MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'blocking'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723755&cid=t_110585_86_f&fid=34445&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenshealthnews.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F16%2Fnotes-from-a-lecture-hormone-therapy-for-transgender-adolescents%2F I have several sets of lecture notes to write up from talks given at the larger workplace’s LGBT health week in March of this year. Yes, it has taken me forever to get to this – March and April have sort of gotten away from me somehow. As a result, some of my notes may not be as rich as I’d like, as they would be if I had converted them to posts right away, but I hope they’ll still be interesting and useful to readers. The followin is built from my notes on a presentation on Friday March 18, “Case Presentations in Adolescent Hormonal Therapy,” by Dr. Jennifer Najjar and Dr. Lisa Beavers. Before we get into the lecture notes, I’d like to introduce the basic concept, although I am by no means an expert. One thing the speakers didn’t really get ... Women's Health News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723755 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:07:29 +0100 4723755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2080987&cid=t_110585_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2Finternatinal-endocrine-society-block.html Things continue to go from the strange, to the surreal. The International Endocrine Society is advocating that drugs be given to children with gender identity questions to block puberty, which is already done in some places. From the story:Transsexual children as young as 12 should be given drugs to postpone puberty and make it easier for them to change sex at the age of 16 if they still want to. That's the suggestion of controversial draft guidelines, the first of their kind, issued last week by the international Endocrine Society.The guidelines state that transsexual children and young teens who have begun early puberty should be given puberty-blockers to avoid inevitable changes to their bodies, which they perceive as out of line with their true gender. In the worst cases, these changes... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2080987 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:37:00 +0100 2080987 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1603443&cid=t_110585_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F331357824%2F Some hormone-blocking drugs may not be beneficial to the elderly prostate cancer patients. Such were the findings of a new prostate cancer study. A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn’t spread. In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who’d gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach. The study involved nearly 20,000 Medicare patients with prostate cancer that hadn’t spread. A surprising 41 percent got only drug treatment, in shots or implants, showing that the therapy has become a popular alternative t... Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1603443 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:18:23 +0100 1603443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1304993&cid=t_110585_93_f&fid=36200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.jammedph.com%2Fhow-to-fight-trackback-spam-in-your-wordpress-blog%2F A trackback feature of many publishing software/programs like WordPress, Moveable Type, TextPattern, etc. or even free hosts like Blogger, enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and referring to their posts. It has been considered as “communication” among blogs. Linking to other websites, which will automatically be called trackback, means several things: 1. It shows appreciation and acknowledgment. 2. It indicates worthiness of the article linked. 3. It’s one way of expressing your reaction to another blogger’s articles. 4. It’s one way of getting comments. If you send trackbacks to other blogs, there’s a great possibility that the blogger will compliment you through commenting to your post. 5. It’s one way of building inbound links. Inb... Jammed: Full into Capacity blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1304993 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:47:49 +0100 1304993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=886467&cid=t_110585_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F158926169%2F Vitamin C is an antioxidant (it captures volatile oxygen free radicals) — is the prevailing theory why Vitamin C is an anti-cancer agent. A new theory has come up: Vitamin C may block growth of tumors by destabilizing their ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions – according to a new study from a team from The Johns Hopkins University. The team was alerted to a new possible mechanism of antioxidant functioning when it examined cancer cells from those cancer-implanted mice that were not fed antioxidants. There was an absence of any significant DNA damage in these mice. This led the authors to suspect some other mechanism was involved, such as a protein known to be dependent on free radicals called HIF-1 (hypoxia-induced factor). This new finding – published and reported th... Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=886467 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:56:37 +0100 886467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623480&cid=t_110585_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F18%2Fdiabetes-drug-may-be-fast-tracked-for-breast-cancer%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Drug, Research, Daily newsDrugs currently in trials for obesity and diabetes may soon be fast-tracked for use in the fight against breast cancer. Typically, it takes many years to research and develop new drugs. But these already-developed drugs, if successful, could reach the market much quicker.The drugs, believed to work by blocking the enzyme PTP1B, could help breast cancer patients because the enzyme is found in high levels in about 40 percent of these patients.Studies on mice show blocking production of the enzyme significantly slowed tumor development. In some cases, it stopped the spread of the cancer and it might even stop some tumors from forming.This is "very important and surprising," says one researcher who remarked that the excitement over this dis... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623480 Fri, 18 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 623480 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=528057&cid=t_110585_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F07%2Fchemo-plus-tamoxifen-a-go-ovary-suppression-a-no%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Research, Daily newsResults of two studies, sponsored by the Adjuvant Breast Cancer (ABC) Trials Collaborative Group, conclude that adding chemotherapy to the estrogen-blocking drug tamoxifen improves survival for those with early-stage breast cancer. The same studies reveal preventing the secretion of estrogen from the ovaries does not offer much benefit for most women.Researchers studied 1991 patients, ages 28 to 81. All had received five years worth of treatment with tamoxifen therapy with or without standard chemotherapy. Some premenopausal women were also treated with ovarian removal (ablation) or suppression, a technique used to stop the glands from secreting hormones.While early results, appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Instit... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=528057 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 528057