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Does Intercessory Prayer For Sick People Actually Help Heal Them?
Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new Brandeis University research in the Journal of Religion this month shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer - the prayer of strangers at a distance - actually say more about the scientists conducting the studies than about the power of prayer to heal.
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Gene Can Help Predict Chemotherapy Outcomes For Breast Cancer Patients, Study Shows
Testing for genetic mutations can help identify breast cancer patients who do not benefit from a certain type of chemotherapy, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Reuters reports. The study included 588 breast cancer patients in the U.S. and Norway. Some of the subjects received chemotherapy, while some did not. The study found that chemotherapy patients with a certain mutation of the SOD2 gene had a higher risk of dying than those with no SOD2 mutation. It also found that those with a second type of SOD2 variation were the most likely to die. The researchers also divided the groups based on the type of chemotherapy drugs they received. The SOD2 mutations were the best indicator of who would fare better from treatment with the drug cyclophosphamide, they found. Women in this group who had a certain variant of the SOD2 mutation were the most likely to die, according to the study.The researchers suggested that testing patients for the SOD2 gene mutations before beginning treatment with cyclophosphamide could be helpful. Stefan Ambs of the National Cancer Institute, who took part in the study, said, "In the future, such tests may be used to guide the treatment of patients with the SOD2 variation, ensuring that they receive a therapy that is more effective than cyclophosphamide-based therapies" (Reuters, 6/9).
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ASH And EHA Jointly Announce Translational Research Training In Hematology Program
In an effort to foster global biomedical research that will ultimately lead to new and improved treatments for patients with blood diseases, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the European Hematology Association (EHA) have collaborated to create the Translational Research Training in Hematology (TRTH) program. This program will provide promising translational investigators an opportunity to undertake intensive training in the causes, diagnosis, and experimental treatment of hematologic disorders from some of the most recognized names in the field.
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Are Blood Transfusions Bad For Your Health?

The August issue of the journal Anesthesiology, contains a study on potential long-term adverse effects resulting from blood transfusion and reveals that moderate amounts of transfused blood in patients in patients undergoing cardiac surgery did not lead to long-term health problems or increased death rates for the majority of recipients. "These results demonstrated that 80 percent of patients studied were alive more than 10 years after surgery," said lead study author William M. Weightman, M.B., Ch.B., F.A.N.Z.C.A. About the Study Researchers in Western Australia studied the health outcomes of 1,841 patients who underwent low-risk coronary artery bypass surgery, following the patients up to 12 years after surgery. The study included 1,062 subjects who required blood transfusions before surgery, during surgery or in the recovery period after surgery. Subjects were patients undergoing low risk cardiac surgery, a surgical procedure that typically requires blood-product transfusion in 50 percent of patients. The study determined certain pre-existing patient conditions at the time of surgery reduced long-term survival in subjects: advanced age (over 60 years old), cerebrovascular disease, use of mammary graft, lung disease, kidney dysfunction, heart muscle damage and preoperative anemia] Additionally, previous research suggested blood transfusions could lead to serious health issues including adverse effects on the immune system and spread of tumor cells. "We were also hoping to establish if having a blood transfusion was likely to promote cancer in the recipient of the blood transfusion as some research has indicated this may occur," said Dr. Weightman. "Our results indicate that a moderate blood transfusion does not promote the spread of such cells. Patients who receive a blood transfusion were no more likely to get the disease than those who did not." Anesthesiologists: Physicians providing the lifeline of modern medicine. Founded in 1905, the American Society of Anesthesiologists is an educational, research and scientific association with 43,000 members organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient. For more information visit the ASA Web site at http://www.asahq.org. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)


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