subject: Prospects For Medical Research In 2008 - Medical Research, Obesity, Heart Disease - The [print this page] Over the past year, both the medical profession, "gene therapy for Parkinson's disease" and "human skin cells induced pluripotent stem cells," surprise, is also facing "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spread" and "obesity worldwide popular "threat. Obviously, these events are not the beginning of the story, nor the end. New Year, which will be fresh in the field of medical research attract attention, which in turn need people to guard the event? From different countries, all professions have their own point of view of medical experts.
2008 Prospects in medical research Cancer: More targeted therapy American Cancer Society, Atlanta Chapter President Brawley, MD, 2008, although it will not capture a year of cancer, but there will be more targeted methods of treatment appeared. Example, some of these drugs will be targeted sparing normal cells into cancer cells to molecules, thus prolonging survival in cancer patients. Although these drugs can only prolong life in patients with several years rather than months, but this is already a big step forward.
Brawley, MD, said cancer patients who should be more optimistic. Now, the cancer survival rate has greatly increased, about 1 / 3 of the patients to long-term survival or cure.
In addition, he also predicted that in 2008 people will be able to know whether the spiral CT scan screening for prostate cancer and lung cancer. Currently, such testing is considered controversial because these results are not accurate, and whether the benefits of periodic screening diagnostic follow-up greater than the risk of detection and treatment of cancer and is not conclusive. Cancer chemotherapy can cause anemia, present, erythropoietin drugs can often lead to tumor growth or coagulation. Brawley, MD, the reasonable use of these drugs is the new year, doctors need to study the issue.
Diabetes: Pop into the "plateau" University of North Carolina ChapelHill
Campus Director of Endocrinology, Diabetes experts predict Buse, 2008, diabetes prevalence will enter a "plateau." He said that many diabetes patients and obese patients are trying to control their weight through various methods of disease prevention or disease progression, which people have reason to believe that the situation this year better than last year.
Speaking of drugs control blood sugar, Buse, MD, about 2008, there will be no emergence of new hypoglycemic agent, and taking hypoglycemic agents in patients with rosiglitazone may decrease. This of course is a study in 2007 found that by "increasing diabetes, rosiglitazone in patients with cardiovascular risk" of. "Although inhaled insulin research and development in 2007 and the recession, but this does not mean that a bad idea." Buse, MD, believes that if the future can be even smaller number of instruments to facilitate patients to use, and reasonable for patients the desired effect, then patients with such products will be accepted.
Obesity: the opportunity to grasp control
Control obesity may also be early 2008, one of the issues of concern. At present, children, adolescents and young adults, overweight and obesity lead to a series of diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, kidney disease incidence continued to rise. It will face the first time in medical history reduced the risk of the average population life expectancy. Currently, American children and adolescents 1 / 3 are obese or overweight, but 40% of the parents are not aware of this problem. Medical workers have noted that many had only affected adults, obesity-related diseases, and now has begun to affect children.
Australian Medical Association Queensland (AMAQueensland) President-elect Davis in a statement made recently, the Australian children and adults need to choose a healthy lifestyle, weight control will be in a reasonable range. Because obesity and cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, cancer and others have significant correlation. He pointed out that beginning the New Year people often gave out a bunch of their new targets, may wish to stop smoking, weight control and moderate drinking are all included in their goals, because these behaviors are related to the health of a person in the future.
