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Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...rrhosis and liver cancer. The researchers hoped to determine what amount of alcohol is considered safe to consume and what amount was most associated with this increased risk. Donato and colleagues studied 400 Italian men and women diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer,...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...k nevertheless suggests that research is needed to determine if a link exists between diets high in processed meats and the incidence of heart disease and cancer. Approximately 16 million Americans are thought to have diabetes. About 90 percent of the cases are type 2, or adult-onset disease. In type 2, ther...

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

...ts on mental sharpness, and more work is needed to determine whether statins really can lower the risk of getting the much dreaded degenerative brain diseae....

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...with the patients an average of two years later to determine their outcome and whether their condition had been improved by the operation. The researchers found that all 100 patients survived their operations and half lived another 40 months or longer. "This is not just doing surgery for sake of keeping peopl...

Fluoride proves effective against fractures

...fflicted 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-month study that followed 85 women who were 65 years and older and had one or more nontraumatic fractures. The study group was tr...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...ze gallstones and now stroke experts are trying to determine if less powerful ultrasound can improve the effica...hat point, he decided to initiate a pilot study to determine if ultrasound could boost the clot-busting or thrombolysis ability of tPA, he explained Friday durin...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

...attacks. But obesity experts say it's difficult to determine if people died because of Meridia or because they were obese, which put them at increased risk for many diseases and premature death. This is not the first time a diet drug has come under fire. In 1998, the FDA pulled two diet drugs from the market,...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...community to know that it is not just important to determine the fact that certain types of stem cells have successfully turned into other types of stem cells -- as a consequence of experiments in test tubes and animal models -- but we need to carefully examine the complete identity of the resulting cell types...

Stem Cell Transplants May Be Effective For MS Patients

...m its effectiveness and studies are also needed to determine its long-term effec....

Genetic innovation

...hort, but the Melbourne study shows they also help determine normal adult height in the general population....

Artificial silicon retina

...orised for about 10 implants and the results will determine whether additional patients will be enrolled in the study.The microsurgery starts with three incisions smaller than the diameter of a needle in the white part of the eye.through these incisions the gel in the middle part of the eye is removed and is ...

Tamoxifen does not adversely affect the brain

...ers used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to determine levels of the cerebral metabolite myo-inositol, wh...ain. They added that further research is needed to determine the effects of oestrogen and tamoxifen on cognition....

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

... the PRM1 gene. If they do find a defect, they can determine if they are protected from HIV infection or have a slower progression of disease....

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

...scendants .The DNA could help future generations// determine whether they are genetically predisposed to conditions such as breast or colon cancer. According to Bernard Naegele, president of Cincinnati-based DNA Analysis Inc., the genetic material could also be used in gene therapy, a process by which doctors...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

...nfections in June and July of 2001 and was able to determine an association with eating melons. However, we didn't find any real association until we asked the people if they had eaten precut melons," she said. For example, more than half the people who became ill recalled eating precut cantaloupes. About 40 p...

Healing a painful neck

... manual therapy, further studies should be done to determine which of the eclectic collection of manual techniques used contributed to a successful outcome....

Dementia linked to HIV

...d 80 people were HIV negative. They were hoping to determine which risk factors play a role in early development of cognitive problems. The investigators looked at age, sex, education, risk behaviors, HIV stage, lymphocyte count, and antiretroviral therapy. Participants were considered cognitively impaired if ...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

...s screened the subjects for depressive symptoms to determine if they met the criteria for mild depression, meaning symptoms such as occasional sleeping problems or feeling blue but not severe enough to warrant clinical intervention. The study participants' mortality rates also were followed over the years. Th...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...in the body. This information may help researchers determine how to harness the potential of adult stem cells to treat a variety of ailments. Stem cells are immature cells that give rise to the specialized cells that make up the body, and scientists believe they can be used to repair the damaged tissue that ma...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...rth weight. But the knowledge that genes also help determine a newborn's weight could have implications for preventing low birth weight, Ha said, since the effects of environmental factors may vary depending on a person's genes....

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