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Almonds Help Lower Cholesterol

... a group of people with high cholesterol levels to determine whether following a specific diet can reduce those levels. The participants were divided into three groups. The first group followed a low-fat diet that included whole-wheat cereals and dairy foods. The second group followed the same diet and also to...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

... several international centers combined efforts to determine the potential health gains of reducing risk factors for disease. They looked at 20 risk factors. Some of those include unsafe sex, alcohol use, unsafe water, //sanitation and hygiene, indoor smoke, childhood sexual abuse, and vitamin deficiencies. T...

Lowering Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence

...el Project, researchers are studying exemestane to determine if it can further reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence among post-menopausal women. John Cole, M.D., from the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, explains the ovaries in post-menopausal women no longer make estrogen. However, estrogen is still pro...

Stress may Worsen Acne

...pants had mild acne, further research is needed to determine the role of stress in more severe cases....

Banning Smoking in the Home Helps Infants

...xposure in the home. Further research is needed to determine if measures less strict than banning smoking, like opening windows and using fans while smoking will have any effect on infant cotinine levels....

Chemotherapy Effective for Bladder Cancer

...s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center conducted a study to determine if chemotherapy plus surgery could help patients live longer. Researchers found patients treated with surgery alone lived 41 months compared to 77 months in patients who had the combination treatment. Specifically, 77 patients in the surgery only gr...

Dental Procedure Reduces Preterm Births

...ffcoat says more research needs to be conducted to determine why this increase occurred....

Better Drug for Heart Transplant

...le University in Philadelphia conducted a study to determine if everolimus is also effective for heart transpla...nts. Researchers followed patients for one year to determine if they had any complications from the transplant. Researchers report the patients on either dose o...

Screening Cost-Effective for Lung Cancer

...an detect early lung cancer, researchers wanted to determine if it is a cost-effective option. A new study cond...on from the ELCAP was incorporated into a model to determine the amount of cost per year of life saved. The study shows the cost-effectiveness ratio of a CT sc...

Benefits of Eating Whole Grains, Fruits and Vegetables

...pants filled out a food frequency questionnaire to determine dietary intake. The study included information on the participants for more than 11 years. Researchers report those who ate whole grains had a lower risk of death and a lower risk of heart disease. They also found this positive association with frui...

Exercise to Prevent Breast Cancer

...east cancer in this group for nearly five years to determine if a lack of physical activity is linked to the disease. Results of the study show women who engaged in regular strenuous physical activity at age 35 had a 14-percent reduced risk of breast cancer. Similar findings were also reported in women who en...

Age Affects Lung Disorder

...Washington School of Medicine conducted a study to determine the role age plays in the development of ARDS afte...S. Researchers analyzed the age of the patients to determine if it is associated with the risk of developing ARDS. Researchers say patients who developed ARDS w...

Detect masses in the breast

... Once a mass is detected, a biopsy may follow to determine if it is cancerous. Each year, 1.4 million women will need a breast biopsy. Now, doctors have a new way to take a biopsy that is more accurate than ever before. With three sons, Daria Pistelli has plenty of men in her life. But, it’s the women in he...

Exercise found to Prevent Breast Cancer

...east cancer in this group for nearly five years to determine if a lack of physical activity is linked to the disease.Results of the study show women who engaged in regular strenuous physical activity at age 35 had a 14-percent reduced risk of breast cancer. Similar findings were also reported in women who enga...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

... days. "Current behavior and conditions appear to determine mortality," says James Vaupel, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Vaupel wrote an accompanying editorial that appears in the same issue of Science. "It used to be thought that you died from your whole ...

Weight-loss Products Dangerous

...cted a chemical analysis of the herbal products to determine what ingredients they contained. Although both products were advertised as containing only botanicals, results of the study show the supplements contain N-nitroso-fenfluramine -- a drug taken off the market in the United States after being linked to...

Treatment for Syndrome X

...and weight loss. Researchers conducted a study to determine if a six-month intervention could have an effect on coronary heart disease risk factors associated with syndrome X. The study included 53 men and women who were part of a larger clinical trial. The participants suffered from insulin resistance, abn...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

...e following day. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of Holly's death. But Monty Patterson said he learned from an attending physician at the hospital that she had died after a massive infection caused by fragments of the fetus left inside her uterus caused her to go into septic shock. Planne...

Risks for Silent Strokes

...her cardiovascular diseases. The MRIs were used to determine which participants had suffered multiple silent strokes also known as silent cerebral infarcts. Researchers report 82 percent of the patients with diabetes and high blood pressure and 58 percent of those with hypertension alone had suffered a silent...

Oncologists Overlook Clot Risk

... in England, surveyed more than 100 oncologists to determine if the doctors were aware of the risk of blood clots and to evaluate preventative measures used by the physicians. About 40 percent of the doctors who were surveyed treated their patients with either chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and less than 10 per...

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