New Migraine Drug Shows Promise Nov 25, 2008
The study was published online Nov. 25 and in an upcoming print issue of The Lancet ... "This result marks a new era in migraine therapy. However, the remaining issue is to understand the site of action of the CGRP-receptor antagonists," Dr. Lars Edvinsson, of Lund University in Sweden, wrote in an editorial comment accompanying The Lancet study ... SOURCE: The Lancet, news release, Nov. 25, 2008. (Washington Post)
To The Point Nov 24, 2008
Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another round of chemo by taking AstraZeneca's () Iressa, said a study published in the medical journal Lancet. The study, funded by the drug maker, found patients on Iressa survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy. (Investors Business Daily)
Iressa as Good as Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer Nov 23, 2008
The report was published in the Nov. 22 issue of The Lancet. In a head-to-head comparison, Kim's team randomly assigned 1,466 lung cancer patients who had undergone previous chemotherapy to daily doses of Iressa or the chemotherapy drug docetaxel once every three weeks. (U.S. News & World Report)
Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier Nov 23, 2008
Seckl was not connected to the research, which was published Friday in the Lancet medical journal ... Lancet medical journal. (Yahoo News)
Study of ancient and modern plagues finds common features Nov 22, 2008
The Plague of Athens is one of 10 historically notable outbreaks described in an article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by authors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health ... The Lancet Infectious Diseases DOI: 10. (EurekAlert!)
Male life expectancy : Golden years Nov 21, 2008
6 years, according to a new study published in the Lancet, a British medical journal. The gap between East and West in both life expectancy and years spent in good health is considerable. (The Economist)
Detention units 'fail on health' Nov 21, 2008
An editorial in the Lancet says the 2,000 children held each year miss out on vaccinations and highlights concerns raised about individual cases ... The Lancet says children there are "essentially imprisoned with little to do, and provided with inadequate education and health care" ... Nick Lessof of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health advocacy committee told The Lancet that he saw two children with sickle-cell disease, who had both had a high fever, in Yarl's Wood in May this... (BBC News -- UK)
1st Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells Nov 21, 2008
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was successful and is detailed in today's online edition of The Lancet ... Macchiarini, P. The Lancet, Nov. 19, 2008; online edition ... Sato, T. The Lancet, Nov. 19, 2008; online edition. (WebMD)
EDIT: Tailoring Transplants Nov 21, 2008
The latest breakthrough, according to medical journal `Lancet', is a collaborative effort by doctors in Spain, Italy and England which involved a 30-year-old Colombian woman receiving the world's first trachea, or windpipe, transplant that didn't require the use of lifelong immune suppressing drugs. Four months after surgery she still shows no signs of rejection and is enjoying a normal life including climbing two flights of stairs without getting out of breath, taking care of her children and... (India Times, India)
Breastfeeding alone cuts HIV Nov 20, 2008
" Writing in the Lancet, Wendy Holmes of the Centre for International Health in Melbourne and Felicity Savage of the equivalent institution in London say the research is a "breakthrough". "It provides crucial confirmatory evidence that when HIV-positive mothers breastfeed exclusively, their babies have only a low risk of infection with HIV.. "This risk is lower that that in babies who receive other food or liquids in addition to breast milk before six months.". (BBC News -- Health)
Europeans announce pioneering surgery Nov 20, 2008
Physicians at four European universities have successfully transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipient's own bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune system, according to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet ... The transplant operation described in The Lancet was performed on a 30-year-old woman, Claudia Castillo, in June in Barcelona to relieve severe shortness of breath and damage to her airway caused by tuberculosis.... (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Aspirin 'cuts pre-eclampsia risk' Nov 20, 2008
A University of Sydney team analysed data on more than 32,000 women for a study published in The Lancet. The results suggested cases of pre-eclampsia, which is caused by a defect in the placenta, could fall by 10% if aspirin was taken widely. (Yahoo News -- Fertility & Pregnancy)
Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First Nov 20, 2008
