A 44-year-old African American woman presented to the emergency department with constipation of 4 days' duration. She also complained of a sticking sensation in her throat over the past year and dysphagia to solids but not liquids. Over the past 2 years, she had an unintentional 40-lb weight loss, which she attributed to decreased appetite.
BOSTON -- As angry men age, taking a deep breath for an exclamation of rage may grow ever more difficult, according to investigators here.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A glass of fruit or vegetable juice every other day may help fend off Alzheimer's disease, a prospective study of older Japanese-Americans suggested.
WASHINGTON -- Plates groaning with food, a society that discourages walking, and long hours of working and commuting are all conspiring to make Americans obese, according to a report released by a non-profit group.
LOS ANGELES -- In advanced ovarian cancer, excess weight shortens the time to recurrence and increases the risk of death, researchers here say.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Too much work is mirrored in high sphygmometer readings, according to a survey of those who toil in California.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Even carrying a few extra pounds in patients who are not frankly obese is enough to increase the risk of death, according to two large studies.
LEIDEN, The Netherlands -- Whether by road, rail, or air, travel for more than four hours caused a two-fold increase in the risk of deep-vein thrombosis, researchers here reported.
TORONTO -- Human growth hormone appears to reverse some elements of HIV-treatment related lipodystrophy, researchers reported here.
CINCINNATI -- Cellulite is forever, or pretty close to it, even in the face of weight loss, according to researchers here.
DALLAS -- Schools are not making the grade when it comes to physical education, according to the American Heart Association.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Patients can lose weight over the short term by following the dictates of their terminals, with automatically generated computer feedback reinforcing adherence to a healthy diet and activity regimen.
SEATLLE -- Low testosterone may be a signal that a man's body is running down-or maybe out.
LOS ANGELES -- Unmarried life may impinge on life expectancy, according to researchers here.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Teens with a poor body image tend to behave in ways that are self-perpetuating, researchers here said, and may react better to positive encouragement rather than to criticism.
BOSTON -- There are a lot more chubby babies than there used to be, reported investigators here. That goes for chubby preschoolers, too.
WASHINGTON -- The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a crusading group that has long ranked vegetarianism high on its agenda, has made a compelling case for a low-fat vegan diet to improve glycemic control.
ROYAL OAK, Mich. -- Morbidly obese patients with poor cardiorespiratory fitness are more likely to suffer major complications after bariatric surgery, according to researchers here.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The waistline may succumb to a diet, but it takes exercise as well to shrink the size of subcutaneous abdominal fat cells that affect type 2 diabetes, according to researchers here.
STANFORD, Calif. -- Abnormal body-image concerns and the risk of a full-blown eating disorder in high-risk college-age women can be significantly reduced by an Internet-based behavioral intervention, researchers here reported.
LONDON -- For some patients with cardiovascular disease risk factors, the root cause may be the loneliness of childhood, according to a study that followed more than 1,000 adults from birth.
NEW YORK -- The summer is barely half over, and much of the country has had enough-enough of heat-related illness, enough heat-related power outages, and enough heat-related misery from a sweltering wave of extraordinary heat that broke records from coast to coast.
ATLANTA -- Weight gain of 5% or less among underweight tuberculosis patients after two months of induction treatment was associated with an increased risk of relapse, CDC researchers here reported.
The authors present a case that demonstrates the diagnostic challenge of mediastinal tumors. They describe the clinical presentation of a patient who had a central endobronchial tumor that was identified as a primary mediastinal spindle cell neoplasm.
We describe a case in which a patient received thrombolytic therapy after he presented with a clinical picture consistent with submassive pulmonary embolism (PE). Two months later, a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor was diagnosed, and the patient died with metastatic disease. The filling defect in the left main pulmonary artery originally interpreted as PE was in fact a tumor. This case describes an unusual presentation of a rare disease (malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor) mimicking a submassive PE.
