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Penile Implant's 8-Month Erection Problem, Patient Sues Urologist
Date: Jun-13-2013A penile implant procedure ended up forcing patient Daniel Metzgar having to live with a permanent erection for 8 months, according to his attorney Michael C. Heyden at a medical malpractice suit being heard at New Castle County Superior Court, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Truck driver Metzgar, 44, complained that the permanent erection made it difficult for him to go about his daily business. Riding his motorcycle became more difficult as did retrieving his morning newspaper, Heyden claimed. In December 2009, Metzgar had a three-piece inflatable implant fitted...
Prostate Enzyme Enables Detection Of Metastases During Molecular Imaging
Date: Jun-13-2013No matter where they have hidden, metastatic prostate cancer cells still express some of the same signaling as normal prostate cells; in some cases even more so, as with the PSMA enzyme. Harnessing this enzyme could mean the beginning of a new platform for prostate cancer detection, staging, treatment and post-treatment monitoring, said researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2013 Annual Meeting...
Advanced Lymphoma Patients Receiving Radioimmunotherapy Likely To Live Longer
Date: Jun-13-2013A new patient protocol for aggressive and recurrent lymphoma that combines intensive chemotherapy and radioimmunotherapy (RIT) may become the most powerful cancer-killing therapy available, with the hope that patients' lymphoma can be eradicated as they prepare for bone marrow transplant, said researchers at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. In a study presented at the meeting, survival rates without recurrence improved with the addition of RIT, with some having a 100 percent chance of survival over two years...
PET And MR Predict Chemotherapy's Ability To Prolong Life Of Breast Cancer Patients
Date: Jun-13-2013For patients with advanced breast cancer, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can improve quality of life and survival by providing physicians with information on the effectiveness of chemotherapy prior to surgery, said researchers presenting at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Researchers combined separate imaging systems - PET, MR and CT - to map the course of chemotherapy before surgery, otherwise known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy...
Workers In India Who Walk Or Cycle To Their Job Likely To Be A Healthier Weight
Date: Jun-13-2013People in India who walk or cycle to work are less likely to be overweight or obese, according to a study led by Christopher Millett from Imperial College London and the Public Health Foundation of India and colleagues. Their paper reporting the study, published in this week's PLOS Medicine, reveals that cyclists are also less likely to have diabetes or high blood pressure compared to people who take public or private transport to work...
Inadequate Noncommunicable Disease Prevention In Low-And Middle-Income Countries
Date: Jun-13-2013Nine years after the World Health Organization adopted a global strategy on diet, physical activity, and health to address risk factors for chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes (referred to internationally as noncommunicable diseases), only a few low-and middle-income countries have implemented robust national policies to help prevent such diseases, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine...
Free Bus Travel For Teens Curbs Road Traffic Injuries And Benefits Environment
Date: Jun-13-2013Free bus travel for teens helps curb road traffic injuries and benefits the environment, reveal the results of an analysis of the free bus scheme in London, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. But it also seems to boost the number of short journeys taken by bus, which might otherwise have been cycled or walked, the findings show. The researchers wanted to assess the public health impact of giving teens in London free bus travel. The scheme was introduced for 12 to 16 year olds in 2005, and for 17 year olds in 2006...
Every 10 Tobacco Ad Sightings Boost Teens' Risk Of Starting To Smoke By Almost 40 Per Cent
Date: Jun-13-2013Tobacco ads really do persuade teens to take up smoking, with every 10 sightings boosting the risk by almost 40 per cent, reveals research published in the online only journal BMJ Open. The researchers base their findings on over 1300 ten to 15 year old non-smokers whose exposure to tobacco advertising and subsequent behaviour were monitored over a period of 2.5 years. In 2008, the children, who were pupils at 21 public schools in three different regions of Germany, were asked how often they had seen particular ads...
Doubling Of Deaths Among Sick Mums-To-Be Amid Poor Evidence On Drug Safety In Pregnancy
Date: Jun-13-2013The lack of hard data on the safety and effectiveness of a wide range of drugs in pregnancy has hindered the treatment of pregnant women, contributing to a doubling of deaths amongst mums-to-be with an underlying health problem over the past 20 years, argues an editorial in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). It's time to include pregnant women in drug trials so that they can get the medical treatment they need, says DTB...
Hybrid Molecular Imaging System As Good As PET/CT Gold Standard For Restaging Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Date: Jun-13-2013When prostate cancer makes a comeback, it becomes increasingly important to have exceptional imaging available to find all possible regions where cancer has spread to other parts of the body, or metastasized, in order to plan the best possible treatment...
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