Better community knowledge of basic life support (BLS) and water safety strategies could help reduce the number of children who drown in backyard and public pools, according to an article in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.

Common hassles at work are more likely than long hours, night shifts or job insecurity to follow workers home and interfere with their sleep.That’s the conclusion of a University of Michigan study presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.The study analyzes two nationally representative surveys of approximately 2,300 U.S. adults that monitored the same workers for up to a decade.

The first study to investigate the effects of chemotherapy on metastatic breast cancer in women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation has shown that standard chemotherapy works better in these patients than in women without the BRCA1/2 mutation.

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced hat it has added three new modules to Procedures Consult” in orthopedics, anesthesia and emergency medicine. Procedures Consult (http://www.proceduresconsult.

Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn’t involve open heart surgery.Rush is one of three sites taking part in the investigational device exemption (IDE) feasibility study of minimally invasive pulmonic valves and successfully implanted the first three patients enrolled in the trial on Thursday, April 17.

UroToday.com - The poster presented data regarding macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), initially identified as a pro-inflammatory cytokine expressed at baseline in numerous cell types and tissues.MIF has also been implicated in processes associated with tumor survival, including cell division and survival, angiogenesis and suppression of host-tumor cell immune surveillance. In CaP, MIF serum value mirrors the extent and the aggressiveness of the cancer.

UroToday.com - Dr. Kiermeney (Nijmegen) presented data on susceptibility loci in prostate cancer (CaP). Searching for genes in this setting can be done by looking for functional variants of genes suspected to be involved. Linkage studies in high-risk families look for co-segregation of markers and search for closely located genes. Three rare genes have been identified after a worldwide study. A combined approach was more recently applied.

UroToday.com - Comparison of Open and Laparoscopic Approach in a Bi-Center AnalysisDr. Marszalek from Klagenfurt, Austria presented a study comparing the outcome of patients undergoing elective open vs. laparoscopic (lap) nephron-sparing surgery in two consecutive series. Open surgery was performed in Vienna, and the lap surgery in Klagenfurt.

UroToday.com - “This too shall pass⬦”. In this prospective randomized study of 95 patients with a symptomatic distal ureteral stone (i.e.

UroToday.com - In this study, 166 patients with a 10-15 mm proximal ureteral stone, after informed consent, were allowed to choose their own therapy: SWL (Dornier Doli Compact {96} and MPL 9000 {30}) or holmium laser lithotripsy with a semi-rigid ureteroscope {51}. The stone free rate at 3 months (imaging method not stated in the manuscript), was 79% for SWL and 73% for ureteroscopy.