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Annual Check-up: It's a waste of time and money, say doctors
October 05, 2007

The annual medical check-up - enshrined for decades as a cornerstone of preventative care - is a waste of time and money, doctors now admit.

Around 44 million adults in America had a routine medical check-up between 2002 and 2004, and a range of unnecessary tests - costing $350m a year - were ordered. These included tests on blood count, serum electrolytes, and urine, plus a check on heart health.

But, says Dr. Ateev Mehrotra from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, these tests shouldn't be carried out routinely. Instead, they should be ordered only if the doctor has a good reason to do so.

General preventative advice is often given either during other surgery visits or from other sources.

The only regular check-ups worth preserving are mammogram and cervical smear tests, he says.

(Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007; 167: 1876-83)

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Chemotherapy Boosts Heart Disease Risk
Oct 8, 2007
By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON (AP) - Breast cancer survivors may face increased risk of heart disease - and doctors are debating if it's time to largely abandon a chemotherapy mainstay that is one reason for the problem.

Drugs called anthracyclines are a breast chemo staple despite a well-known risk: They weaken some women's hearts. What's new is research suggesting the drugs work no better than safer alternatives for most women.

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Studies: Stored Blood Lacks Nitric Oxide
Oct 8, 2007
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues. Nitric oxide, which helps keep blood vessels open, begins breaking down as soon as blood goes into storage, two research teams report in separate studies in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In recent years, doctors have become increasingly concerned about levels of heart attack and stroke in patients receiving transfusions and the new findings may help explain that.

"It doesn't matter how much oxygen is being carried by red blood cells, it cannot get to the tissues that need it without nitric oxide," said Dr. Jonathan Stamler of Duke University, leader of one of the research groups.

Blood vessels relax and constrict to regulate blood flow and nitric oxide opens up blood vessels, allowing red blood cells to deliver oxygen, he explained.

"If the blood vessels cannot open, the red blood cells back up in the vessel and tissues go without oxygen. The result can be a heart attack or even death," he said.

"The issue of transfused blood being potentially harmful to patients is one of the biggest problems facing American medicine," said Stamler.

Several of the researchers, including Stamler, have consulting and/or equity relationships with Nitrox/N30, a company developing nitric oxide based therapies.

The second research team, led by Dr. Timothy McMahon, also at Duke, studied the changes in stored blood over time. Currently blood is allowed to be kept in blood banks for up to 42 days. After that it must be discarded. An estimated 14 million units of red blood cells are administered to about 4.8 million Americans annually.

"We were surprised at how quickly the blood changes - we saw clear indications of nitric oxide depletion within the first three hours," McMahon said in a statement.

Stamler said in a telephone interview that the researchers knew that nitric oxide is responsible for opening up small blood vessels, but had not previously measured the amount of that chemical in stored blood.

"Surprisingly, we found blood depleted profoundly by day one and it remained depleted through day 42," he said.

But if they restored the nitric oxide at any point, the red blood cells were again able to open blood vessels and deliver oxygen to tissues, they said. They tested the blood with added nitric oxide both in the laboratory and in dogs.

"This is an important observation and it needs to be followed up," said Dr. Louis Katz, a past president of America's Blood Centers, which provides about half the nation's blood.

"If you are going to store red cells, is there a way to make sure appropriate nitric oxide levels are maintained?" said Katz, who was not part of the research teams.

It is possible that these findings may make the public concerned about transfusions, Katz said: "There is no doubt, if you are bleeding to death from a trauma" you need a transfusion.

Stamler agreed that "physicians need to be able to give blood if people are bleeding profusely."

Overall, Katz said: "This is neat research. It needs to be proven that it's clinically relevant."

Stamler agreed on the need for clinical trials.

"Banked blood is truly a national treasure that needs to be protected," Stamler said. "Blood can be life saving, only it is not helping the way we had hoped and in many cases it may be making things worse. In principle, we now have a solution to the nitric oxide problem - we can put it back - but it needs to be proven in a clinical trial."

The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Duke Anesthesiology Fund, the American Heart Association and N30 Pharma, which has a license agreement with Duke to develop nitric oxide-based therapies.

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No chemicals for a day: It's not easy
Oct 9, 2007 - Knight Ridder Tribune Business News
Author(s): Gina Kim

Oct. 9--Habits are tough to break. A few area residents broke some anyway, after The Bee asked them to be green guinea pigs and give up things like shopping and processed food, if only for a day.

Here's how it went for Carrie Yang, 48, of Sacramento. Yang, an information technology analyst, spent a day without using chemicals.
Q: When did you curse this project?
A: When I was in the shower, because I couldn't use shampoo. ... I read a lot of labels, and half the stuff I use has petroleum in it. So I didn't wear deodorant or use lotion. I could have gone out and bought all organic things, but that would have defeated the purpose.
Q: Did you cheat?
A: I cheated with soap in the shower. But I was creative with brushing my teeth -- I used baking soda and water.
Q: Anything else?
A: I cheated again with soap in the kitchen.

I was prepping for a dinner party the next day, and I didn't want to poison anybody. But when I needed scouring, I used salt and water, and it worked pretty good. And I used vinegar and water to wash down the counters.
Q: What did you learn?
A: I use a lot of chemicals that wash into our water source. I defined chemicals as anything that seemed bad for our watershed. So I went without makeup and moisturizer. No lipstick or lip balm.
Q: What was the easiest part?
A: When I didn't have to clean anything.
Q: What was the hardest part?
A: Getting the tangles out of my hair without conditioner. ...

And when I was prepping for my dinner, I had to make sure I got everything clean before I reused it. I handled a lot of produce, meat and seafood, so I used a lot of lemon juice to disinfect the cutting boards.
Q: What will you do in the future?
A: I could do better in selecting products that are more environmentally friendly.
Q: What won't you give up?
A: Soap and sunblock.