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More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

...our and bonding hormones are released. A c-section interferes with this process. "Whenever mother and child are separated, as they are for minutes, or days after a Caesarean section, bonding between them is retarded and made more difficult," said Katrin Mikolitch, a physician and founder of the Duesseldorf-b...

New Drug Therapy for Breast Cancer Offers Hope

...isease is promoted by estrogen. While tamoxifen interferes with the activity of the hormone, exemestane reduces the levels produced in a woman's body. In addition, it was observed that patients treated with exemestane were 25 per cent less likely to see their cancer return than those who remained on tamox...

KADIAN Efficacy Not Affected by Alcohol Consumption

...rug Administration (FDA) to assess whether alcohol interferes with the extended-release mechanism of action in long-acting opioids, were presented yesterday at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) in New Orleans, LA. "This study demonstrated that the extended-release propert...

Standard Therapy More Effective in Common Fertility Disorder

...thors wrote. With PCOS, an excess of male hormones interferes with ovulation. The ovaries become enlarged and fill with cysts. In addition to infertility, PCOS symptoms include irregular menstrual periods, excessive body and facial hair, acne, and obesity. Women with PCOS frequently experience insulin resista...

HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa

...srupts jobs and adds to the cost of care, but also interferes with a patient’s ability to adhere to a regular course of antiretroviral medication, thus increasing the risk of drug resistance. People with dementia also are less likely to practice safe sex. Before antiretroviral medications were available in th...

Over-exercising Not Good for Muscular Dystrophy Patients

...y results in the degeneration of muscle tissue and interferes with the transmission of nerve signals to the muscles. Source-IANS...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

...tly co-exist and cause obstruction to airflow that interferes with normal breathing. Smoking is the primary cause of COPD. “In a large international cohort of individuals from ages 20 to 44, the 10-year cumulative incidence of COPD was 2.8 percent,” said Dr. Cerveri. “It was 4.6 percent in adults aged 40 to 4...

Clinical Factors of Tinnitus Influence Perceived Loudness and Annoyance

...ent report that tinnitus is so troublesome that it interferes with sleep or has led to disability and reduced quality of life. Wolfgang Hiller, Ph.D., University of Mainz, Germany, and Gerhard Goebel, M.D., from Roseneck Center of Behavioral Medicine, Prien, Germany, analyzed data from a mail survey composed...

Drug Treatment Slows Macular Vision Loss in Diabetics

...e.” The Hopkins group believes that ranibuzumab interferes with a protein that spurs the growth of unwanted b...to the retina at the back of the eye. The swelling interferes with focus and blurs vision. Making matters worse, a lack of oxygen often then triggers VEGF’s produ...

Pregnant Women Can Minimize Risk Of Rodent-Based Virus

... prevent the birth defects it causes. "The virus interferes with brain growth by disrupting cell division and by inducing inflammation that directly damages brain tissue. However, we still have a lot to learn to prevent the severe fetal brain damage that can occur," Bonthius said. Source-Newswise...

Miracle Cancer Drug in the Pipeline

...rowth of cancerous cells. "The way it works is it interferes with new blood vessels growing into tumors and it also prevents the tumors from spreading by inhibiting an enzyme they need to spread with," Prof Parish said. The trials that have been undertaken so far have been on liver cancer patients, but this d...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

...It can have a severe effect on quality of life; it interferes with sleep, and interferes with work, and children with hay fever can drop a grade at school. I believe about 10 per cent of th...

Vulnerability to Ear Infections Lessened by Breast Feeding

...ar infections can lead to learning disorders as it interferes with the development of language. Although it was known that ear infections may be caused due to abnormal genes, scientists had not been able to pinpoint which defective genes caused this abnormality. These genes seemed to have a strange complex rela...

Hair-Growth Drug Artificially Lowers Psa Levels in Prostate Cancer Screening

...development of male-pattern hair loss. Finasteride interferes with this process by blocking 5-alpha reductase and preventing the conversion of testosterone to DHT. The data in The Lancet study were collected by Dr. Roehrborn from 1998 to 2000 in cooperation with medical centers in Arizona, Colorado, Connectic...

Scientists Developing New Drug To Treat Bowel Cancer

...polyps ,thereby restricting their growth. The drug interferes with the vascular endothilial growth factor (VEGF) which spurs on the growth of new blood vessels. A similar drug Avastin has already been launched. Clinical studies in people with advanced bowel cancer have shown that the drug is well tolerated a...

Cigarette Smoking Impedes Tendon-to-Bone Healing

...ions, but several studies have shown that nicotine interferes with healing of bone fractures and also inhibits bone fusion processes — many spine surgeons, for example, won't do certain operations on people who smoke because of the risk of failure. But little is known about the effects of cigarettes on tendon a...

Yet Another Reason not to Smoke

...ions, but several studies have shown that nicotine interferes with healing of bone fractures and also inhibits bone fusion processes -- many spine surgeons, for example, won't do certain operations on people who smoke because of the risk of failure. But little is known about the effects of cigarettes on tendon ...

Raloxifene Reduces The Risk Of Breast Cancer

...ancer in women without a family history is that it interferes with the duration and concentration of estrogen, which acts as a tumour promoter in the majority of breast cancers,' said Dr. Lippman. The research team conducted a new analysis of the first large study of raloxifene, which tested the ability of th...

Risk of Malaria treatment failure in some HIV-positive patients

... infection resulting in a weakened immune response interferes with the treatment for malaria.// This study has been published in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, which is now available online. "Our study demonstrates that HIV-1 infected patients with suppressed immunity represent, nex...

Risk Of Colorectal Polyps Recurrence Can Be Controlled By Rofecoxib

... he said. Although it is not known how rofecoxib interferes with carcinogenesis, inhibition of COX-2 has been thought to play a role. Other mechanisms are possible, however, and scientists are actively seeking to understand exactly how non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs alter pathways that lead to cancer. ...

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