Medicineworld.org: New Article AlertMedicineworld.Org new article alert: We add several informative articles to our website every week. This feed alerts you to the newly added articles at our website.Steady work and mental health - is there a connection- September 17, 2008 Despite low overall unemployment, Canada's manufacturing industry has cut 88,000 jobs this year, with nearly all the losses occurring in Ontario. Also, part-time employment has grown by 3.5 per cent in 12 months, much faster than the 0.9 per cent growth in full time work. A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the social determinants of health demonstrates that these kind of employment changes can affect more than your wallet. Research from the Centre for Addiction and...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/steady-work-and-mental-health.html Pazopanib shrinks lung cancers before surgery- September 17, 2008 Pazopanib, a new oral angiogenesis inhibitor, has demonstrated interesting activity in difficult to treat non-small-cell lung cancer, US scientists report. In a phase II trial, 30 out of 35 patients treated with preoperative pazopanib for a minimum of two weeks saw their tumor size shrink by up to 85%........http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/pazopanib-shrinks-lung-cancers-before-surgery.... Limiting resident surgeon's work hours associated with fewer complications- September 17, 2008 Fewer patients undergoing gallbladder surgery at one major public teaching hospital sustained injuries to their bile ducts or other complications after resident physicians' work hours were limited to 80 per week, as per a report in the recent issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMAArchives journals........http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/esident-surgeons-work-hours.html Colds and flu cut by one-third in vaccinated seniors- September 17, 2008 A winter free from colds and flu Not yet. But a new study offers new evidence that Canada's top cold and flu-fighting product provides significant help. The three-year study showed that trial participants who took COLD-FX were about one-third less likely to get a "Jackson" cold or flu. The very sensitive Jackson scoring method is a well-accepted scientific approach for judging clinical symptoms, which include coughing, sneezing, runny noses and others. COLD-FX is a unique extract of North...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/colds-and-flu-cut-by-one-third-in-vaccination.... Depressed dialysis patients more likely to be hospitalized- September 17, 2008 Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a. UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. In the study, available online and in the Sept. 15 issue of Kidney International, scientists monitored 98 dialysis patients for up to 14 months. More than a quarter of dialysis patients received a psychiatric diagnosis of some form of depression based on a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/depressed-dialysis-patients-more-likely-to-be-... |