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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Whether a diagnostic mammogram detects breast cancer accurately may depend on which radiologist reads it.

The ability to detect cancer accurately is known as sensitivity, and should be consistently high with few false-positives no matter which radiologist reads the mammogram. But new research from Group Men’s health Center for Men’s health Studies finds that is not the case.

The study looked at how well 123 radiologists from 72 facilities in the United States interpreted nearly 36,000 diagnostic mammograms which were done to evaluate breast problems such as lumps.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — The 14 million Americans suffering from rosacea — a skin condition effecting the middle third of the face causing persistent redness in the cheeks and nose — will tell you it’s nothing to “blush off.” Little has been known about the cause of the disease, but new research reveals a little mite may be behind the blushing disease.

Demodex folliculorum, microscopic mites, are normal inhabitants of human skin. Previous studies have established that the mites occur in great numbers on the faces of people with rosacea, but doctors weren’t sure whether they played a role in the development of the disease.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – A new blood test could help identify patients that have lung cancer. The blood test could save patients from undergoing more invasive procedures to find out if they have the deadly disease.

CT scans are often used to detect lung cancer, but they have a very high false positive rate. This leads to a patient having more scans or even a biopsy to find out if they have cancer. Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have identified four markers in the blood that can help identify if a patient has cancer or not.

For the research, study authors compared the levels of the four protein markers in the blood of almost 100 patients known to have cancer and in 100 patients without cancer. They say individually these markers are all associated with cancer, but when isolated they are not strong enough to indicate cancer. However, when you look at all four together, researchers were able to determine if a patient had cancer 80 percent of the time.

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(Ivanhoe News wire) – Being overweight can have an impact on the results of a common test for prostate cancer. A measurement of prostate specific antigen (PSA) is often the way prostate cancer is diagnosed. A high level of PSA indicates cancer. But obese men have lower PSA levels and new research says it’s because the large volumes of plasma associated with being overweight.

Several theories have been presented about why obese men have lower PSA levels. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada examined a large cohort of men with prostate cancer and looked at the relation between body-mass index (BMI), PSA measurements, and plasma volume. They included more than 13,700 men from a 16 year time period.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – The answers are all in the genes – that’s the theory behind new research on Kawasaki disease. Study authors say by studying the genes of the patient, they could have a better prediction of disease development and therapy choices.

Kawasaki disease is a children’s illness and is one of the leading causes of acquired heart disease in children. Doctors do not know what causes Kawasaki disease, but researchers from Stanford University and the University of California at San Diego studied the gene-expression profiles of patients to get a better understanding of the disease.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – The medicine you take for a sinus infection may not be doing you any good.

A new study finds a common antibiotic and topical steroid were no more effective than placebo.

Sinus infections are common and have symptoms similar to other illnesses. They are often diagnosed and treated without knowing for sure that a patient actually has one. And doctors prescribe antibiotics even though there may not be a bacterial infection.

Researchers from England wanted to determine the effectiveness of the antibiotic amoxicillin and the topical steroid budesonide in patients with acute maxillary sinusitis – rhinosinusitis; inflammation of the nasal cavity and sinuses. They divided 240 adults with acute non-recurrent sinusitis into four treatment groups – antibiotic and nasal steroid (amoxicillin three times a day for seven days and budesonide in each nostril once a day for 10 days); placebo antibiotic and nasal steroid; antibiotic and placebo nasal steroid; placebo antibiotic and placebo nasal steroid.

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