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Risk factor high for women who took HRT

...ces of dying early. Researchers also said that the pills can increase the risks of developing heart disease or having a heart attack. They studied 13,084 women over the age of 45, less than half of whom had taken HRT. They found that women with diabetes who took HRT were up to three times more likely// to ...

Stroke and the Pill

...women who take the newer, lower-dose birth control pills are not increasing their risk of stroke, finds a new study. Ever since birth control pills debuted in the 1960s, doctors have worried the pills could increase a woman’s risk of stroke. Most s...

Pfizer unveils anti-smoking drug

...e trial, only 16 percent of people receiving sugar pills managed to stop, while 33 percent of patients who received Zyban, a pill sold as Wellbutrin for depression, were able to quit. "This is a significant improvement over results achieved with Zyban, an antidepressant approved as an aid to smoking cessa...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...ium also was referred to as a "doll" -- one of the pills popped by female characters in novelist Jacqueline...ards. His other breakthroughs include the sleeping pills Dalmane and Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad, for limiting bleeding during brain...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

...cribed procedure for using RU-486, taking two more pills at home three days later. After experiencing blee...'s bleeding. Anti-abortion groups insist that the pills "offer a whole new set of significant risks," and makes abortion seem too simple. A report on the gr...

The Side Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

...ing to a recent study researchers say the estrogen pills do not reduce the risk of heart disease and can lead to an increased risk of stroke.// Researchers say their results show estrogen alone does not appear to increase or decrease the risk of heart disease as combination hormone therapy is believed to...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...tive Gleevec is. For the study, Michael takes six pills a day and hopes they'll give him and his lungs a little more time. "I'd say 99 percent of the time, I believe it's going to work out. I'm hopeful," he says. There are several sites involved in the study across the United States and one site in Mexic...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

...ng six weeks before surgery, Lofgren took lycopene pills and researchers are now comparing his cancer cells before and after taking the lycopene pills. While results from this study are pending, another study showed men who ate tomato sauce at least twice a week were 20 percent less likely to develop prost...

Taking Vitamin Supplements With Caution

Latest research proves that popping vitamin pills won’t help ward off heart disease .Researchers analyzed the role vitamin supplements play in reducing // the oxidative stress thought to play a part in heart disease. After analyzing previous studies on the topic, researchers could not find enough e...

Viagra Used More By Young Men

...at older men are not the only ones using impotence pills but rather the fastest growing segment of Viagra (sildenafil) // users are men between ages 18 to 55. The study examined Viagra use among 5 million insured males, ages 18 and older, from 1998 to 2002. The overall, use of Viagra increased 84 percent ...

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

...e pregnant mothers continue taking the contacepive pills even after conceiving. The pills contain ostrogen like chemiclasthat are alos present in the plastic packagings. Deformities of the p...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

...ng six weeks before surgery, Lofgren took lycopene pills and researchers are now comparing his cancer cells before and after taking the lycopene pills. While results from this study are pending, another study showed men who ate tomato sauce at least twice a week were 20 percent less likely to develop prost...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

Previously it was said that diuretics or water pills based treatment resulted in the lowest rate of heart failure due to // hypertension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Now the same researchers are saying that the same drugs can benefit the patients with diabetes who suffer from ...

Contemplating the effects of the “Morning After“ Pill

...has shown that the ''morning after'' contraceptive pills work// by interfering with ovulation thereby preve...vulation; pregnancy rates among those taking these pills were lower than among those taking a placebo. However, when EC was given subsequent to ovulation, ev...

Pause as you please

...uously - without taking the monthly cycle of sugar pills - can delay periods in most women, but usually only for about four months. The new drugs were tested on rhesus macaque monkeys because the bodily mechanisms controlling their periods are identical to those of humans. This means the treatments shoul...

Prohibited diet medicine found in Chinese herbs

... as lead and mercury) ... some of the pre-packaged pills imported from the Far East have not undergone rigorous quality control checks, and there is no certainty as to the actual contents. Herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine are usually harvested in the wild and some plants may be accidentally subs...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

Recent studies on birth control pills have been linking them to increased risk of heart ...that women who take third-generation birth control pills containing desogestrel or gestodene show no increased risk for heart attack compared to women who do...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...oduced in the 1960s, the most common birth control pills combine the hormones estrogen and progestin for us...th control. The technique of taking birth control pills continuously to keep from having a period isn't new. Using Seasonale, ... I think mainly is going t...

Vitamin E Found To reduce bladder cancer risk

...unexpectedly found those who took alpha-tocopherol pills lowered their prostate cancer risk by one-third. The same study shocked researchers by showing that another once high-flying nutrient, beta carotene, appeared to actually increase their risk of lung cancer. A National Cancer Institute study now unde...

Immunosuppressive drug shows promise in treatment of eye disorder

...nd the eye or in other areas. Patients took two pills each morning and two each evening, for a total dose of 2 grams daily. Thirty-six patients (43 percent) already had been treated with at least one other immunosuppressive drug. The results revealed that 81 patients (97 percent) had control of their...

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