Medical Health

The extra cost and effort required by hospitals to earn such a designation might not be worth it, they said.
“Designation as a bariatric surgery center of excellence does not ensure better outcomes,” Dr. Edward Livingston of the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, whose study appears in the Archives of Surgery, [...]

Adults and children with symptoms such as wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath are encouraged to take advantage of the screenings that will be conducted by allergists.
“Many people don’t realize their breathing problem might be caused by asthma and simply put up with their symptoms, which could include a [...]

“I didn’t have that sense of urgency,” said the Pasadena, Md., woman.
But nine months later, doctors told Wagner her condition had worsened. She, too, now had Type 2 diabetes.
That scared her into action.
Now, two years later, the 55-year-old woman has slimmed down. She exercises regularly and her blood sugar levels are back [...]

They found that children with a rare, aggressive form of lung cancer called pleuropulmonary blastoma, or PPB, are born with a mutation in DICER1, itself a master controller gene that helps regulate other genes.
In addition, they found children with PPB have normal-looking cells in their lungs that appear to cause neighboring cells [...]

Malaria kills more than 880,000 people a year, at least 85 percent of them are children and most victims are in Africa, said Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.
New drug combinations have been developed to treat strains of malaria that have become resistant to the old remedies, but they cost 10 to 40 times [...]

The National Women’s Health Information Center lists these foods or ingredients that can cause IBS symptoms in some people:

Caffeine (found in sodas, coffee and tea).
Carbonated beverages.
The artificial sweetener sorbitol (often found in chewing gum).
Beans and vegetables that cause excessive gas.
Alcoholic drinks.
Chocolate.
Dairy products such as milk, ice cream and cheese.

Researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center added dasatinib, along with carboplatin and paclitaxel, to four types of ovarian cancer cells.
In some types of ovarian cancers, a pathway called SRC is involved in the abnormal cell proliferation, said Dr. Deanna Teoh, a fellow in gynecologic oncology at Duke [...]

The findings, which were to be presented Sunday at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, in Denver, fit into the current framework of “personalized” medicine, explained Dr. Minetta Liu, a translational researcher/breast oncologist at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C.
That, of course, [...]

A third of human pancreatic cancers looked at by Johns Hopkins University researchers contained a malfunctioning phosophorylated epidermal growth factor receptor (pEGFR), which previous studies had noted as being active in some lung cancers. When mice with this type of pancreatic cancer were given erlotinib, an EGFR-inhibitor drug approved [...]

They said two compounds in a class of drugs called bisphosphonates delayed and in some cases prevented mice exposed to high doses of radiation from developing leukemia, a common long-term side effect of radiation exposure.
Alexandra Miller, a scientist at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has been studying ways [...]