Patients in Hong Kong who were newly diagnosed with coronary artery disease had nearly twice the prevalence of colorectal tumors and cancers, with this association stronger in persons who had smoked or have the metabolic syndrome, according to a new study. In the study, doctors investigated the prevalence of colorectal cancer and colorectal neoplasms in [...]
Clostridium difficile infection is four times more likely to kill patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to new research. The findings are based on a representative sample of community hospital admissions in the US for 2003. The sample covered 994 hospitals in 37 States and included a total of 124,570 patients. Of these, 44,400 [...]
The smoking ban has not only improved air quality in Irish pubs but also appears to have improved the quality of the music, according to a study led by a specialist registrar at St Vincent’s Hospital. According to Dr John Garvey, a specialist registrar at the hospital’s sleep disorders unit, anecdotal evidence suggests that the [...]
The use of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide has proliferated. Indications have included macular oedema secondary to diabetes mellitus, retinal vein occlusion, uveitis and pseudophakia. Other indications are treatment of choroidal neovascularisation, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, idiopathic juxtafoveal telangiectasia and intraoperative visualisation of the posterior hyaloids. It is clear on the basis of optical coherence tomography that macular [...]
The 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hyper-tension (ESH/ESC guidelines) have recently been published by the Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in the Journal of Hypertension (2007, 25:1105–1187). A concise summary of these guidelines appears in [...]
Increasingly high levels of stress in our daily lives is leading to a reduction in the amount of sex hormones produced by men, which, among other factors, is leading to significantly more men developing osteoporosis, according to Prof Moira O’Brien, President of the Irish Osteoporosis Society. Prof O’Brien discussed the issue at a conference entitled [...]
Children with amblyopia need only wear an eyepatch for three to four hours a day for 12 weeks to improve vision, according to a new study. Researchers at City University in London and McGill University in Montreal set out to determine the amount of occlusion treatment required in children with amblyopia to achieve the best [...]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or ME (myalgic encephalitis), is linked to a stomach virus, new research has suggested. The researchers based their findings on 165 patients with ME, all of whom were subjected to endoscopy because of long-standing gut complaints. Specimens of stomach tissue were also taken to search for viral proteins and compared with specimens [...]
Preventing heart failure at age 70 or 80 may depend upon maintaining normal blood pressure and a healthy weight at age 50, researchers have reported in hypertension. An increase of just one standard deviation of about 20mmHg in systolic blood pressure at age 50 was associated with a 36 per cent higher risk of heart [...]
Six months of acupuncture treatment appears to be more effective than conventional therapy in treating lower back pain, according to a new German study. In the study, doctors conducted a randomised clinical trial involving 1,162 patients who had experienced chronic lower back pain for an average of eight years. Patients underwent 10 30-minute sessions of [...]
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