Posted on December 31, 2009, 10:10 pm, by admin.
This new year, make a resolution to improve your health and talk to your doctor about urologic conditions. Although urologic problems may seem embarrassing to talk about, these conditions are more common than you think and a delay in seeking medical attention could cause you unnecessary stress, prolong the problem and even increase your risk for a more serious condition. Experts at the American Urological Association (AUA) and the AUA Foundation recommend talking to your doctor about bladder, prostate or sexual health concerns…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 6:09 pm, by admin.
A vascular surgical technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center and designed to replace infected aortic grafts with the body’s own veins has proved more durable and less prone to new infection than similar procedures using synthetic and cadaver grafts. Aortic graft infections are one of the most serious complications in patients undergoing aortic grafting procedures for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and aortic aneurysms…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 2:26 pm, by admin.
Imagine this future of personalized healthcare: you have been diagnosed with a disease for which there are five different treatments, your doctor feeds your genetic details into a computer, and the virtual human in the machine suggests which of the five is likely to be most effective and have fewer side effects for you personally…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 11:16 am, by admin.
UroToday.com – Ours is a retrospective review of patients who underwent open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection between 2001-2008. We identified perioperative data for patients who underwent primary (P-RPLND) versus post-chemotherapy RPLND (PC-RPLND) and found mean blood loss, operative duration and hospital stay to be significantly less for the former group (P This contemporary data should be considered when comparing open versus laparoscopic RPLND (L-RPLND)…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 7:52 am, by admin.
Concentrations of the biomarkers CA125, human epididymis protein 4 (HE4), and mesothelin began to rise 3 years before clinical diagnosis of ovarian cancer, according to a new study published online December 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. However, the biomarkers became substantially elevated only in the last year prior to diagnosis. The stage of the cancer at the time of marker elevation is not known…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 4:40 am, by admin.
The prevalence of left-sided advanced colorectal neoplasms was lower in participants in a community setting, but not right-sided advanced neoplams, who had received a colonoscopy in the preceding 10 years, according to a new study published online December 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Effectiveness of colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer has been studied, but evidence from community settings is sparse, especially with respect to anatomical site. To study this, Hermann Brenner, M.D…
Posted on December 31, 2009, 12:38 am, by admin.
More brain donors are needed to help research into Parkinson’s disease says a leading UK charity, and younger donors especially. Last week the Parkinson’s Disease Society revealed that a campaign earlier this year has helped to more than double the number of donors on the Parkinson’s Brain Donor Register, but more brains are still needed. In April this year the Society ran a campaign that inspired more than 2,300 people to join celebrities like Jane Asher, Jeremy Paxman and John Stapleton to sign up as donors and leave their brain to Parkinson’s research when they die…
Posted on December 30, 2009, 9:39 pm, by admin.
Curvy actress Kate Winslet has topped a UK national poll to find the perfect celebrity body. The Oscar-winning film star, who has been praised for promoting a more realistic body shape, took the top spot with 16% of the overall votes – narrowly pipping shapely Kelly Brook into second place with 15%. And super thin celebrities Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss finished bottom of the poll carried out with 2,000 respondents by Slimming World and YouGov, scoring just 1% each of the votes…
Posted on December 30, 2009, 6:41 pm, by admin.
The first known case of a patient with an extremely drug resistant form of tuberculosis in the US came to light recently when the Associated Press (AP) media agency reported the plight of a 21 year old Peruvian man Oswaldo Juarez, who arrived in the US two years ago to study English and then found himself spending most of that time fighting for his life as he underwent treatment after treatment to try and rid him of the highly aggressive form of TB…
Posted on December 30, 2009, 2:47 pm, by admin.
US researchers have discovered two genes that appear to work together as master switches to turn on hundreds of other genes that drive the most aggressive forms of brain cancer: they hope their findings will help develop completely new approaches to treat these incurable tumors…