Health News for December 10, 2007

Most doctors fail to report incompetent colleagues
A recent survey conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has revealed that most doctors fail to report their colleagues incompetence. ANI

TV damaging childrens eyesight
Brit eye specialists have revealed that games and television are responsible for impairing a childs visual development and a major cause of damaging childrens reading and learning abilities. ANI

Brains irrelevance filter identified
Swedish researchers believe they have uncovered the irrelevance filter in the brain that weeds out unnecessary information, thereby only leaving those details essential to form a good memory. ANI

ICU patients not getting enough sleep time to heal
A study has found that the sleep patterns of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients are superficial, i.e. the patients barely spend any time in the restorative stages of sleep that aid in healing. ANI

Targeted cancer pill Gleevec improves outcomes for kids with leukemia
Gleevec, the targeted cancer pill not only saves adults lives, but has been shown to play a pivotal role in improving the results for children with a dire form of blood cancer - Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL). ANI

Second line leukemia drugs hold promise as frontline therapy
Researchers have revealed that the drugs Dasatinib and Nilotinib, currently approved for use as a second line therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia have shown promise as a frontline therapy for newly diagnosed patients in two clinical trials. ANI

Anti-drinking ad campaigns catastrophically misconceived
Researchers have warned that some anti-drinking advertising campaigns might be catastrophically misconceived because they focus on entertaining drinking incidents that young people use to assert their social identity. ANI

Leukemia vaccine dramatically improves event-free survival in trials
Researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found that a peptide vaccine can improve immune response in leukemia patients. ANI

Study gives new insight into chronic myeloid leukemia
Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute have made a major advancement in understanding the roots of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). ANI

How gene mutation causes breast cancer discovered
A new research has revealed that it may be possible to treat a highly aggressive form of breast cancer by controlling the mutations in a BRCA1 gene that kills the tumor suppressor gene PTEN. ANI

Anti-drinking ad campaigns catastrophically misconceived
Researchers have warned that some anti-drinking advertising campaigns might be catastrophically misconceived because they focus on entertaining drinking incidents that young people use to assert their social identity. ANI

Leukemia vaccine dramatically improves event-free survival in trials
Researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found that a peptide vaccine can improve immune response in leukemia patients. ANI

Study gives new insight into chronic myeloid leukemia
Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute have made a major advancement in understanding the roots of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). ANI

How gene mutation causes breast cancer discovered
A new research has revealed that it may be possible to treat a highly aggressive form of breast cancer by controlling the mutations in a BRCA1 gene that kills the tumor suppressor gene PTEN. ANI

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