Newswise — Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) breast cancer specialists are using a new way to treat patients by delivering a one-time dose of radiation during surgery. The procedure, called intraoperative radiation therapy, takes less than an hour and eliminates the need for further radiation treatments.
On May 17, the PMH team combined the expertise of […]

Source: HIV Positive Employees Face Job Loss and Workplace Discrimination
[Disease severity, self reported experience of workplace health and employment loss during the course of chronic HIV disease: medicine according to gender and education Online First Occup Environ Med 2007; doi: 10.1136/oem.2007.034363]
Newswise — HIV positive employees face unemployment and workplace discrimination, indicates a study published […]

[Bath emollients for atopic eczema: why use them? DTB; 45: October 2007]
Newswise — Medicine hat news bath products to relieve the symptoms of allergic (atopic) eczema are of medicine hat news paper value, says the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).
The NHS forks out more than 16 million a year on bath emollients, equivalent to almost […]

Newswise — Livestock producers in the United States should be cautious but not overly fearful of bluetongue virus, according to a veterinary laboratory director at Kansas State University.
Gary Anderson, director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at K-State, said strains of the virus, which recently cropped up in the United Kingdom, can be found in Kansas […]

Newswise — Preliminary research suggests that use of the ACE inhibitor perindopril, along with a health, may help reduce cardiac measures such as aortic stiffness and dilation that are associated with the cardiac medicine news of Marfan syndrome, according to an article in the October 3 issue of JAMA.
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a hereditary disorder […]

Newswise — Men with certain scores and patterns based on prostate cancer biopsy were found to be at higher risk of PSA-failure, suggesting that this measurement could help predict the risk of prostate cancer recurrence, according to preliminary research published in the October 3 issue of JAMA.
One of the tools used for the diagnosis and […]

Newswise — Among Medicare patients, men are about 2-3 times more likely than women to receive an implantable health for the prevention of sudden cardiac death, according to a study in the October 3 issue of JAMA.
Sudden cardiac death is a leading cause of death in the United States. Overall, the risk of sudden cardiac […]

Newswise — The American Dental Association (ADA) has updated its best management practices for the disposal of dental amalgam waste to include the use of separators, collection devices installed in dental office plumbing to capture and remove at least 95 percent of solid waste particles before they enter the sewer system. The use of […]

Newswise — The American Dental Association (ADA) House of Delegates called for the creation of a brochure to help patients understand the materials used to create dental fillings and the advantages and disadvantages, such as ease of placement, durability and relative costs of each type of filling.
Although this information has been available to the public […]

Read source on $10 Million Gift to Support Cutting-edge Epigenome Center at USC
Newswise — The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) received a $10 million gift from the Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation that will be critical in launching one of the nations first research centers devoted […]