Reuters Health

Male childhood cancer survivors at risk for hypogonadism: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 26 - Almost a quarter of adult men who have been treated for childhood cancer have hormone levels indicating testosterone deficiency, results of a Swedish study indicate.

November 25, 2009

Better prognosis seen with tubular breast cancer versus grade 1 ductal cancer

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 24 - New research confirms that tubular carcinoma of the breast has an excellent prognosis and goes on to show that outcomes are better than with grade 1 ductal carcinomas.

November 23, 2009

Wireless capsule endoscopy feasible in young children

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 11 - Wireless capsule endoscopy is feasible for detecting small intestinal pathology in children younger than 8 years old, according to a report in the November Gut. However, most children in this age group are unable to swallow the small device, so it needs to be introduced endoscopically.

November 10, 2009

In patients with stable chest pain, CT is more often diagnostic than exercise ECG

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 2 - Unlike exercise electrocardiography (XECG), CT angiography is "nearly always" feasible and diagnostic in patients with stable chest complaints, researchers say in the October issue of the journal Heart.

November 1, 2009

Concurrent chemo + radiation increases survival in advanced head, neck cancer

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 29 - Giving chemotherapy during radiotherapy to patients with locally advanced, nonresected head or neck carcinoma nearly doubles their average overall survival and more than doubles their event-free survival, compared to giving the treatments separately, research indicates.

October 28, 2009

Risk of thyroid cancer increased in childhood cancer survivors

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 28 - Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, U.K. researchers report.

October 27, 2009

Diagnosis, abortion of Down's babies rising in U.K.

LONDON (Reuters), Oct 27 - A rise in older women becoming pregnant has led to a big jump in Down's syndrome diagnoses in Britain, but fewer babies are born with the condition because more than 90 percent are aborted, researchers said on Tuesday.

October 26, 2009

Premature delivery common after cancer diagnosis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 20 - Iatrogenic preterm delivery is common among women diagnosed with invasive cancer during pregnancy, a new multicenter study shows. The study, published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, involved 215 women who received diagnoses of invasive cancers during pregnancy between 1998 and 2008.

October 19, 2009

Coronary angiography safe for patients with chronic kidney disease

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 16 - Coronary angiography is a recommended screening test for many patients undergoing kidney transplantation, and now new research shows that it can be performed in those with advanced chronic kidney disease without further impairing kidney function.

October 15, 2009

Biochemical failure of high-intensity ultrasound for prostate CA redefined

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 16 - An increase in prostate-specific antigen level of 1.2 ng/mL over the nadir should be considered a biochemical failure after high-intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer, according to authors of a paper in the October issue of BJU International.

October 15, 2009

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CE MRI-based radiomics model captures DEB TACE-induced tumor changes

Researchers in Germany evaluated a Siamese network model's performance in optimizing hepatocellular carcinoma treatment.

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Imaging casts new light on war injuries

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Hybrid AI reading shows success in breast cancer screening

Is this the future of catering in healthcare?

Cooking robot gets rave reviews in Tübingen

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Ultrasound plus MRI helps diagnose pain from rotator cuff tendinopathy

U.K. issues advice on radiology life cycle

By Maryam Payne

The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has released a report designed to standardize terminology for communicating processes, performance, and measurement. It's available for free download.

February 21, 2025

Andrea Rockall: The garden is my zen zone

By Frances Rylands-Monk

Over a weekend at home, the chances are you'll see ECR 2025 President Prof. Andrea Rockall weeding her vegetable patch, pruning the hydrangeas, and litter-picking on a 5k run.

February 20, 2025

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Brussels summit highlights AI's role in precision medicine

By Maryam Payne

The European Commission, ESR, and EUCAIM have held a meeting in Brussels about how to use health data and AI to advance cancer detection and treatment.

February 19, 2025

From the right: Lorena Boix-Alonso, deputy director general of EC DG SANTE; Prof. Luis Martí-Bonmatí; and Christiane Kirketerp de Viron, acting director, Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity, EC DG CNECT. Photo courtesy of EUCAIM.

From Strauss to subwoofers: Vienna doesn't skip a beat

By Claudia Tschabuschnig

Vienna has so much more to offer than Mozart and Strauss. We look at the musical highlights available during ECR 2025, from classical concerts to jazz and rock gigs.

February 19, 2025

Mozart Collage Portrait

4 top trends in global healthcare

By Kelly Patrick, Vlad Kozynchenko, and Sam Wilson

What are the most significant health trends across the world? How will they evolve in 2025? Three analysts provide some answers.

February 18, 2025

Arab Health provided a glimpse into the future of healthcare. All photos courtesy of Informa Markets -- Healthcare, organizer of Arab Health.

fMRI reveals a brain circuit for creativity

By Kate Madden Yee

Functional MRI (fMRI) has revealed a brain circuit for creativity, researchers from Mass General Brigham in Boston have reported.

February 18, 2025

Lung lesion volume doubling times associated with survival metrics

By Kate Madden Yee

Tracking volume doubling times of the solid component of lung adenocarcinomas can help clinicians predict patients' recurrence-free survival.

February 17, 2025

Swiss experts voice concerns over image manipulation

By Maryam Payne

AI's potential to facilitate plagiarism, generate false or misleading data, and manipulate images and figures must be addressed, say researchers from Lausanne.

February 17, 2025

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DCR shows promise in patients with cystic fibrosis

Dynamic chest radiography (DCR) shows potential as a tool to investigate lung health in people with cystic fibrosis, a U.K. research group has reported.

February 14, 2025

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CDSS fails to reduce inappropriate imaging orders

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by referrers in three German university hospitals.

February 14, 2025

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PET advances in neurodegenerative disorders

PET imaging biomarkers have become central to diagnosing cases of dementia and Parkinson's disease, but it's vital to keep in mind pitfalls and artifacts.

February 13, 2025

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Radiomics shows value in predicting prostate cancer survival

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

Analysis indicates many radiomic features have prognostic value in prostate cancer, but they do not always improve the accuracy of survival prediction.

February 13, 2025

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