Medical Research

Failure to fully recognize the amount of disease at baseline may be cause for active surveillance (AS) failure, according to new data from researchers at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. They reported at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2011 Annual Meeting that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) discovered large volume disease in up to 22% of patients with low-risk prostate cancer who were managed with AS

Dr. Edzard Ernst has spent years doing what few physicians have been inclined to do: establishing an evidence base for alternative therapies. Despite the fact only 5% of the therapies he has studied have shown a benefit above and beyond a placebo, patients demand there be a future for alternative medicine, and healthcare professionals have a moral duty to find out what is effective and what is not.

CHICAGO | All women with early breast cancer should be offered regional nodal irradiation (RNI) by their physicians to improve their long-term disease-free survival, according to Canadian-led research presented at the ASCO meeting here.

CHICAGO | Canadian research shows that men with prostate cancer who are treated with intermittent courses of androgen-suppressing therapy live as long as those who receive continuous therapy.

Early stoppage may lead to worse outcomes

fMRI finds areas of the brain ‘hotwired’ together in depression

HALIFAX | The undergraduate medical education program at Dalhousie University has lost the metaphorical asterisks beside its accreditation status from the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME). “Our probation served as a wake up call to many,” said dean of medicine Dr. Tom Marrie in a university website story published June 13.

New treatment is effective in Canada and U.S., but not in rest of North America; epilepsy classification may have been a factor