| Doctors flag environmental link in juvenile diabetes | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:00:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Australian doctors looking into the causes of juvenile diabetes have uncovered some interesting findings. While researchers were hoping to uncover a genetic link, instead they now believe environmental factors are more likely to be the cause. Doctors from the children's hospital at Westmead examined 200 babies from Sydney who had a family member with juvenile or type 1 diabetes. They expected many of the babies would have a gene predisposing them to get the condition. In fact, only around one-third had the gene. Principal investigator Professor Neville Howard says they now believe something in the environment must be causing the high rates of diabetes. They are examining risk factors to see whether cows milk, viruses and stress might be to blame.... | |
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| | | Victims of doctors' misconduct bear greater risk | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:10:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | "HEALTH authorities are putting patients at risk by allowing doctors who have committed criminal offences, including sexual assault, to continue to practise," wrote Clara Pirani in this newspaper on August 21. Her article noted comments by Andrew Dix, CEO of the NSW Medical Board, who defended the use of chaperones to monitor doctors who had committed serious offences. He admitted the system did not guarantee the doctor would not re-offend. There may be good reasons to permit a doctor to resume practice in such circumstances, but ultimately the patients bear the risk. And if a doctor does re-offend and take sexual advantage of a patient, the current medical indemnity insurance arrangements will not assist the patient-victim. Sexual assaults in a medical treatment context extend beyond the usual circumstance of non-consensual sexual assault.... | |
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| | | Doctors say cardinal comes through cancer surgery `very well' | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:03:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | MAYWOOD, Ill. - Cardinal Francis George, spiritual leader to 2.4 million Roman Catholics as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, had his cancerous bladder removed Thursday and came through the surgery "very well," doctors said."Things went very, very smoothly," Dr. Robert Flanigan said after the five-hour procedure at Loyola University Medical Center. "We are very hopeful for the best possible result."Doctors said tests would be conducted and they won't know until next week what stage George's cancer is in."I fully expect that he will come to a full recovery and resume his schedule," said Dr. Myles Sheehan, a priest and George's personal physician. At a news conference after the surgery, doctors said George was awake and talking to physicians."He basically asked me how the surgery had gone," Flanigan said.... | |
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