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Morphine kills pain — not patients
Many people, including health care workers, believe that morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to control pain for a patient who is dying. That is a misconception according to new research published in the latest issue of Palliative Medicine, from SAGE Publications. view more (2007-03-22)
Behind The Growth Of Alternative Medicine: Unmet Psychosmatic Needs Of Medical Practice
The past decade has witnessed an impressive growth of alternative medicine. The Authors of this review suggest that key psychosmatic concepts (a holistic consideration of patient care; the role of psychosocial factors in affecting individual vulnerability to all types of disease; the interaction between psychosocial and biological factors in the... view more... (2000-06-09)
Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
A highly powerful scanner combining two state-of-the-art technologies - computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) - may detect the spread of head and neck cancer more accurately than other widely used imaging examinations. view more (2005-07-28)
Oral Drug Sets a New Survival Standard for Bone Marrow Cancer
Findings from two large, international clinical trials show "unprecedented" survival for patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow. view more (2007-11-26)
Mayo Clinic reports new option for patients with metastatic melanoma
Patients with metastatic melanoma (MM) have new hope, says a recently published study by Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. view more (2006-01-04)
Can complementary medicine ever be evidence based?
Doctors are failing their patients by not being able to advise on the particular merits of different complementary medicines, writes Professor Edzard Ernst, of the Department of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter, in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Around half the UK population is thought to use complementary medicine at some time... view more... (1999-02-12)
New drug substantially extends survival in pancreatic cancer
A new form of chemotherapy that destroys new blood vessels that grow around tumors has produced excellent results in a phase II trial of patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer, researchers report at the 33rd Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Stockholm. view more (2008-09-17)
First different black/white mechanism in pulmonary fibrosis/scleroderma identified
Of the more than 40,000 persons who die each year in the U.S. from pulmonary fibrosis, the mortality rate among African-Americans is twice as high Caucasians. view more (2006-04-05)
Research findings contradict longstanding bias against morphine
A report written by an OHSU physician with more than a half century of medical experience contradicts both public and professional bias against the use of morphine in the final stage of life for patients with breathing difficulties. view more (2005-12-01)
IS THE AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN CLINICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH DECLINING? A CITATION ANALYSIS
Citation analysis is a powerful measurement of the scientific impact of medical papers. All papers which were published in journals of general and internal medicine (such as the Lancet or the New England Journal of Medicine), the citations which attracted and their impact (citations divided by number of papers) were analyzed according to country... view more... (2001-11-13)
Studies confirm effectiveness of fentanyl lozenges for 'breakthrough' cancer pain
The narcotic painkiller fentanyl relieves breakthrough pain quickly and more effectively than other narcotics and traditional drug therapy in patients with cancer, according to a systematic review of current evidence. view more (2006-01-25)
End-of-life care can be improved
Researchers have evaluated improvements in the end-of-life care in intensive care units (ICU) and have shared their findings in a special supplement to Critical Care Medicine, the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. view more (2006-11-02)
Insights into osteosarcoma in cats and dogs may improve palliative care
Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that a molecular pathway known to have a role in the progression of bone cancer in humans is also critical to the pathology of skeletal tumors in dogs and cats. view more (2007-03-02)
Desperation Drives Patients To Alternative Remedies
Oncologists were urged to be more responsive to cancer patients who want to try alternative medicines. Speaking today (18 October 2002) at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress in Nice, France, Professor Edzard Ernst from the Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, UK, said that a lack of openness to other... view more... (2002-10-16)
Component of red wine quells inflammation in chronic inflammatory lung disease (COPD)
A component of red wine, resveratrol, seems to damp down the inflammatory process in the progressive lung disease COPD, finds a small study in Thorax. So effective was resveratrol in laboratory tests that the authors suggest that the compound could be developed to treat the disease. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is irreversible and... view more... (2003-10-24)
Life Threatening Gastrointestinal Tumour More Common Than Suspected
Swedish Data Show that GISTs Occur at Triple the Rate Previously Believed, Highlighting Importance of Effective New Therapy NICE, France, 20 October 2002 - The incidence of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs), generally considered a rare sarcoma, is more than three times as high as previously believed, according to data presented today at the... view more... (2002-10-21)
Using morphine to hasten death is a myth, says doctor
Using morphine to end a person's life is a myth, argues a senior doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. view more (2007-03-02)
Costs of long-course palliative radiotherapy acceptable in late-stage lung cancer
A longer, less intense course of radiotherapy provides better value for the money than a shorter, more intense regimen when given to ease pain and other complaints in patients with late-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study in the December 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. view more (2006-12-20)
Should the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide be changed?
Next month's debate in the House of Lords could begin the process of changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. view more (2005-09-23)
Hospital palliative care programs continue rapid growth
Hospitals continue to implement palliative care programs at a rapid pace, according to a Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) analysis of the latest data released in the 2006 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals. view more (2006-12-08)
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