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A new study has gone some way to answering the question about whether or not a technique called lipofilling is safe for women who are having their breasts reconstructed after surgery for breast cancer. Lipofilling involves taking some fat from another area of a woman's body, such as her abdomen, and using it to fill in small defects or asymmetry that may occur during breast reconstruction. However,...
June 2, 2011
A recent Australian study shows women are much poorer than men after a divorce, men say they are lonlier, sadder and their mental health is more fragile immediately after. Within four years, however, men have begun to recover emotionally and their finances have improved considerably. But women's incomes have gone backwards, according to an article from http://straightfurrow.farmonline.co.nz. "Both...
June 2, 2011
An anti-depressant and a cholesterol lowering drug, taken together by as many as one million people in the United States, may cause a spike in blood sugar levels, researchers said Wednesday. Paxil and the anti-cholesterol drug Pravachol do not have this effect when taken independently, said researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and Harvard Medical School....
June 1, 2011
June 01 - The standard test for measuring blood-sugar control in diabetes patients has limited value for those on dialysis, according to a study released Tuesday by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Barry Freedman, the lead researcher of the study, said that the findings could have far-reaching implications considering "dialysis patients and physicians get a false sense of security" about how...
June 1, 2011
June 01 - New research is building more of a scientific foundation under a link between cellular phone usage and the development of brain cancer. It's no surprise to many in the medical community, said one UC Health physician, but the general public should not meet developing research with frenzy. "There's no question it alters (brain) activity," said Dr. Philip Theodosopoulos, a neurosurgeon with...
June 1, 2011
June 01 - Two drugs recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration have the potential to nearly double the cure rate of hepatitis C, according to a local doctor who studies the disease. "This is a kind of revolution in treatment," said Dr. Harvey Tatum, a gastroenterologist at Utica Park Clinic. Inicivek, also known as Telaprevir, is marketed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and was approved last week...
June 1, 2011
Vienna (dpa) - Small amounts of natural lithium in drinking water lowers suicide rates, Austrian scientists said in a study presented by the Medical University of Vienna on Wednesday. Lithium has been used for several decades for treating mental illness, including depression. The team of medical researchers compared lithium levels in water with suicide rates in all 99 Austrian districts and found a...
June 1, 2011
Twelve women died every month giving birth in a Freetown hospital in 2010, in a country with one of the world's worst maternal mortality rates, a government study showed Tuesday. Akim Gibril, chairman of an 11-person committee set up to probe challenges at the Princess Christian maternity hospital in Freetown, said the figure was "unacceptable." "Unless the unfortunate shortcomings including poor post-delivery...
May 31, 2011
More is better when it comes to drinking coffee to ward off the risk of deadly prostate cancer, according to a major US study released Tuesday by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. Men who drank six or more cups per day had a 60 percent lower risk of developing the most lethal type of prostate cancer and a 20 percent lower risk of forming any type of prostate cancer compared to men...
May 31, 2011
New contraceptive methods are needed for developing world women, including one in four in sub-Saharan Africa, whose needs for modern birth control are not being met, a study has found. A 52-page report by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute urged new methods to reach 148 million women in three regions where there are 49 million unintended pregnancies every year resulting in 21 million abortions....
May 31, 2011
People with HIV who take antiretroviral drugs before their health declines have a 96 percent lower risk of transmitting the virus to a partner, a breakthrough global study released Thursday said. The large study that covered mainly heterosexual couples in Africa, India and the Americas was hailed by AIDS experts as a game-changer that will transform how the incurable disease is managed. Until now,...
May 31, 2011
The anti-cancer drug Avastin is as effective in fighting macular degeneration as Lucentis, which, however is 40 times more expensive than the cancer fighting medicine, according to results of clinical trials published in the United States. The study compares Avastin (bevacizumab) to Lucentis (ranibizumab), which both have been developed by US firm Genentech, owned by Swiss laboratory Roche. During...
