Can Calcium Help Reduce Weight?
...ow-fat dairy products such as skim milk and yogurt offer hydration and vitamin D as extra benefits. However researchers say they cant recommend a specific daily dose of calcium for weight loss purposes, but as of now the current daily recommended allowance of four low-fat dairy servings should be the mini...Based on the results of a recent study researchers offer new insights about stretching. Athletes often debate the value of stretching before exercising.// Specialists say stretching does not reduce the risk of injury in fact, current research shows static stretching makes muscles weaker for 10 to 15 minute...Bone Marrow Cells Could Yield A New Lease of Life
Researchers offer intriguing results from a study involving women with leukemia who died after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a male relative.An analysis of the women’s brains shows evidence of the transplanted // cells up to six years after the initial trans...Aspirin Found To Be Effective In Reducing Breast Cancer Rates
...r its painkilling effects, if used regularly might offer protection against breast cancer. // Cancer prevention has all along focused on modification of lifestyle factors, but recent research has been centered on chemoprevention, or the use of chemical agents to prevent or inhibit the carcinogenic process ......hers say low-tar or low-nicotine cigarettes do not offer health benefits over regular, “full-flavor” cigarettes and they also stress on the fact that there is no such thing as a safe cigarette. Reports also show that quitting smoking has both immediate and long-term benefits. Specialists say , “Within minu...Hope For Patients With Lung Cancer
Results from a new study offer a ray of hope for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.Researchers from around the world are // involved in research on the drug Tarceva, trying to determine its effect on different cancers -- including lung cancer. Tarceva is a small molecule...New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine
A new anthrax vaccine may offer a faster and easier way to protect the general population and soldiers at war in the event of // a deadly bioterror attack. Scientists have developed a powdered form of the vaccine that could potentially be inhaled through the nose, thus eliminating ...Angioplasty The Much Preferred Treatment Of Choice For Heart Attacks
... even if the hospital they initially go to doesn’t offer angioplasty// services and they have to be transferred to another facility for treatment. Research has shown heart attack patients fare better when they are treated with angioplasty to open up the clogged blood vessel that caused the attack than whe...The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer
...ival is 85 percent. Most doctors may prefer not to offer chemotherapy for their patients, since eight in 10 patients are adequately treated by surgery alone , thus doctors say that giving all stage I patients chemotherapy would lead to unnecessary adverse events with no survival benefit for the majority of...Another Treatment Option for Benign Tumors
...say their findings demonstrate that CyberKnife may offer a promising treatment option for patients with benign tumors who are not candidates for surgery or whose tumors are not amendable to surgery ....The Latest Preventative Treatment Option for Prostate Cancer
...set of prostate cancer. Fortunately, these results offer a promising new preventative approach to prostate treatment. A chemopreventive agent like toremifene is a first step toward the possibility of stopping prostate cancer before it starts and gives patients and doctors a chance to fight this pervasive d...Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Could Help Prevent Spina Bifida
...ties to understand the causes of this disorder and offer the prospect of developing new strategies for the prevention of spina bifida....Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression
...ly significant. Thus researchers say exercise may offer a viable treatment alternative to treat depression as it can be recommended for most individuals....Thinking Could Be Affected Due To Hormone Therapy
...s on mental ability hence they must be prepared to offer support during the treatment period....Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy
...d on their data clinicians should be encouraged to offer healthy older patients participation in newer trials....Antibiotics for acute uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection
...he Journal of the American Medical Association, no offer or delayed offer of antibiotics for // acute uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is acceptable. Ac...Possible location of lung cancer genes found
...:. "In a previous study, we showed that SNP arrays offer a unique way of locating copy-number changes in cell chromosomes and of determining when genes on a pair of chromosomes are mismatched. The current study demonstrates that high-resolution SNP technology is powerful enough to identify copy-number alte...Cure For Deafness Leads Scientist To Find How Fishes Can Hear And Hum Sounds At Same Time
...ism very well. Observing what these neurons do may offer insights into what leads to hearing deficits." Only a few fish vocalize, but male plainfin midshipman fish hum to attract a mate or grunt when stressed. During the mating season, houseboat owners in San Francisco Bay have often complained about the...Testosterone patch for women Rejected For safety Reasons
...ast cancer associated with a drug that appeared to offer women, on average, little more than one extra episode of sexual activity a month, compared with placebo. Panel members also say that don't want to expose several million American women to the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke, with such deva......ings although yet to be confirmed in humans, could offer an important prevention strategy for osteoporosis. ...