http://goldbamboo.com/ Familial Periodic Paralyses News from GoldBamboo.com en-us © 2005, Gold Bamboo LLC, All Rights Reserved http://goldbamboo.com/news-a222644.html A review of 21 published studies that evaluated the benefits and harms of periodic health evaluations (PHEs) on patient health and health care costs found that the benefits justify PHE implementation in clinical practice (Review, p. 289). [click link for full article] Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a222698.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The traditional annual physical exam, or "periodic health evaluation," delivers preventive care and decreases worry for patients, and justifies the costs, according to a new report. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:25 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a222630.html UroToday.com- Urethral stricture disease is one of the oldest and most difficult maladies known to urology. Management of urethral stricture disease has undergone significant changes in the last 4 decades from periodic dilation and blind internal urethrotomy to optical urethrotomy and eventually to open urethroplasty as the procedure of choice. [click link for full article] Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a222393.html Among patients with retinal disease, molecular testing can confirm a clinical diagnosis of hereditary disorders, identify carrier status and confirm or rule out the presence of a familial mutation in those without symptoms, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a221393.html The first results from a scan of the world's largest collection of DNA samples from families affected by autism point to two new genetic links that may predispose people to the brain disorder. Nature Genetics reports the study's findings in its Feb. 18 online edition. [click link for full article] Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00 EST