Researchers in China have predicted that the country’s gender imbalance – caused by a million more males than females being born every year – will lead to very high and steadily worsening sex ratios in the reproductive age group over the next two decades. Those researchers believe that enforcing the existing ban on sex-selective abortion [...]
The drug avotermin could provide accelerated and permanent improvement in scarring following injuries in men, a new UK-led study has found. Two decades of research into the mechanisms of skin scarring has identified transforming-growth factor β3 (TGFβ3) as a potential anti-scarring therapy. It works through early induction of specific signalling and cellular processes, which lead [...]
Gary Culliton examines the lessons to be learned regarding the diagnosis of prostate cancer from the HSE’s review of Dr E at University Hospital Galway. The practice of histopathology and cytopathology is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the examination of tissues and cells taken from a site or sites in the body. [...]
The use of ultrasound scanning (USS) in the assessment of metastatic spread of breast cancer to the axilla is well established. It has been the practice in our centre since July 2006 to evaluate most patients with a suspicious breast lesion on mammogram and USS breast with a preoperative USS of the axilla on the [...]
Aerobic exercise training appears safe for patients with heart failure and was associated with a modest reduction in the risk of death and hospitalisation, with some improvement in quality of life, according to the results of a new American study. Doctors led by colleagues at the Duke University School of Medicine launched a study, ‘Heart [...]
A review of previously published articles indicates there is little evidence supporting an effective treatment of bites from bed bugs, that these insects do not appear to transmit disease, and control and eradication of bed bugs is challenging. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) have been known as a human parasite for thousands of years, but scientific [...]
Emmanuelle Pinjon looks at pioneering research being done in TCD into finding a gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa. An injection at the back of the retina every few years may one day be enough to alleviate the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), one of the most common causes of blindness. Speaking at the conference marking [...]
Dr Heidi Furlong and Prof Thomas N. Walsh write about the importance of early diagnosis when it comes to oesophageal cancer and the challenges of treating it. The three most striking things about oesophageal cancer are the rapidly increasing incidence, the delay in presentation for a tumour with such striking symptoms and the improving outcome. [...]
Drinking very hot tea can increase the risk of throat cancer Drinking very hot tea – 70°C or more – can increase the risk of cancer of the oesophagus, a new study in the BMJ has found. The study was carried out in northern Iran, where large amounts of hot tea are drunk every day. [...]
Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which can include symptoms such as pain in the legs, who participated in supervised treadmill exercise, improved their walking endurance and quality of life, according to a new study. In the study, doctors investigated whether supervised treadmill exercise and lower extremity-resistance training improves functional performance and other outcomes among [...]
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