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Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...rtery blockages, while on average all of the other groups showed worsening artery narrowing. Patients on the combination plus antioxidants had more artery narrowing after 3 years and their HDL increases were not as strong compared with patients on simvastatin-niacin alone. Their risk of cardiac complicati...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

...ly medical treatmen. However, women in the therapy groups did report less pain and emotional distress -- especially if the levels were high to start with. // Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University, who led the study, said improvements in both treatment and social acceptance of cancer may explain the dif...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...inus 2.6 percentage points. Some consumer groups have complained that the ads encourage viewers to believe they know what drugs are best for them -- pressuring their doctors unnecessarily. Drug ads may drive up health care costs and drug company profits, but the drugs people get may also make them ...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...ing a stepping bench. After 6 weeks, both aerobics groups showed significantly greater dips in their total c... saw an appreciable rise in their HDL. None of the groups showed body weight changes. According to Kins the results indicate that step aerobics training is a...

Less sodium,less pressure

...t. This combination worked best for all population groups in the study. Study participants on this regime experienced an average drop of 8.9 points in systolic pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) and 4.5 points in diastolic pressure (the lower number). Dr. Eva Obarzanek, a nutritionist wi...

Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

...ore than 3,200 women who took part in a study. The groups included women who took no pills; those who took pills high in both estrogen and progestin; women who took pills high in one or the other of the hormones, and women who took pills with low levels of both hormones. The research showed that pills wit...

Risk for Pregnant Women

...d to tap water to kill microbes. The environmental groups said chlorine also reacts with organic matter, inc...ation. Kalinowski felt that in the meantime, the groups suggested that pregnant women reduce exposure to CBPs by using carbon filters. "Pregnant women also ...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

...en had a low calcium diet (12 mmol a day) and both groups were followed up for five years. After this time, 10 of the men on the normal calcium diet had suffered recurrences compared to 23 on the low calcium diet. Analysis of the urine showed that levels of calcium dropped in both groups. But excretion of...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...y factors in breast cancer--such as those in which groups of women with and without breast cancer are compared--have often failed to find fat intake a risk factor. Other research, he noted, is looking into dietary factors other than fat, such as the possible protective effect of the B vitamin folic acid, a...

Obesity a global problem

...dustrialised countries, as well as certain Western groups undergoing rapid socioeconomic changes. Researcher Marquisa La Velle, of the University of Rhode Island, has studied changing health patterns in South Africa and Australia. She says the findings show obesity has become a global problem....

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...trols. But there was no difference between the two groups in the complication rate seven days following the arrest. The study shows that hypothermia may indeed be an effective treatment for cardiac arrest....

Obesity increases health costs

...atient and outpatient health services by different groups of people. Tobacco may have a higher death toll, largely because lung cancer can kill more quickly than some common obesity-linked diseases, but obesity was worse when it came to long-term health problems. Being obese increases health care costs 36%...

Chew to improve memory

...nse that occurs in anticipation of a meal. Three groups of 31 volunteers took part in the study and were d... to undergoing the 25-minute test, the two chewing groups spent three minutes working their real or imaginary gum around their mouths. The tests comprised que...

A new recovery for heart attacks

... These drugs would prevent the binding of hydroxyl groups to the HIF protein and in turn boost the amount of the protein around to improve oxygen delivery. The researchers have patented the asparagine-hydroxyl part of the HIF protein as a possible target for drugs, and will now look for other oxygen-contro...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

...ain three months later. Following treatment, the groups that received the gel showed not only lower levels of oral bacteria but also a decrease in the amounts of C-reactive protein and fibrinogen in the blood stream, according to the study results. These two markers of inflammatory activity are associated...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...g the incidence of the disease in the targeted age groups in a cost-effective anner....

Interference helps Heart Patients

...rences in drug treatment given to patients in both groups were not significant and likely would not explain the results. Moreover, the researchers said the low-tech program was more effective at lowering re-hospitalization rates than reductions attributed in other studies to drug treatment. Riegel said the...

FDA fish warning criticized

...es about mercury and fish. Some women in the focus groups said they ate a can of tuna daily while pregnant. Of the five most popular seafoods - shrimp, trout, salmon and catfish are the others - only tuna has worrisome mercury levels. A tuna industry spokesman denied that the industry influenced the FDA's ...

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...ain. The experiments involved 60 people split into groups of non-chewers, real chewers and "sham" chewers. ... to undergoing the 20-minute test, the two chewing groups spent 3 minutes working their real or imaginary gum around their mouths. Scholey said the tests incl...

The advantages of berries

...ompounds 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 extraordinarily wide range of beneficial compounds - compared to other berries and fruits. They are full of anthocyanins, which give...

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