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Source: BBC Health; European Breast Cancer Conference, Barcelona As it sometimes happens in medicine, a drug that has been proven to work in less than stellar ways for a given condition may have a completely unintended but surprisingly beneficial medical outcome. What the heck am I talking about? Some examples may be in order here. You [...] Source: American Journal of Roentgenology; BBC Health A Duke University study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (that’s x-rays) found that plain x-rays miss a surprising amount of fractures compared with MRI. How many? Out of 92 patients undergoing x-ray and then checked with MRI, 35 fractures were missed. That’s more than 1/3 of fractures [...] Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration Spice Barn, Inc. Voluntarily Recalls Two Lots of Black Pepper Okay, I still don’t understand the pepper connection. (Even the FDA’s own reports say that it was “unusual”). Spice Barn is recalling two lots of Black Pepper due to the possibility of contamination with Salmonella. Salmonella is a common food [...] Source: BBC Health News No, it is not anticipated that home testing for breast cancer, ovarian cancer or prostate cancer will be available any time in the near future. However cervical cancer is unique due to it’s associated risk with the human papillomavirus (HPV or genital warts), 13 of it’s 100 variants apparently cause cancer. The issue [...] Source: BBC Health; The Lancet A stroke is the interruption of blood to the brain. It is most commonly caused by vascular interruption from a blood clot or cholesterol blockage or cholesterol embolus. Rarely, it may also be caused by fungal endocarditis and fungal emboli following mitral valve replacement surgery. Strokes have been classified as “brain attacks.” [...] Source: BBC Health; National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Roughly equivalent to our JCoHA (Joint Commission) here in the US, the NPSA has been taking notes on the administration of medications in English and Welsh Hospitals. Their findings? In every hospital in England and Wales, there were reports of patients not receiving their medications on time or [...] Source: Annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Medline 192,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually. 27,000 cases are terminal. Currently under investigation is a new chemotherapy drug -Cabazitaxel which is being administered in conjunction with Mitoxantrone (a commonly used drug f0r prostate cancer). Men receiving this chemo cocktail (no pun intended) had a 30% increase in survival. [...] Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology; Medline It may be still in the early lab stages -how early? Well they are still testing the technique upon mice with tumors, however, researchers have found that freezing breast cancer tumors (cryoablation) helps to stop the spread of breast cancer. Not only did the rapid freezing, through application of a cold [...] Source: American Cancer Society Men should discuss the benefits and risks of prostate cancer screening with their doctors, according to revised prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Yes. That’s what they said. Not much of a guideline is it? Okay they say a little more. But really, only a little. The American Cancer [...] Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration We elaborated on just one of these but apparently March is National Salmonella month here in the U.S. Among the products affected are dips, chips (a double whammy), spices and soup. Just why are there so many products affected with Salmonella? Maybe it’s time we stopped mass producing food in factories [...] |
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