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June 14 - STOCKHOLM - Thousands of women who are unable to conceive could benefit if a Swedish hospital succeeds with its plans to transplant a woman's womb, a Swedish doctor said Tuesday. Mats Brannstrom, who heads a team of six gynaecologists and two transplant surgeons, said the envisaged operation was planned for next year at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Research has been...
June 14, 2011
June 14 - STOCKHOLM - Thousands of women who are unable to conceive could benefit if a Swedish hospital succeeds with its plans to transplant a woman's womb, a Swedish doctor said Tuesday. Mats Brannstrom, who heads a team of six gynaecologists and two transplant surgeons, said the envisaged operation was planned for next year at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Research has been...
June 14, 2011
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON - The question for doctors was simple: "When a patient comes in and asks for Viagra, will you first screen for low T?" meaning testosterone. The pitch by Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. was part of its effort to make its testosterone replacement drug AndroGel "ride (the) coat tails of Viagra." But unlike Viagra, AndroGel wasn't approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
June 14, 2011
Spc. Joshua Pederson was manning his armored vehicle's revolving gun turret when insurgents peppered the hulking truck with rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. When a round penetrated the vehicle, Pederson said he ducked inside and was hit with fragments and debris that sprayed his face and torso. Lying in a hospital bed, a Purple Heart freshly pinned to his gown, the 24-year-old Phoenix...
June 13, 2011
Public health experts in the U.S. and elsewhere seem none too surprised that the Germans now say sprouts were definitely the vegetable that spread the virulent E. coli bacteria that has killed at least 35 people and sickened more than 3,000 in Europe. The experts say that raw sprouts, and how they are grown, provide the perfect breeding ground for the growth of food-borne bacteria. Sprouts are still...
June 13, 2011
June 13 - Many hospitals and other health-care offices have banned cigarettes inside and out. Employees and visitors might grumble, but for the most part, they understand that the move makes sense. The issue gets more complex if the nonsmoking building is a center that treats other addictions. Anyone who works with alcoholics and drug users can tell you that smoking usually goes hand in hand. But it...
June 13, 2011
June 10 - File cabinets filled with paper medical records are disappearing across the Capital Region. About 50 percent of physicians now use electronic records, including all the area's hospitals and nearly all large physician practices. "We are at the tipping point," said Dr. John Bennett, president of CDPHP. "We have the opportunity to make this an electronically connected community like none other."...
June 10, 2011
Raising the blood levels of good cholesterol does nothing to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients already taking statins to lower their bad cholesterol, a federally-funded study has determined. Scientists at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which led the study of some 3,400 Canadians and Americans, said Thursday they had prematurely terminated the trials after...
June 10, 2011
June 10 - WASHINGTON - Making sure routine immunizations are delivered to poorer countries and low income families will result in a healthier global population, a group of health experts and policy makers said Thursday in Washington. "Selfless, altruistic behavior actually produces selfish, utilitarian benefits," said Bruce Lee of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School...
June 10, 2011
Paris (dpa) - French health authorities on Thursday suspended the use of a popular diabetes drug after pioglitazone was found to increase the risk of bladder cancer in patients. Pioglitazone, a Type 2 diabetes drug, is produced by Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. In most countries, including France, it is sold under the brand name Actos, but in some countries it is marketed as Glustin....
June 9, 2011
Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh hope this improved diagnosis will help doctors to personalise treatment programmes so that patients receive the most effective drugs (see also Ovarian Cancer). The Edinburgh team worked with scientists from Ireland...
June 9, 2011
(CHICAGO) - Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which are linked to a very high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, can safely take hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) to mitigate menopausal symptoms after surgical removal of their ovaries, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented Monday, June 6 during the American...
June 9, 2011
If you've heeded the health messages to protect your skin by covering up and slathering on the sunblock, you're taking important steps to playing it safe in the sun. But you'll come up short if you don't also wear sunglasses and a hat to protect your eyes from harmful ultraviolet rays, health experts say. "Most people are not aware that long-term exposure to sunlight, with its ultraviolet wavelengths,...
