In the latest BJOG podcast, leading obstetricians from St George’s University Hospital in London discuss the use of CTG-ST waveform analysis to monitor fetal heart rate performance during labour. The podcast accompanies the publication of two articles and a commentary in October’s BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. STAN is a new method of checking the progress made by a baby during labour. [click link for full article]

The University of Michigan is the lead research institution in a $3.89 million grant to fund a consortium to study the health consequences on victims in disasters.The consortium, called the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research, includes researchers from U-M, Dartmouth Medical School, Medical University of South Carolina, Yale University and the University of Oklahoma. The center is funded by the National Institutes of Health. [click link for full article]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee a three-year, $1 million Orphan Products Development grant to study infantile hemangiomas — a vascular tumor of the skin or internal organs.The unique, interdisciplinary, and multi-institutional study is led by co-principal investigators Beth Drolet, M.D. [click link for full article]

One new way to treat individuals with cancer that is being developed is the use of viruses that infect and kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. These viruses are known as virotherapeutics. In a new study, David Kirn and colleagues at Jennerex Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, have described the development of a new virotherapuetic with antitumor effects in both mice and rabbits. [click link for full article]

Scientists at Sunnybrook have new information that may help to improve the use of anti-cancer drugs designed to block the growth of new blood vessels in tumors, a process called angiogenesis that is critical to tumor growth. While these antiangiogenic drugs are effective, at present there are no reliable methods for determining whether they are working, if the right dose is used, or if a patient will benefit (or not) from treatment.A team led by Dr. [click link for full article]

UroToday.com - Bladder cancer is considered the most prevalent malignant tumor among males in Egypt. Orthotopic ileal neobladder is currently the preferred continent urinary diversion in suitable patients undergoing radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer and may be considered the gold standard with which other forms of diversion are compared. [click link for full article]

When traveling long distances this holiday season, take heed of the dangers of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition that can result in stroke, organ damage or even death. DVT is a condition in which blood clots form in the deep veins of the lower legs and thighs. Sitting for long periods of time, either in an airplane or a car, can limit circulation in the legs, leading to a blood clot forming in a vein. [click link for full article]

The recent withdrawal of over-the-counter cold medicines for children under 2 leaves many pediatricians and parents relieved, but the question remains: What should distressed parents do when their baby is sick on the eve of yet another flu season? “First and foremost, we want parents to know that no matter what, most viral infections will get better in three to five days and go away completely within two weeks,” says Dennis Kuo, M.D. M.H.S. [click link for full article]

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that hysterectomy a common operation involving the removal of the uterus greatly increases the risk of urinary incontinence. Their results, which come from a nationwide study, are presented in The Lancet. Hysterectomy is the most common gynaecological abdominal operation in the world. It is normally performed as a cure for benign medical problems in order to improve life quality for the patients. [click link for full article]

Women who have had severe cell changes in the cervix and who have been operated on for them run twice the risk of developing cancer later in life, compared with other women. This is shown by research from the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg Sweeden that is now being published in British Medical Journal. Swedish women are regularly called in for cell tests. [click link for full article]