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Smokers children likely to develop caries

...nts smoke are more prone to develop dental caries, according to a study from the University of Rochester's Strong Children's Research Center.//"This study should serve as a pragmatic wake-up call to parents who still don't see the danger in smoking around their children," said pediatrician Andrew Aligne, M.D.,...

Fluoride proves effective against fractures

...han 28 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Eighty percent of those afflicted are women. The UT researchers set out to determine the safety and efficacy of treating osteoporosis using sodium fluoride as a bone-forming agent over the course of a 42-mont...

Chromosomes to predict oral cancer

...can be used to predict the risk of oral carcinoma, according to study.// 123 patients were taken up for research for an average of 8.5 years, found that oral leukoplakia with the normal number of chromosomes — 46 — were unlikely to develop into cancer. Of the 103 patients with leukoplakia with normal DNA conte...

New viewpoint on Hypertension

.... Figures greater than 50 are considered high and, according to previous research, may be linked to an increased risk of heart disease. The University of Texas, conducted a study covered over 30,000 patients undergoing dialysis for kidney disease. They measured pulse pressures and correlated this information w...

Skin cancer on the rise

...n cancer in men has increased by 12% in six years, according to the charity Cancer Research UK. About 6,500 people a year are now diagnosed with the disease, 3,000 of those are men.// One possible reason for the rise of melanomas in men is that they tend to occur more commonly on the back, whereas in women t...

Pill may replace exercise

...of the couch potato may become a reality some day, according to researchers who have found the chemical pathways that// muscle cells use to build strength and endurance. With this basic knowledge in hand, it now may be possible to develop a pill that pumps up muscle cells without all that exercise, said Dr. ...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...atients often skip their pills or do not take them according to instructions. The IV treatment has fewer side effects. The drug, sold by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. as Zometa, is in a class called bisphosphonates. Two other drugs in this class are used as once-a-day pills to treat osteoporosis; one also is...

Shelved bowel-syndrome drug still in demand

...drug's debut. About 300,000 patients had taken it, according to Glaxo. In June 2000, the FDA began receiving r...had learned of 141 such cases, including 7 deaths, according to the Public Citizen Health Research Group, which had petitioned the agency in September 2000 to wi...

Avacado protects from liver damage

...vocado may help to protect the liver from damage, according to new research from Japan. Researchers fed avocado and 22 other fruits to laboratory rats. //The rats were then given D-galactosamine, a substance that causes liver damage by interfering with cell synthesis and results in cell death. The rats fed th...

Stem Cell Transplants May Be Effective For MS Patients

...or people with severe cases of multiple sclerosis, according to a new research. The new treatment involves removing stem cells// from the patients’ blood, killing the cells that are working against the body’s immune system and then returning the healthy cells back to the body. The hope is that these stem cells...

New hope for eye cancer

...the eye need not have to remove their dieased eye, according to a new study.// The results of the Collaborative ocular Melanoma Study(COMS), a multi-centre trial released by the Archives of Opthalmology, found that survival rates were the same regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had ...

Genetic innovation

...eight is due to the combination of just two genes, according to a new study undertaken at the University of Melbourne.The research, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism this week,// identifies one gene on chromosome 15 and one on the Y chromosome as contributors to height in men. T...

Dental implants are turning to gain popularity

...gum and bone by surgery are growing in popularity according to the American Dental Association's latest survey. They found that the number of surgically-placed implants increased by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2000. Implants are a good option in that they give you natural-looking teeth that are securely pl...

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

... a likely contributor in an additional 350 deaths, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Previously, the DEA estimated that the painkiller was associated with 290 deaths from diversion and overdose. Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma told that the DEA conclusions were inherently flawed. In...

A hormone may decrease Menopause Symptoms

...er of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, according to results from a pivotal-stage trial of the drug Estrasorb. If approved by regulatory authorities, it would be the first estrogen replacement therapy in lotion form.// The drug's developer Novavax Inc. said that in a phase 3, 200-patient trial the...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

...n and testicular cancers--over a 40-year period//, according to a recent report. Men with the highest exposure to radar waves those who repaired and tested the radar equipment were 30% less likely to die during the follow-up than men in the general US population. Dr. Robert E. Tarone of the National Cancer I...

Treatment of antibiotics ineffectual in bronchitis

...e to assume that azithromycin is ineffective too - according to this study. The researchers say it should not be prescribed to patients with acute bronchitis....

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

... "disgusted" and disgusted expressions as "angry," according to Best's team. Finally, in a test of sensory perceptions related to OMPCC function, IED patients had more difficulty identifying various odors in "scratch-and-sniff" samples. All of this suggests that dysfunction in the OMPCC is involved in this im...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

...of depression or suffering more severe depression, according to the findings. Changing levels of depression and seemed to have no effects on the mortality of the study's male subjects. Dr. Dan Blazer, professor of psychiatry, the author of this study, felt that there is a protective measure from mils depress...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...ch as nutrition, smoking, drug use and stress, but according to Ha, the results suggest that birth weight "is a function of an interaction between our DNA and our environment." Of course, the study was carried out in monkeys, not humans, but Ha said he has no reason to doubt that DNA plays a similar role in pe...

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