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The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

...ospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. "It's interesting to me that people will focus on under wire bras when these is no basis for this. Yet we have known for many years that smoking has a link to not only lung cancer but to many other types including bladder and kidney." John Antoine, MD, chief of radi...

Asthma! A new warning for heart disease

...ma is an inflammatory disease as well, it would be interesting to find if asthma patients had an increased risk o...ma is an inflammatory disease as well, it would be interesting to find if asthma patients had an increased risk of heart disease. The reason to study nonsmokers i...

Humour inherited

...'s a lot of cultural influence on humour.""This is interesting because twin studies of personality traits almost always show genetic effects," agrees Robert Plomin, a behavioural geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, adding a larger study would be necessary to confirm these findings....

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...ntified by routine screening methods. Despite the interesting observations in these studies, major questions need to be resolved before measurements of blood proteins are incorporated into the routine assessment of patients with CAD....

Hydroxyurea derivatives kill colon cancer cells

... to researchers. The new compounds seem to be very interesting for the treatment of these tumors. // Previous drugs derived from hydroxyurea were extremely active in blocking the same cell targets as hydroxyurea, but had serious side effects. This prompted the researchers to synthesize similar drugs with diffe...

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

...their pain the same, or worse. What's especially interesting is that the patients were chosen because they did not suffer from depression. It's often been said that the TCAs work by relieving depression. Bupropion being an antidepressant works differently in this study by relieving the pain directly and can c...

Cut down on fries

...for their drinks to cool down.Dr Sharp said: "It's interesting that the risk seems to be higher with tea than with coffee, but perhaps people drink their tea at a higher temperature."...

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...exercise is where the strategy falls down, so it's interesting to note that another study by doctors shows that completely sedentary people who start to exercise have even more to gain, health wise, than those who are already physically active and choose to exercise more. A team of doctors had some very practi...

A sexy cure for cold

...egular sex could help to ward off colds and flu an interesting way indeed.Scientists can evaluate how healthy our immune systems are by measuring levels of immunoglobulin A (IgA), an antigen found in saliva and mucosal linings. IgA is the primary sheild against colds and flu. It binds to bacteria that foray t...

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

... adult sleepwalkers in Bern, Switzerland, shows an interesting genetic variation in these patients. Genetic tes...ant affects the body's sleep cycles. But it's also interesting to note that many of these patients also suffer from REM (rapid eye movement) sleep disorder - where...

Developing HIV fighter

... part of the research team, said the findings were interesting but he said ``there are a lot of concerns as to how it would be applicable.'' Mansky said there have been difficulties in getting similar strategies to work in clinical settings. In lab tests, the RNA reduced, but did not eliminate, the virus, and t...

Medication recuperates fat distribution in diabetes

...the whole, increased. But measurements revealed an interesting redistribution of body fat, inspite of the overall weight increase. There was less of the abdominal fat that is known to be a health hazard. Instead, subcutaneous fat increased. At the same time, insulin sensitivity and control of blood sugar was inc...

Women's stroke indications vary from men's

... was later diagnosed as acute stroke revealed some interesting gender differences. Overall, 30% of the women reported non-traditional stroke symptoms, compared to 15% of men. The researchers also found that men were more likely to report imbalance and paralysis, while women were more likely to experience pain. T...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...research conference of ADA investigators presented interesting facts about the relationship of type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to heart disease, to inflammation also. The research is based on the fact that when you get an infection your body produces cells that help fight off disease. When this happen...

Do you heed to healthy eating advice?

...ded nearly// 15,600 adults and 4000 children. Very interesting but disturbing trends were revealed by the study. The survey indicated that there is a strong link between healthy eating and household income. Almost 40% of women in the highest earning households eat five portions a day compared to just 20% in the...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...ning drugs. Dr. Beasley said that this case was an interesting one as it indicated that DVT is not only associated with the aged as the patient was relatively young. The researchers said that this case was the first of its nature and it attained significance with the dominant role played by computers in modern d...

Treatment for fibroids with "Abortion Pill"

.... They also showed significant symptom relief. An interesting fact about Mifepristone is that it stops monthly menstruation completely, giving many of these women with fibroids, who are chronically anemic, a chance to raise their blood count. They feel much better, healthier, and if they need surgery, they are ...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...ciple that immune therapies can be translated from interesting lab findings into the treatment of patients. Cell Genesys Inc., in Foster City, Calif., is developing the vaccine as a cancer treatment. The company is sponsoring phase II safety/efficacy clinical trials....

Radiation after Breast Reconstruction

...., from the Fox Chase Cancer Center, says, "What’s interesting about this reported complication rate for breast implants is that not only is it low compared to other studies involving radiation after reconstruction, it is also low when considering the rate of major complications following reconstruction when rad...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...e delivery of HGF to the proximal tubule may be an interesting approach in designing future strategies aimed at the treatment and prevention of [acute renal failure]," they write....

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