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 | | Long-term, large scale studies of modern radiotherapeutic techniques combined with current, aggressive chemotherapeutic regimens (particularly those containing doxorubicin and taxol) may be necessary to better define the benefits and risks of current combined modality therapies in the post-mastectomy and breast-conservation setting. | | | An ongoing European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer study is addressing the issue of the usefulness of this treatment. | | | The International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) trials VI and VII also varied the timing of radiation therapy with CMF adjuvant chemotherapy.[ 62 ] These studies showed that delays in radiation therapy after surgery from 2 to 7 months had no effect on the rate of local recurrence. |
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| | The National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Person |
| | The study noted that, in spite of the link between oral cancer and smoking, there is a very low perception of these risks, including among those persons with direct contact with the disease. | | | This is a link to a March 8, 2002 news story concerning a new Mayo Clinic study, published in the AnnalÕs of Internal Medicine the week of March 8th, which found that: "Prevention programs targeted at middle-aged men have succeeded in cutting the number of heart attacks among men. | | | This very comprehensive study, of over 34,000 male British doctors followed up on since 1951, found, contrary to the earlier, less reliable studies, that smoking does not substantially reduce the onset of Alzheimer's or of dementia in general; if anything, the authors reported, smoking might increase the rate of dementia onset. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Tai Chi 'can treat heart failure' |
| | The British Heart Foundation said the study was "excellent news" and Tai Chi could be adopted into treatment programmes in the UK in the future. | | | Commenting on the findings in the American Journal of Medicine, Cathy Ross, a cardiac nurse at the BHF, said: "Studies have been done on this before and have shown it helps. | | | She said the Tai Chi, which has origins in Chinese martial and healing arts, had the potential to make vast improvements in the quality of life of people with heart failure. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Experience goes a long way in mammography field |
| | Carney of the Dartmouth Medical School said the Esserman study "is a vital first step in improving our understanding" in learning why there is such a variation in interpreting mammography from country to country. | | | This means that the British doctors were able to more nearly accurately spot the cancers on X-ray films and order appropriate biopsies, Esserman said. | | | These are problems that would not be corrected by requiring more mammography practice by the U.S. Doctors, they said. |
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| | Information Resource Centre - How do we know? |
| | One study showed that even 30 minutes of exposure to second-hand smoke can reduce blood flow in a non-smokerâs heart 30. | | | Darby, S., et al., Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies. | | | Brennan, P., et al., Cigarette smoking and bladder cancer in men: a pooled analysis of 11 case-control studies. |
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| | The Scriptorium |
| | But the children’s deaths, and the possibility that the protocol will become standard practice throughout the Netherlands, have sparked heated discussion about whether the idea of assisting adults who seek to die should ever be applied to children and others who are incapable of making, or understanding, such a request. | | | While experts and critics familiar with the policy said a parent’s wishes to let a child live or die naturally most likely would be considered, they note that the decision must be professional, so rests with doctors. | | | Now that the public has been trained to view an unborn baby as a non-feeling piece of tissue that only becomes human in the moment it first sees the light of day, it’s time to convince people that human life really isn’t that sacred after birth either. |
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| | The British Arab Medical Association |
| | Refugee and asylum seeking doctors who are eligible for work are allowed to participate in the courses. | | | The Deanery and the British International Doctors Association has invited refugee doctors in the northwest area to attend seminars on demystifying clinical governance and consultant appraisal and revalidation for overseas doctors. | | | She is interested in working closely with refugee doctors in order to identify their individual needs. |
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| | Health care business, hospitals, doctors |
| | NEW YORK, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. doctors have been treating prostate cancer more aggressively with radiation therapy to cure more patients of the disease, researchers said. | | | BATH, England, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- An online British survey is under way in a bid to help doctors provide medical care geared to the patient's perception of quality of life. | | | They say this knowledge could turn what has been a subjective problem for patients into an objective science in which pain is measurable. |
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| | Vioxx articles and information |
| | A recent study examined the tendencies of doctors to prescribe Vioxx, a drug that Merck recalled after learning that it increased the risk of heart attack, and found that the drug was prescribed far beyond its target users. | | | Graham felt that his hand had been forced after numerous studies showed that patients taking Vioxx were twice as likely to suffer a heart... | | | The evidence against these drugs sounds damaging, but it is important to note that no specific studies have yet been done. |
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| | Iraq Body Count Comment & Analysis |
