Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Medical News

Exhaled NO may predict lung function in young children

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Exhaled nitric oxide measurements may help predict changes in lung function and asthma risk in young children with recurrent wheeze, say researchers.

Art therapy benefits asthmatic children

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Art therapy helps reduce anxiety and increase quality of life in children with asthma, results from a US study suggest.

Exposure to bacteria at home linked to reduced asthma risk in children

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Exposure to increased levels of bacteria in the home is associated with a reduced risk for asthma in children, research suggests.

Metacognitive training shows promise for schizophrenia patients

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

The treatment program "metacognitive training for patients with schizophrenia" appears to be a feasible option for ameliorating positive symptoms and the jumping to conclusions thinking style associated with delusions, pilot study findings suggest.

Tobacco use linked to coronary heart disease in bipolar disorder patients

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Smoking is common among patients with bipolar disorder and can increase their risk for coronary heart disease, a study in Spanish people shows.

Previous abdominal surgery does not contraindicate RRP

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Study results suggest that previous abdominal or inguinal surgery is not a contraindication to robotic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

Dose escalation for prostate cancer is feasible using IMRT

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Study results suggest that dose escalation of image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy to the prostate, including the pelvic lymph nodes and seminal vesicles, is feasible, with acceptable rates of toxicity.

Five new breast cancer susceptibility loci identified

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Scientists have found five new regions of the genome that are associated with an increased risk for developing breast cancer, according to a study published in Nature Genetics.

Fibrate effect on coronary events confirmed

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Fibrate treatment cuts patients' cardiovascular risk, largely by reducing their risk for coronary events and coronary death, a meta-analysis published in The Lancet confirms.

Pericardial adipose tissue linked with CV risk, subclinical disease

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

The volume of pericardial fat correlates with markers of cardiometabolic risk and subclinical atherosclerosis, a study in African–Americans has found.

Children of mothers with GDM more likely to be overweight

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

The combination of gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal prepregnancy overweight significantly increases the risk for offspring overweight by the age of 16 years, suggest study results.

Family history of diabetes linked to reduced physical fitness

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Individuals with a family history of Type 2 diabetes have lower physical fitness than those who do not, despite participating in similar levels of physical activity, report investigators.

PCI and CABG show similar long-term outcomes in left main disease

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Results from the MAIN-COMPARE registry show that percutaneous coronary intervention with use of either bare-metal stents or drug-eluting stents resulted in similar rates of adverse outcomes at 5 years to coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease.

Risk factor, treatment improvements have lowered CHD mortality

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Improvements in risk factors and in medical and surgical treatments each explain around half of the reduction in coronary heart disease mortality seen over the past decade, suggests a study in Ontario, Canada.
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