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Healthcare Professionals Might Want To Rethink Their Dress Code

...d security personnel at a teaching hospital. Their data confirmed that nearly 50 percent of the neckties worn by the medical staff were contaminated with bacteria. Although there is no evidence to suggest the neckties transfer disease to patients, it is a good opportunity to reevaluate what is believed t...

Breast Cancer Diagnosed Late In Men

... researchers who conducted a study, which includes data from 1973 to 1998. It shows that // the incidence ... best, or how it progresses. Researchers analyzed data from a National Cancer Institute registry , they found that an increasing rate of breast cancer amon...

Evaluating The Risk Factors Of Osteoporosis

... by a T-score of -2.5 to -1.0. The study looked at data on 57,421 women. Researchers looked at 32 risk factors for a fracture and it was found that the most important predictors of fracture included: women who had a previous fracture; a T-score at a peripheral site, such as the forearm, of -1.8 or less; s...

Relationship Between Genetic Structure And Quality of Life

...d chemotherapy, quality of life and genetic marker data were evaluated. Patients were treated with a new regimen that involves common side effects, such as fatigue, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, low white blood cell count, dehydration, and numbness or tingling in the hands and feet. All have a high impact o...

The Benefits Of Calcium Supplements

...eventive effect of calcium. Researchers analyzed data from 913 patients who were part of a randomized, double-blind trial among patients with recent colorectal cancer. Participants took either a 1,200-milligram calcium supplement a day or a placebo. Researchers found that the total calcium intake above ...

Frequent Mammograms Can Decreases The Risk of Death

...efits of annual mammography. Researchers reviewed data from over 70,000 women receiving mammograms. Only ...t risk of death. Thus researchers say, that their data reveals that the widespread failure of many women to attend screening regularly occurs to a degree t...

A Likely Use For Estrogen Therapy

...ly lower-than-average cognitive function, but when data from the two trials were pooled, the overall risk for probable dementia was significantly increased by 76 percent. Thus researchers conclude that the use of hormone therapy to prevent dementia or [mild cognitive impairment] in women 65 years of age ...

Unnecessary Pap Smears

...rs. Researchers also analyzed 10 years’ worth of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual, population-based telephone survey of U.S. adults collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers found that 22 million women in the United States over 18 have un...

High-Protein Diet Found To Reduce Fertility

...ad a neural tube defect. Thus researchers say the data shows that eating a diet of 25 percent protein res...to alter fetus development. Based on the available data researchers suggest that a high protein diet is not advisable while trying to conceive ....

Passive Smoking A Health Hazard Unnoticed

...otine, and the risk of coronary heart disease. The data shows higher blood cotinine levels in non-smokers increased their risk of coronary heart disease by up to 60 percent. Past studies placed that number at 30 percent, leading researchers to believe that the risks of passive smoking may have been undere...

The Effects Of Hormone Therapy Questioned

...cardiovascular disease. The findings are based on data from 321 women taking part in a larger study on estrogen and vitamins. One hundred and forty were diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes. All of the women showed evidence of heart disease on angiography, a test that X-rays the heart vessels. Some of...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

...cancer spread or recurred. Researchers say their data clearly suggest that decreased ALCAM expression in the primary tumor is of clinical significance in breast cancer and that reduced expression indicates a more aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis....

Efficacy Of Meningitis C Vaccine

...nown. Researchers conducted a study looking at the data from the four years since the vaccine was introduced to assess the long-term effectiveness. Researchers report the vaccine was about 90-percent effective for children vaccinated in the catch-up campaign. The children were between 5 months and 18 yea...

New Treatment Option For Menstrual Migraine

...tudy confirms this happens. Researchers analyzed data from 155 female patients to look at menstrual migraines.Their research shows that in the five days before menstruation, women were 25-percent more likely to have a migraine, and a migraine was 71-percent more likely to happen during the two days befo...

Life-Saving Heart Drug Often Not Prescribed

... vessels to become narrower. Researchers reviewed data from the government’s National Heart Care Project. Results showed 32 percent of elderly patients who went into the hospital with heart failure left without a prescription for an ACE inhibitor. Thus researchers say their findings highlight the ongoin...

The Efficacy Of Newer Stents Questioned

...o this problem. Researchers after having collected data from 11 studies comparing bare-metal stents with the newer drug-eluting stents say that their results show people who had the drug-eluting stents were significantly less likely than those receiving the bare-metal stents to experience severe cardiac e...

Sleep Disorder,The Likely Cause Of Most Road Accidents

...bout the symptoms of sleep apnea, with body weight data plus a test for oxygen concentration in the blood when needed. Researchers say when the questionnaire portion is used the test is 81-percent predictive of sleep apnea, and the test is 91-percent predictive when the oxygen test is added. Thus researc...

Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome At Risk of Dying From Heart Disease

...heart disease. For the study, researchers reviewed data from 6,255 patients who were part of a survey from 1976 to 1980. They looked at who died and the cause of death over an average of 13 years. The participants were men and women between 30 and 75 years old. 26 percent of the participants had metabolic...

Dental Caries An Indicator Of Heart Disease

...glycerides. Researchers compared the oral health data of 256 cardiac patients to 250 non-cardiac patients with similar demographic characteristics. Results of the study show the strongest predictor of coronary disease was pericoronitis, an infection around the third molar. The second strongest was root ...

Mammograms The Best In Detecting Breast Cancer

...maging, are being actively investigated, the above data suggest that mammography screening may be more than a useful, acceptable screening tool ....

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