all sweat, and it's a good thing we do. Sweating controls body temperature. But some people -- about 1 percent of the population -- sweat copiously following mild stimulation or none at all. They suffer from a disorder called hyperhidrosis, a condition that that can be relieved with surgery.
A relatively non-invasive surgical procedure, similar to balloon angioplasty, can dramatically improve the quality of life for patients who suffer from narrowed heart valves resulting from rheumatic heart disease.
Research supports the use of natural antioxidants to prevent and treat illnesses, and improve patients' overall health, clinicians said today at a conference held before prominent international scientists.
Physicians at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have developed an innovative treatment for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that results in long-term survival without cancer recurrence.
According to a study of 34 public fitness centers in the Kansas City metropolitan area, no facilities are completely accessible for people who use wheelchairs. This is the only study published on the compliance of fitness centers to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
In a move that may seriously endanger the anesthesia care of millions of Americans under Medicare or Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Financing Administration is proposing to do away with a 3-decade-old regulation for physician oversight of anesthesia care for surgery. If this regulatory change is enacted, nurses with as little as two years' technical training will be allowed to practice without any physician supervision when giving anesthesia to a Medicare or Medicaid patient in a hospital or ambulatory care center.
Heart disease causes nearly half of deaths and disability in Americans between the ages of 35 and 64. In fact, twenty to forty percent of middle aged people have early or advanced coronary disease, most without knowing it. But this deadly disease can be prevented or reversed without surgery, if detected, thanks to the pioneering efforts of K. Lance Gould, M.D., a cardiovascular specialist at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 1998 ó An unprecedented coalition of more than 200 public health and grassroots tobacco-control organizations today called on President Clinton and Congress to reject any legislative deal that grants special favors to the tobacco industry
The Facts from The National Cattlemen's Beef Association about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
A combination anticoagulant treatment -- low-dose aspirin and low-dose warfarin -- reduced the risk of heart attack by 34 percent in a 13-year study involving 5,499 men.
Spitting in a cup to diagnose breast cancer may be years away, but current research makes it seem like a real possibility.
Mississippi's first shopping mall, once all but abandoned and given up for dead, emerges January 23 as a new creation. The mall now offers one-stop shopping for health care consumers under a new banner--the Jackson Medical Mall.
WASHINGTON -- A known metabolite of Premarin, the oldest and most widely-prescribed estrogen replacement therapy, has been found to attach to some of the basic building blocks of DNA, according to a report published January 23 in Chemical Research in Toxicology, a peer- reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
American College of Physicians will hold a press briefing at the National Press Club on Wednesday, January 28, 1998 to discuss the issue of firearm safety.
A preliminary report suggests that caffeine may act as an advocate to cancer cells by inhibiting apoptosis or programmed cell death. Apoptosis is a type of cell suicide mechanism that serves to eliminate damaged or unneeded cells. When subjected to a lethal heat shock, caffeine-treated cancer cells refused to die.
Radiation treatment for breast cancer slightly raises a woman's long-term risk for esophageal cancer, according to a study conducted by epidemiologists at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Mallinckrodt Medical Inc. has licensed an invention from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that could save more than 100,000 people from having additional heart surgery.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 21, 1998--A sizable minority of disabled older people living in the community recover their ability to perform essential activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing and walking, over a two-year period, according to a new study by Yale University School of Medicine researchers.
A steroid drug enhances the ability of a vitamin D analogue to kill cancer in animals while reducing a lifethreatening buildup of blood calcium associated with this treatment, according to University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute researchers, who are now using a steroid with 1,25-D3 to treat advanced cancer in patients.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Photofrin(r), a light activated drug used in Photodynamic Therapy, for treatment of patients with early-stage lung cancer.
Nearly all Americans (94%) are aware of the shortage of available organs for transplant and most (62%) accept the concept of xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplantation, as a viable option, according to a new survey of 1,200 randomly selected individuals conducted by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
In an effort to lower the unacceptably high death rate of dialysis patients in the United States, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced new wide-ranging guidelines for dialysis treatment.
People who are negative, insecure and distressed -- a "type D" personality -- are four times more likely to suffer a second heart attack than "non-D types," according to a study reported today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A gene that appears to provide protection against coronary artery disease (CAD), the cause of heart attacks, has been identified by Japanese researchers, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sudden cardiac arrest risk goes up 50 percent for individuals whose parent, brother or sister has had heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Preliminary data from clinical studies of medications which treat congestive heart failure (CHF) demonstrate substantial international differences in usage of ACE inhibitors as well as the safety and potential utility of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) in the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.
