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Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...able to fight the disease without risking the side effects of prolonged and powerful radiation and chemotherapy at an early age. The latest research is a collaborative effort looking at a type of childhood tumour known as medulloblastoma, the most common childhood tumour of the CNS. The cancer usually strik...

Early menopause- The cause

... POF, which can lead to loss of fertility and side effects such as weakened bones. They found the inhibin alpha gene was mutated in three out of 34 of the women they studied, compared with only one out of 100 in an ethnically matched control group. Lead researcher Dr Andrew Shelling, from Auckland's Nation...

Smoking stripes longevity

...fined as it relies on averages, assumes the health effects of smoking are evenly spread throughout a smoker's lifetime and postulates that the number of ciagrettes smoked throughout a lifetime is constant. Clive Bates, director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said on average a 20-a-day smoker is losin...

Broccoli's role against cancer

...ti-cancer properties and its indirect anti-oxidant effects are both due to its ability to make cells create a...inogens. The scientists studied sulphoraphane’s effects on a variety of cell types and oxidants in laboratory experiments, they report in a recent issue of ...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...ssued last year, but a new study cautions that the effects of those medications in that age group aren't well understood. Under the 1993 National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, about 15 million Americans between the ages of 20 and 79 would have// been considered candidates taking statin group of ...

Immune cells halt round in space

...crogravity as part of their research on the health effects of space on astronauts.// It has been found that ...ich allows researchers to investigate the possible effects of microgravity on individual immune cells without the complications of hormone effects. The biorea...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...ilarly effective, with participants reporting side effects from the antihistamines but not from the butterbur. The study was one of an increasing number of randomised controlled trials with herbal medicines. "Herbal treatments are being used more often by doctors and, in our experience, are often reque...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...ital University of Brussels, Belgium, examined the effects of tiotropium compared to ipratropium in COPD pati...acerbation. Researchers found that the beneficial effects of tiotropium on lung function persisted over a period of more than 24 hours. The researchers add th...

New therapy for bone cancer

...ets bone cancer cells only, so it is freer of side effects than other forms of chemotherapy. It's given intravenously over a 30 minute period and the patient needs to be in hospital for about two days. After two weeks, the bone is free of radioactivity because the samarium has a half life of only two days....

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

...od pressure. In addition, women complained of side effects from levonorgestrel, including acne, cholesterol problems and weight gain. Hoping for the best, pill makers issued yet another formula in the 1980s that combined low estrogen levels with the less harsh progestogens desogestrel or gestodene. Third-g...

Beehives to curb caries

...s. Propolis also has antibacterial and antifungal effects that protect the colony against disease. It has been shown to kill Bacillus larvae, a bacterial disease that attacks bees. Results of the studies showed that overall, propolis inhibited 70-92 percent of Gtf activity in solution. There was a 45-95 p...

Beta-Carotene May Aid Diabetics

...ycemic controls. They also sought to follow-up the effects of dietary beta-carotene supplementation on LDL oxidation. Researchers say that natural Beta-carotene supplementation may delay atherosclerosis In Diabetics. Participants included 20 patients who were non-insulin-dependant diabetics and age-sex-matc...

Depression hurts the heart

...without heart disease- for four years to trace the effects of depression. They then found that people with major depression were at least three times as likelyto die of heart disease as were patients who weren't depressed.Even subjects with mild depression experienced a fatality rate that was 50 percent hig...

AIDS drugs linked to heart attack risk

...out possible long-term effects. Some of these side effects quickly became apparent, including odd rearrangements of body fat and a variety of metabolic abnormalities, such as changes in cholesterol levels. But it was uncertain whether these would eventually lead to extra heart trouble. Some of the strongest...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...y should be added to the list of potential harmful effects from smoking during pregnancy.// Cleft lip and palate are fairly grave birth defects. They are the fourth most common congenital abnormalities, affecting about one in 670 newborns. The deformities are marked by obvious gaps in either the lips and no...

Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

... investigators could draw no conclusions about the effects of different types of alcohol. The researchers also found that the risk of developing liver cancer was even greater for patients who had been diagnosed with either hepatitis C or hepatitis B. "The risk of (liver cancer) in subjects with a viral hepa...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

...ance of tobacco but also with assessing the lesser effects of indoor air pollution of some houses. Because t...g, the 1990 study was able to assess the long-term effects of giving up the habit at various ages. Former smokers, on the other hand, had only a small number o...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...d not. Hu said the results were adjusted for known effects of activities such as smoking, obesity, fat intake and physical activity. After these adjustments, he said, it was clear that eating abundant hot dogs and other processed meats was an independent risk factor for diabetes. He feels that eating proces...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...ed condiments. When the data was adjusted for the effects of other life style factors, the researchers found that tomatoes, especially if they had been cooked, were beneficial against prostate cancer. ``Spaghetti sauce was the most popular'' and also seemed to give the most protection, said Giovannucci. He ...

Diabetics prone to periodontitis

... in their 20-39th week of pregnancy to examine the effects of periodontal infection on the control of diabetes. They found the diabetics flaunted more gingival inflammation and deeper periodontal pockets than the non-diabetics. "Many women experience periodontal problems, such as bleeding and swollen gums, ...

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