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Tamoxifen Discontinuation Rates Surprisingly High

...t persistence with tamoxifen cannot be assumed and raises concerns about persistence with other oral hormonal therapies for breast cancer and oral anti-neoplastics in general," the authors write. "This is of particular importance," they conclude, "as longer durations of adjuvant therapy may be recommended f...

Cat Owners at Risk of Bird Flu

... changing in felines more quickly than thought. It raises the chilling prospect that the disease could soon easily be spread from cats to people, leading to a human pandemic. And it shows that should bird flu ever break out in Britain, cat owners should be particularly on their guard. Scientists point to...

Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk of Job Injuries in Youths

...ffects injury risk, Breslin said. “This finding raises more questions than it answers,” said Carol Runyan, Ph.D., director of the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I would want to know more about whether there are differences in the types of environm...

US Student Raising Funds For Cancer-Ridden Indian American

... Phoenix about last week's event. "This definitely raises awareness." In the event, held in the coffee shop itself, free pastries, water and AML information pamphlets were handed out to customers and those willing to donate to Nikit's cause. According to the newspaper report, the student fraternity in t...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...n's nerves shattered? We don't know. But our study raises the possibility that they were," says biology Professor Michael Bastiani, the study's senior author and a member of the Brain Institute at the University of Utah. The study involved a worm gene named unc-70 that makes a protein named beta spectrin...

Managing Early-Onset Menopause

...til you reach the average menopausal age. And that raises questions about the risks of hormone therapy. The results of the Women’s Health Initiative trial, a study suggesting risks related to hormone therapy, don’t apply in the same way to women with premature menopause or premature ovarian failure. Early...

Smartcard Legislation Fails The Privacy Test - AMA

...the Government is also yet to explain why the Bill raises the age of automatic access to the Card to persons aged 18 years and over, while the current Medicare Card is automatically available to people aged 16 and over. “The Government must tell the Australian people why it is seeking to restrict the pri...

Hope for Noninvasive Prenatal Test

A study published in the latest Lancet raises hopes of prenatal testing, done by analyzing a sample of mother's blood. //The technology involves separating fetal DNA and mother's DNA from the sample, and then by looking into extra copies of chromosome 21. Currently, available tests for prenata...

Males Adapt To Battle With Competing Sperm

...ight as yet another facet of sexual adaptation, it raises the question of how many other ways have humans evolved in a world dictated by "survival of the fittest?" "Sexual conflict between males and females," Shackelford and Goetz describe, "produces a coevolutionary arms race between the sexes, in which an...

Genes May Trigger Repeated Premature Birth In Blacks

...ty for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. That clustering raises the possibility that a genetic clock controls the timing of birth and gets turned on too early in some women, Nageotte said. The researchers concluded that genetics are the underlying reason for premature births. Source-Bio-Bio Technology SRI...

Cleft Palate in Fetal Mice Prevented by Treating

...light on the biology of cleft palate, the research raises hopes that it may one day be possible to prevent many types of human birth defects by using a similar vaccination-type technique in pregnant women likely to have affected fetuses. "This is a really important baby step that opens the door to the dev...

Enzyme Critical for Early Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

...nd promotes the growth of aneurysms. Their finding raises hopes for developing a drug that could prevent small aneurysms from enlarging to the point where surgery is necessary. Genetically engineered mice that lack the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase I (DPPI) do not develop aortic aneurysms, researchers at Wa...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

...he study. According to the researchers, this study raises a question long debated in prostate cancer literature: what should clinical outcome standards or end point be the for studies involving patients with advanced, intractable prostate cancer who have limited treatment options. The next step for resear...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

... Ms Timmermans, "the repetition of clinical trials raises serious ethical questions, since it would imply withholding medicines that are already known to be effective from some patients (the control group), solely for commercial purposes. It is unlikely that withholding medicines in this way this would pass...

New Drugs Shows Promise in Slowing the Progression of Prostate Cancer

...he study. According to the researchers, this study raises a question long debated in prostate cancer literature: what should clinical outcome standards or end point be the for studies involving patients with advanced, intractable prostate cancer who have limited treatment options. The next step for resea...

Sleep Apnea: Take It to Heart, Loyola Advises

... deadly, but easily treatable, sleep disorder that raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. More than 18 million people in the United States have sleep apnea. Gregory H., 59, of Berwyn, Illinois, caught it in time by going to Loyola’s Center for Sleep Disorders, where he was diagnosed with obstructi...

Leukemia Drug Turns Mini-Molecules Up, Cancer Genes Down

...reating the disease. The study showed that ATRA raises the levels of three particular miRNAs in leukemia cells and that this rise coincides with a fall in activity of two important cancer-causing genes. The three are identified as miRNA-15b, miRNA-16-1 and let-7. Two of these, miRNA-15b and miRNA-16-1...

Reactions to 'false-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed

...rostate cancer screening studies, the UI-led study raises the question whether men without any prostate cancer symptoms should receive PSA testing. Katz said that given the lack of definitive evidence that PSA screening saves lives in asymptomatic men, deciding whether to have a PSA screening test needs t...

Child Brain Likely To Be Harmed By Stress

...isol causes more hippocampal damage, which in turn raises the anxiety. The Stanford University Medical Center scientists speculate that the ensuing damage could prolong the stress symptoms and also interfere with therapy. Lead researcher Victor Carrion explained: "One common treatment for PTSD is to help a ...

Not Having a Good Night’s Sleep? -You Might Need a Check U

...tially deadly, but easily treatable disorder, that raises the risk of stroke or heart attacks. Hence doctors advise early diagnosis by a study called the polysomnogram. According to Dr. Sean M. Caples, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Minneapolis, there is abundant physiologic evidence implica...

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