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Promising Treatment for Diabetes

...abetes who received a continuous infusion of a gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1, had significantly fewer of these complications than those who remained on standard oral medications. The study involved 16 patients. Eight remained on usual care and eight discontinued their usual oral medic...

Diet might just have an Effect on Breast Cancer

...fruits or vegetables a day had lower levels of the hormone estradiol in their blood than those who ate their ...did not produce substantial changes in ... ovarian hormone levels in premenopausal women ... However, the observed 7.5 percent reduction in estradiol could hav...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...d scans, the detection of the surge of luteinizing hormone -- a hormone that controls the length and sequence of the menstrual cycle -- and basic daily conception probabili...

Midlife Brain Activity a Predictor Of Alzheimer’s Diseas

...ry drugs, diet and exercise programs, and possibly hormone replacement therapy designed to prevent menopause may prevent the breakdown of myelin. They also say education and other activities designed to keep the mind active may stimulate the production of myein....

Human Growth Hormone Found To be Dangerous For Human Use

...ancer.// Researchers in Chicago, say human growth hormone is a disaster waiting to happen. They say the hormone which is naturally produced by the body -- increases levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)....

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

... to revive the patient. Vasopressin, a synthetic hormone that narrows blood vessels, has been around for decades. A few years ago, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation revised its guidelines to add vasopressin as an alternative first drug. That was partly because epinephrine sometimes incre...

HRT Found To Increase Recurrence of Breast Cancer

A new study assessing the use of hormone replacement therapy among breast cancer survivors has been // stopped early because results indicate an unacceptably high rate of recurring or new cancers. Swedish researchers embarked on the study in part because more women are surviving the diseas...

The Existing Controversy of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...ious studies show conflicting results over whether hormone replacement therapy is safe and effective for postmenopausal women.// A recent study examines the pros and cons of this controversial therapy. Researchers studied women who used combined HRT therapy for five years. All the women studied were 50 yea...

Estrogen Found To Protect the Colon Against Cancer

... of estrone used was similar to the levels used in hormone replacement therapy. The mice that consumed soy protein and developed colon cancer had fewer and smaller tumors than those mice that did not have soy protein. Specialists say there are no known harmful side effects to eating soy protein but they sa...

A Combination Of Drugs Effective In The Treatment Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

..., the investigators recruited 12 for whom previous hormone therapy had failed in at least 3 lines of treatment. The investigators included patients who had undergone palliative radiotherapy at any point during their disease. The patient’s median age was 67 years, with a range of 60 to 81 years. The patient...

Weight Gain Found To Increase The Risk Breast Cancer

...isk for postmenopausal women who // are not taking hormone replacement therapy. In 1992, researchers sampled nearly 62,000 women, ages 50 to 74, by asking them about their weight at age 18 and their current weight. Since then, the women have been periodically asked to provide updates on their weight, in ad...

Understanding The Link Between Hormone Replacement and Respiratory Disease

... developing asthma, report researchers // ,however hormone replacement doesn’t appear to affect chronic obstr...y to have it after puberty, researchers speculated hormone replacement after menopause might put women at higher risk. COPD, which is mainly caused by smoking,...

Is Drinking Extra Fluids Safe When You’re Sick

...tis, the body releases large amounts of a specific hormone that conserves water. Thus, researchers say giving extra fluids may lead to salt loss and fluid overload. Researchers did not find any studies that directly compared increased fluid intake and restricted fluid intake in patients with respiratory in...

The Side Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

... decrease the risk of heart disease as combination hormone therapy is believed to do. Estrogen also does not ...k of developing breast cancer. Researchers say the hormone does appear to decrease the risk of hip fractures, yet, they found estrogen increases the risk of st...

Brain Enzyme Found To Regulate Weight

...ngs complement recent work in Britain in which the hormone ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, also was...AMPK levels. Studies in the past have shown that hormone replacement therapy won't be a simple cure for the nation's obesity woes. Researchers say studies on...

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

...en for five years. Tamoxifen works by blocking the hormone estrogen, which can stimulate and feed the growth ...me known as aromatase, which normally converts the hormone androgen into estrogen in postmenopausal women. The drug thereby curtails the actual supply of estro...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...nsion, in 1995, was Flolan, a version of a natural hormone called prostacyclin, which dilates constricted blo... Tracleer from Actelion; it inhibits endothelin, a hormone that helps constrict blood vessels. Though much cheaper than the two other approved drugs, Tracleer ...

The Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

...rican women use CEE more frequently than any other hormone therapy.The estrogen-alone trial was halted because researchers found it had no significant effect on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease but it did cause a significant increase in stroke risk. The estrogen-plus-progestin portion of the trial...

Aspirin Found To Be Effective In Reducing Breast Cancer Rates

...e reduction in risk was only seen among women with hormone receptor-positive tumors and not for women with hormone receptor-negative tumors.The risk-reduction results for ibuprofen were generally weaker, and use of ...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Found To Increases Fracture Risk

...ate cancer // shrink or grow more slowly. However, hormone therapy will not cure the cancer and is often used...who were being treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. This is known as androgen deprivation therapy. After comparing the fracture incidence of ...

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