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Tamoxifen Discontinuation Rates Surprisingly High

...on of this highly effective breast cancer drug may negatively affect treatment efficacy. At 3.5 years, the study also reveals that over one third of women have ceased tamoxifen treatment. In the clinical practice setting almost a quarter of women treated for breast cancer stop tamoxifen within one year, a ra...

Dual Gene Therapy Suppresses Lung Cancer in Preclinical Test

...itively charged nanoparticles are delivered to the negatively charged cancer cell membrane and taken into the cell, where the genes repeatedly express either p53 or FUS1 tumor-suppressing proteins. Roth expects the research team to advance combination therapies to clinical trials in the coming years, either ...

Fast Food Limits Healthy Food Intake, Increases Obesity Risk

...But, frequently making fast food a family meal can negatively affect food choices in the house and the overall health of the family.' The study is part of Project EAT: Eating Among Teens, a comprehensive study of obesity and nutrition among adolescents in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. It was designed ...

Quick and Inexpensive DNA Testing

...t negative charges. Single-stranded DNA adsorbs on negatively charged citrate ions on the gold nanoparticles whi...e-stranded and double-stranded DNA are (nominally) negatively charged, this proven phenomenon intrigues the research group. The new assay determines whether a fl...

Scientists Come Up With A Powerful Weapon To Fight Drug Resistant Bacteria

...vely charged, they are attracted to the bacteria's negatively charged surface like a magnet, where they can then exert their antibacterial effects. The second, "detergent-like" weapon - called a lipopeptide - is produced only by bacteria and fungi which, due to a negative charge, target mainly fungi. This we...

Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

...he beginning stages of their careers, and would be negatively impacted by a loss of hearing as they enter the civilian work force. Source-Newswise RM...

Laborious efforts of NHS Trust to confine labor to homes

...oice against this move criticizing that this could negatively affect the quality of health care. The new CEO of the Trust while taking stock of the situation admits that the transition is going to be painful but is optimistic that it will eventually work out for the good of both the mothers–to-be and the NHS ...

Low Health Literacy Interferes with Good Health Care

...mmunication problems with health professionals can negatively impact the outcome of medical care for some patients, according to a report by the health literacy committee of the American Medical Association. The report also revealed that inadequate health literacy may increase the risk of hospitalization. “He...

Depression Symptoms Less Likely in Kids with Accurate Self-Perceptions

... the study over time became less accurate and more negatively biased about how well they were liked, indicating that negative bias is more of a consequence than a cause of depressive symptoms. The researchers are the first to look at both bias and accuracy, and the findings underscore the importance of studying...

Women with Lower Incomes Live in Fear

...defencelessness," she said. "While the media may negatively impact on older women's perceptions of violence, it also has the capacity to educate and inform about protective measures for older women." Source-IANS...

Fear of violence among older women

...r sense of defencelessness. "While the media may negatively impact on older women's perceptions of violence, it also has the capacity to educate and inform about protective measures for older women." The Triple A Study, which is being undertaken in collaboration with the National Seniors, involved 2620 adul...

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Rat

...prised to see that the grafted stem cells were not negatively affected by the degenerating cells around them, as many feared introducing healthy cells into a diseased environment would only kill them,” says Vassilis Koliatsos, M.D., an associate professor of pathology and neuroscience at Hopkins. Although al...

Stem Cells Could Slacken the Pace of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disease, Study

...prised to see that the grafted stem cells were not negatively affected by the degenerating cells around them, as many feared introducing healthy cells into a diseased environment would only kill them," Dr Vassilis Koliatsos of Johns Hopkins University and the lead author of the study said. The findings are pub...

Understanding Stress Triggers for African Americans

...archers found that the Blacks' quality of life was negatively affected by the economic factors (Black-owned businesses' sales and the poverty rate) and by death factors (the infant death rate and the homicide rate). But their research also reported that religiosity served as a buffer and reduced the impact of t...

ABCB6 Is Key to Production of Heme in Hemoglobin

...t. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences. 'Porphyrins are negatively charged and so is the inside of mitochondria,' Schuetz said. So it wasn’t clear how a negatively charged molecule could get into a negatively charged environment when it should have been repulsed—l...

Incorporate Sleep Evaluation into Routine Medical Care

...s such as insomnia and restless legs syndrome, can negatively affect overall health-a connection emphasized by the increasing legitimacy of sleep medicine as a specialty. In addition, medications used to treat a number of physical and psychiatric disorders can affect sleep, making evaluation for sleep problems...

Brain protein expression can be damaged with prolonged alcohol exposure

...in the central nervous system//, that are impacted negatively with severe alcohol exposure. The scientists were now confident about the proteins’ turn out after prolonged alcohol exposure, after they found fish displaying abnormal behavior. Results of the research appeared in the Aug. 15 online edition of the E...

A Glass of Orange Juice To Keep Recurrence Of Kidney Stones At Bay

...dvina said. All citrus juices contain citrate, a negatively charged form of citric acid that gives a sour taste to citrus fruits. Researchers compared orange juice and lemonade – juices with comparable citrate contents – and found that the components that accompany the citrate can alter the effectiveness of t...

Excessive exercise common among women with eating disorders

...d they have a strong drive to exercise that it can negatively impact on their ability to maintain the weight that they worked so hard to gain in hospital." According to her, excessive exercise is a warning sign that "requires more vigilance and understanding," so that patients can be educated on how to includ...

Salmeterol - to be used in combination & only when required

...ve a genetic variation that causes them to respond negatively to the class of medications that includes salmeterol, Weinberger said. The concern about salmeterol and a related medication, formoterol, led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this year to add a "black box" warning to products containing these ...

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