Large Scale Free Access On Usage Of HIV Drugs Could Help In Fighting Its Spread
...d on the data received from Taiwan that had showed statistically that the new infections had fallen to 53% after the introduction to free access of the highly active anti-retroviral therapy or HAART. The doctor but also cautioned that this idea should not be taken as a licence for careless sexual behaviour, but on...CHEK 2 Gene Mutation Triples Breast Cancer Risk
... disease within 10 years. The researchers found no statistically significant association between the CHEK2 mutation and prostate, colorectal, or general cancer risk. By way of comparison, other studies have shown that BRCA 1/2 mutations occur in roughly 1% of the general U.S. population. Women with a BRCA1 or BRC...Insufficent Anti-inflammatoy Proteins Leads to Chronic Pain
... IL-10 between this group and the controls was not statistically significant. The authors point out that there may be several factors involved in the cause of low cytokine levels and how they might be linked to pain. Previous studies have shown that IL-10, administered as a protein or via gene transfer, reduces ...Exercise in Itself Improves Blood Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes
...ds a normal A1C of 6 percent. “This was a both a statistically and clinically significant drop,” said Elliott. “It’s comparable to the drop that clinicians would like to see if prescribing medication” to regulate blood sugar, she said. “Many people with type 2 diabetes find when they start walking daily, for e...Exercise in Itself Improves Blood Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes
...ds a normal A1C of 6 percent. “This was a both a statistically and clinically significant drop,” said Elliott. “It’s comparable to the drop that clinicians would like to see if prescribing medication” to regulate blood sugar, she said. “Many people with type 2 diabetes find when they start walking daily, for e...Students Light Up Despite School Anti-Smoking Programs
... competence trials, they found a positive, but not statistically significant effect on student smoking. Thirteen ... the social influence interventions, they were not statistically significant. Combined programs used both social competence and influence methods in their anti-smo...Vaginal Delivery Should Be an Option after Multiple Cesareans
...revious cesarean (0.7%). But the percentage is not statistically significant and the absolute risk is small....Valtrex Prevents the Need for C-Section among Women Infected With Genital Herpes
...l herpes simplex virus at the time of delivery was statistically significant, the researchers said. None of the babies in either group were born with herpes. There also were no differences in complications between the valacyclovir and placebo groups. ‘This work is a good example of a well-designed study that is of...A connection between gingival enlargement and steroid abuse
...tal infection. 'It was found that AAS abusers had statistically significant levels of gingival enlargement compared to non-users, requiring a gingivectomy for many cases,' explains Onur Ozcelik, DDS, PhD, Faculty of Dentistry, Cukurova University, Department of Periodontology, Adana, Turkey. 'Although it has been...Diabetic Women Show Increased Risks of Hip Fracture
...diabetes over a period of 22 years have revealed a statistically significant increased risk of hip fracture among them//. This has helped to highlight the need for prevention efforts in this population. According to Dr. Mohsen Janghorbani from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran ‘Increased risk of ...Shire Developed DAYTRANA – The First Medication to Treat ADHD Symptom
...hase II and phase III clinical trials demonstrated statistically significant improvements in the primary and second...he participants treated with DAYTRANA demonstrated statistically significant improvement over placebo on the measures tested. Behavior, which was measured using the ...Scleroderma Cure Still In Oscillation
...sing Cytoxan group of drugs although there seems a statistically significant difference – said Dr. Philip J. Clements, a rheumatologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was a co-author of the study. One among the adverse effects of using Cytoxan group of drugs was low white blood cell count, sa...Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis
...EL at four years were 41.8% and 38.2% and were not statistically different from each other nor compared to the combination group. Ailsa Bosworth, chief executive, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, UK said, 'Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful and debilitating disease that has consequences not only for people ...Repeated Heart Surgery with Older Blood Transfusion Pack More Death Risk
...nd age of the units of blood the patient received, statistically adjusting for a host of patient characteristics su...p to eight years. The researchers found that after statistically accounting for a number of different factors, both the average age of the blood received, as well as...Cancer Drug to Treat Scleroderma Lung Disease
...eatment with cyclophosphamide had a significant -- statistically and clinically -- meaningful and favorable impact on disease progression.' Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease causes thickening of the skin, and may even involve other areas of the body such as the lungs, heart and kidneys. According to the Sclerod...Inhaler Linked To Asthma Deaths
...edical statistics. "We can show that overall it is statistically significant that, compared to patients taking a placebo, these long-acting beta-agonists kill a lot of people," he said. "These asthma deaths are generally in healthy young adults," said his daughter, Shelley Salpeter, the lead author of the paper ...More Research Needed To Fully Study the Effect of Folate on Prostate Cancer
... understand the relationship as the result was not statistically significant....Meditation may Improve Cardiac Risk Factors in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
...or psychosocial variables and despite a marginally statistically significant increase in physical activity in the health education group,' the authors write. 'These current results also expand our causal understanding of the role of stress in the rising epidemic of the metabolic syndrome,' they continue. 'Altho...Pregnancy and Mode of Delivery May Be A Cause For Pelvic Floor Disorders
...Cesarean. “Although the study’s outcome showed a statistically higher rate of pelvic floor disorders in the vaginal delivery group, 58 percent of those who delivered vaginally did not suffer a pelvic floor disorder at all,” said Lukacz. Lukacz says that there has been controversy about whether it is pregnancy,......the options carried risks and benefits, though the statistically better choice in each scenario was to get the vaccine or chemotherapy. The remaining three groups of participants also read the same medical scenarios, but they were asked to think about the problem from different perspectives. One group put thems...