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Children With Chronic Conditions Often Use Alternative Medicine
Date: Jan-14-2013Children who regularly see specialists for chronic medical conditions are also using complementary medicine at a high rate, demonstrates recently published research from the University of Alberta and the University of Ottawa. About 71 per cent of pediatric patients attending various specialty clinics at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton used alternative medicine, while the rate of use at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa was 42 per cent...
Vaccine Safety Datalink Study Finds Less Reaction To DTaP Vaccine When Given In Kids' Thighs Than Arms
Date: Jan-14-2013Children age 12 to 35 months who receive DTaP vaccine in their thigh muscle rather than their arm are around half as likely to be brought in for medical attention for an injection-site reaction. So says a new study of 1.4 million children at Group Health and seven other Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) centers across the country, e-published on January 14 in Pediatrics. "These local reactions are the most common side effect of vaccinations," said study leader Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute...
Smoking Intensity And Cancer Markers Predict Seriousness Of Bladder Cancer
Date: Jan-14-2013Smoking not only causes bladder cancer - it also affects its course, in that people who smoke more have greater likelihood of developing more aggressive and deadly disease. That is one of the conclusions of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study also found that a panel of bladder cancer markers can predict which particular cases are at the highest risk for a fatal outcome...
Replacing Endoscopy With Pill-Sized Device Could Allow Broader Screening For Esophageal Cancer, Other Conditions
Date: Jan-14-2013Physicians may soon have a new way to screen patients for Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition usually caused by chronic exposure to stomach acid. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of a multivitamin pill that creates detailed, microscopic images of the esophageal wall. The system has several advantages over traditional endoscopy...
Reducing Opioid Prescription Painkiller Abuse, Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Guidelines
Date: Jan-14-2013New emergency room guidelines to prevent opioid prescription painkiller abuse have been announced by New York Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs and Chief Policy Advisor John Feinblatt. The NY City's Mayor's office says it has created RxStat to fight opioid abuse and overdose. New York authorities released an initial report of the Mayor's Task Force on Prescription Painkiller Abuse. The report includes new (voluntary) guidelines for emergency rooms...
Stand Up For Three Hours In The Office And Lose Weight
Date: Jan-14-2013You are more likely to lose weight if you stand up for three hours each day in the office, Dr John Buckley from Chester University, England believes. Dr. Buckley, an exercise scientists in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Nutrition, salvaged an old oak lectern and used it as a standing desk, and set out to work like Nobel Prize author Ernest Hemingway would - on his feet. Buckley is doing so for three hours each day. Dr. Buckley worked out that by standing at a desk for three hours, rather than sitting down, he burns an extra 144 calories daily...
Bladder Cancers More Deadly In Smokers
Date: Jan-14-2013Smoking not only causes bladder cancer - it also affects its course, in that people who smoke more have greater likelihood of developing more aggressive and deadly disease. That is one of the conclusions of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study also found that a panel of bladder cancer markers can predict which particular cases are at the highest risk for a fatal outcome...
Pregnancy Following Bariatric Surgery Should Be Avoided For At Least 12 Months
Date: Jan-14-2013Women should wait at least 12 months before trying for a baby following weight loss surgery and need further advice and information on reproductive issues, suggests a new evidence-based literature review published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG). The review looks at the safety, advantages and limitations of bariatric surgery and multidisciplinary management of patients before, during and after pregnancy. With the prevalence of obesity among women of reproductive age expected to rise from 24.2% in 2005 to 28...
Fluorescently Labeled Molecules Highlight Cancer Spread During Surgery In Mouse Model
Date: Jan-14-2013One of the greatest challenges faced by cancer surgeons is to know exactly which tissue to remove, or not, while the patient is under anesthesia. A team of surgeons and scientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new technique that will allow surgeons to identify during surgery which lymph nodes are cancerous so that healthy tissue can be saved. The findings will be published in the January 15 print edition of Cancer Research...
Childhood Weight May Be Influenced By Limiting Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Levels During Pregnancy
Date: Jan-14-2013Southampton researchers have demonstrated that mothers who have higher levels of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which are found in cooking oils and nuts, during pregnancy have fatter children. The study, carried out by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, assessed the fat and muscle mass of 293 boys and girls at four and six years, who are part of the Southampton Women's Survey (SWS), a large prospective mother-offspring cohort...
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