The doctors who performed the procedure -- from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona; the University of Bristol, in England; Politecnico di Milano, in Italy, and the University of Padua, in Italy -- reported the feat online Nov. 19 in The Lancet. "This was a really good opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of adult stem cells, which don't have the issues of immunological rejection," said Paul Sanberg, distinguished professor of neurosurgery and director of the University of South Florida... (MEDLINEplus)
In Spain, a Transplant That Rules Out Rejection Nov 20, 2008
That is, until now: the British medical journal The Lancet today lays out the first successful which was also and more importantly the first tissue transplant to use stem cells and thus do away with immunosuppressive therapy. The procedure's success, the result of collaboration by scientists across Europe, opens up a world of possibilities for "personalized" transplants that use recipient's stem cells and, as a result, require no immunosuppressive therapy. (Time.com)
Windpipe transplant breakthrough Nov 19, 2008
Five months on the patient, 30-year-old mother-of-two Claudia Castillo, is in perfect health, The Lancet reports. She needed the transplant to save a lung after contracting tuberculosis. (BBC News)
Drug-resistantdirt germon the rise Nov 19, 2008
"The role of A baumannii as a pathogen causing serious infections in critically ill patients has become increasingly clear," Falagas wrote in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. "This pathogen is associated with institutional outbreaks that are difficult to control.". (MSNBC -- Health)
TRANSPLANT REVOLUTION... Nov 19, 2008
"After suffering from tuberculosis, she was hospitalised in March of this year with acute shortness of breath which meant that she was unable to carry out simple domestic duties or care for her children.With the only other option available an operation to remove her left lung, doctors decided to see if they could grow a new windpipe in the laboratory. To create the new airway scientists originally started with a donor windpipe which they stripped of all its cells, using a new technique developed... (The Drudge Report)
Study backs safety of MMR vaccine Nov 19, 2008
The MMR controversy was first sparked after a small-scale study published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr Andrew Wakefield suggested a link. The new study, appearing in the same journal, follows numerous others disproving any such link. (Yahoo News -- Autism)
Woman gets windpipe made of stem cells Nov 19, 2008
The operation, reported Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet, has been hailed as a major leap for medicine that could offer new hope for patients suffering from serious illness ... In a comment accompanying the Lancet report, Toshihiko Sato and Tatsuo Nakamura of Kyoto University in Japan said the operation should be highly regarded, but follow-ups from longer evaluation periods are needed to better evaluate the results. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Racing)
Hazardous Alternatives To Alcohol Beverages Are Still Widely Available In Russia Nov 19, 2008
(June 20, 2007) Hazardous alcohol drinking causes 43% of deaths in Russian men aged 25-54, conclude authors of a study published in The Lancet. Hazardous drinking includes both excessive consumption of regular. (Science Daily)
Pioneering Stem Cell Surgery Announced Nov 19, 2008
PARIS -- Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient s own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system, according to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet. One of the physicians said the surgery could herald a new age in surgical care. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Drug-resistant ward bug concern Nov 18, 2008
Rates of resistance to antibiotics that halt the bug currently stand at 30%, Lancet Infectious Diseases reports. The journal report authors said the infection was a growing public health worry across the world. (BBC News)
Acinetobacter is emerging hospital superbug: study Nov 18, 2008
But a different pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii, is an expanding threat and controlling outbreaks of it are proving extremely difficult, said the study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet. Nearly a third of cases involving infection by A. baumannii have shown resistance to frontline antibiotics, it said, citing research data. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
More than half a million reviewers to receive free access to published research Nov 18, 2008
Elsevier's extensive and unique full- text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature including high impact factor titles such as Cell, THE LANCET, and Tetrahedron. Over 6 million articles are available online, including Articles in Press which offer rapid access to recently accepted manuscripts. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
More Children Sleep Under Malaria Nets, but Millions Still Do Not Nov 18, 2008
By last year, about 19 percent of African children who lived in areas where malaria was endemic were sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, according to a new study in The Lancet. Whether or not that is success or failure depends on how you look at it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Huge variation in healthy life years from the age of 50 in the 25 ... Nov 18, 2008