The Cleveland Clinic, in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic-Florida, has begun an FDA-approved study testing a drug that may reduce inflammation and enhance healing among patients undergoing reconstructive surgery immediately following a mastectomy.
Breast cancer survivors who regularly work up a light to moderate sweat with exercise get into better physical condition and feel significantly less depressed and anxious according to this study. Furthermore, the sooner survivors start exercising after they have recovered from surgery, the greater the impact on their mental health.
The precise location in the brain that produces the sounds of tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that affects millions of people, has been identified. This marks a major step toward hope for an effective treatment. Tinnitus patients also had abnormal links between their hearing systems and their brains' emotion control centers, as well as other brain transformations, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Ethnic and cultural origin appear to play a key role in who will develop Parkinson's disease (PD) and why, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Alzheimer's disease(AD)patients suffering with memory and other cognitive impairments may find help with donepezil. The currently-available drug improves patients' cognition and ability to function, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
News tips from the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 1) Women suffer from asthma more than men, 2) No evidence of bone density reduction in asthmatic children on long term therapy with corticosteroids, 3) New type of catheter prevents systemic infections associated with prolonged pulmonary artery catherization.
Major national public health groups today petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to develop strategies to regulate tobacco products as drugs. "Under existing law, the Food and Drug Administration has the authority and jurisdiction to regulate the manufacture, sale, distribution, labeling, advertising and marketing of tobacco products. Today we are filing a petition with the FDA to urge the agency to continue to exercise that jurisdiction. Tobacco products should meet the same level of standards applied to other legal drugs and drug delivery devices," said John R. Garrison, CEO of the American Lung Association.
New research by Carson Chow and James J. Collins at Boston University's Center for BioDynamics may be the basis for a better way to help doctors identify people who are susceptible to falls. An article in the current issue of Physical Review Letters describes their finding that the physical mechanism that keeps a person standing upright works essentially the same way whether the person is standing at ease or pertubed by a slight external push.
Potassium, either in the form of fruits and vegetables, or in supplements can lower high blood pressure, a risk factor for heart attack or stroke, Harvard researchers report in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A new, highly sensitive test based on blood pressure monitoring can detect late-pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure and preeclampsia a full 23 weeks before symptoms occur, Spanish researchers report in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The American College of Physicians released "The Physician Workforce and Financing of Graduate Medical Education, " aimed at changing graduate medical education, adjusting the current physician workforce, achieving predictable and stable funding, and researching new sources of funding such as vouchers.
A review of clinical trials published this week found that women who consumed high levels of calcium in conjunction with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had much greater increases in bone mass than those who used either estrogen or calcitonin alone.
Pharmaceutical companies added 39 new drugs and 10 biologics to the nation's medicine chest in 1997, including important new treatments for heart disease, cancer arthritis, diabetes , Parkinson's disease, and AIDS, according to a report released today by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
A new animal model that develops Alzheimer's-like pathology at an accelerated rate will allow researchers to more rapidly test drugs with the potential to slow or prevent the disease. The joint study by the University of South Florida, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and the University of Minnesota is on the January cover of the journal Nature Medicine.
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a previously unknown genetic mechanism by which a gene, known as INGI, suppresses tumors in collaboration with the well-known tumor suppressor p53.
1) Simple computer generated reminders help physicians to remember to discuss end of life directives with their patients, 2) Using both difficulty and degree of independence testing provide a more complete picture of elderly disability, 3) One month intensive course improves residents' interviewing skills, 4) ACP position paper on changes in physician workforce and graduate medical education, 5) Hypertension risk increases with adult weight gain or general obesity.
When asked to identify the `comb' within a group of imposter items, two-year-olds typically will select a comb-shaped object--whether or not it has teeth for combing a doll's hair--because very young children learn new words based on shapes, not functions, a University of Delaware researcher reports in the Journal of Memory and Language, mailed today.
Understanding the genetic causes of spina bifida is a research objective of James F. Martin, an assistant professor of medical biochemistry and genetics at Texas A&M University's Institute of Biosciences and Technology. Spina bifida is a severe birth defect in which the spinal canal fails to fuse. There is no treatment for the resulting spinal cord damage.
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