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Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

.... Individually, the drugs inhibited cell growth by between 30 and 55 per cent. Working together, trastuzumab and ZD1839 reduced cell proliferation by 70 per cent. The findings suggest that simultaneous inhibition of the action of both growth factor receptors exerts a greater anti-tumour effect. The approach...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...same. Researchers say moderate alcohol consumption between one and three drinks a day may protect against dem...mentia. Those who fared best were people who drank between one and three drinks a day. They had a 42 percent lower risk of developing dementia than the nondrin...

Acne Drug linked to suicide attempts

...arely, suicide attempts." While the relationship between Accutane and depression remains unproven, the FDA strengthened the label warning in 1998 to say Accutane may cause depression and psychosis, and in rare cases may cause thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts and suicide....

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...hood tumour of the CNS. The cancer usually strikes between the ages of 5 and 10. Medulloblastomas are highly malignant, and can spread to the spine and other parts of the body. But over the past few decades, refined treatments have increased survival rates until approximately 80 percent of children survive f...

Infertile men at cancer risk

...or study in less than four months to make the link between abnormalities in sperm production and cancer of th...of semen analysis conducted at Apollo laboratories between 1975 and 1995 with the incidence of testicular cancer in the Indian national cancer register. It f...

Take care of constipation

...olulu Heart Program, looked at 5,324 patients aged between 50 and 80 who were followed for 22 years. Constipation was defined as having less than one bowel movement a day - approximately 7% of the population are thought to be affected to this degree. Men who were constipated were 2.7 times more likely to de...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

... bypass operations performed in Scottish hospitals between 1981 and 1996. Of those surgeries, 78 percent were performed on men and 22 percent on women. "Overall, the total number of operations increased over the period," says Dr. Jill Pell, the study's principal investigator. While the percentage of bypass...

Unpredictable Premature Birth

... premature birth in 306 women who joined the study between 22 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. The monitors can be worn for up to 10 weeks, and transmit information to a central office where signs of unusual uterine activity are recorded and analysed, and can be passed on to healthcare professionals if required. ...

The winter worry

Scientists from Norway looked at 4.7 lakh births between 1977 and 1998 for pre-eclampsia, a problem due to increased blood pressure which is dangerous to the baby and the mother.They found that mothers of children born in August had the lowest risk of pre-eclampsia. However the research team from the Nati...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

... ovarian cancer. // The controversy over the link between fertility drugs and ovarian cancer developed about 10 years ago, when small, isolated pockets of women who had difficulty conceiving took fertility drugs and began developing ovarian cancer. Further studies explored the relationship with mixed result...

Choose your mate

... are used to purport females. The main difference between offspring was that those whose mothers had been able to pick their mate were more likely to live longer. Dr Promislow, said "Our results focus on adults, and we showed that the process of sexual selection can lead to a genetically related increase in...

Monday malady

...ts have now called for more probing into the nexus between exorbitant drinking and coronary heart disease.//T...who died of heart disease in Brisbane were studied between 1985 and 1993, and it was found the mortality rate was at pinnacle on Mondays. Deaths of women und...

Smoking stripes longevity

.... It is based on the difference in life expectancy between smokers and non-smokers and an estimate of the total number of cigarettes a regular male smoker might consume in a lifetime. The researchers, from the Univeristy of Bristol, took their figures on life expectancy from a major study of the impact of//...

The negative advancement

...l School in the US interviewed almost 2,500 people between 25 and 74 years old - most of whom had developed skin cancer - asking them about their history of sun exposure, sunbed usage and smoking history. Overall, people who reported having any use of tanning lamps were 2.5 times more likely to develop squam...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...ion Program guidelines, about 15 million Americans between the ages of 20 and 79 would have// been considered...proved the efficacy of statins have covered people between their 40s and early 70s, Fedder's group says. As many as 40 percent of those now eligible to take th...

Cut your puff's

...re millimetres.In those who had smoked a cigarette between six and 24 hours before their attack the average clot size was 10.5 square millimetres. And for those who had not smoked a cigarette within 24 hours of their attack, the average size was just 5.7 square millimetres. "Within five years of kicking the...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...cross different countries justifies an association between breast cancer and diets heavy in animal fats--and ...since studies have long noted a "striking pattern" between a country's overall fat intake and incidence of breast cancer, said Dr. Michael Thun, who heads epid...

No link between bad weather and rheumatism

...nges in pain to the weather because an association between the two is widely believe....

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...associated with a reduction in hospitalisations of between 30 and 50 per cent and an increase in time to first exacerbation. Researchers found that the beneficial effects of tiotropium on lung function persisted over a period of more than 24 hours. The researchers add that, once-daily treatment with tiotrop...

Depression elevates heart failure risk

... more likely to develop heart failure A connection between depression and heart disease has been shown by many research studies. Now researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in the US have shown that women who// are depressed are more likely to suffer from heart failure. The study included 2000 p...

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