These are the conclusions of an Article published Online first and in and upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Professor Carol Jagger, University of Leicester, UK, and colleagues. While life expectancy in the EU is increasing, it is unclear whether most of these extra years are spent in good health. (Hindu)
Periods of healthy old age 'vary' Nov 17, 2008
The lead authors of the Lancet study, from Leicester University, said the figures could help governments plan for future health needs. BREAKDOWN FOR MEN Life expectancy/healthy years after age 50 UK: 79. (BBC News)
No Clear Answer On Why HIV Vaccine Candidates Did Not Lower Risk Of Acquiring HIV Nov 17, 2008
16, 2008) Results from the Step study, a test-of-concept efficacy study of a Merck & Co., Inc. HIV vaccine candidate, were published online today in two papers in The Lancet. These analyses of the Step study are being conducted, presented and published to inform the continued search for an effective HIV vaccine. (Science Daily)
'Gap in good health lifespan in Europe' Nov 17, 2008
Roughly the same countries occupy either end of the health spectrum for women, according to the study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet ... In a comment, also published in The Lancet, Errol Crook and Terry Hundley of the University of South Alabama point out that "the major reason for the gaps in health outcomes are disparities in treatable chronic diseases.". (India Times, India)
Africa: Health Funding 'Does Not Reflect Real Needs' Nov 15, 2008
Global health funding at the World Health Organisation (WHO) is skewed towards infectious diseases and does not reflect the actual health needs of recipient countries, say researchers in The Lancet this month (1 November) ... The Lancet 9, 649, 1,563 (2008). (allAfrica.com)
HIV Vaccine Failure Still Brings Insights Nov 15, 2008
"It's raised a whole new set of questions that are going to be really important to answer to get us to a successful vaccine," said Dr. Susan P. Buchbinder, lead author of a study published online Nov. 13 in The Lancet. "We couldn't have raised them or even anticipated them before doing this study.". (MEDLINEplus)
Diet experts go cold on icy canteen treat Nov 14, 2008
The additives are the subject of a gradual ban between now and 2010 by British food authorities, following research published in The Lancet last year which concluded that the effects on some children's development from the food colourings could be as detrimental as lead. Carmoisine and quinoline are banned in the US and Scandinavia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Top ups decision will create 'two-tier' NHS, says medical journal Nov 14, 2008
An editorial in the Lancet accuses ministers of being "embarrassed" over the new policy, which will see those who can pay for extra expensive drugs being treated in separate rooms from other NHS patients ... But the Lancet warns that the decision to allow top-ups risks "moral bankruptcy". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Previous Abortions And Exercise: Do They Affect Pregnancy? Nov 13, 2008
(May 21, 2007) Women who receive aspirin or other antiplatelet drugs during pregnancy are at lower risk of pre-eclampsia, conclude authors of a study in the Lancet. But an accompanying comment says that potential. (Science Daily)
Diabetes sees 6-fold rise in city Nov 13, 2008
Studies published by The Lancet, Diabetes Care and American College of Cardiology show that the disorder, which affected 2. 3% of the general population in cities in 1975, rose to 15. (Times of India)
Beta Blocker Use Questioned in Non-Heart Surgery Nov 13, 2008
"Our study says that if you look at the overall picture, do a meta-analysis, studies that are not particularly well-done come to the conclusion that they are useful," said Dr. Franz Messerli, professor of medicine at Columbia University and an author of a report published online by The Lancet to coincide with the annual heart meeting now underway. "But if you look at the high-quality studies, there are distinctly more strokes with beta blockers." Beta blockers are drugs that inhibit adrenaline... (MEDLINEplus)
Gibraltar Suffers Fast-Spreading Measles Outbreak Nov 11, 2008
Gibraltar is a British territory, and resistance to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been high in Britain since a 1998 report in The Lancet speculated that it could cause autism. That report has been widely discredited, and numerous later studies showed no link between vaccines and autism. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
* World News Quick Take Nov 10, 2008
Earlier studies have linked living near green space to improved health but the findings in the medical journal The Lancet show some of the impacts are bigger than thought, said Richard Mitchell, an epidemiologist who led the study. Early exposure to peanuts may prevent allergy. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Green spaces 'reduce health gap' Nov 9, 2008
