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Putting cancer risk with a vision

... in a sort of fragmentary way invariably about one particular disease. Without things to compare it to it's hard to put in perspective. This ususally puts the risk of different diseases side by side and in the context of all causes of mortality. Steven believes the chart will help relieve the anxiety some indi...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...ody fat, he said. Prostate cancer patients on this particular therapy also are vulnerable to osteoporosis. Hormone suppression is used in the United States, "but not necessarily for three years," he said. The reason it is used cautiously is "taking away the male hormone actually affects the marker we use" to d...

Novel research on liver cancer

...ave spread from other organs and doctors feel that particular form of the disease, known as metastatic, is ghastly. Patients can sometimes die within six months. The researchers from Johns Hopkins say that the research will be on to find new treatment options....

New cholera strain identified

...ogen,” Bhattacharya said. “We also could link this particular pathogen to an epidemic in 1998 in coastal Orissa,” he said, adding, “the pathogen generally attacks in the coastal region and comes from the environment.” The pathogen is prominent in India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea Thailand and the US. <br...

Gene testing kit specific for Doctors

...d easily, the doctor could avoid prescribing these particular drugs and spare the patient the adverse effects....

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

...arket is too small, as the patients treated with a particular drug are confined to a small genetically defined subgroup, and the sales from this small group would not cover the development costs. Unless scientists are able to show that these drugs work on a specific genetic type instead of on only 2 or 3 per ce...

Lamictal as add-on therapy for children with epilepsy

... they begin with abnormal electrical activity in a particular location in the brain. The effect of these seizures include lip smacking, a dazed state or jerking movements of certain body parts. The approval of the drug was based on a clinical study that demonstrated the efficacy of the drug as add-on therapy i...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

...at might be necessary when a child is prescribed a particular medicine. The fact sheet will be distributed to 57,000 pediatricians and to groups representing children and parents. Medicine-related medical errors can occur when a child is given the wrong medicine or is given the wrong dose of medicine for the c...

Care with a touch!

...and unhappiness of patients in being assigned to a particular group, that do not completely warrant the outcomes. However, researchers believe massage and touch therapies hold a potential to help ease suffering among patients and that more clinical trials are necessary to examine the efficacy and effectiveness ...

Liver cancers which spread are linked to a particular gene

...nd that a protein called osteopontin produced by a particular gene is necessary for spreading. They found that cancer cells grown in the lab were more likely to spread, as a result of high levels of osteopontin. They also found that blocking this protein prevents cancer cells from spreading, both in mice and in...

Vitamin D May Aid Breast Cancer Treatment

...ls, in the tumor itself. While the finding in this particular study is unique, previous research on vitamin D found it was effective against both prostate and breast tumors. Currently, a large European trial is testing EB1089 on human cancer patients....

Gene study links endometriosis, infertility

...could help correct the disorder by targeting those particular abnormalities, DePaolo added....

Benefits of Vitamin Supplements Unclear

...In fact, researchers found consuming too much of a particular vitamin may increase a person’s risk of developing disease. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviewed the results of four clinical studies, which show consuming certain vitamins decreases a person’s chance of developing cancer or cardiovascula...

Stem cells offer hope for muscular dystrophy

...blasts are called "adult" stem cells although this particular kind has so far been found only in fetuses. The researchers injected mesoangioblasts into the arteries of mice genetically engineered to lack the alpha sarcoglycan gene -- in effect giving the mice a form of MD. These mesoangioblasts turned up down...

Drug Users and Risk of Death

...o older injecting drug-users. Researchers also say particular attention should be paid to modifiable risk factors such as incarceration, living or injecting alone and risk perception. They point out, “Life years lost from drug-related deaths are converging on the number of lost years from road traffic accidents...

A new Vaccine for Pneumonia

...nd the pneumonia vaccine decreased the rate of the particular strain of pneumonia in the vaccine, by 72 percent. It also reduced the rate of confirmed cases by 17 percent. In an accompanying editorial, the authors write, “The decrease in these two outcomes were remarkably similar in both U.S. children and South...

How Safe Are Your Cosmetics ?

...duct. Researchers suggest that those allergic to particular chemicals, will need to avoid products that contain them, and should also be careful to look for them on the label of all skin and hair care products that they purchase. When it comes to treating allergy , specialists say avoiding the allergen is ...

Laser Therapy Found To Help People Quit Smoking

...hs following the study reported they smoked due to particular moments of stress experienced. Patients also reported feeling and sleeping better after laser treatment....

Risk Factors For Stroke Studied

...ly to blame for an increased risk of stroke in the particular population, as gene variation itself may also affect behavioral or socioeconomic factors that could be increasing the stroke risk. In conclusion specialists say until more study is done , prescribing folic acid and/or vitamin B for people with highe...

Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

...cantly underused or dosages may be too low for the particular age group . Researchers analyzed data from clinical trials of treatments for breast cancer patients from over a 14-year period. The trials compared more aggressive and less aggressive chemotherapy regimens. However no association was found between a...

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