May 31, 2011
A young father who was terribly disfigured in an electrical accident showed off his new look Monday alongside doctors who performed the United States' first full face transplant. Visibly moved as he described how his young daughter called him "handsome" and how the first whiff of hospital food was so tantalizing, 26-year-old Dallas Wiens said there were no words to thank the anonymous donor and his...
May 31, 2011
An estimated one in three women experience stress urinary incontinence (SUI), a condition characterized by involuntary loss of urine due to forces on the bladder caused by physical movement of the body. Although SUI can interfere with quality of life, it is often left untreated due to the personal nature of its symptoms which leave women feeling embarrassed about their bodies and hesitant to discuss...
May 27, 2011
Women fret about the possibility of breast cancer. They worry about the potential of dementia. They should be concerned about their hearts, because more women die of heart attacks than any other cause. "It's true that our hearts are somewhat protected by estrogen, so studies show that our risks for attack increase after menopause. But we should be taking steps to care for ourselves at all ages," says...
May 27, 2011
At least 23 people have died of cholera in the Dominican Republic and another 1,288 have been infected following a massive outbreak in neighboring Haiti last year, officials said. The health ministry released the new toll on Thursday, saying that in the last three weeks alone the number of dead has nearly doubled from 13 and the number of infections has risen by more than 400. The government said it...
May 27, 2011
Critical new research has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who experience high levels of school victimization in middle and high school report impaired health and mental health in young adulthood, including depression, suicide attempts that require medical care, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and risk for HIV. This is the first known study to examine the relationship...
May 26, 2011
Gaining more than the recommended weight during pregnancy can put women at increased risk of becoming obese and developing related health problems, including high blood pressure, later in life (see also Weight Gain). These are the latest findings from researchers at the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)/Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol. Weight gain during pregnancy...
May 26, 2011
Critical new research has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who experience high levels of school victimization in middle and high school report impaired health and mental health in young adulthood, including depression, suicide attempts that require medical care, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and risk for HIV. This is the first known study to examine the relationship...
May 26, 2011
When women with a history of breast cancer learn they have breast cancer again, one of the first questions they and their doctors ask is: Has my cancer come back, or is this a new case? Now, new data from Fox Chase Cancer Center suggest that both new and recurring cancers will differ significantly from the original tumors, regardless of how many months or years women spent cancer-free, and doctors...
May 25, 2011
Close to 20% of young adults have high blood pressure, a new government-funded study reports. Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill asked 14,000 men and women ages 24 to 32 about their history of high blood pressure and took blood pressure readings. The research was part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, dubbed Add Health, financed by the National Institutes...
May 25, 2011
An estimated one in three women experience stress urinary incontinence (SUI), a condition characterized by involuntary loss of urine due to forces on the bladder caused by physical movement of the body. Although SUI can interfere with quality of life, it is often left untreated due to the personal nature of its symptoms which leave women feeling embarrassed about their bodies and hesitant to discuss...
May 25, 2011
Heart specialists are encouraging seemingly healthy middle-aged women who develop a rapid heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation to get a medical evaluation now that research has linked these irregular beats to an increased risk of death. Until now, atrial fibrillation, or AF, has been considered a danger mainly to the elderly or those with cardiovascular disease and other health problems. But a new...
May 25, 2011
May 25 - Within minutes of his arrival at Diana Maine's West Kendall home, Dr. Patrick Kavanagh is sitting at his patient's dining room table, an assortment of blue-topped prescription medicine bottles between them. He reviews a notebook of blood pressure readings Maine has kept since his last visit a month ago, then wraps an electronic blood pressure cuff on her arm. They discuss the results. Every...
May 25, 2011
Berlin (dpa) - Germany reported its first death Tuesday from a virulent super-bacterium that has spread through the north of the country in just a week, possibly via fresh produce sold in supermarkets. Hundreds of people have fallen gravely ill from the new sub-strain of E. coli. It causes internal bleeding, diarrhoea and kidney failure and is partly resistant to antibiotics, scientists said. An 83-year-old...
May 24, 2011
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