Medical News

RSS

Long-term oncologic outcomes: A 40 year radical prostatectomy single institution series

Single institution long-term outcomes for radical prostatectomy are scarce in the literature. In the August 2006 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Porter from the Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA reports on 25-year cancer outcomes for radical prostatectomy (RP).

6 Sep 2006

Global action needed to protect children from junk food ads on the internet

An international conference on obesity in Sydney, Australia, has heard that children are being targeted by junk food manufacturers through internet advertising, chat rooms, text messages and "advergames" on websites.

6 Sep 2006

Libyan retrial of foreign medics stalls yet again

The retrial of six foreign medics accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS has been adjourned yet again until September 12th.

6 Sep 2006

Children with lactose intolerance still need dairy's nutrients

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending in a new report that children with lactose intolerance should include dairy foods as part of a healthy diet in order to get enough calcium, vitamin D, protein and other nutrients essential for bone health and overall growth.

6 Sep 2006

FDA approves limited use of artificial heart

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has given approval for limited use of an artificial heart.

6 Sep 2006

When it comes to surgery EU official says shop around

The European Commission's (EU) top health official has said that patients in the EU should have the right to be reimbursed by their national authorities for treatment taken anywhere in any of the 25 member countries.

6 Sep 2006

Lingering and longlasting effects of 9/11

According to a new report on the health effects of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, 70% of the rescue personnel and workers who responded to the disaster suffered from lung problems during and after the recovery efforts.

6 Sep 2006

Quantum dot nanodevice that can detect and image apoptosis

Aiming to help researchers get a better handle on how - and if - anticancer agents are triggering cell death, investigators at the University of Twente in The Netherlands have developed a quantum dot nanodevice that can detect and image apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death.

5 Sep 2006

Scientists develop magnetic nanoparticles for medicine

Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles have already proven their utility for imaging metastatic breast cancer lesions in sentinel lymph nodes, and numerous groups are attempting to use iron nanoparticles in other imaging applications.

5 Sep 2006

New method for attaching tumor-targeting antibodies to the surface of buckyballs

Hollow buckyballs, spherical molecules made of sixty carbon atoms linked to one another like the panels of a soccer ball, have the potential to ferry large doses of anticancer drugs or imaging agents to tumors.

5 Sep 2006

Targeted nanoparticles to improve Boron-Neutron capture therapy

Boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an experimental treatment for virulent brain cancer that aims to kill malignant cells by generating high-energy alpha particles inside tumors.

5 Sep 2006

H5 and N1 avian influenza found in Pennsylvania wild bird samples

The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior today announced that the presence of the H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from wild mallard ducks in Pennsylvania.

5 Sep 2006

Extensive Drug Resistant TB now a major threat

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the emergence of virulent drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) and is calling for measures to be strengthened and implemented to prevent the global spread of the deadly TB strains.

5 Sep 2006

FDA provides guidance to industry for active ingredients used in medical tests

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued draft regulatory guidance for the medical device industry on commercially distributed active ingredients of medical tests called Analyte Specific Reagents (ASRs).

5 Sep 2006

FDA approves AbioCor permanent artificial heart for humanitarian uses

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first totally implanted artificial heart for patients with advanced heart failure involving both pumping chambers of the heart under the Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) provisions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

5 Sep 2006

FDA drafts new guidance to industry for group of medical tests

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued draft regulatory guidance for industry and clinical laboratories for a new type of medical test.

5 Sep 2006

Sen. Santorum, opponent Casey differ in opinion of FDA approval of nonprescription Plan B sales

Sen. Rick Santorum and Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press showed "sharp" disagreement over FDA's recent approval of nonprescription sales of Barr Laboratories' emergency contraceptive Plan B.

5 Sep 2006

Infant and neonatal mortality rates are higher with voluntary caesarean sections than with vaginal births

Infant and neonatal mortality rates are higher with voluntary caesarean sections than with vaginal births, according to a study published in the September issue of the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, the New York Times reports.

5 Sep 2006

Texas Medical Board adopts parental consent form

The Texas Medical Board last week adopted rules requiring physicians to gain written and notarized parental consent before performing an abortion on a minor, the Houston Chronicle reports (Ross Hughes, Houston Chronicle, 9/1).

5 Sep 2006

Some find Accutane iPledge program requirements burdensome

Six months after the introduction of iPledge -- with which all people taking the acne drug isotretinoin, sold by Roche under the brand name Accutane, must register to receive their prescriptions - many patients and dermatologists "complain that the rules of iPledge are onerous and unworkable

5 Sep 2006