| | We are encouraged that the aims and concerns underlying our work are receiving increasingly widespread acceptance, evidence of which comes from the growing number of projects that seek, in varying ways, to fulfil similar and/or complementary roles to ours. | | | Ruzicka’s concern for getting money to victims is admirable, but it places on her a particular responsibility to provide well-documented primary data. | | | There is as yet no information published on scope, sources, methodology or a delivery date for this study. |
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| | Original research |
| | To date, there has been no study of aspirin for primary prevention that included a separate analysis of patients who were free of cardiovascular risk factors. | | | Only those studies that investigated primary prevention of cardiovascular disease using aspirin, had low-risk subjects, and included a measure of total mortality were part of our analysis. | | | Because the studies analyzed did not include only low-risk subjects, the results may not apply to all low-risk patients. |
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| | Many Hysterectomies Unnecessary, British Study Shows |
| | Complications arose during one in 30 of the operations during the year studied, the research showed, resulting in a need for further surgery in one in 130 cases. | | | "The availability of newer, less invasive techniques for the treatment of heavy periods needs further consideration and both the Department of Health and NICE should consider the need for national guidelines for women and doctors," the authors concluded. | | | The report authors called on the government and Britain's National Institute for Clinical Excellence to force doctors to consider this treatment in more cases. |
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| | Two new vaccines, one for Marburg and one for Ebola, were 100 percent effective in a study of 12 macaques that was published today in the journal Nature Medicine. | | | Syphilis cases are on the rise again in Minnesota, raising concerns about unsafe sexual behaviors, according to state health officials. | | | SAN DIEGO — Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy give birth to healthier babies if they are aggressively treated, concludes a large new study that helps bolster the case for testing all pregnant women for this condition. |
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| | Information Resource Centre - 50-year tobacco study shows smokers lose a decade of life |
| | The study, funded by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation, also demonstrates the benefits of | | | The armed forces provided low cost cigarettes to conscripts, which established the addiction with an intense early exposure to smoking. | | | Doctors were chosen to be the subjects of the study because they were a relatively simple group to follow through the Medical Register held by the General Medical Council. |
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| | United Press International: Smoking: Years of research exposes dangers |
| | In the case of cigarette smoking, this is a behavior in which people make a choice to smoke." | | | Here, for example, is a just a handful of the studies concluded since 2000: | | | -- Smoking carries increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study of dementia patients in Australia. |
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| | Aspirin in low risk individuals [November 2002; 105-5] |
| | A new analysis of studies in low risk patients shows that aspirin use in such individuals has little or no effect on all-cause mortality. | | | Table 1: Description and results of individual trials examining prophylactic use of aspirin in individuals at low risk of cardiovascular disease | | | Primary prevention is probably worthwhile at coronary risks of 1.5% a year or more, risks and benefits are balanced at an annual risk of 1%, and aspirin use is unsafe when the risk is 0.5% or less. |
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| | Protection for British Livestock and Farmers news |
| | Wouldn't it be better use of time and money to find out if a disease exists in a species before warning of the hypothetical consequences? | | | Jan 30 ~ It will be interesting to see whay reaction the following short paragraph from Robert Ulig's article in today's Telegraph provokes: | | | It is well worth studying however since it will appear to many to be good sense. |
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| | CNN.com - Fat phobia study reveals weighty attitudes - Oct. 14, 2003 |
| | Studies show that even preschoolers are more likely to describe overweight playmates as mean, ugly or stupid. | | | Even here, though, another study suggests that obesity specialists themselves may harbor subtle, if unintentional, negative attitudes toward their patients. | | | Carol Johnson of Milwaukee, a large woman who heads a support organization called Largely Positive, told the conference that overweight people are often discriminated against by doctors, who ascribe all their problems to weight and sometimes withhold standard treatments, like blood pressure pills, that they freely prescribe to thin patients. |
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| | Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention |
| | Numerous other studies have documented these important relationships between smoking and cancer. | | | Those cohorts with long-term follow-up, including the British Doctors Study, the American Veterans Cohort Study, the Nurses' Health Study, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, show that having smoked 30 or more years in the past increases the risk of colon cancer (3). | | | It is biologically plausible, though, that cigarette smoking may influence the risk of cervical cancer through several mechanisms. |
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| | EAACI: British Doctors Rapidly Intensify Asthma Treatment |
| | If you have any technical questions or other concerns about this site, feel free to contact us at webmaster@docguide.com. | | | The British Asthma Guidelines recommend a stepped approach in which therapy is added depending on symptoms. | | | Before altering a treatment step, physicians are urged to check that the inhaler type is appropriate and that the patient's inhaler technique is good. |
