The Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Health Care Career Pipeline Partnership (HCCPP), which has introduced hundreds of elementary school students to health careers since 2006, recently welcomed its first groups of high school students, thanks to a $250,000 grant from The California Endowment.
A main component of the HCCPP is hospital tours, which allow ninth and [...]
Use of the drug interferon as a long-term maintenance strategy to slow the progression of liver disease associated with the hepatitis C virus is ineffective, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues from nine other institutions have found in a multicenter study.
Results of the 3½-year study, called the HALT-C (Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment [...]
When women in four Norwegian countries began regular mammography every two years, breast cancer rates increased significantly, and this suggests that the mammography may have be detecting cancers that might have spontaneously regressed, according to an article released on November 24, 2008 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The start of [...]
A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis [...]
Scientists in the US examining how human melanoma , a deadly form of skin cancer, spreads in mice specially bred to be vulnerable to cancer, found that there was a higher proportion of tumor causing cells in cancerous tissue than had previously been assumed, overturning the “stem-cell” theory of cancer which proposes that a only [...]
Training physicians and caregivers to improve cultural sensitivity and communication with economically disadvantaged African-American patients could influence these women to get mammograms that could save their lives, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The study found that many African-American women perceive they are being treated with disrespect and receive inadequate [...]
From the sun’s UVA rays to tobacco smoke, our environment is chock-full of DNA-damaging agents that can lead to cancer. Thanks to our body’s DNA repair mechanisms, however, the effects of many carcinogens can be reversed thereby preventing the formation of tumours.
Now, according to a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings [...]
Multiple studies have examined the quality of life of cancer patients before or after treatment, but few have evaluated the impact of a specific course of treatment on cancer patients’ quality of life. Using a longitudinal design, we examined the quality of life of 24 women and 8 men before receiving their initial course of [...]
The American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the Individual Cancer Assistance Network have launched the online continuing education accredited program “ICAN: Distress Management for Oncology Nursing” to address the ability of oncology nurses to assess, treat, and refer patients with a range of psychosocial problems.
An important goal of the program is to reduce traditional barriers [...]
Vincent Pastore, who portrayed Salvatore “Big P*ssy” Bonpensiero on the Emmy Award winning series, “The Sopranos,” is producing and starring in the sold-out show, “Lamp Post Reunion,” a play by Louis LaRusso. The play will debut on November 7 at the Arclight Theatre and also stars Frank Pellegrino , Robert Funaro , Anthony Ribustello , [...]