June 9, 2011
Older people who regularly exercise at moderate to intense levels may have a 40% lower risk of developing brain damage linked to strokes, certain kinds of dementia, and mobility problems. Research published Wednesday in the journal Neurology says the MRIs of subjects who exercised at higher levels were significantly less likely to show brain damage caused by blocked arteries that interrupt blood flow...
June 9, 2011
June 08 - These days, it should come as no surprise to anyone that exposure to tobacco smoke is unhealthy. Many studies have linked secondhand smoke to respiratory problems, asthma, sudden infant death syndrome, middle ear infections and other physical health problems. But perhaps the most convincing study, which was recently published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, showed that exposure to...
June 8, 2011
Public health officials pointed to progress Tuesday in combating the microbes behind 50 million yearly U.S. food poisoning cases affecting one in six Americans. The latest federal FoodNet report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total food-borne-illness cases dropped by nearly a quarter in the past decade and a half, but salmonella infections have steadily refused to drop,...
June 8, 2011
A large study in California released Monday found that cancer may be nearly twice as prevalent among gay men as among straight men. The study relied on self-reported data from the California Health Interview survey, the largest state survey of its kind in the United States, and included more than 120,000 people over three years: 2001, 2003 and 2005. A total of 3,690 men reported a cancer diagnosis...
June 7, 2011
June 07 - JAKARTA - More Indonesian adults are vulnerable to hepatitis A because they have no antibody either from previous infection or from vaccination. Samsuridjal Djauzi, a University of Indonesia expert on allergies and clinical immunology, said that in 1970 some 80 percent of adults aged 30 years or older had natural antibodies against hepatitis A because they had been exposed to the disease...
June 7, 2011
June 07 - As Dr. John Allbert watched his teenage daughter's spring talent show, his cellphone began vibrating. He stepped outside to take the call from a fellow obstetrician wanting advice about a pregnant patient whose fetus might be in distress. To get a better picture of the situation, Allbert walked to his car to grab his iPad. There on the 8-by-10-inch screen, Allbert read the patient's vital...
June 7, 2011
When Robert Harsh learned that his cancer treatments weren't working, he stocked up on birthday cards and Valentines so he could still tell his wife and three children how much he loved them even after he was gone. Two years later, the 43-year-old Maryland state trooper is still celebrating his kids' birthdays in person, thanks to a new drug that has erased all evidence of his melanoma. The disease...
June 6, 2011
Raising the blood levels of good cholesterol does nothing to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients already taking statins to lower their bad cholesterol, a federally-funded study has determined. Scientists at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which led the study of some 3,400 Canadians and Americans, said Thursday they had prematurely terminated the trials after...
June 3, 2011
New York (dpa) - The United Nations on Friday called for cutting HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths to zero by 2015 as it renews efforts to combat the disease, 30 years after the first cases were confirmed. The disease was first diagnosed in the United States on June 5, 1981. The UN General Assembly will next week hold first high-level meetings on HIV/AIDS in 10 years, bringing government leaders...
June 2, 2011
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON - On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning shot to the world when they reported the first known cases of what would soon be called AIDS. In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC reported that five gay men had been hospitalized in Los Angeles with a rare strain of pneumonia that mainly afflicted people with...
June 2, 2011
Madrid/Berlin (dpa) - The European E coli outbreak has now claimed 18 lives - 17 in Germany and one in Sweden - health authorities said Thursday, as Chinese researchers identified the bug as a new "super-toxic" strain and consumers shied away from raw vegetables. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman, had died in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli...
June 2, 2011
Caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from a woman's ovaries to her womb. "Our experiments were conducted in mice, but this finding goes a long way towards explaining why drinking caffeinated drinks can reduce a woman's chance of becoming pregnant," says Professor Sean Ward from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, USA. Ward's study is published in the...
June 2, 2011
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