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New operation for kidney cancer

...he primary tumour. A few of the patients, however, needed more than one treatment - further development of the procedure should, hopefully, make it a 'one off' procedure which can be offered more widely....

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...re are higher leptin levels because more leptin is needed to send the message when a person is 'full'. The new findings indicate fish somehow "changes the relationship between leptin and body fat and helps the body be more sensitive to the leptin message," Somers said. Not only did leptin levels not increa...

Heart patients should play Golf

... while healthy men worked at only 40 per cent (and needed to supplement the golf with something a little mor...re working at 100 per cent of their capacity - and needed to ease off their exertions a little, maybe by using a motorised cart. The message is to work out th...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...ostate cancer is poor, so additional therapies are needed to improve their chances. He added the findings also indicate hormone suppression with radiotherapy or external irradiation could trigger apoptosis -- the cancer cells destroying themselves. However, there were side effects, Bolla said, including ho...

Study on obesity and heart failure

... the United States, researchers say strategies are needed to promote optimal body weight to reduce the risk of heart failure....

Low potassium intake may elevate stroke risk

...g potassium will prevent stroke - more research is needed to confirm this....

Watch your weight when pregnant

...esearchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat from healthy to a fatt...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...cal difficulties with malfunctioning equipment and needed 15 to 30 minutes on a biweekly basis with customer service to help them through the process. The system can be worn during sleep but an alarm will sound if the user inadvertently rolls over the cord, Greco said. This can result in sleep deprivation, ...

Cell transplants for stroke

...rs that help repair the tissue. More research is needed to assess whether such an approach could work in humans. But the cells might be applicable to the treatment of stroke, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury....

Antibiotics help heart patients

...icial effects in all patients. Further studies are needed to investigate the reasons for the long-term effects of a short course of antibiotic treatment."...

Stretching does not rule out soreness after exercise

...l, prevent injury or soreness. Further research is needed to determine what would be more beneficial. Meanwhile, the findings suggest that much of what we think we know about sport and exercise may not be on a firm scientific foundation. Researchers felt that, in future aspects of physical activity will pro...

Osteoarthritis and Estrogen are connected

...strogen on growth factors, but further research is needed to determine the relationship between estrogen use and osteoarthritis....

Errors in medication

...: wrong time of delivery (36 percent), omission of needed dose (30 percent), wrong dose (18 percent), and unauthorized drug (8 percent). Seven percent of the errors held the potential to cause adverse drug events. The researchers feel that this evidence of a high rate of medication errors in many of the in...

Relief of pain for suffering patients

... doctors hesitate to give the amount of painkiller needed for fear of accelerating the patient's death. They worry that they could be accused of euthanasia and so a patient may suffer unnecessarily. Researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics now suggest that patients be given mor...

Useful device makes spinal surgery safer

...surgeon might separate some of the nerves that are needed to allow movement in the limbs. Researchers at the State University of New York, have been testing a device developed in England that aims to monitor the nervous system during surgery. The device is called a multipulse cortical stimulator, and it c...

Space research leads to needle-free blood tests

...r seriously ill people, where multiple samples are needed and perhaps in researching the science of sport. But one day we may all be able to use the needle-free approach for routine blood tests....

Sensitive cough suffered by females

...bstance in red peppers, and citric acid. The women needed far less of each 'cough challenge' - as the substances were called - to induce coughing. The difference between the genders was independent of cigarette smoking and the kind of cough being treated at the clinic. The study suggests that women have a m...

Brachytherapy for breast cancer

...diotherapy. However, longer term follow up will be needed to fully assess the effectiveness of the brachytherapy approach to breast cancer. <b...

Advanced STD programs required

...ed five major conclusions. First, more research is needed to focus on morbidity outcomes as opposed to behavior. Also, more interventions need to target heterosexual men, or at least ensure that heterosexual men participate in single-sex interventions. Additionally, more research needs to be carried out in ...

Brain cells protected by new compounds

...ed with Alzheimer's disease. However, more work is needed to ensure that the p53 inhibitors are truly specific to the brain, and do not trigger cancer in other cells of the body. Potential applications in humans are widespread - the first trials could be to protect against Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's d...

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