Cancer Screening Practices Among Childhood Cancer Survivors Suboptimal

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Monday, December 15, 2003

Hematology-Oncology

Cancer Screening Practices Among Childhood Cancer Survivors Suboptimal

Despite being at increased risk for secondary malignancies, adult survivors of childhood cancer often demonstrate cancer screening practices that are below optimal levels, new research shows. The findings are reported in the Dec. 15 online issue of Cancer and will published in the Feb. 1 print issue.

Reuers Health Information 2003

New Guidelines for Restraint Use in ICU

The American College of Critical Care Medicine made 9 recommendations for implementation and proposed 3 recommendations for further study with randomized trials, according to guidelines published in the November issue of Critical Care Medicine.

Medscape Medical News 2003

Ob/Gyn & Women's Health

FDA Considers Nonprescription 'Morning-After Pill'

Staffers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have backed making a "morning after" pill available without prescription, saying it would provide more timely access to the emergency contraceptive drug.

Reuters Health Information 2003

Pediatrics

Renowned British Pediatrician Under Investigation Over SIDS Testimony

A British pediatrician whose expert testimony on sudden infant death syndrome helped jail mothers accused of murdering their babies was himself under investigation this week after the Court of Appeal overturned one of the women's convictions.

Reuters Health Information 2003

Ophthalmology

Accommodating Intraocular Lenses Allow Near and Far Vision: A Newsmaker Interview With J. Stuart Cumming, MD, FACS, FRCOphth

The first FDA-approved accommodating intraocular lenses are now being implanted in cataract patients, allowing freedom from corrective lenses in most patients.

Medscape Medical News 2003

Rimexolone Shows Greater Anti-inflammatory Effect in Children

In a randomized trial published in the December issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology, rimexolone increased IOP in children, unlike its effect in adults, requiring monitoring.

Medscape Medical News 2003

Radiology

PET More Accurate Than CT for Mediastinal Staging in Lung Cancer

PET imaging with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) appears to be a more accurate than CT for mediastinal staging in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, US researchers report published in the Dec. 2 issue of the ls of Internal Medicine. However, the exact sensitivity and specificity of PET depends on whether enlarged nodes are visualized on CT.

Reuters Health Information 2003

AES Meeting Coverage

Marijuana Use More Prevalent With Epilepsy

Canadian survey finds 1 in 5 patients took the drug -- many for control of seizures, according to a presentation at the 57th annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society.

Medscape Medical News 2003

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