Their study, in The Lancet, matched data about hundreds of thousands of deaths to green spaces in local areas ... In an accompanying article in The Lancet, Dr Terry Hartig, from the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, wrote: "This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than 'pretty up' the neighbourhood - it appears to have real effects on health inequality, of a kind that politicians and health authorities should take seriously.". (BBC News -- Health)
'No link' between MMR and autism Nov 9, 2008
Concern over a link between the two were raised after a study by Dr Andrew Wakefield published in the Lancet in 1998 which claimed MMR might trigger autism. However, no research has ever proved a link, and the overwhelming majority of experts believe the vaccine is safe. (Yahoo News -- Autism)
BETTER LIFE: More on senior health issues Nov 8, 2008
But a new in The Lancet found that the flu shot did not appear to lower the risk of pneumonia in frail older seniors ... The Lancet, a medical journal, reports on two Alzheimer's findings today ... The new research appars in the journal Lancet Neurology. (USA Today -- Money)
Green Areas Lower Health Inequities Between Rich, Poor Nov 8, 2008
The study was published in this week's special issue of The Lancet, which focuses on social determinants of health ... Another British study in the same issue of The Lancet found that best-practice interventions could eliminate most socioeconomic disparities in coronary heart disease deaths. (MEDLINEplus)
BETTER LIFE: Smokers more addicted now than in '80s, '90s Nov 7, 2008
Addiction - Better Life - USATODAY.com. Study: Smokers more addicted now than in '80s, '90s. (USA Today -- Life)
Life near a city park can be as healthy as out in the country Nov 7, 2008
When all deaths were analysed, the gulf in health between the rich and the poor in the greenest areas of Britain was roughly half of that observed in the least green parts of the country, according to the findings published in the medical journal The Lancet ... "In an accompanying commentary article in The Lancet, Terry Hartig of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden's Uppsala University, writes: "This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than pretty up the... (Independent)
Green Areas Cut Health Gap Between Rich And Poor Nov 7, 2008
Earlier studies have linked living near green space to improved health but the findings in the journal Lancet show some of the impacts are bigger than thought, said Richard Mitchell, an epidemiologist who led the study. "The size of the difference in the health gap is surprising and represented a much bigger effect than I had been expecting," Mitchell, a researcher at the University of Glasgow, said in a telephone interview. (Planet Ark, United States)
Green spaces, longer life Nov 7, 2008
The rich live longer than the poor but the gap narrows substantially in cities where there are plentiful parks, woods and playing fields, according to a study that appears in Saturday's issue of The Lancet. Researchers looked at mortality records and income data for 366000 people in England who were below retirement age in the first half of this decade, and matched these figures to location. (iAfrica.com)
First mutt wanted: must be a mongrel Nov 7, 2008
The situation was not assisted by Britain's premier medical journal The Lancet, which published the Massachusetts physician John Alam's ghoulishly cheerful assessment that President McCain had at least a one-in-five chance of kicking the bucket in his first term. The McCain campaign decided to address the issue directly, and in a high-security May operation several reporters were allowed for three hours into a secure room in a Phoenix, Arizona, resort to examine about 2000 pages of John McCain's... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The generation that inhaled Nov 6, 2008
Yesterday's heresy is today's truth, with the journal The Lancet last year recanting its 1995 editorial, which claimed cannabis was harmless. It published a paper that examined 35 international studies and found "a consistent association between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms, including disabling psychotic disorders". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Seizures Following Parasitic Infection Associated With Brain Swelling Nov 6, 2008
The Lancet Neurology, Online Nov. 4, 2008 DOI. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Dramatic Fall In Malaria In Gambia Raises Possibility Of Elimination In Parts Of Africa Nov 5, 2008
The findings from the study, appearing in the Lancet, raise the possibility of eliminating malaria as a public health problem in parts of Africa ... The Lancet, October 30, 2008. (Science Daily)
CDC Urges: Get a Flu Shot Nov 4, 2008
That hesitation might come from a recent study published in the journal Lancet ... The study in Lancet also said people who get flu shots are simply more health conscious about everything and it was their state of health that likely protected against pneumonia, not the vaccine. (WOKR13 Rochester)
Lifestyle Controls Enzyme Regulatin... Nov 4, 2008
The result, titled Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study was published online, on September 16th 2008, and appear in the November 2008 print issue of The Lancet Oncology. Even if this pilot study could not include control volunteers to compare with the prostate cancer patients or other cancer patients, these findings strongly suggest that lifestyle factors known to promote cancer and cardiovascular diseases might also adversely affect the telomere... (Suite101.com)