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| | Doctors and state medicine; a study of the British Health Service. | | | Alabama or AL Ontario or ON United Kingdom or UK WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | Please enter a zip code (for U.S only) or postal code (for Canada only) |
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| | Risk factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | study of the link between smoking and lung cancer). | | | Statistical methods would be used in a less clear cut case to decide what level of risk the risk factor would have to present to be able to say the risk factor "causes" the disease (for example in a | | | This page was last modified 00:05, 1 May 2005. |
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| | Epidemiology |
| | Epidemiology is the study of the demographics of disease processes, including the study of epidemics and other diseases that are common enough to allow statistical tools to be applied. | | | This was a major event in the history of public health, and can be regarded as the founding event of the science of epidemiology. | | | Epidemiology is an important auxiliary branch of medicine, helping to find the causes of diseases and ways of prevention (as in the case of AIDS). |
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| | The Sunday Telegraph : Autism study prompts fears over mystery environmental factor British doctors express concern ... |
| | British doctors have reacted with alarm to the research, and the findings will be seized on by campaigners who believe that the triple MMR vaccine is causing bowel disease and autism in children. | | | THE NUMBER of children suffering from autism has doubled in California in the past four years, according to a new study which has fuelled worldwide concerns that an environmental factor may be making them susceptible to the condition. | | | Such claims have consistently been denied by the Department of Health. |
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| | British Medical Journal: Are "tomorrow's doctors" honest? Questionnaire study exploring medical students' attitudes and ... |
| | Questionnaire study exploring medical students' attitudes and reported behaviour on academic misconduct | | | Honesty and integrity are key characteristics expected of a doctor, although academic misconduct among medical students is not new.[1] A survey of 428 American students in 1980 found that 58% reported cheating during medical school.[2] We assessed students' attitudes and behaviours on "cheating" and aimed to raise awareness of academic misconduct. | | | FindArticles > Health and Fitness > British Medical Journal > Feb 3, 2001 > Article |
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| | EDITORIAL: New insights from the British doctors study / Risks for persistent smoking are substantially larger than ... |
| | Other long term cohort studies, such as the Framingham heart study and the nurses' health study (modelled directly from the British doctors study) provide additional compelling examples of this value. | | | This study provides a shining example of the ability of cohorts with very long term follow up to assess latency and the impact of exposures at different ages. | | | The 50 years of the British doctors study provide us with a much richer and more fully accurate picture than would be possible with a truncated follow up. |
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| | Fight genetic weapons, British doctors urge |
| | "It is a particularly horrifying thought," said Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics for the BMA, who started the study. | | | "We are doing the study at the moment using as many lawyers and other experts as we can to find out whether we think it is feasible," said Nathanson, who presented her fears to the BMA's annual meeting in Edinburgh. | | | LONDON (Reuter) - Gene therapy could be twisted into terrifying genetic weapons that target and destroy ethnic groups, British doctors warned Tuesday. |
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| | Smoking shortens life by a decade, concludes 50 year study |
| | The Report demonstrated that up to two-thirds of those who smoke cigarettes will eventually be killed by their habit, but those who give up by the age of 30 will avoid almost all the risk, according to a study of British doctors which has now been running for 50 years. | | | The World Health Organization’s August 2004 Bulletin reported on a study entitled Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years’ observations on male British doctors. | | | Please send any medical news or health news press releases to: |
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| | MOST BRITISH DOCTORS OPPOSE ASSISTED SUICIDE |
| | A majority of 56% of the 986 doctors polled said that it is impossible to set safe bounds to the process. | | | The study was done as a growing number of British citizens are travelling to Switzerland to commit suicide with the help of the suicide group Dignitas. | | | LONDON, May 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A majority of British doctors say they have received patient inquiries about assisted suicide, and fully three-quarters (74%) said they would refuse to provide assisted suicide even if it were legalized in the UK. |
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| | SWEDEN.SE - Site structure + Home |
| | Are you thinking of studying abroad, either in Sweden or elsewhere in the world? | | | but also to study design at a Swedish university. | | | Study options Institutions Course search Scholarships Living in Sweden Learn Swedish |
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| | Crosswalk.com - British Doctors Call for Public Smoking Ban |
| | London (CNSNews.com) - Britain's leading medical authorities have called for a total ban on smoking in public places, but government officials indicated Tuesday that no such restrictions are in the works. | | | The U.K.'s 13 medical Royal Colleges, including the Royal College of Physicians, announced the publication of a study titled "Tobacco Smoke Pollution: The Hard Facts." | | | In a letter to The Times newspaper, the medical experts said that passive smoking kills 1,000 adults every year in Britain and causes childhood diseases including asthma and lung and ear infections. |
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