Daily Archives : Monday, October 3rd, 2016

Houston: Patients with mastectomy and reconstruction in early stage breast cancer are nearly twice as likely to suffer complications as those who had a lumpectomy followed by radiation, according to a new study. US women with early breast cancer are increasingly opting to have their entire breast removed and then reconstructed, but a new Houston study has found the treatment carries a significantly higher price tag and greater risk of major follow-up problems than other options. A new MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers says that data from more than 100,000 such patients shows those who had a mastectomy and reconstruction were nearly twice as likely to suffer complications than those who had a lumpectomy followed by radiation. he more extensive treatment costs roughly USD 88,000 per patient, USD 23,000 more than the less extensive lumpectomy treatment. …

New Delhi: Health experts have claimed that brain abnormalities are similar across distinct emotional disorders. “This study provides important insights into mechanisms shared across multiple emotional disorders, and could provide us with biomarkers that can be used to more rapidly diagnose these disorders,” said study senior author Scott Langenecker, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the US. Those disorders are sometimes taken many years to be diagnosed accurately. …

Heart disease is common in people with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes – a chronic condition in which your body does not use insulin properly – substantially increases the lifetime risk of both developing and dying from heart failure. Symptoms of Type 2 diabetes include – constant hunger, increased thirst, frequent urination, fatigue, weight loss, blurred vision, dry mouth and itchy skin.Heart failure is a common condition among people with Type 2 diabetes. However, a new study suggests that individuals with Type 2 diabetes who had undergone coronary artery surgery prior to their heart failure diagnosis have better chances of survival in the long term. …

Washington: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have for the first time reported a case of a person in the US who may have contracted Zika by coming in contact with tears or sweat from a 73-year-old patient with unusually high concentration of virus in the blood. The first Zika virus-related death in the US occurred in June this year. It is quite rare for a Zika infection to cause severe illness in adults, much less death, researchers said. Another individual, who visited the first while in the hospital, became ill from Zika. …

Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. As per reports, 273 scientists were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year. Ohsumi’s work on autophagy – how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components – helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson’s. The Nobel committee, while announcing the Prize in Stockholm, said in a statement that this year’s Nobel Laureate “discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. …