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Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...isk compared to those on placebo. They report on a large scale trial of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. A group of 6050 women aged 36 to 65 years, from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe took either tamoxifen or placebo for five years.// All the women were considered as being at increased risk o...

Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack

...ording to researchers at the Hospital of Boston, a large clinical trial presents that giving intravenous magnesium after a heart attack does not improve survival after all. It has been assumed by some doctors that there could be benefit to patients// if they are given magnesium by infusion after a heart a...

Clean air protects lives

...related pollutants and traffic emissions make up a large portion of pollutants around the world....

Novel way to fight cancer

...e continues, "We have been able to generate a very large number of immune cells that appear in the blood and constitute a majority of the immune system of the patient. These persist for over four months and are able to attack the tumor."...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

...g.’ They found five published studies with sample large enough and controls good enough to be considered reliable. All measured the effects of stretching on muscle soreness; two also looked at injury risk. There’s no conclusive evidence that stretching protects muscles, agrees London-based physiotherapist...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

...en per cent. This study suggests that figure is as large as 30 per cent. It means that the potential lives saved each year by employing such experts could be 162,000. Patients in hospitals where there are intensivists have both reduced ICU and hospital deaths and a reduced length of stay in the ICU. But at...

Sepsis treatment functions best in difficult cases

...s is variable. Researchers in the US carried out a large retrospective study, covering 20 clinical trials and 35 pre-clinical trials on animals. This revealed that anti-inflammatory agents were most effective when the patient was thought to have the highest risk of death from sepsis. If the risk of death w...

Air pollution combined with greater medical needs

...e effect// of air pollution on Medicare costs in a large group of the population. They looked at medical records and pollution measures in 185 metropolitan areas. They found that there was little difference in surgery rates between cities with the most pollution and those with the least. But there was a ...

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

...ding to the latest study researchers proposed that large doses of vitamins may be unsafe to men experiencing treatment for prostate cancer. Researchers say tens of thousands of prostate cancer patients self-administer vitamins and minerals,// and use untested medical therapies in doses that multiply the da...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

According to a new study, there is a large survival benefit in taking cholesterol-lowering drugs after a heart transplant. Researchers in Munich have studied the effect of taking simvastatin soon after a heart transplant. //They looked at a group of 72 patients who had had heart transplants f...

Memory deprivation after operations

...ity, Research into Ageing, has been helping fund a large international study into POCD and its causes. Results are to be published, but so far it looks as if surgery may be a major stressor for some people and maybe there is a genetic factor involved. Brain changes, similar to those that occur in dementia,...

Bypass Surgery & Pleural Effusion

... and disappeared over time. Patients who suffered large pleural effusions after the surgery complained of ...lthough not of chest pain or fever. However, these large effusions also disappeared slowly over a year following the surgery....

Fewer teeth & Increased Ischemic Stroke risk

...found that men with fewer teeth generally consumed large amounts of alcohol, were physically less active, were older and were more likely to smoke, all of which are risk factors for stroke. However, the lead author, Kaumudi J. Joshipura, claims that these risk factors alone do not suffice, to explain the a...

Offspring's birth weight affected by father's diabetes

...er's height or social class. The study involved a large group of people born in 1958 in Britain who were interviewed then and were evaluated four decades later. The follow-up respondents consisted of 8000 parents, 35 of whom were men with diabetes and 25 of whom were women with diabetes. Researchers say t...

Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs

...the the abdomen, just below the navel, sparing the large muscles of the back. Compared to traditional fusion surgery, inserting the disc takes lesser time at the operating table (about one and half years) and the patients are mobile right away contrary to those undergoing fusion surgery, who have their mot...

Just one cigarette could cause significant damage

...s compared acute and chronic effects of smoking on large artery properties in 185 healthy young smokers and non-smokers aged 22 ± 5 years. 116 non-smokers// were compared with 41 chronic smokers with their age, height, weight and sex matched. The researchers also compared augmentation index, aortic pulse ...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

...ted with use of the device. They believe that this large case report indicated a role for topical oxygen in the treatment of chronic or acute hard-to-heal wounds....

Treatment for fibroids with "Abortion Pill"

...singer conducted a study with 20 women who all had large fibroids and multiple symptoms -- including heavy periods, pelvic pain and pressure, and lower back pain. The women were randomly asked to take either 5 mg or 10 mg of Mifepristone daily -- the very lowest doses. At the end of the study all women had...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

..., according to experts, the study though done on a large number of patients, is only superficial as many potential variables were not sufficiently controlled. So, the results are not yet conclusive....

Safety of soy under suspicion

... the male rats exposed to genistein had a slightly large thymus gland, an organ that produces immune cells....istein had an even bigger effect on male rats than large doses. Researchers concluded that the findings of the study has caused concern and urologists conne...

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