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Cancer patients pursue smoking inspite of risks

...of those who smoked wanted help in stopping, while fewer than ten per cent of those who drank wanted to give up alcohol. The study suggests that doctors should not overlook smoking and drinking as issues for the cancer patient. The impact they may have on the disease itself needs to be taken account of a...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...more complex drugs - and companies are discovering fewer of them, meaning the FDA is getting fewer industry payments. The result is a shortfall that reached $30 million this yer....

Small aneurysms best left untouched

... guidance was followed, there would be 30 per cent fewer repairs and a decreased mortality and complication rate....

The advantages of berries

...ed tumour-like growths - but they were 70 per cent fewer in the animals fed the berries. The researchers think that compounds in the berries can mop up free radicals - groups of atoms produced within the cell which otherwise may trigger the growth of a tumour. Black raspberries do contain an extraordinar...

Approaching through Telemedicine benefits patients

...ith the specialist after the initial consultation, fewer of these patients underwent additional tests and investigations than did their standard care counterparts. On average, patients who participated in the videoconferencing sessions with their primary care physician and the specialist had. Researchers a...

What makes young girls smoke

...ccasionally (6 to 19 days) or experimentally (5 or fewer days). Also, for black girls, weight concerns and a desire to be thin at ages 11 and 12 were the most important factors leading to daily smoking at ages 18 to 19. For white girls, weight concerns, poor conduct, stress, and a single-parent household a...

Supplements for Ear Infections

... otitis media, or middle ear infection,// required fewer antibiotics and had fewer ear infections once they began taking vitamin/mineral supplements and cod liver oil, which has vitam...

Breastfeeding may decrease Breast Cancer Risk

...t cancer. On average, women with breast cancer had fewer children than those who did not have breast cancer. In addition, mothers who did not breastfeed or who breastfed for shorter durations (around 10 months compared to 15 months) were at a significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer than those...

Toxin injections support stroke associated spasticity

...take care of personal hygiene and dressing and had fewer problems with pain or positioning their hands, they said....

Hormone restrains appetite in man

...ppetite, for those receiving it consumed one third fewer calories. The effects lasted for 12 hours after the injection. However, regulation of appetite is a complex business involving many other hormones. It's not clear that treatment with PYY3-36 alone would be a solution to obesity. Further research is...

Diet combined to Alzheimer's disease

...live longer. //Researchers feel this is because of fewer destructive molecules formed during the breakdown of food and oxygen. These destructive molecules, known as free radicals also damage cells and may increase the damage done by particles found in brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers...

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

...sed use of NRT is down to light smokers (consuming fewer than 12 cigarettes a day) - a group for whom NRT is not effective. By 1999 smokers were as likely to quit whether or not they used NRT. The researchers say that when NRT was on prescription, the doctor could offer support counselling and prescribe ap...

Hepatitis shots is promising

...of drugs for Hepatitis -C Cures more patients with fewer side effects than the standard treatment for the potentially deadly,liver destroying infection.// The new Treatment could give doctors a more potent weapon against the virus at a time experts are forecasting a surge in cases of Hepatitis- C liver d...

Ingredient in turmeric protects skin

...of radiation. Those given the higher doses had far fewer burns or blisters. They also developed new cells in the area of tumour, which might be expected to make the therapy more effective. It is too early to know if this would work in humans, but curcumin could turn out to be a safe and natural way of prot...

Laser may stop macular degeneration

...dures under study to treat the wet form, there are fewer options available for the dry form. A team of researchers led by Thomas Friberg, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh, are studying the use of a laser called the infrared OcuLight laser to target drusen. The hope is that the laser will lead to re...

Enduring anti-clotting treatment avails heart patients

... At the end of the study, there were significantly fewer adverse events, such as heart attack, clotting or need for further intervention, in the clopidogrel group. Researchers feel that what was less clear was the benefit of giving the drug before PCI as well - but it seems likely that this will help at le...

Latest technique for asthma treatment

...ment by inhaled or oral steroids. This group had fewer severe asthma attacks, and fewer hospitalisations than those managed in the traditional way. This suggests that treating the underlyi...

Fewer teeth & Increased Ischemic Stroke risk

...archers aren't sure about the relationship between fewer teeth and higher// risk of stroke. The study which used data on 41,376 men found that men with fewer teeth generally consumed large amounts of alcohol, were physically less active, were older and were ...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...d that sequential administration produced slightly fewer side effects than the concurrent regimens, with equal efficacy. Larry Norton, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Senior investigator of the study believed that this study which showed an improvement due to dose dense chemotherapy could...

New way to control hospital infection

...ave hospitals $100,000 a year in shorter stays and fewer antibiotics....

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