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Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...over the past few decades, refined treatments have increased survival rates until approximately 80 percent of c...n's Hospital in Boston, the researchers found that increased activity of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH), a signaling molecule crucial to brain development, is linked to on...

Infertile men at cancer risk

Infertile men run a slightly increased risk of being diagnosed with testicular cancer, ac... point out "the incidence of testicular cancer has increased in the past 50 years and some evidence suggests that sperm quality has decreased in the same period....

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...on women. "Overall, the total number of operations increased over the period," says Dr. Jill Pell, the study's ...tor. While the percentage of bypass surgery also increased in younger patients, the percentage increase in patients over 65 was greatest. The percentage of ope...

The winter worry

... 1977 and 1998 for pre-eclampsia, a problem due to increased blood pressure which is dangerous to the baby and the mother.They found that mothers of children born in August had the lowest risk of pre-eclampsia. However the research team from the National Institute of Public Health in Oslo say there are wide r...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

...being used that infertile women in general have an increased risk of ovarian cancer," says Grifo, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at New York University Medical Center. It was this giant analysis of massive amounts of information that found that women who took fertility drugs appeared ...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...inia. The illness has decreased life expectancy, increased infant mortality and orphaned millions of children, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than 28 million HIV sufferers. Ninety five percent of new infections are in the world's poorest countries where life prolonging drugs are not availab...

Monday malady

...of going back to work on monday could bestow to an increased rate of heart attack. A 7 year study carried out i...under 55 with no previous history of heart disease increased considerably on Mondays compared to the daily average. Report author Dr Cheryl Rodrigues said: "The ...

Women's strong sense of smell

...h smells like bananas. Sensitivity to benzaldehyde increased substantially for both the experienced women group, but not for men....

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...hat time and 2000, prescriptions for the drug have increased by 2,000 percent. Abusers discovered that they could get a powerful heroin-like high by crushing the pill and injecting, swallowing and inhaling the powder.// Abuse of OxyContin, the nation's best selling prescription painkiller, began in Maine and...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

.... Patients received three doses of the vaccine at increased levels each time. Vieweg said four men developed flu-like symptoms and fever and four men experienced inflammation at the injection site, but overall, the vaccine was well tolerated. Vieweg points out this vaccine could have applications in other can...

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...ith reduced perception of dyspnoea (POD) may be at increased risk of experiencing a life-threatening exacerbation of their condition.// It was found that patients with low POD had significantly more emergency department visits, hospitalisations, fatal asthma attacks and deaths during a 2 year study period tha...

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...n the ipratropium group. Quality of life measures increased by 52 per cent in the tiotropium group and 35 per cent in the ipratropium group. Moreover, frequency of exacerbations fell by 24 per cent more in the tiotropium group compared to the ipratropium group. This was associated with a reduction in hospital...

Zinc may enhance growth in Young sickle cell patients

...uggest that children with sickle cell disease have increased zinc requirements that may not be met by their usual dietary intake," lead study author Dr. Babette S. Zemel, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. During the study, children given zinc had significantly greater increases in h...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

...dical food bar enriched with arginine and vitamins increased the exercise capacity and quality of life of those...ther treatment for another two weeks. Blood flow increased in the arteries for those consuming the arginine bar as did exercise capacity. Quality of life also ...

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

...ones, lynestrenol or norethisterone. However, they increased the risk of clotting, which can lead to ischemic stroke. The next version, released in the 1970s, contained markedly less estrogen and only the progestogen levonorgestrel. This combination also raised the risk of stroke, especially in smokers and w...

The brain wave

...imitation, they discovered a consistent pattern of increased brain activity involving the superior temporal gyr...involved. The left inferior parietal cortex showed increased activity when the subjects were imitating another person. When the subjects were being imitated by...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...eep for more or less than seven hours a night have increased mortality rates. A study of over one million adult...less than four hours a night, have a significantly increased death rate. Insomnia does not appear to be a risk, but those who took sleeping pills were more likel...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...co is one reason the product is associated with an increased risk of dental caries on tooth roots and crowns. A typical user holds a wad of chew in his cheek for 30 minutes at a time and uses the product in this manner throughout the day, exposing the teeth to the tobacco for several hours. Moreover, both che...

Cancer hazard Found With Animal-Based Nutrients

...pecific type of esophageal and stomach cancer, has increased by 300 percent since the mid-1970s, according to lead author Mayne, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. The researchers interviewed patients and compared the nutrient intake of 1,095 peo...

Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer

...d with higher doses of cranial irradiation lead to increased bone loss. Patients receiving between lower doses of radiation demonstrated no less bone loss than patients not receiving cranial irradiation at all. This finding leads researchers to believe that irradiation of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus...

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