Lancet
Intensive therapy no better than traditional care at speeding up recovery from whiplash
More costly, intensive treatment works no better than usual care at speeding up recovery from whiplash injuries, according to new research published Online First in The Lancet.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 17, 2012 |
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World population gains more than a decade's life expectancy since 1970
In the first Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 paper, published in The Lancet, the authors present new estimates of life expectancy for the last four decades in 187 different countries. While overall life expectancy is ...
Health
Dec 13, 2012 |
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CBT proves effective at reducing depression in people who have not responded to antidepressants
"Until now, there was little evidence to help clinicians choose the best next step treatment for those patients whose symptoms do not respond to standard drug treatments", says Nicola Wiles from the University of Bristol ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Body mass index may determine which blood pressure treatments work best
According to new research published Online First in the Lancet, body mass index may influence which blood pressure medications work best at reducing the major complications of high blood pressure (strokes, heart attacks, ...
Health
Dec 05, 2012 |
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New pill could offer hope to bowel cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients after failure of standard treatmen
Two phase 3 trials, published in The Lancet, have shown that a novel oral drug called regorafenib could offer survival benefits to people with bowel cancer or gastrointestinal stromal tumor following failure of existing treatm ...
Cancer
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Worldwide incidence of traumatic brain injury could be six times higher than previous estimates
The first study to estimate rates of traumatic brain injury, without relying on official figures, suggests the worldwide incidence of TBI could be six times higher than previously estimated.
Neuroscience
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Best-available science will allow 5 percent relative reduction in high-income countries' preterm birth rates
New research, published in The Lancet today ahead of World Prematurity Day on Saturday Nov. 17, has found that if the world's 39 highest-income countries were to fully implement five interventions to prevent preterm births ...
Health
Nov 15, 2012 |
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First European randomized trial confirms new pneumococcal vaccine highly effective in infants
A new conjugate vaccine is highly effective (93%) at preventing invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD; meningitis, sepsis, bacteremic pneumonia, and other blood-borne infections) in infants younger than 2 years who are the most ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 15, 2012 |
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Tuberculosis's genetic 'family tree' may hold the key to tackling outbreaks quickly and effectively
Researchers, led by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, the Health Protection Agency in Birmingham and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, have pioneered the whole genome sequencing ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 14, 2012 |
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MRSA outbreak mapped by DNA sequencing
Scientists have used DNA sequencing for the first time to effectively track the spread of, and ultimately contain, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to new research published in ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 13, 2012 |
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Clinical trials for bacterial meningitis treatments are not keeping pace with the rise of resistance
New vaccines and drug treatments are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, according to medical experts writing in a new Series on bacterial ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 08, 2012 |
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UK funding for infectious disease research neglects key areas of disease
The research undertaken by researchers at University College, Imperial College, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is the first ever detailed assessment of infectious diseases investments made by funding ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Researchers find earliest known signs of Alzheimer's in people with genetic mutation that causes inherited form
Researchers have found the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease yet detected in a group of people with a rare, inherited form of the disease, according to two Articles published in The Lancet Neurology. The findings raise ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Nov 05, 2012 |
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US suicide rates have increased since economic crisis began
Suicide rates in the US have risen sharply since the economic crisis took hold in 2007, warn the authors of Correspondence published Online First in The Lancet today.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2012 |
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Drug combination shrinks secondary brain tumours in breast cancer without substantial side effects of radiotherapy
The sizeable and increasing proportion of women with advanced breast cancer whose disease has spread to the brain could be effectively treated systemically with a combination of two drugs, sparing them the debilitating neurological ...
Cancer
Nov 01, 2012 |
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