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Gynecological Surgeries Reduce Cancer Risk

...f surgery. Ovarian cancer has the highest fatality rate of all gynecological cancer and few preventive or ...0-percent reduced risk of ovarian cancer. The risk rate was dependent on the type of surgery with surgery to remove some ovarian tissue associated with the ...

Death Risk Higher in Obese Women with Colon Cancer

...y, that obese patients did not experience a higher rate of chemotherapy-related toxic side effects. On the contrary, they had lower rates of decreases in white blood cells and lower rates of any very serious toxicities compared with their normal-weight counterparts....

Switching drugs regularly improves HIV treatment

... these two groups when evaluating the results. The rate of virologic failure - that is, a rise in the amount of virus in the blood above a defined level - was 3.5 higher during the following year in the pooled group than in the alternating therapy group. Dr. Martinez-Picado's group concludes, "Proactive s...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...raceptives. In fact, the numbers suggest the death rate was lower among those who were on birth control pills. However, there was an increased risk of death from heart disease in women who used the oral contraceptive and smoked. Specifically, there was a 25-percent increased risk of death for light smoker...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...logical advances over the years have increased the rate to nearly 23 percent, according to the reproductive society. And as the technology continues to grow, sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates have all become common. "You can't buy a baby in the United States," said Caplan. "... But you can buy the...

Twins Less Prone to Suicide Than Others

... the wider population. They found that the suicide rate was lower for twins, regardless of their sex.// The findings came as a surprise because other studies have suggested that twins are slightly more prone to mental health problems than other people. "This should lead to a higher proportion of twins c...

Diabetes on the Increase but Death Rate Falling

Diabetes is rising in the rich world but the death rate from it is falling due to early detection and bett...ly during the six-year study, the associated death rate fell three percent each year. Commenting on the findings published in this week's edition of the me...

Angioplasty Should be the Standard

... group. The primary benefit was a reduction in the rate of reinfarction among the angioplasty patients. Little difference was noted between the groups in death or stroke rates....

Mutant sperm beat out healthy brethren in study

... have a child with Apert syndrome, so the mutation rate alone can't account for the condition's link to paternal age" said Researchers. Literally hundreds of millions of sperm are made in each batch, so in most cases there are still many normal sperm available. Because the few mutated sperm are more like...

New Treatment for Some Cancers

...tion, this increased to seven months. The survival rate of patients who received more than one injection increased from seven to 13 months....

Reducing Medication Errors

...physician order entry (CPOE), the medication error rate was 40-percent lower on the intervention than on the control wards." They say there are definitely fewer medication errors, but they did not see a decrease in adverse drug events. The cost and effectiveness need to be studied further before this meth...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...tial increase" was of "some concern". The fracture rate rose to 469 per 100,000 young people in 1999-2001....4 for boys. Boys aged 12 had the highest fracture rate at 1,536 per 100,000, or 1.5 per cent. The researchers classified the fractures according to their ...

It's Never Too Late to Stop Smoking,Study Finds

...nd that current smokers had a significantly higher rate of heart attacks, recurrent heart failure, and death than never-smokers and ex-smokers. What did surprise them was the fact that there were no significant differences in heart attack, recurrent heart failure, and death rates between ex-smokers and ne...

Girls Hit Tanning Booths More Than Boys

...girls using tanning booths increased with age. The rate was 11.2 per cent of 13- to 14-year-olds and 47 percent for girls aged 18 to 19. Teen girls who tanned easily were more likely to use tanning booths than girls who tanned poorly. Girls who did routine physical activity were less likely to use tanning...

ICU Survival can be improved by Antibiotic use

... hospital unit. Researchers noted a hospital death rate of 24 percent among patients who received the drug...th 31 percent among those who did not. A very low rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria was seen in the patients as well, suggesting the use of preventive ...

A new Vaccine for Pneumonia

...earchers found 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 ...

Vaccine Reduces antibiotic-resistant infections in Children

... seven most invasive strains of S. pneumoniae. The rate of children who carried an antibiotic resistant strain of the bacterium was the same in children who received the vaccine and in those who did not. However, children who received the vaccine were less likely to carry one of the seven more invasive st...

Drug-Coated Stent

...nt or a standard stent. The researchers report the rate of the artery re-closing with the use of the sirolimus stent was reduced from 21 percent to 8.5 percent. Researchers say, "In this randomized clinical trial involving patients with complex coronary lesions, the use of a sirolimus-eluting stent had a...

Comparing Psoriasis Treatments

...e. Results of the study show the overall response rate for both drugs was more than 90 percent. Seventeen patients in the methotrexate group and 14 patients in the cyclosporine group reached nearly complete remission. Twenty-six patients in the methotrexate group and 30 patients in the cyclosporine group...

Just standing next to a large person can be bad for one's image

...emselves overweight were more likely than usual to rate the man harshly when pictured with the obese partner. Researchers also conducted a word quiz, called an implicit association test, to about 200 obesity professionals. The test, intended to measure bias, asks people to quickly link up words like "laz...

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