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• Obesity and related abnormalities common in asthmatic children
• Half of healthcare workers do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu
• Differences in Th2 inflammation may define major asthma phenotypes
• Unipolar, bipolar mood disorders ‘relatively common in adolescence’
• Breast cancer risk may be increased in schizophrenia
• 10-mg warfarin nomogram effective in ‘real life’ practice
• Warfarin may raise stroke risk in dialysis patients with AF
• Obesity may hinder prostate cancer radiotherapy success
• Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk for aggressive contralateral breast cancer
• Obesity may hinder prostate cancer radiotherapy success
• Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea patients have low HDL cholesterol
• T-lymphocyte stimulation may explain link between osteoporosis and CVD
• Actovegin improves polyneuropathy symptoms for Type 2 diabetics
• Abdominal fat influences association of FFAs with pulse pressure in women with Type 1 diabetes
• PImax predicts outcome in chronic heart failure
• Novel cardiac troponin assays improve MI detection
• Warfarin may raise stroke risk in dialysis patients with AF
• Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk for aggressive contralateral breast cancer
• Adding PCA3 to PSA improves prostate cancer detection
• Trimodal treatment success for high-risk prostate cancer patients
• Training for sentinel lymph node surgery successful
• Fatigue from prostate cancer radiation therapy linked to inflammation
• More elderly breast cancer sufferers receive chemotherapy in private practice
• Periprostatic nerve distribution varies across prostate in localized cancer
• Subjective and objective post-brachytherapy symptoms correlate
• Low-dose estradiol viable therapy for selected breast cancers

Obesity and related abnormalities common in asthmatic children Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Obesity and related abnormalities are common in children with asthma, highlighting the need to better understand how these two inflammatory conditions interact, say US researchers.

Half of healthcare workers do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT More than half of healthcare workers in Hong Kong, China, do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu because of fears of side effects and doubts about efficacy, survey results show.

Differences in Th2 inflammation may define major asthma phenotypes Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Research suggests that asthma can be divided into at least two distinct molecular phenotypes defined by degree of T-helper type 2 inflammation.

Unipolar, bipolar mood disorders ‘relatively common in adolescence’ Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Unipolar and bipolar mood disorders are more common in adolescence and young adulthood than previously assumed, says an international team of scientists that also found conversion from unipolar to bipolar disorder is not particularly high.

Breast cancer risk may be increased in schizophrenia Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Female schizophrenia patients appear to have an increased risk for breast cancer, UK researchers discovered in a systematic review that yielded no proven risk factor to explain the association.

10-mg warfarin nomogram effective in ‘real life’ practice Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Results from a "real life" study support the use of a 10-mg warfarin initiation nomogram in outpatients requiring oral anticoagulation.

Warfarin may raise stroke risk in dialysis patients with AF Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The use of warfarin to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation may paradoxically raise the risk of stroke in certain individuals, study findings indicate.

Obesity may hinder prostate cancer radiotherapy success Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Obese prostate cancer patients undergoing non-image-guided radiotherapy may not be receiving the correct dose because of prostate movement during treatment, according to the results of a US study.

Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk for aggressive contralateral breast cancer Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Breast cancer survivors treated with adjuvant hormonal therapy for 5 or more years have a four-fold increased risk for developing an estrogen receptor-negative contralateral tumor compared with women not treated with hormonal therapy, US research shows.

Obesity may hinder prostate cancer radiotherapy success Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Obese prostate cancer patients undergoing non-image-guided radiotherapy may not be receiving the correct dose because of prostate movement during treatment, according to the results of a US study.

Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea patients have low HDL cholesterol Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Moderate to severe apnea–hypopnea syndrome is independently associated with low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, show results from a cross-sectional study of an elderly population.

T-lymphocyte stimulation may explain link between osteoporosis and CVD Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Results show that stimulation of T-lymphocytes by oxidized lipids could explain the association between osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease.

Actovegin improves polyneuropathy symptoms for Type 2 diabetics Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Treatment with actovegin improves the symptoms and quality of life of Type 2 diabetics with symptomatic polyneuropathy, report German researchers.

Abdominal fat influences association of FFAs with pulse pressure in women with Type 1 diabetes Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Free fatty acids are associated with pulse pressure, a marker of arterial stiffness, in women, but not men, with Type 1 diabetes, and correlate with levels of abdominal obesity, researchers report.

PImax predicts outcome in chronic heart failure Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT In patients with chronic heart failure, the maximum inspiratory mouth occlusion pressure is a significant predictor foradverse outcomes, say researchers who caution that beta-blocker use must be considered when calculating targets values.

Novel cardiac troponin assays improve MI detection Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Diagnosing myocardial infarction in patients presenting with chest pains could be improved with a new generation of cardiac troponin assays, study results demonstrate.

Warfarin may raise stroke risk in dialysis patients with AF Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The use of warfarin to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation may paradoxically raise the risk of stroke in certain individuals, study findings indicate.

Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk for aggressive contralateral breast cancer Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Breast cancer survivors treated with adjuvant hormonal therapy for 5 or more years have a four-fold increased risk for developing an estrogen receptor-negative contralateral tumor compared with women not treated with hormonal therapy, US research shows.

Adding PCA3 to PSA improves prostate cancer detection Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Prostate cancer prediction is improved by adding prostate cancer antigen 3 to prostate-specific antigen testing, potentially helping to stratify patients based on their risk for biopsy and cancer detection, say US scientists.

Trimodal treatment success for high-risk prostate cancer patients Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT High-risk prostate cancer patients have a significantly reduced risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality if brachytherapy is supplemented with androgen suppression therapy and external-beam radiation therapy, research findings suggest.

Training for sentinel lymph node surgery successful Posted: 25 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The training methods used for surgeons participating in the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-32 trial resulted in uniform and high overall sentinel lymph node resection rates.

Fatigue from prostate cancer radiation therapy linked to inflammation Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The fatigue associated with radiation therapy used to treat prostate and breast cancer may be caused by activation of the pro-inflammatory cytokine network, according to a US study.

More elderly breast cancer sufferers receive chemotherapy in private practice Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Elderly women treated for breast cancer in a private practice are more likely to receive chemotherapy than similar aged women treated in a non-private setting, US study results show.

Periprostatic nerve distribution varies across prostate in localized cancer Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Periprostatic nerve distribution varies in clinically localized prostate cancer, with the highest percentages found in the ventrolateral and dorsal regions, which may have implications for nerve-sparing surgery, say German scientists.

Subjective and objective post-brachytherapy symptoms correlate Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Subjective and objective parameters of symptoms following 125I permanent brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer are correlated for the first 12 months after treatment, Japanese investigators have discovered.

Low-dose estradiol viable therapy for selected breast cancers Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT A daily dose of 6 mg of estradiol in women with advanced breast cancer and acquired resistance to aromatase inhibitors provides a similar clinical benefit rate to 30 mg daily, but with fewer serious adverse events, US researchers report.

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