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Some Multivitamin Supplements Don't Reduce the Risk of Lung Cancer

...extensive questionnaire on vitamin intake over the previous 10 years, including how much of each supplement they took. The researchers then checked to see how many of the people in the study had lung cancer, using a government cancer registry. They found 393 cases of lung cancer. Adjusting for such risk facto...

Chemotherapy Drug Shrinks Brain Tumors

...ing the study. "Our findings are consistent with previous smaller studies showing temozolomide as a primary treatment is effective and tolerable, and an added benefit is the discovery that the loss of chromosome 1p/19q predicts how well a person is going to respond to the treatment," said study author Khe H...

Anti-inflammatory Drugs Interact With Hormone Replacement Therapy

...ly different. There is conflicting evidence from previous work about whether hormone replacement therapy protects against heart disease in women. In addition, any beneficial effect of hormone replacement therapy on the heart might be counteracted by NSAIDs which inhibit COX-2. Inhibition of COX-2 prevents p...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...asthma severity still held," he added. Like many previous studies, this research also shows the link between asthma and obesity is more prominent in women. "A big part of that is simply that 70% of the study subjects were women. We did find a statistically significant association between obesity and asth...

Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk of Heart Attack

..., coronary bypass surgery,angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular diseasewere excluded from the study. Participants -- 320 heart attack patients and 1,565 controls -- wereenrolled between 1996 and 2001. Extensive information was collected on the type of beverage consumed, serving size...

Australia Contributes Additional Funds for HIV Prevention in North-East

...under the project being USD 854,000. Australias previous involvement in the North-East region through HIV/AIDS initiatives include the SHALOM project (a three-year long project initiated in Manipur between 1994-97 for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS); the India-Australia capacity building training p...

Psychological Bullying Hits Just as Hard

...ories about you that were untrue? How often in the previous month did students not include you in joining in what they were doing?), and overt aggression. Respondents were also asked about their experience of witnessing both relational and overt aggression. Most of the research to date looking at aggression...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

... to non-overweight patients. As demonstrated in previous studies, the associations of asthma severity and obesity in this study seem to be slightly stronger in women than men. "To our knowledge, this is one of the most comprehensive and largest all-asthma surveys showing the association between asthma se...

A Tipple a Day may Be heart Friendly for Women

... coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular disease were excluded from the study. Participants -- 320 heart attack patients and 1,565 controls -- were enrolled between 1996 and 2001. Extensive information was collected on the type of beverage consumed, serving si...

FDA Reaffirms Policy Barring MSM From Donating Blood

...rug users, people who received a tattoo within the previous 12 months and pregnant women are prohibited from donating. The American Red Cross, American Association of Blood Banks and America's Blood Centers in March 2006 asked FDA to review the policy, saying that banning MSM from donating blood within 12 m...

Repeat of Heart Attack can Be Prevented by Fish Oil Supplements

...ls for patients who have had a heart attack in the previous three months and are not getting enough oily fish in their diet. Experts drawing up guidelines for NICE said lifestyle changes were as important as drugs in preventing a recurrence of heart attack. As per the NICE guidelines, patients should be tol...

Persons With HIV and Alcohol Problems Co-infected With Hepatitis C

... and Europe are co-infected with HCV. According to previous research, alcohol use may worsen HCV-related liver disease and interfere with adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and medical care. The researchers studied 396 HIVinfected persons with alcohol problems. Fifty percent (199) were also co-infec...

Aggressive Treatment for Whiplash Does Not Promote Faster Recovery

...ith whiplash compensated under tort insurance. A previous study led by Pierre Cote, of the University of Tor... with slower recovery. 'The results agree with our previous analysis in a cohort of patients compensated under a no-fault insurance scheme and support the hypot...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

...s and his colleagues looked at data sets from five previous alcohol treatment studies that enrolled more than 100,000 patients. They then explored the impact of six exclusion criteria commonly used in treatment outcome research: psychiatric problems, neurological problems, medical problems, drug use, non-comp...

Scientists Identify Four Genes That Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer

...more efficient approach, it gets round the bias of previous studies in which scientists only examined genes they already knew something about," he added. Although the genes identified in the latest research present a comparatively small-added risk of cancer developing in any woman who has mutated versions o...

Calcium and Vitamin D Intake Lowers the Risk of Breast Cancer Before Menopause

...ertain foods, beverages and supplements during the previous year. Every six months during the first year and then every year after that, participants returned follow-up questionnaires indicating whether they had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The researchers noted that over an average of 10 years of f...

Regular Exercise may Slightly Increase HDL Levels

...se with a body mass index of less than 28. 'In a previous observational study, every 1-milligram per deciliter increment in HDL-C level was reported to be associated with a 2 percent and 3 percent decreased risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women, respectively,' the authors write. 'If this observati...

New Portable Communication System Developed for Autistic Children

...T technology tries to overcome the problems of the previous systems: it is adaptive, portable, and inexpensive. With a proper device, the user can download the software free of charge, Delgado added....

Specific Imbalance Between Two Peptides may Cause Alzheimer's

...eglects the protective role of AB40. Combined with previous work on AB40 by many other groups, our data suggest that AB40 has an equally important, protective role in Alzheimers. Thus AB42, the bad molecule, and AB40, the good molecule, are like Yin and Yang in Taiji. The brain can only function normally when...

Policy Changes Have Direct Effect on Nursing Home Care

... nursing and lead author of the report. She said previous studies have shown a direct correlation between staffing levels and higher Medicaid reimbursement for nursing homes, but this is the first to show that states with higher mandated staffing standards had substantially higher staffing as well. "For y...

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