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Breast Cancer Drug Curbs Heart Disease.

...apy for some women with one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, said Duke oncologist Neil Spector, M.D., first author of the paper.. However, now we have two agents that go after the same target and both have an effect against the cancer, but one appears to have a greater potential based on thi...

First Case of West Nile Virus Death in Madison County

...le virus is mosquito borne disease and has various forms like West Nile encephalitis or meningitis - the most severe forms of the disease. These severe forms of the virus, transferred primarily through mosquito bites, affec...

PG-13 Rated Films Adversely Expose Kids to Violence

...g person's engagement with visual media in all its forms can run to as many as eight hours a day, Webb added. And media depictions of violence teach such acts to children, leading to increased aggression, fear for their own safety, and a desensitisation to the pain and suffering of others. "The science...

Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk

...about the amount. Supplements are available in two forms vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Creighton researchers recommend vitamin D3 , because it is more active and thus more effective in humans....

Lack of Sun Does Not Explain Low Vitamin D in Elderly Who are Overweight

...hydroxyvitamin D. This is one of several important forms of vitamin D, and is the form that researchers and clinicians use as an indicator of vitamin D status in individuals. Vitamin D is especially critical in maintaining bone health, and there is evidence that many older Americans have low blood levels o...

A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug

... use sugar for energy play a role in at least some forms of Alzheimer's. Special fatty acids in Ketasyn present an alternate food source to energies those hungry neurons, according to the researchers at the international Alzheimer's meeting here Monday. Adding the Ketasyn to the regular medicine showed a...

New Gene Discovery Raises Hope for Childhood Blindness Cure

...at, when mutated, causes one of the most universal forms of inherited blindness in babies . Scientists at the University of Leeds, working in alliance with experts from other centres around the world, discovered the gene, which is vital to photoreceptors in the eye, the cells that "see" light. The find...

American Patriots Treated To Toxic Water

...tails after many families gave accounts of various forms of cancers and other illnesses among them, which they claim are linked to the water they drank when based at Camp Lejeune. Among these, at least 850 former residents of the base have filed administrative claims, which call for almost four billion ...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...olistic health and facility will offer alternative forms of medicine, the benefits of which have been demonstrated across the world. One of Asia's largest healthcare groups, Apollo runs 41 hospitals in India and abroad. It has an annual turnover of Rs.6 billion....

Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...Haykowsky speculated that weight lifting and other forms of strength training may not have shown the benefits of aerobic training in reshaping the heart because strength training results in a heightened pressure load, which may actually increase the stress on the heart. The importance of the new study is t...

Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

...e diagnosed with lung cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. The five-year survival rate for lung cancer is about 14 per cent, the B.C. Cancer Agency reports. Health Canada has maintained the 800-becquerel guideline since 1988, but says new research showing a stronger link to lung cancer has promp...

Prostate Cancer Claims More Life Than Breast Cancer

...ncer can be treated successfully. Prostate cancer forms in the tissues of the prostate, a gland the size of a walnut found in the male reproductive system. This cancer usually occurs in older men. Age is the biggest risk factor, with men over 50 at a higher risk of being diagnosed with the disease. Afric...

Researchers Developing New Therapy to Re-activate Silenced Genes

...gned that are able to discriminate between various forms of histone deacetylase. Kozikowski said the new findings, performed in collaboration with Dr. Brett Langley at the Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute in White Plains, N.Y., are significant, and that "other exciting results are on the horizon....

HIV Drug Resistance can Be Identified by Genome Sequencing

Undetectable drug-resistant forms of HIV have been identified by Yale School of Medicine researcher Michael Kozal, M.D., using an innovative genome sequencing technology that quickly detects rare viral mutations. Kozal, associate professor of medicine at Yale and senior author of ...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...n several other more prevalent disorders including forms of muscular dystrophy and heart disease. In addition, recent studies by other labs have shown that occasional errors in the production of lamin A may take place even in people with "normal" copies of the gene. Scientists suspect that accumulation o...

Taking Low-calorie Soup Before Meal Will Help Cut Calories at Meals

...e of this study was to determine whether different forms of soup might have different effects on food intak...e amount of chewing required may have made certain forms of soup more filling, results of the study show that low-calorie soup is filling regardless of its f...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

... that about one in three men with mild to moderate forms of erectile dysfunction don’t respond to Viagra, with some of these men having success with either Levitra or Cialis. And men with severe erectile dysfunction have less success with the drugs. Kenia Pedrosa Nunes of the Medical College Georgia, Lei...

CELL THERAPEUTICS PAYS Heavily to Resolve Dispute FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL MARKETING OF CANCER DRUG

...sed doctors to prescribe Trisenox to treat various forms of cancer for which the drug was neither approved by the FDA, nor proven to be either safe or effective. The government's suit alleged that because of the company's actions, physicians who prescribed Trisenox off-label unwittingly submitted false cla...

Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Benefit With AVONEX(R) Nurse Services Program

...VONEX, the most prescribed treatment for relapsing forms of MS worldwide. "As a person living with MS and...NEX is the most prescribed treatment for relapsing forms of MS worldwide, with more than 130,000 patients on therapy. It was launched in the U.S. in 1996 and...

Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

...lth risks. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in Canada. Marlene Gomes, unit manager with the Lanark, Leeds and Grenville chapter of the cancer society said that “It's a great opportunity at this time of year to raise awareness”. “It is preventable and it's important to get the message...

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