17 Nov 08 Case Of Patient "Cured" Of HIV Baffles Doctors
Doctors and experts are baffled by the case of a 42-year old male American patient living in Berlin whose 10-year long HIV infection appears to have been “cured” by a bone marrow transplant given to treat his acute myeloid leukemia.
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Tags: Acute Myeloid Leukemia, American Patient, Baffles, Bone Marrow, Doctors, Hiv, Hiv Infection, Leukemia, Living In Berlin
17 Nov 08 Documentary Examining Deadly Blood Disorders And Lifesaving Research To Premiere On Discovery Health
Peabody-Award-winning filmmaker, Joseph Lovett, in conjunction with the American Society of Hematology (ASH) presents BLOOD DETECTIVES, an hour-long documentary airing on Discovery Health on December 19, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT and again at 12:00 a.m. ET/PT. BLOOD DETECTIVES focuses on the medical mysteries and lifesaving work of highly specialized doctors, hematologists, as they race against time to unravel medical mysteries and save lives, from leukemia to blood clots and more.
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Tags: Ash, Blood Clots, Blood Disorders, Conjunction, Deadly Blood, Detectives, Discovery Health, Doctors, Documentary, Filmmaker, Hematology, Joseph Lovett, Leukemia, Medical Mysteries, Peabody Award, Premiere, Presents, Race Against Time
09 Nov 08 Conservative Jews battle hospital over life of brain-dead child (AFP)
AFP - The Orthodox Jewish parents of a boy whom doctors have ruled "brain-dead" are fighting in court to keep him on life support, arguing that their religion considers him still alive.
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09 Nov 08 Conservative Jews battle hospital over life of brain-dead child (AFP)
AFP - The Orthodox Jewish parents of a boy whom doctors have ruled "brain-dead" are fighting in court to keep him on life support, arguing that their religion considers him still alive.
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Tags: Afp, Brain Child, Brain Dead, Conservative Jews, Doctors, Life Of Brain, Orthodox Jewish Parents, Religion
07 Nov 08 Five steps to getting a second opinion online
Not sure your doctor’s got it right? Get a second opinion without ever leaving your living room. In this week’s Empowered Patient, CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen tells you how to get a second opinion from one of the nation’s top doctors.
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05 Nov 08 Treating TB, HIV Together Decreases Mortality
Doctors urged not to wait until patients’ tuberculosis treatment is complete before prescribing antiretroviral drugs
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Tags: Antiretroviral Drugs, Doctors, Hiv, Mortality, Tb, Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Treatment
05 Nov 08 Doctors Lack Smoking Cessation Training (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) — Few doctors or other
health-care providers have enough smoking cessation training to help their
patients quit smoking, a U.S. study suggests.
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Tags: Doctors, Health Care Providers, Healthday, Quit Smoking, Smoking Cessation
05 Nov 08 Statins cut key indicator of prostate cancer: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins modestly reduce levels of a protein in a man's blood that doctors often use to screen for prostate cancer, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Tags: Cancer Drugs, Cancer Researchers, Cancer Study, Cholesterol, Cholesterol Drugs, Cholesterol Lowering Drugs, Doctors, Prostate, Prostate Cancer, Protein, Reuters
05 Nov 08 Vaccine slashes diarrheal illness in kids (AP)
AP - A vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrhea in infants, has led to a dramatic drop in hospitalization and emergency room visits since it came on the market two years ago, doctors reported Saturday.
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Tags: Diarrhea In Infants, Diarrheal Illness, Doctors, Dramatic Drop, Emergency Room Visits, Hospitalization, Led, Rotavirus, Slashes
05 Nov 08 Heart defect shouldn't limit kids' exercise: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Children born with a hole between the left and right sides of the heart - what doctors call a ventricular septal defect — are generally as healthy and physically fit as other children and should not be discouraged from engaging in strenuous exercise, a Dutch research team has found.
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Tags: Doctors, Dutch Research, Exercise Study, Heart Defect, Limit Kids, Reuters, Strenuous Exercise, Ventricular Septal Defect
05 Nov 08 New MRI Puts Cervical Cancer Into Focus (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) — Combining the use of MRI
with a special vaginal coil, doctors can now assess the extent of cervical
cancer and make more informed treatment decisions, a new study
suggests.
