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Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...They report on a large scale trial of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. A group of 6050 women aged 36 to 65 years, from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe took either tamoxifen or placebo for five years. All the women were considered as being at increased risk of breast cancer, because they had eith...

Bacterial discovery may help CF patients

...rom Australian and Danish have discovered a way to prevent or disturb the formation of bacterial colonies, wh... be beneficial as an early prophylactic measure to prevent the establishment of bacterial infection in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. However, whil...

Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...They report on a large scale trial of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. A group of 6050 women aged 36 to 65 years, from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe took either tamoxifen or placebo for five years.// All the women were considered as being at increased risk of breast cancer, because they had ei...

Watching television linked to smoking

...e cause of death. Turning off the television could prevent young people from smoking. A new study finds the more an adolescent watches television, the more likely they are to start smoking. //The risk of disease increases the earlier in life one starts to smoke. About 5 million adolescents smoke and that num...

Stroke risk might be linked to antibody

...ion is that we do not have a specific treatment to prevent stroke in this setting." Researchers note that these antibodies are also associated with recurrent miscarriages and low platelet counts. They say further research on the benefit of blood-thinning drugs for people with aPL antibodies must be presente...

Usage of coil better in brain haemorrhage

...dard treatment is an operation to insert a clip to prevent further rupture of the blood vessel. In recent y...um coil through the artery to the weakened area to prevent further bleeding. This is a less invasive option and, to compare the two, researchers at the Radclif...

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

...e need for further testing on shunting patients to prevent cognitive decline....

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

... It is one of the “many superstitions about how to prevent injury and improve performance”, comments physioth...tch we’re changing the tissues in some way that’ll prevent injury,” he says. “But in an animal model, stretching doesn’t seem to affect muscle damage. “Stretch...

Physiotherapy helps amputation

...uidance on positioning of the limb is important to prevent such complications. That patient has the tendency to keep the leg in the bent position, which is incorrect.// The correct position is to keep the limb straight, without bending. Various exercises are taught to the patient for all the limbs including...

Caesarean may aid twins

...irst twins. However, planned caesarean section may prevent such deaths. Researchers analyzed the births of more than 3,200 twins// born in Scotland between 1995 and 1998. They found significantly increased risks of death during labor and neonatal death among second twins born at term. No deaths were recorded...

Allergies: A major health problem

...while in AIDS there will be too little immunity to prevent the disease. The substance that triggers this syndrome is known as allergens. Allergens are classified as “indoor allergens” and “outdoor allergens” Dust mites, animal dander and similar other substances which we come across under carpets and pillows...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

...l surgery to remove rectal tumors, they return. To prevent recurrence, surgeons have developed a technique called total mesorectal excision, in which the tissue surrounding the rectum, which may contain tumor cell, is removed along with the rectum itself. In order to investigate researchers randomly assigne...

Protein in eye fights diseases

... and used as a therapeutic drug. The drug can then prevent the onset of and stop the progression of uveitis in mice. Uveitis is a sight-stealing autoimmune disease. "The results of our study are exciting and significant because they confirm for the first time that this factor can be successful in the treatm...

Caffeine fights Gallstones

...bladder contractions that could theoretically help prevent the formation of gallstones....

Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

...lieve that finding the cause of a fall// will help prevent them better. The researchers, who claim that around 50 per cent of aged people (over 75yrs) are institutionalized or even die due to a fall, have taken up the task of finding out the reason, to help develop preventive strategies. The researchers stu...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

A new system has been developed to prevent mix-ups over identification of newborn babies. The system, which records the fingerprints of newborns as barcodes, has been introduced in the maternity ward of La Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid, Spain. As soon as babies are born, their fingerprints, an...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

... to patients with the drug filgrastim, which helps prevent neutropenia, a serious complication of chemotherap...anulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), helps prevent neutropenia by stimulating the formation of white blood cells called neutrophils. Without it, chemot...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

...ease, high blood pressure and stroke, and may also prevent certain forms of cancer. <br...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

...men even though the medications have been shown to prevent further heart attacks or other heart trouble. Though this study did not look at how often these drugs were offered to men, previous// studies have shown that men and women alike are under-treated for heart disease, and women are treated even less agg...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

...or Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) may help prevent medical errors in children.// The effort, an educ...ncludes a fact sheet that offers 20 tips on how to prevent medical errors in children. The tip sheet provides useful and practical, evidence-based tips on how ...

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