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Early detection of prostate cancer

A new study, conducted by teams in Stockholm and Boston, looked at the relationship between prostate-specific antigen, or PSA (the chemical currently used as a ‘marker’ for prostate cancer progression), and two other blood proteins. It was found that...

Young womens woes

A new US research has found that young women are much more likely to die following a heart attack than young men.The study, which contradicts the stereotype that men are more likely to die of heart attacks, was published in The Annals of Internal Medicine ...

Young women's woes

A new US research has found that young women are much more likely to die following a heart attack than young men.The study, which contradicts the stereotype that men are more likely to die of heart attacks, was published in The Annals of Internal Medicine ...

Cancer Inheritance

...gene, or of several relatively rare genes. The new model led him to a very different conclusions; cancers are genetically influenced; rare cancers are more common cancers; and cancers with an early onset are more likely to be inherited than those that develop later in life....

Depression and heart failure

According to a new study at the Duke University in the United States, depression increases the risk of dying from heart failure. The link between depression and coronary artery disease is well established and generally have a worse outcome. They screened 357 patients...

Early detection of heart attack

Researchers have found a new test to assess chest pain is accurate in more rapi...w found a way of streamlining the process. Using a new test, they have got the assessment time down to six hours. They compared the new way with the tradit...

Action of nerve cells

...easing chemicals called neurotransmitters. In a new study, biologists from Utah showed how a single pr...sor of Biology, Univerity of Utah . According to a new study Eric and his colleagues demonstrated that UNC-13 is necessary for helping another protein name...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...ing of their monthly menstrual cycle, according to new research from England. Angina is a heavy, squeezing chest pain which occurs when there is insufficient oxygen supply to the heart. It is more common in patients //with a history of heart disease. Researchers from the Cardiothoracic Centre report ...

New Modality in Migraine Management

Texas researchers have come out with a new way of administration of drug that treats migraine.Giving migraine patients the drug valproate sodium "rapidly and forcefully" eases severe headaches without side effects. Dr. John Claude Krusz of Anodyne PainCare in Dallas, in his study, which incl...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

... allowance, said Dr. Mark Levine, lead author of a new study supporting the increase for women.'We've been recommending, as have other groups, that both men and women consume at least five varied servings of fruits and vegetables a day,Levine said. `That's where the benefit is in cancer prevention, incre...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...ted cyclooxygenase enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2. These new drugs specifically inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting lining of the stomach). Celebrex, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration,...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

A new study reveals that obesity raises the risk of panc...disease.Researchers at Harvard Medical School have new data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study - involving nearly 47,000 men - and the Nurses' H...

Prevention of cataracts

A new study provides further evidence that nutrient antioxidants play a role in the prevention of cataracts. Researchers from Tufts University studied more than 575 women ages 53 to 77 from the Nurses' Health Study. The women did not have diabetes nor di...

Role of zinc in development

...c Association, said, "Zinc is essential for making new body proteins including cell growth and brain development in the unborn baby. It comes from a variety of foods but is most easily absorbed from foods of animal origin such as meat, seafood and poultry. Since iron can interfere with zinc absorption,...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...evere bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM), the most common life-threatening metabolic complication of cancer. To date, Novartis has re...

How to diagnose heart failure?

...h heart failure is retaining excess fluid. These new findings should direct physicians' attention towards simple measures that can detect those patients most at risk. In this study, these two signs heralded an increased risk of death from heart failure....

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...ping cancer if they used oral contraceptives. This new research bolsters the theory that the female hormo...his In the future, it may be possible //to develop new treatments that take advantage of the anticancer qualities of the pill". Over the last 20 years,...

Silicon eye implants

In this era of transplants and implants ,a new annotation that is in research process happens to be the silicon implants.If these silicons are to used for the sake of blindness .....is there anyhting more to say. This is real and this is happening , the chip, called Artificial Silicon Retina (AS...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

A new study suggests that flaxseed lowers female hormone levels and may thereby reduce breast cancer risk.The flax plant has been used for thousands of years - the fibres to make linen and the ground seeds in bread and cereal.The seeds are rich in lignans,...

Surviving surgery

According to a new study older patients run a higher risk from elective surgery. Researchers in the US have tried to quantify the risks associated with surgery, which should help patients and doctors make more wise choices. Deciding on having an operation is never a ze...

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