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Tags: Cervical Cancer, Doctors, Extent, Focus 21, Healthday, Informed Treatment, Mri, New Focus, Treatment Decisions
05 Nov 08 Does mold make you sick? Doctors seek answers (Reuters)
Reuters - Fungus expert Joan Bennett did not believe in so-called toxic mold — the cause of "sick building syndrome" and many lawsuits — until her New Orleans home was flooded during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Tags: Doctors, Expert, Fungus, Hurricane Katrina, Joan Bennett, Lawsuits, New Orleans, Reuters, Sick Building Syndrome, Toxic Mold
05 Nov 08 Doctors Stress Pressing Need For Research Into The Best Treatment For Medication Overuse Headaches
There is a critical need to review current treatment strategies for the increasingly common problem of medication overuse headaches (MOH), according to a series of international papers in the November issue of Cephalalgia. “MOH is associated with severe disability, unmet treatment need and little clinical data to support current management strategies” says neurology expert Professor David W Dodick from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Arizona, USA.
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Tags: Arizona Usa, College Of Medicine, Critical Need, Current Management, David W Dodick, Disability, Doctors, Headaches, Management Strategies, Mayo Clinic, Medication, Medicine, Professor David, Stress Research, Treatment Strategies
05 Nov 08 ‘New’ Estrogen Receptor Found To Be Key Player In Tamoxifen Resistance
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered a novel way in which breast cancer cells become resistant to tamoxifen, the world’s largest-selling breast cancer prevention and treatment drug. They say the findings could provide a way to identify tamoxifen users who are no longer benefiting from the drug, allowing doctors to try another therapy option sooner.
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Tags: Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Cells, Breast Cancer Prevention, Doctors, Estrogen Receptor, Georgetown University Medical, Novel, Resistance, Tamoxifen, Therapy Option, University Medical Center
05 Nov 08 Center For Dental Studies Successfully Completes $1M Grant Phase
The California Center for Advanced Dental Studies (CCADS) has successfully completed its first graduating class of doctors. Fifteen doctors from all over Northern California have completed a unique ten month educational program designed to advance their clinical skills in the area of cosmetic dentistry. Along with other recipients worldwide, educational grants in the amount of $18,500 were awarded to each doctor in this select group.
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Tags: 1m, California Center, California Dental, Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Studies, Doctors, Educational Grants, Educational Program, First Graduating Class, Northern California, Select Group
20 Oct 08 Women With Aggressive HER2 Positive Breast Cancer May Miss Out On Chemotherapy And Trastuzumab (Herceptin®)
Women with a particularly aggressive form of early stage (primary) breast cancer may miss out on optimal treatment which may include chemotherapy and trastuzumab (Herceptin) as a result of untimely or missing HER2-status test results, according to doctors responding to the results from a North of England Cancer Network audit of HER2-testing today.
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Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer Chemotherapy, Cancer Network, Cancer Treatment, Chemotherapy, Doctors, Her2 Positive Breast Cancer, Herceptin, Network Audit, North England, North Of England, Optimal Treatment, Test Results, Women Breast
20 Oct 08 Women With Aggressive HER2 Positive Breast Cancer May Miss Out On Chemotherapy And Trastuzumab (Herceptin®)
Women with a particularly aggressive form of early stage (primary) breast cancer may miss out on optimal treatment which may include chemotherapy and trastuzumab (Herceptin) as a result of untimely or missing HER2-status test results, according to doctors responding to the results from a North of England Cancer Network audit of HER2-testing today.
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Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer Chemotherapy, Cancer Network, Cancer Treatment, Chemotherapy, Doctors, Her2 Positive Breast Cancer, Herceptin, Network Audit, North England, North Of England, Optimal Treatment, Test Results, Women Breast
17 Oct 08 Doctors warn of rash from mobile phone use (Reuters)
Reuters - Doctors baffled by an unexplained rash on people's ears or cheeks should be on alert for a skin allergy caused by too much mobile phone use, the British Association of Dermatologists said on Thursday.
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Tags: Cheeks, Doctors, Ears, Mobile Phone Use, People, Rash On, Reuters, Skin Allergy
17 Oct 08 Delicate Debate Urged Over Withdrawal of Life Support (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) — Almost half of the patients
who die in the intensive care units of hospitals do so after a prolonged
withdrawal of life support, a process doctors refer to as "stuttering," a
new study found.
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Tags: Debate, Doctors, Healthday, Hospitals, Intensive Care Units, Stuttering
17 Oct 08 Age-Related Hearing Loss And Genes That Control Cell Death Linked
Several genes that play a role in how our body’s cells normally auto-destruct may play a role in age-related hearing loss, according to research published online in the journal Apoptosis - a journal devoted to the topic of cell suicide, or programmed cell death. Doctors know that genetics play some role in such hearing loss, which affects nearly everyone older than 60, as well as many people somewhat younger.
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