News tagged with treatment decision
Study helps pancreatic cancer patients make hard choices
Every year, nearly 45,000 Americans are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The odds against those stricken by the disease are truly dismal; pancreatic cancer almost always kills within two years after diagnosis, no matter ...
Cancer
Aug 23, 2012 |
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Study underscores need to improve communication with moms of critically ill infants
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once described England and America as two countries separated by a common language.
Health
Aug 16, 2012 |
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Deeply held religious beliefs prompting sick kids to be given 'futile' treatment
Parental hopes of a "miraculous intervention," prompted by deeply held religious beliefs, are leading to very sick children being subjected to futile care and needless suffering, suggests a small study in the Journal of Me ...
Health
Aug 13, 2012 |
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Helping kids describe cancer symptoms through cartoons and digital technology
How are you sleeping? Any nausea? How about pain? Monitoring symptoms is an important part of cancer care, as it guides treatment decisions.
Health
Aug 09, 2012 |
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A new model for predicting recovery after spinal cord injury
For more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with spinal cord injury, the frightening days and weeks following the injury are filled with uncertainty about their potential for recovery and future independence. ...
Neuroscience
Aug 08, 2012 |
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Doctors often don't disclose all possible risks to patients before treatment
Most informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, not stand-offs over whether a particular risk ought to have been disclosed. But doctors may "routinely underestimate the importance of a small ...
Health
Aug 08, 2012 |
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New research confirms efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression
In one of the first studies to look at transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in real-world clinical practice settings, researchers at Butler Hospital, along with colleagues across the U.S., confirmed that ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 26, 2012 |
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Alzheimer's plaques in PET brain scans identify future cognitive decline
Among patients with mild or no cognitive impairment, brain scans using a new radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future decline, according to a multi-center study ...
Neuroscience
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Using biomarkers to identify and treat schizophrenia
In the current online issue of PLoS ONE, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say they have identified a set of laboratory-based biomarkers that can be useful for understanding brain- ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Support for cancer patients is just phone call away
Cancer patients across the country have a new way to navigate through difficult treatment decisions and communicate better with their doctors. “Open to Options,’’ which recently launched nationally, ...
Cancer
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Investigating the impact of treatment on new HIV infections: New PLoS collection
Is it possible to cut HIV transmission by using antiretroviral treatment? A collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, in conjunction with the HIV Modelling Consortium, addresses this p ...
HIV & AIDS
Jul 10, 2012 |
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Wound care meta-review draws firm conclusions from Cochrane published studies
Robust evidence exists for some wound care interventions, but there are still gaps in current knowledge requiring international consensus and further high-level clinical evidence, according to a paper published online by ...
Surgery
Jul 09, 2012 |
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Unique program bringing electronic medical record data to ambulances lauded
The nation's first and only program linking paramedics in the field to patients' pre-existing health information -- enabling emergency workers to make more informed treatment decisions and to transport patients to the most ...
Health
Jun 27, 2012 |
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Study finds significantly higher rate of untreated kidney failure among older adults
In a study that included nearly 2 millions adults in Canada, the rate of progression to untreated kidney failure was considerably higher among older adults, compared to younger individuals, according to a study in the June ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 19, 2012 |
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National report on optimal use of vascular laboratory tests for patients with known or suspected arterial disease
(Medical Xpress) -- A new report issued today by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and developed in collaboration with 10 other leading professional societies provides detailed criteria to help clinicians maximize ...
Cardiology
Jun 12, 2012 |
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