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Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

...y to conclude that women taking trastuzumab should consider any treatment change, Spector said. However, it may be important to conduct well-controlled clinical trials to answer this question. In addition to its association with breast cancer, HER2 is also essential for the early development and later suste...

HIV and AIDS Pregnancies Considerably Reduced- South African Health Minister

... are not very popular with males in Africa as they consider it as prophylactics cut down on their sexual pleasure. Methods such as male circumcision, abstinence and social programmes designed to combat violence against women were among the weapons that would protect people from the virus....

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...her's children and I just feel that people need to consider this if they haven't before because it such needed and it could be you or one of your loved ones one day that might need an organ," she said....

Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...avel or migration within the region So why not consider a vaccine?Not possible, say health officials as four different viruses cause dengue. Hence the only real weapon against the dengue is prevention, and this encompasses destruction of all possible breeding sites of mosquitoes. Says Lo Wing-lok, an e...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

...istry of Health and Welfare said. "South Koreans consider offering alcohol to others as being generous. More worrisome is quick and excessive drinking," Park No-Man, a ministry official, told AFP. Excessive drinking damages individuals and society in various ways, including serious illnesses, a rise in crim...

New Gene Discovery Raises Hope for Childhood Blindness Cure

...ause of inherited blindness. In that sense, we can consider this a 'lucky thirteenth' as we are building a much clearer picture of what causes the disorder," says Professor Chris Inglehearn from the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine at St James's Hospital, Leeds. Professor Inglehearn believes that leber...

Study Reinforces Safety of Long-term Biologic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

... strong data should give doctors the confidence to consider a biologic earlier in patients with aggressive and progressive rheumatoid arthritis, and patients should now have the prospect of less disability with a treatment which has also proven to have a good long-term safety, Professor Lars Klareskog of Karo...

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

...0-Year-Old Virgin. Men also were more likely to consider sex to be personally costly, possibly because they engage in more dicey sexual behaviour, Perrin said. The more partners and the more sex one has, the more likely one is to see the penalty of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, he...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...oduce the chemical dopamine. It is intriguing to consider that patients with Parkinsons disease may be wired differently from birth, adds co-author Eric Ahlskog, M.D., Ph.D., the head of Mayo Clinics Movement Disorders Section. This might explain lifelong differences in personality, including avoidance of a...

Shocking Figures Of Britains Abused Elders Revealed

...e reports launch, Lewis said the review would also consider the case for putting adult protection on a legislative footing, like child protection. Charity Elder Abuse had launched a campaign in April calling for adult protection legislation. Says Lewis: This research gives us the first objective and scient...

Gays Get Green Light for Jerusalem Rally

...s to demonstrate on the same day against what they consider an outrage, a spokesman said on Thursday. "Police...members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community who consider the Gay Pride event an "abomination" to the sanctity of the holy city. More than 7,000 police office...

Experts Question Whether Expert Patient Programmes Cut Healthcare Use

...general practice commissioning groups will need to consider carefully the costs of investing in this programme compared with other rehabilitation programmes for chronic disease....

AMSA Launches General Practice Student Network

...General Practice.” Added Mr. Mitchell, “we must consider the urgency of Australia’s medical workforce crisis, particularly in community care and rural areas. The launch of this Network could not come at a more critical time. “AMSA welcomes the GPSN and the potential it has to help alleviate this crisis....

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

... We at Merck were disappointed to have had what we consider to be a fair offer rejected by the government of Brazil. "We remain flexible, open and committed to the negotiations", she added. The matter now will be referred to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chief of staff who will decide whether to iss...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...psychological challenges of isolation. NASA will consider whether astronauts must undergo preventive surgery, such as an appendectomy, to head off medical emergencies during a mission, and whether astronauts should be required to sign living wills with end-of-life instructions. The space agency will also ...

Hay Fever Can Send Work Productivity Down the Drain

...ile missing an hour of work a week may seem small, consider that 20 to 50 million Americans suffer from at least some symptoms related to hay fever, or allergic rhinitis, said Sheryl Szeinbach, the study’s lead author and a professor of pharmacy practice and administration at Ohio State University. “That me...

Enticing Doctors to Rural Community an Uphill Task

...f this plan works out, the State Government should consider paying for similar programs.'If these are useful strategies, they ought to be repeatable,' he said. A spokesman for Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said the State Government was investing more than $1.7 million this year to train more specialists in r...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...his specialized congress. It should also seriously consider starting an Indian Institute of Cricket Science and Medicine on the same lines as Australia. Dr Chauhan, a sports medicine consultant from Bangalore was the sole representative from India at the conference. Dr.Chauhan though present at the 2nd WCSM...

Vanishing Honey Bees

...t. The U.S. Congress held hearings last month to consider remedial measures, including ways to compensate beekeepers for their losses and to prevent the spread any harmful fungus or disease. Source-Google...

Cancer Patient’s Life Improved With Anti-reflux Valv

...t, but often the disease has progressed too far to consider surgery. Consequently, a stent, a tiny, hollow tube, is inserted using a minimally invasive procedure to help improve the passage of bile. However, these stents frequently clog requiring repeat procedures to replace the clogged stents. The exact mech...

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