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(Medical Xpress)—A national study has found that earnings over the course of the careers of primary-care physicians averaged as much as $2.8 million less than the earnings of their specialist colleagues, potentially making primary care a less attractive choice for medical school graduates and exacerbating the already significant shortage of medical generalists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-large-differences-lifetime-physician.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:40:57 EST news267259250 Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that vitamin E may prevent cancer in patients with an under-recognized genetic disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-vitamin-decrease-cancer-cowden-syndrome.html Cancer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:12:03 EST news267117109 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers conducting a study of gene mutations that increase a woman's likelihood of breast and ovarian cancers have made a discovery that could open doors to less expensive and more accessible breast and ovarian cancer screening. Additionally, the surprising study results may also explain how human embryos with these breast cancer mutations survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gene-mutation-results-expensive-accessible.html Cancer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:47:09 EST news267090369 (Medical Xpress)—A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that smoking during your middle-aged years dramatically increases your lifetime risk of not just getting cancer, but dying from it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-age-smokers-significantly-higher-cancer.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:00:01 EST news266744462 The use of "smoky coal" for household cooking and heating is associated with a substantial increase in the lifetime risk of developing lung cancer, finds a study from China published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-domestic-coal-linked-substantial-lifetime.html Cancer Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:30:01 EST news265565231 How likely are middle-aged adults to develop kidney failure during their lifetime? A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) provides some insights, which may be used to help set priorities related to kidney care and to increase public interest in the prevention of kidney disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-lifetime-kidney-failure.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news264345420 Adolescence is an important time not only for growing but for acquiring healthy habits that will last a lifetime, such as choosing foods rich in vitamins and minerals, and adopting a regular exercise regimen. Unfortunately, several studies have shown that adolescents' intake of important nutrients, as well as their performance on standard physical fitness tests, has fallen in recent years. Because nutrition and fitness are intertwined—for example, iron forms part of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to muscles, and antioxidants such as vitamin C aid in rebuilding damage after intense training—these two findings could be related. In a new study, researchers have found that adolescents' blood levels of various micronutrients are correlated with how well they performed in certain physical fitness tests. Though these results don't prove causality, they suggest a new relationship between different measures of adolescent health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-iron-vitamins-affect-physical-adolescents.html Health Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:50:23 EST news263656093 Frequent antenatal screening has allowed doctors to detect and treat malaria in its early stages on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, dramatically reducing the number of deaths amongst pregnant women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-frequent-antenatal-screening-maternal-mortality.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:00:03 EST news261847114 Children who are exposed to community violence continue to exhibit a physical stress response up to a year after the exposure, suggesting that exposure to violence may have long-term negative health consequences, according researchers at Penn State and University College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-exposure-violence-long-term-stress-effects.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:34:03 EST news260533955 Socioeconomic status across one's lifetime is related to weight gain and risk of obesity in African American women, according to a new study led by researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University. These findings currently appear online in the journal Ethnicity & Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-socioeconomic-status-linked-weight-gain.html Health Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:35:17 EST news258809710 The younger a woman is when she goes through the menopause, the greater may be her risk of having a brain (cerebral) aneurysm, suggests research published online first in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-early-menopause-linked-brain-aneurysm.html Neuroscience Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:30:04 EST news258651885 Exposure to solvents at work may be associated with reduced thinking skills later in life for those who have less than a high school education, according to a study published in the May 29, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-solvents-tied-cognitive-problems-less-educated.html Neuroscience Mon, 28 May 2012 16:00:02 EST news257416604 With high UV levels continuing in Queensland this autumn, young people are at risk of suffering the worst skin damage they will receive during their lifetime, research from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cancer-causing-skin-young.html Cancer Thu, 10 May 2012 10:29:34 EST news255864567 A CU School of Medicine researcher who suffers from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and had to "fix it" before she could go to work one day was using a maneuver to treat herself that only made her sicker. "So I sat down and thought about it and figured out an alternate way to do it. Then I fixed myself and went in to work" and discovered a new treatment for this type of vertigo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-comparison-home-vertigo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:00:02 EST news254404251 (Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins researchers have found that more than four in 10 people considered at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer have small pancreatic lesions long before they have any symptoms of