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Motor City Named Nation?s Most Dangerous
2007-11-19 03:48:00 Detroit rolls past St. Louis, disputed analysis of FBI crime data shows. Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Motor , Nation , City , Dangerous
Shooting Fuels Outcry Over NYPD Training
2007-11-19 03:43:00 Cases show candy bar, wallet, even a hairbrush in hand can make police shoot. Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Training , Shooting , TRAI , Shoot , Fuels
McCain Says It?s OK to Make People Mad
2007-11-19 03:25:00 McCain: “I didn’t seek public office to go along, to get along.” Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: People , Make
China Not Fighting Off E-Waste Nightmare
2007-11-19 03:13:00 Despite International Outcry, World’s Electronic Waste Still Ends Up in China Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Nightmare , Fighting
Bangladesh Cyclone Deaths Climb to 2,300
2007-11-19 03:08:00 Rescuers struggle to hundreds of thousands of survivors, fear many more dead. Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Bangladesh , Deaths , Climb , Cyclone , Limb
Did Model Die From Pressure to Be Thin?
2007-11-19 02:13:00 Amid Hila Elmalich’s death, fashion photographer blasts industry. Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Model
Iranian to OPEC: Dump ?Worthless? Dollar
2007-11-19 02:08:00 Ahmadinejad tells OPEC to stop investing reserves in “worthless piece of paper.” Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Dollar , Iranian , Wort , Rani
Turks? High Fashion: Headscarves & Lingerie
2007-11-18 23:58:00 Two Turkish businessmen serve up a multimillion-dollar success story. Original post by ABC News: Top Stories and software by Elliott Back More About: Fashion , Lingerie , High , Turks , Erie
Too Fat for Surgery? Brits Protest
2007-11-18 23:16:00 american society of nephrology, billon, cautious optimism, diabetes, dialysis care, findings, healthday news, improvements, journal of the american society of nephrology, kidney disease, kidney failure, kidney transplant, medicare costs, medicare expenditures, renal data system, renal disease patients, robert foley, states renal data system, that suggests that usrdsOverweight patients in Britain say they were denied ... More About: Surgery , Protest , Urge , Brits
Detroit Declared Most Dangerous US City
2007-11-18 22:58:00 american society of nephrology, billon, cautious optimism, diabetes, dialysis care, findings, healthday news, improvements, journal of the american society of nephrology, kidney disease, kidney failure, kidney transplant, medicare costs, medicare expenditures, renal data system, renal disease patients, robert foley, states renal data system, that suggests that usrdsMotor City rolls past St. Louis, disputed analysis ... More About: Detroit , Dangerous , Clar
Advanced Age No Bar to Liver Transplant
2007-09-18 16:55:00 THURSDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — Age alone doesn’t increase the risk of death among liver transplant patients age 70 or older and shouldn’t restrict liver transplantation in the elderly, a new study finds. A team at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine reviewed the records of 62 patients age 70 ... More About: Urology , Liver , Tran , Vance
Expenses Overshadow Optimism for Kidney Failure Patients
2007-09-18 16:55:00 THURSDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — While there has been progress in the prevention and treatment of kidney failure in the United States, soaring costs remain a major issue, a new analysis shows. In 2004, the most recent year for which complete data were available, 104,364 Americans (about 0.03 percent of the population) started dialysis or ... More About: Failure , Patients , Expenses , Urology , Optimism
Lowering Blood Protein Won?t Help Kidney Patients
2007-09-18 16:55:00 TUESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) — Lowering blood levels of an inflammation-linked protein called homocysteine won’t help people with serious kidney disease live any longer, new research concludes. The study, which is published in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that although people who took extra folic acid, vitamin ... More About: Protein , Patients , Blood , Urology , Kidney
Stem Cell Therapy Disappoints Against Rare Kidney Ailment
2007-09-18 16:54:00 WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) — In a disheartening result that confounds existing research, a team in France says a new stem cell therapy for a rare kidney disease is no better than the usual chemotherapy-only approach. The study “has major limitations and must be interpreted with caution,” said Dr. S. Vincent Rajkumar, a professor of ... More About: Cell , Therapy , Stem Cell , Rare , Urology
Lack of guidelines on kidney stone attacks puts travellers at risk
2007-09-18 16:53:00 Inadequate guidelines about the dangers of kidney stones could be putting travellers? lives ? and their medical insurance ? at risk, according to the March issue of the urology journal BJU International. Urologists have called for transport companies to put stringent staff guidelines in place to tackle the condition, which can cause sudden, severe and debilitating ... More About: Stone , Risk , Guidelines , Attacks , Urology
Biopsy underestimates prostate cancer in obese men
2007-09-18 16:52:00 DURHAM, N.C. — Obese and overweight men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer by biopsy are more likely than healthy weight men to actually have a more aggressive case of the disease than the biopsy results would indicate, according to a study led by a Duke University Medical Center researcher. The finding suggests that misleading biopsy ... More About: Cancer , Prostate Cancer , Urology , Prostate , Estimates
Trospium chloride could have additional topical effects on the bladder
2007-09-18 16:52:00 A commonly prescribed incontinence drug may help patients in more than one way, according to research completed by the University of Pittsburgh. When taken orally, trospium chloride not only helps control symptoms of overactive bladder systemically, but according to this study, it also may help control symptoms in the bladder itself when it comes into ... More About: Effects , Urology , Bladder , Pica , Chloride
Chlamydia trachomatis home test kits found highly effective
2007-09-18 16:51:00 Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have evidence that more than one-third of young women are willing and able to use a free, easily available home test kit to privately and accurately learn if they are infected with Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in this group. Among the women, mostly under age ... More About: Home , Kits , Test , Effective , Urology
Interstitial cystitis biomarkers identified, could lead to first test
2007-09-18 16:50:00 SAN ANTONIO ? University of Pittsburgh researchers have isolated two biomarkers for interstitial cystitis (IC), a chronic and painful pelvic disease for which there currently is no test. The discovery of these biomarkers could lead to a definitive test for IC and have the potential to lead to new therapies. Results of two studies are ... More About: Test , Urology , Lead , Marker
Benign prostatic hyperplasia associated with chronic renal disease
2007-09-18 16:49:00 ROCHESTER, Minn. — Men who experience signs and symptoms of a prostate obstruction resulting from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are three times more likely than other men to develop chronic kidney disease, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published in this month’s edition of Kidney International. “This is the first study on the topic ... More About: Disease , Urology , Seas , Beni , Hyper |
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