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Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Tolerated Well by Elderly Patients

...ance they’ll live another five years ... If it can keep the cancer from coming back “....

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

... who received them, suggesting the treatment could keep Parkinson’s disease from worsening. Specialists say that this is an important beginning and they suggest additional studies in the area may one day lead to “highly specific and effective new genomic-based therapies.?...

How Safe is Air Travel For Heart Patients

... flight Walking frequently through the cabin to keep blood flowing to his extremities Wearing below-the-knee compression stockings to prevent deep vein thrombosis Avoiding alcohol and drinking lots of other fluids to remain well hydrated...

Tea Found To Keep High Blood Pressure At Bay

... new study out of Taiwan suggests drinking tea may keep your blood pressure under control. Researchers say they have now discovered // that people who drank between 120 milliliters and 599 milliliters of green or oolong tea a day for a year had a 46-percent decreased risk of developing hypertension than t...

Biofeedback Found To Reduce Steroid Dependence In Asthmatics

...mount of inhaled steroid medication they needed to keep their asthma under control. Asthma severity also dropped from moderate persistent to mild persistent. Asthma symptoms improved in all three therapy groups, but the group that got the sham biofeedback therapy did not see a reduction in medication use ...

The Efficacy Of Newer Stents Questioned

...ll, wire-mesh device inserted into the artery// to keep it from closing. The problem with older stents, however, has been that they can trigger an immune response from the cells in the walls of the artery that cause the artery to become occluded. Stents coated with drugs to stop this process have been to...

Nifedipine Found To Effective For Patients With Angina

... placebo. GITS modifies the release of the drug to keep it in the blood longer. After about five years, both study groups showed similar death rates. However, the number of people who experienced heart failure and needed heart procedures were lower in the group receiving nifedipine. Researchers also add t...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

...p to frequently make checks on their condition and keep a firmer control on their health. However, for those who are already suffering with the disease and have chest pain, researchers are studying adult stem cells as a way to help. Cells from a patient's own bone marrow is taken and inject into the he...

Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems

...hat giving adolescent girls estrogen treatments to keep them from getting too tall could leads to fertility // problems later on in life . Estrogen is thought to limit height by altering long bone development. The study involved 780 women who had been assessed for estrogen therapy as girls and completed ...

The Beneficial Effect Of Red Wine

...rs now say that a glass of red wine each day could keep keep lung cancer away .For the study researchers followed 132 patients // with lung cancer and 187 patients requiring routine surgery between 1999 and 2000. The majority of the patients were men in their early 60s. Patients were asked about their die...

Hope For Patient With Alzheimer’s Diseas

...tine is not a cure for Alzheimer’s, if it helps to keep a person with Alzheimer’s at home for six months or one year longer, then it is a victoy.”...

Evaluating The Benefits Of A Low – carb Diet

...o lose weight, // and that might be helping people keep the pounds off for good, shows a new study. Researchers say carbohydrates such as white bread, refined breakfast cereals, and white sugar are rapidly digested, causing a quick rise in blood sugar and insulin. This in turn leads the body to slow the...

Understanding The Predictor’s Of Alzheimer’s Diseae

...lso say education and other activities designed to keep the mind active may stimulate the production of myein....

Physical Activity Good For Developing Cognitive Skills

...ests that being physically active in old age could keep the brain fit....

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...herapy has been shown to reduce mortality and help keep tumors in check. Specialists have been using the above method of treatment for men with cancer that is confined to the prostate. The men undergoing treatment were found to have a much lower risk of death or spread of the cancer, and treatment with th...

The Beneficial Effects Of Wine For Heart Disease

...study researchers suggest that women drink wine to keep their hearts healthy .Studies in the past // have...inking wine, but not beer or spirits, was found to keep hearts the healthiest. Thus researchers say the favorable effects on HRV may be one of the reasons w...

Consumption Of Fish Could Reduce The Risk Of Dementia

...st findings researchers say eating fish could help keep ones mind working.The study also found those // who had a high intake of cholesterol and saturated fat have an increased risk of cognitive impairment during middle age. More and more research is showing what you eat could play a role in your risk fo...

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...tion in glucose levels. Patients with diabetes who keep their blood sugar levels under control can considerably reduce their risk of developing late-stage complications including cardiovascular, kidney, eye and nerve disease say researchers . Thus researchers suggest people with diabetes who have symptom...

Drug Keeps The Weight Off

...id receptor blocker (CB1), can help obese patients keep weight off // . Supplementation with 20 milligrams of rimonabant a day resulted in a significant decrease in body weight and waist circumference -- a marker of cardiovascularly dangerous visceral fat. It also improved HDL (good) cholesterol, triglyce...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...al organs. It was known that histatin usually can keep Candida albicans in check among healthy people with enough saliva, but the mechanism of action of the drug was not known.It was discovered through studies that histatin binds to a specific membrane protein called TRK1p, which regulates potassium ion ...

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