- (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

If you are a woman aged 18 to 65, and have symptoms of
diarrhea predominant IBS — including abdominal pain, and diarrhea that
alternates with bouts of constipation — you may qualify for this
study.

The research site is in Encinitas, Calif.

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- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Obesity Increases Risk of Recurrent
Miscarriage

Women who have had a miscarriage may be at increased risk of another
miscarriage if they're obese, says a U.K. study that tracked 696 women who
had miscarriages classified as “unexplained” by doctors.

The researchers at London's St. [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged adults who regularly
help their elderly parents get by experience a drop in health and
well-being in their own lives, a new study shows.

The study, published earlier this year in the Journal of
Gerontology: Social Sciences, found these adult children were often
juggling multiple roles each day, sometimes [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — A more intense but briefer
course of radiation therapy is equally effective as the traditional longer
course for certain breast cancer patients, Canadian researchers
report.

The new findings reflect a longer term follow-up than those presented
five years ago, noted Dr. Timothy Whelan, lead author and a radiation
oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — A preliminary study shows that
radiosurgery may be a viable treatment for recurring pancreatic
cancer.

Researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer
Center, using their precise CyberKnife to perform radiosurgery, had 28
patients experience median survival of 5.3 months from the date of
treatment. The range of survival was from one month to [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — Women exposed to secondhand
smoke at home or in the workplace had a 67 percent increased risk of
peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared to women who weren't exposed, a
new study says.

“This is the first study to show the adverse effects of secondhand
smoke on peripheral artery disease in women,” lead [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — Doctors are missing their
cues when it comes to opportunities to empathize with the plight of their
cancer patients, a new study suggests.

While doctors are able to address such concerns as medication issues,
missed appointments, or pain, they tended to skirt “existential” issues,
such as questions dealing with life and death, [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — Having a family history of
cancerous brain tumors puts you at a higher risk of developing the same
kind of tumors, a new study says.

The research, published in the Sept. 23 issue of Neurology,
looked at the medical records and family histories of 1,401 people with
either astrocytomas, tumors in the [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — A new study can help doctors
decide when to treat people who have an underactive thyroid gland that
does not cause symptoms strong enough to arouse worry, researchers
report.

As many as 27 million Americans have some type of thyroid disease,
according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; about
half of these [...]

- MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — People who are taking
cholesterol-lowering statin drugs — which include Crestor, Lipitor,
Pravachol and Zocor — are more likely to suffer delirium after surgery, a
Canadian study indicates.

Delirium is a common, and commonly neglected, experience for older
people after any sort of surgery, according to study lead author Dr.
Donald A. Redelmeier, [...]