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Combination regime may work against prostate cancer

...te. 81 per cent of the subjects showed a PSA level reduced by more than half while 59 percent showed a 75 percent decrease in the PSA levels. PSA is produced in the prostate gland. A high level of PSA may indicate the presence of cancer. In men with advanced prostate cancer, the PSA level provides informati...

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...arlier studies have indicated that flavanoids also reduced occurrence of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases among wine drinkers. Dr. John Brust, a neurologist from New York suggests however, that the study is limited because it did not take into account eating and dietary habits of wine drinkers, whi...

More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure

...rigger a heart attack and that drugs, exercise and reduced salt intake, for certain people, can improve blood pressure....

Autopsy reports could be valuable and informative

...he number of autopsies performed have been greatly reduced - from 50 per cent in the 1960s to less than 6 per cent. This could be attributed to today's physicians being less familiar with procedures surrounding autopsy or simply due to high costs....

Just one cigarette could cause significant damage

...ure and greater arterial stiffness, in part due to reduced pulse pressure amplification and increased arterial wave reflection. They concluded that smoking significantly and acutely raised brachial blood pressure, aortic blood pressure, augmentation index and pulse wave velocity....

Novel Anti-Neutrophilic Effect produced by Salmeterol in mild asthma patients

...trophil involvement, was found to be significantly reduced in subjects who were given salmeterol compared to ... Salmeterol, compared with fluticasone propionate, reduced neutrophil number and human neutrophil lipocalin level in bronchial lavage fluid, and intercellular ...

COPD patients can benefit through intense training

...respiratory muscle strength and endurance is often reduced in these patients. Earlier research has shown that high-intensity training is effective in increasing the strength and endurance of respiratory muscles of COPD patients, thereby treating their breathing problems. However, it was found that this inten...

Stroke victims have new hope with activated protein C

...grammed cell death. The study has shown// that APC reduced apoptosis by 65 per cent and neurological deficits by 91 per cent when given to mice following a stroke. Currently, only tissue plasminogen activator is useful for the 80 per cent of strokes that involve a blood clot, but can damage cells if given af...

Mental retardation linked to brain protein

...e brain cell communication system, that results in reduced learning ability and other problems associated with mental retardation. The study presented the major conclusion that mental retardation involves many more areas of the brain than first expected and this research conducted on mice may provide inform...

Melanoma caused by low DNA repair capacity

...oma and found that they had an average 19 per cent reduced capacity to heal the DNA damage inflicted by sunlight. Those with this reduced capacity tended to be those with fair skin, light hair and light eye color - who have previously bee...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...s increase naturally in response to weight loss or reduced caloric intake and the hormone diminishes in response to food intake. The scientists used a method pioneered by OHSU researchers Cowley, Roger Cone, Ph.D., and Malcolm Low, M.D., Ph.D. to pinpoint and witness the effects of the hormone in the brain....

A new way out for heroin addicts

...eroin. The incidence of criminal activity was also reduced among those patients given the drug compared to those given the placebo. The lead researcher of the study concluded that the strategy of delivering buprenorphine in combination with cognitive behavioral treatment was a useful complement to methadone...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

...recurs. While recurrence rates of this problem are reduced if the patient stays on warfarin, according to previous studies, it// also puts the patient at an increased risk for a major hemorrhage. Researchers have now conducted a study to find out whether keeping patients on a low-dose of warfarin would be be...

Chance of water births being urged for mums-to-be

...nful contractions, less stress// to the baby and a reduced need for painkilling drugs, compared to traditional birthing practices. Furthermore, women who have waterbirths also tend to have fewer interventions, and shorter labours. A survey conducted by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) has revealed that wh...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...tein(a), a powerful predictor of organ damage, was reduced with regular alcohol consumption. The researchers studied 402 patients with untreated essential hypertension to assess the links between drinking// and serum lipoprotein(a) over a wide range of alcohol intake levels. They also investigated whether th...

Germs to blame for bad breath

... the mouth. Paster suggested that halitosis can be reduced by brushing the tongue twice daily, along with scraping the tongue and using oral care products containing zinc....

Poorer breast cancer prognosis with reduced physical activity

... that there is an increased risk of recurrence and reduced survival time for those women with increased body weight at the time of breast cancer diagnosis....

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

..., the the risk of a second prolonged pregnancy was reduced to 15% Thelength of pregnancy differed by more than a week in women who had changedpartners, compared with those who had not. In the group of women who had a'normal' length pregnancy, only 7.7% had a prolonged second pregnancy. Theresearchers thus su...

Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"

...their leptin levels decreased, offering a possible reduced chance of contracting breast cancer, say the researchrs....

SARS make Air India cut flights

... members of the pilots body. Air India has already reduced the total number of flights from Bombay (Mumbai) to Hong Kong to two per week.// It earlier cancelled one flight and two more are to be suspended from 11 April. Air India says it had to cancel flights due to a sharp decline in the number of passeng...

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