More than 42% of physicians have been sued for medical malpractice at some point in their careers, and more than 20% were sued at least twice, according to a new American Medical Association (AMA) report. An average of 95 claims were filed for every 100 physicians — almost 1 per physician — the AMA’s Physician [...]
Recent media reports of potential misdiagnosis and overtreatment of early-stage breast cancer may be frightening women away from recommended screening for breast cancer, according to a joint news release from Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the College of American Pathologists. Rather than forgo screening because of fears of being misdiagnosed and receiving unnecessary [...]
Researchers here described the development of iron-containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) that can be tracked by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and targeted with a laser once they enter a tumor. The nanoparticles have enormous potential for the treatment of breast cancer. The new technology was described here at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine [...]
Intermittent administration of lemon juice can decrease the absorption of radiation for patients with thyroid cancer who are undergoing treatment with iodine-131 (I-131). Those findings were presented in a poster presented here at the 56th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. Principal investigator Douglas Van Nostrand, MD, director of nuclear medicine at Washington [...]
Results of a randomized phase 2 trial suggest that patients with dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease (PDD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may benefit from treatment with memantine (Ebixa/Abixa, Lundbeck), an agent already approved for use in moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease. “This is the first positive randomized, placebo-controlled trial of memantine in patients [...]
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