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Cognitive Impairment Is Associated With Reduced Survival Among Both African-Americans And Whites
Alzheimer"s disease and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, appear to be associated with an increased risk of death among both white and African American older adults according to a new, long-term research study by neurological experts at the Alzheimer"s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. The study findings are published in the June issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Innovative Treatment Approach Offers New Hope For Eczema Sufferers With Moderate To Severe Disease
Today sees the European launch of the first topical calcineurin inhibitor to be approved for the maintenance treatment of eczema to prevent flares and prolong flare-free intervals. PROTOPIC ointment (tacrolimus monohydrate) is already licensed to treat moderate and severe eczema (atopic dermatitis), often involving the treatment of flares as and when they occur.* It is now also approved for twice-weekly application to previously affected skin to prevent these exacerbations and prolong flare-free periods in PROTOPIC-responsive patients.ò€  Clinical studies have shown that this new approach brings significant benefits with over 40% of patients with moderate to severe eczema remaining flare-free for at least a year.1 Flares are known to place an enormous burden on patients. The International Study of Life with Atopic Eczema (ISOLATE) found that about 55% of these patients worried about the onset of their next exacerbation and that they spent on average over a third of the year (136 days) with their eczema in flare.2
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Ductal Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate: Clinical Features And Implications After Local Therapy

UroToday.com - An unspoken and perhaps forgotten enigma of cancer is its relative drug sensitivity. After all, when treated with cytotoxic agents, a tumor may regress while most normal tissues and organs are either left virtually intact or become eventually healed. Only because a tumor rarely gets into a complete remission, and keeps recurring despite treatment, do we consider cancer generally drug-resistant. Does this dichotomy of drug sensitivity versus resistance allude to a secret about cancer"s complex nature and mysterious origin? An important clinical implication of the stem-cell theory of cancer relates to the role of surgery to overcome drug resistance. Surgery is particularly efficacious for the removal of cancer stem cells that remain locally confined for a prolonged period of time. Whether surgery succeeds in the elimination of drug resistance and the eradication of cancer stem cells depends on the selection of appropriate patients with the right tumor types. Importantly, the theory of a stem-cell origin of cancers provides us with the rationale and offers us some clues of who may be the ideal candidates and what may the right tumors for primary surgery, for metastatectomy, and for neoadjuvant or adjuvant strategies. Indeed, this is yet another facet to the drug-resistant story. So far, we have focused on the more obvious aspects of drug resistance: dormancy, multi-drug resistance, DNA repair, and apoptosis. Often enough, we have neglected to mention another key aspect of drug resistance: the indolent but intractable differentiated tumor, which behaves just like a normal tissue that is left virtually intact or becomes eventually healed in the face of noxious cytotoxic therapies. Like their respective cancer stem cells, certain differentiated cancer cells are also inherently dormant and multi-drug-resistant; they are more than adept in undergoing DNA repair and avoiding apoptosis. Like a malignant "teratoma," such tumors are invulnerable to the effects of various therapies and need to be extirpated by surgery. Written by Shi-Ming Tu, MD, et al. as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com. UroToday - the only urology website with original content written by global urology key opinion leaders actively engaged in clinical practice. To access the latest urology news releases from UroToday, go to: www.urotoday.com Copyright © 2009 - UroToday


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