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Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

... it is perhaps unsurprising that the survival rate among African American women is lower. They survive, on average, for 22 months after diagnosis, while the survival time for Caucasian women is 32 months. Obviously ovarian cancer is life-threatening for any woman - but it's a big concern when it's more of ...

Aspirin deflated

.... The levels of the byproduct varied substantially among the aspirin users but were still lower than they were in patients not taking aspirin at all. Researchers analyzed that aspirin did not adequately block thromboxane in some patients because of an underlying genetic mutation....

Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax

...d may damage electronics, fabrics and photographs, among other things....

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...The FDA has six times more reports of liver damage among Arava users than methotrexate users - even though ...utoimmune disorder called Stevens-Johnson syndrome among Arava users compared with methotrexate, he said....

Skin cancer on the rise

... The survival rate for the disease is also worse among men than women over a five-year period. However survival rates from skin cancers are good if it the condition is caught early.Cancer experts say women have previously had higher rates of malignant skin cancer, probably because of the fashion for sunt...

Vitamins enhances recuperation of organ transplant patients

...n's Hospital, USA, found the condition was emanted among patients given the vitamins during a year-long study. Dr James Fang, who led the research, called for further tests to see if the benefits were permanent and if lung, kidney and liver transplant patients could also be helped. Arterosclerosis causes...

Cathine leads to mental health disorder

...led Khat has been linked to an increase in suicide among people who use it. Khat is an African shrub whose...untries, is causing massive mental health problems among their young men....

Interference helps Heart Patients

...sion rates for heart failure were 30 percent lower among patients who received the calls. Among phone-call patients who were re-hospitalized for heart failure, the average number of days spent hospitalized was 40 percent lower than for usual-care patients. Hospital costs for patients readmitted for heart f...

Leptin connected to obesity blood clots

...nt in cutting the risk of heart disease and stroke among obese people....

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...se in birth weight related to a 4.6 increase in IQ among boys but only 2.8 points in girls. The authors say differences in IQ of this size are trivial and of no clinical importance to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low ra...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...secondary infections and is a major cause of death among children. Our findings show that measles also triggers intense immune system activation that temporarily suppresses HIV," explains Dr. Moss...

Young women prone to heart attack

...ve hospital. Because heart attacks are less common among women, they may be admitted to hospital at a more acute stage of heart attack, and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term ....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

... other than syringes may cause transmission of HCV among injection drug users, preventing messages and campaigns should be revised to alert active injection drug users to the importance of reducing or eliminating all equipment-sharing practices. Currently in the US, injection drug users are the group at h...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

... breast cancer, compared to just one woman in nine among the general population. In simple words, sharing your genes with an affected twin sister trebles your risk of breast cancer above the norm. This suggests that genetics plays a far bigger role in breast cancer than previously believed. The study mea...

Leptin linked to Blood Clots

... Eitzman explained. Leptin levels can get too high among obese individuals and when that happens, the person can become resistant to leptin's signals, making them more vulnerable to the hormone's effect on blood-clotting....

Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects

...he findings, there were no significant differences among the rates of birth defects or Down syndrome among children whose mothers reported an optimally-timed conception and those who reported a less optimall...

Good treatment for leg ulcers

...used by poor circulation and they are quite common among people aged 60 or over. Standard treatment is by compression stretch bandages, but up to a third of people still have unhealed ulcers after a year of this treatment.// Doctors at the University of New Zealand, have imparted out a review of evidence...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...am at the University of Texas looked at statin use among those who had peripheral neuropathy, comparing them to those without the condition. This revealed that statin users appear to run 16 times the risk of developing peripheral neuropathy, when those with a definite diagnosis were considered. If those ...

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

... 1989, DNA collection is only starting to catch on among funeral home directors, said Lisa Carlson, executive director of the Vermont-based Funeral Consumers Alliance.``I haven't heard consumers talk about it at all,'' Carlson said. But funeral home directors are discussing the matter, and D'Esopo also is...

Fast screening for macular degeneration

...hat could be developed into a rapid screen for AMD among people at risk.They could then be fast-tracked for treatment before the condition takes hold. In Raman scattering, the spatial distribution of retinal pigment can be imaged. Any abnormal patterns, which may indicate AMD, can rapidly be detected. Th...

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