the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pancreatic-lesions-common-people-high.html Cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:50:01 EST news252739834 Even as the rates of some cancers are falling, Mayo Clinic is seeing an alarming trend: the dramatic rise of skin cancer, especially among people under 40. According to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the incidence of melanoma has escalated, and young women are the hardest hit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-skin-cancer-young-adults.html Cancer Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:38:25 EST news252560296 Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-greater-traumatic-stress-linked-elevated.html Cardiology Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:43:57 EST news252254630 Adding magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to standard breast cancer screening approaches is expensive, though it could be cost effective for a group of women who may not have inherited the breast cancer susceptibility genes, but who have a familial risk of developing the disease. This is the conclusion of research presented at the eighth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8) today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mri-screening-women-family-history.html Cancer Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:21:28 EST news251536882 Implementing a routine national glaucoma screening program for middle-age African American patients may be clinically effective; however its potential effect on reducing visual impairment and blindness may be modest, according to a computer-based mathematical model reported in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-routine-glaucoma-screening-benefit-middle-age.html Ophthalmology Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:07 EST news250779451 Adults with disabilities are at much greater risk of violence than adults without disabilities, according to a new meta-analysis published Online First in The Lancet. Adults with mental illness appear to be particularly vulnerable and are nearly four times as likely to be a victim of violence than adults without a disability, with an estimated one in four having experienced violence in the past year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-adults-mental-illness-victim-violence.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:30:02 EST news249576485 Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, but 80 percent of heart disease is preventable. Although the majority of heart attacks occur in the ten years after menopause, the disease process starts much earlier. If a woman can keep her risks for cardiac disease low before the age of 50, then there is a good chance she can avoid heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-heart-disease-women.html Health Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:10:41 EST news247479034 A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these women were at high enough breast cancer risk to recommend additional screening with MRI, only 173 of these women returned to the clinic within a year for the additional screening. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-breast-screening-mri.html Cancer Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:01 EST news247240793 In one of the largest-ever analyses of lifetime risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers have found that middle-aged adults who have one or more elevated traditional risk factors for CVD, such as high blood pressure, have a substantially greater chance of having a major CVD event, such as heart attack or stroke, during their remaining lifetime than people with optimal levels of risk factors. This National Institutes of Health-supported study used health data from 257,384 people and was the first to look simultaneously at multiple risk factors for CVD across age, sex, race, and birth generation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-elevated-factors-linked-major-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:55:55 EST news246794145 Will you have a heart attack or a stroke in your lifetime? Your odds may be worse than you think. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-heart.html Cardiology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:07 EST news246710496 A new study in today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that while an individual's risk of heart disease may be low in the next five or 10 years, the lifetime risk could still be very high, findings that could have implications for both clinical practice and public health policy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-middle-age-factors-greater-lifetime-heart.html Health Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:03 EST news246710304 Smoking marijuana on an occasional basis does not appear to significantly damage the lungs, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-occasional-marijuana-doesnt-lungs.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:40:01 EST news245606598 An increase or decrease in your blood pressure during middle age can significantly impact your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-middle-age-blood-pressure-affect-lifetime.html Cardiology Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:02 EST news243520521 There is still a one in eight lifetime risk that a woman will develop breast cancer, and the best tool against the disease remains early detection. Now, Women & infants Hospital of Rhode Island has taken the breast cancer battle to the next level with the installation of the most advanced imaging technology available, called digital breast tomosynthesis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hospital-tomosynthesis-mammograms-region-week.html Cancer Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:00:22 EST news242485210 Statens Serum Institut and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease. The trial is being conducted by the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) at its field site in Worcester, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Dr. Hassan Mahomed is the principal investigator. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-vaccine-latent-tb-clinical.html Medications Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:19:29 EST news241928360 African-Americans with two copies of the APOL1 gene have about a 4 percent lifetime risk of developing a form of kidney disease, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The finding brings scientists closer to understanding why African-Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than whites, as they reported in the Oct. 13 online edition of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-gene-variant-kidney-disease-african-americans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:51:42 EST news238672292