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Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

..., however, the tumor cells become resistant to the hormones – or "hormone-refractory" – and the tumor again progresses. Increasingly, chemotherapy is being used as an effective first-line treatment for hormone-refractory prostate cancer. However, it is not a cure, and so this is creating a need for effecti...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

... sex hormones, and there is some evidence that sex hormones play a role in MS by suppressing the immune system. Most women with MS have fewer symptoms of the disease during pregnancy. After delivery, symptoms often return. The sex hormone connection is just one avenue that needs to be explored, Cutter say...

Black Cohosh-Black Magic Against Breast Cancer

...any of which contain phytoestrogens, plant-derived hormones that are chemically similar to the human estrogens in decline during menopause. Yet researchers ponder the fact whether the use of these supplements make a difference (good or bad) in a woman’s likelihood of developing breast cancer, which is also...

Hot Flashes: Studies Explore the Various Possibilities Involved

...Although generations of physicians have prescribed hormones to reduce these symptoms, very little research has...se women correlate with varying levels of specific hormones or other factors? When looking at blood levels of specific hormones and related enzymes, the resea...

Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance

...one of the chief reasons might be that sex steroid hormones are involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.” Other reasons women may be disproportionately affected by DES include the balance of female and male sex hormones. “There are data to support the hypothesis that androgens (male sex hormones) are pr...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...is central to the action of testosterone and other hormones that are much more plentiful in men than women, ap... Society. Some scientists have suspected that male hormones working in concert with the androgen receptor might play a role, but hard evidence has been minimal ...

Researchers Have Identified Subgroup Sensitive to the Drug Cisplatin

... breast cancers contain receptor molecules for the hormones estrogen or progesterone, and in recent years antiestrogen drugs like tamoxifen have improved outcomes for women with those tumors. About 20 to 30 percent of tumors, some with hormone receptors, have elevated levels of a growth-promoting protein call...

Period Eliminating Pills

...erse affects on the body functionings, as the same hormones affect the brains too. Period is also seen as a spiritual and a natural process. The stopping of period is not a new concept. Women who take oral contraceptives do not have real periods. The bleeding that takes place is due the buildup of the uteri...

Hormones- The Same Regardless Of Packaging

...rs ago, an initiative study found that replacement hormones made by drug companies raised the risk of heart at...s week offered the strongest evidence yet that the hormones can raise the risk of breast cancer and are tied to a slightly higher risk of ovarian cancer. Acco...

New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

... surgery on such people." FPH have a lot of male hormones and look like men. Their vaginal pouch is hidden inside the skin and needs proper surgery. They should be diagnosed right after birth," explained Shilpa Sharma, another paediatric surgeon. She said some of these people suffer from a complication ca...

Stress may Make Cancer Cells Resist Treatment

...mine whether there is a direct link between stress hormones and changes in cancer cells. Studying prostate a...ermine if there is a link between levels of stress hormones and severity of disease and has also begun studying the effects of epinephrine in mice with prostate...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

...an't get them for complex biological drugs such as hormones or antibodies used in cancer treatments. Some of the world's most potent and popular medicines fall into this biotech basket, and existing federal laws prevent them from going generic. Conventional drugs are synthesized by putting atoms together f...

Starting Time of Hormone Therapy may Augment the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

...hese secondary analyses suggest that the effect of hormones on CHD may be modified by years since menopause an...lity in younger women offers some reassurance that hormones remain a reasonable option for the short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms, but does not necessa...

Being Sad Can Kill You

...by the Institute of Psychiatry, Pariante said that hormones and the immune system constituted the main link be...out their period of pregnancy. Levels of stress hormones were measured using blood and saliva tests and their moods were assessed using psychiatric tests. ...

Hope for Ending the Pain, Infertility of Endometriosis?

... woman’s period and therefore reduce her pain, and hormones that suppress ovarian function and therefore suppress the estrogen that “seems to feed these lesions,” he says. Surgical options include a simple laparoscopy, a procedure with only small incisions that can be used to excise small lesions in cases ...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

...us through which nutrients, oxygen, antibodies and hormones pass. “By identifying early on if there is a potential risk of complications, we can do everything possible to ensure the safety of both the mother and fetus,” says Dr. Kingdom, who is also a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecolog...

Kickboxing Could Damage Your Brain

.../, scientists say. The gland produces a range of hormones that control, among other things, the body's regul...ical School in Turkey measured the levels of these hormones in 22 amateur kickboxers (16 men and six women) and compared these to healthy people of the same age...

Chubby Cute Little Girls- Not for the Health Conscious

...ng the researchers suspicious that female-specific hormones could be to blame for the connection. Estrogen, essential for normal female sexual development, is also known to affect the immune system and the lungs. "Heavier girls tend to reach puberty earlier than girls of normal weight," Dr Burgess said. ...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

...ide effects are a consequence of what these immune hormones were originally designed to do — for example, interferon is a natural antiviral agent, so the fact that it causes flu-like symptoms very commonly is not a surprise.” Sasse said, “The interleukin is more toxic and needs hospitalization for its admin...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...s and protein therapeutics such as insulin, growth hormones and erythropoietin, the novel micro-jet injection devices open up another option in the rapidly expanding needle-free injection market, set to hit $3bn (€2.3bn) by 2010. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

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