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Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...be gender-related variables that accounted for the difference between male and female rates of developing these .... Oberyszyn and Thomas-Ahner also noted that the difference in the antioxidant capacity between male and female mice was present in the untreated skin as well a...

Fish Oil in Combination With Statins Cuts Risk of Major Coronary Events

...onary events, but researchers found no significant difference in the rates of sudden cardiac death or coronary death. The authors concluded, "The frequency of fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction was not significantly reduced (23%) in the EPA group. However, that of non-fatal coronary events (including no...

Antidepressant Medication Has No Effect on Bipolar Patients

...et the eight-week recovery standard, indicating no difference between adding an antidepressant or adding placebo. In addition, about 10 percent of each group experienced emerging symptoms of mania, indicating that the antidepressants did not trigger a manic switch any more than placebo. Finally, when comparing ...

Brain Tissue Reveals Possible Genetic Trigger for Schizophrenia

...researchers found for the first time a significant difference in the microRNA expression profile. Fifteen microR...he added. “Our study found a striking, significant difference in microRNA expression between people with schizophrenia and healthy people. Using bioinformatic ana...

Who Gets Heart Failure? Race Takes Back Seat to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

... Chinese Americans (100 percent.) Lima says the difference could be due to successful disease prevention efforts among all racial groups, except for African Americans, at controlling hypertension. 'A lot of public health attention has already been paid to getting high blood pressure under control, so it m...

Number of Specialists Best at Treating Children's Fractures Decreasing

...evating it above the heart. Icing can make a great difference in the degree of swelling and can also affect the ability of a pediatric orthopedic surgeon to operate, if need be, in a timely manner. “Remaining calm for a child’s sake is key,” said Dr. Green. “If a parent remains level headed, it will provide...

African Americans Tend to Suffer More from Drug Abuse

... by cooking the powder.) The rationale for the difference in penalties is simply that the crack is more addi...disqualified from voting. That might have made the difference between victory and defeat for George W. Bush, it is pointed out. But so far no serious Democrati...

Fruit Crop Fungicide Induces Permanent Changes in Mating Behavior

...ales. They found that female rats could tell the difference between male descendants of rats that had or had not been exposed to vinclozolin. The females strongly preferred to associate with males descended from unexposed rats. Their research will be published the week of March 26-30 in the online Early E...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

...or a combination of chemo- and immunotherapy. “No difference was seen in survival rate and toxic effects were increased” when immunotherapy was added to chemotherapy, the researchers write. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an intern...

Root Beer - Safe Soft Drink

...nks are especially erosive. There is a significant difference between sugared and diet colas. 'The bottom line,' Dr. Ross stresses, 'is that the acidity in all soft drinks is enough to damage your teeth and should be avoided.' What is dental erosion? ? Dental erosion involves loss of tooth structure. ?...

Delayed Cutting of Umbilical Cord Has Benefits

...ensues before the umbilical cord is severed. The difference of just 2 minutes can make a lot of difference; say researchers led by Eileen Hutton of McMaster University, Canada. According to them, when the baby is connected to the umbilical cord and placenta for some more time, uterine contractions force m...

Obstetrical Anesthesia Equally Safe When Provided by CRNAs or Anesthesiologists

...nesthesiologists, is extremely safe//. There is no difference in safety between hospitals that use only CRNAs co... Washington. The results showed that there is no difference in rates of complications between hospitals that use only CRNAs compared with those that use only an...

Black-white Life Expectancy Gap Reduces, Yet Remains Significant

... death (0.4 years)," they continue. The current difference in life expectancy at birth between blacks and whites remains substantial, 6.3 years for men and 4.5 years for women. "Homicide, HIV, and perinatal death, although demonstrating favorable trends, continue to keep the black-white gap unnecessarily lar...

New Research May Pave the Way for Shorter Hospital Stays for Diabetes Patients

...rol”, Dr. Leung said. “This clinically significant difference eventually supported implementation of hospital-wide subcutaneous insulin protocol at Stroger Hospital, limiting the size of our study - thus we were able to show only a marginal statistical significance. Optimal glucose control is known to improve w...

Golfer Plans ‘lasting Legacy’ for Mothr

...omething that has the potential to make a profound difference to thousands of people's lives." The center is expected to provide information, support and training for lung cancer patients and their carers. There will be training for teams of specialists dealing with lung cancer issues, particularly speciali...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

...Our published data in animal models demonstrate no difference in drug activity with the nanocrystal formulation," said Ravindra Pandey, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biophysical Sciences at RPCI and a co-author on the paper. "This is a case where the easiest formulation works the best," added Indrajit Ro...

STIs Significantly Increase Risk of Drug-resistant HIV Transmission

...e preceding three months; there was essentially no difference in screening frequency between the groups with and without transmitted drug resistance (TDR). The researchers did not find any significant associations between TDR and recreational drug use, number of sexual partners, or report of unprotected inter...

Excessive RAMP1 Protein may Cause Migraines

...ls of RAMP1 protein. "There is clearly a genetic difference between people who get migraines and those who do not, and we think that difference could be RAMP1. Our studies provide a reason to look for variations in the DNA that encodes RAMP1 in...

Quality of Childcare Program Affects Language Development

...owest quality care. And the quality made a greater difference over time, as children in higher-quality care acquired key markers more rapidly than the children in lowest quality care. This was especially true for vocabulary; children in higher-quality care used twice as many words by age 3 as those in the lowes...

Autism Affects Half a Million Australians -Survey Reveals Startling Facts

...plained that early intervention could make a great difference to the quality of life of a child with autism. “The earlier we start the more likely the outcome is going to be positive”, he opined. The study provides information by way of the different methods of diagnoses and treatment of autism, and the pr...

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