By: Matt Windsor, University of Alabama at Birmingham From: medicalxpress.com A new study examining long-term outcomes of blood or marrow “About 50 percent of [BMT] transplant patients overall receive total body irradiation, including a higher proportion of those patients who are younger,” Bhatia said. The decision whether or not to use TBI as part of BMT “is based on the …
Researchers Link Low Levels of Pro-Enkephalin to Future Breast Cancer in Healthy Women
From: communiquepr.com sphingotec LLC (www.sphingotec.com) announced today that the results of two studies examining the association between proenkephalin (pro-ENK) and incident breast cancer were published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The studies, which were conducted by researchers at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö, Sweden and together encompass almost 3,500 subjects, demonstrated a strong association between low plasma concentration …
Doctors Motivating Patients
I recently read an article about the different ways in which doctors try to motivate their patients to engage in some sort of behavior modification. Different techniques were discussed that can be utilized to prod patients into losing weight, to quit smoking, to exercise more, etc. The more that I read that story, the sadder I became. What in heaven’s …