New ways to mitigate migraines Nov 4, 2008
Interest among migraine specialists stems from evidence that these drugs are at least as effective as triptans, the most commonly prescribed class of migraine drug, writes Stephen Silberstein in the October issue of The Lancet. Triptans were considered a major breakthrough when they came out about 15 years ago. (USA Today)
US desperately in need for more family doctors Nov 4, 2008
The call for action is made by four doctors from the American Academy of Family Physicians in a Comment published early Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. Drs Perry A Pugno, Rick Kellerman, Amy L McGaha, and Norman B Kahn Jr say: "The US health-care system needs reform. On that point, we have national consensus. Information from WHO and the Commonwealth Fund shows the poor state of health-care access and patients' outcomes in the USA compared with other nations. These findings are... (Hindu)
New evidence for homeopathy Nov 4, 2008
Two new studies conclude that a review which claimed that homeopathy is just a placebo, published in The Lancet, was seriously flawed ... In August 2005, The Lancet published an editorial entitled 'The End of Homeopathy', prompted by a review comparing clinical trials of homeopathy with trials of conventional medicine ... Sufficient detail to enable a reconstruction was eventually published and two recently published scientific papers based on such a reconstruction challenge the Lancet review,... (EurekAlert!)
NIAID media availability: Seizures following parasitic infection associated with brain swelling Nov 4, 2008
The Lancet Neurology. (Published online Nov. 4, 2008) DOI: 10. (EurekAlert!)
Current hospital tests for Clostridium difficile not accurate enough Nov 3, 2008
As a result of huge public interest in infections of this nature, The Lancet Infectious Diseases will be hosting a conference on healthcare-associated infections featuring experts in the field from around the globe ... John McConnell, editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, says: "Modern medicine faces few greater challenges than that of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). In the UK, one of the worst-affected countries in Europe, HAIs are estimated to cost the National Health Service at... (News-Medical.net)
Troublesome hot flushes 'are a sign breast cancer drugs are working' Nov 2, 2008
The results are reported in the journal Lancet Oncology. Share this article. (Daily Mail)
C. diff testing 'is often wrong' Nov 1, 2008
The study was published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. Bacteria balance. (BBC News)
One in five superbug tests wrong Nov 1, 2008
But the same proportion of real cases were also missed, according to the study to be published in The Lancet. Lead author Dr Timothy Planche said: "Infected patients could pass the infection on, while a false positive patient may be placed with infected ones, putting them at risk.". (Mirror.co.uk)
Hot flushes linked to breast cancer drug success Oct 31, 2008
"The treatment is designed to starve potential cancers of estrogen and these symptoms mean that there are lower levels of estrogen in the body," said Jack Cuzick, an epidemiologist at Cancer Research UK, who led the study published in the journal Lancet Oncology. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Health)
Study backs safety of MMR vaccine Oct 31, 2008
The MMR controversy was first sparked after a small-scale study published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr Andrew Wakefield suggested a link. The new study, appearing in the same journal, follows numerous others disproving any such link. (Yahoo News -- Autism)
Aspirin 'cuts pre-eclampsia risk' Oct 31, 2008
A University of Sydney team analysed data on more than 32,000 women for a study published in The Lancet. The results suggested cases of pre-eclampsia, which is caused by a defect in the placenta, could fall by 10% if aspirin was taken widely. (Yahoo News -- Fertility & Pregnancy)
Malaria Deaths In Gambia Drop Steeply - Study Oct 31, 2008
The findings suggest health officials in other parts of Africa could eliminate the disease as a public health problem in a region where malaria kills a child every 30 seconds, David Conway and colleagues at the Medical Research Council UK reported in the journal Lancet. "We have seen that it has gone down and stayed down," Conway said. (Planet Ark, United States)
Hot Flashes, Night Sweats a Good Sign for Breast Cancer Patients Oct 31, 2008
The study was published online and was expected to be in the December print issue of The Lancet Oncology. "The appearance of new vasomotor symptoms or joint symptoms within the first three months is a useful biomarker, suggesting a greater response to endocrine treatment, compared with women without these symptoms," wrote Professor Jack Cuzick, Cancer Research U.K. and Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, and colleagues. (MEDLINEplus)
