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Herceptin + Hormonal Therapy Pack Reduces Breast Cancer Progression

... At the end, patients who received Herceptin had a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival. Overall safety data and side-effects were continued to be followed....

Chronic Pain And Depression Cured By Music Therapy – Study Find

...control group. Dr Siedlecki said that he found a statistically significant reduced effect of pain, depression and disability on the two experimental groups when compared to the controls. Adding value to many previous studies on music therapy, this too proved its positive effect on body and modern lifestyle dis...

Lower Literacy Puts Poor Health In Aging

...ounting for other factors the differences were not statistically significant, according to Sudore. The study authors emphasize that all results were adjusted for, and therefore independent of, patients' socioeconomic background and level of education. ‘As a geriatrician, the results of this study break my heart...

Socioeconomic Status Plays A Role In Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

...tate. They add that these differences are not only statistically significant, but clinically significant as well. The reasons why insurance status is associated with disability and HRQOL in JRA is not clear, since health care resource utilization did n...

Erosive esophagitis healing connected to acid control

...led patients (88.9 percent of a 24-hour period), a statistically significant difference (p=0.0059). Better acid control also correlated to significantly lower heartburn and acid regurgitation symptom scores (Spearman rank correlation [r] = -29 percent and -21 percent; p=0.003 and 0.032, respectively). "This is t...

Study Offers Hope In Prevention Of Facial Paralysis

...tulae. Both of these observations were shown to be statistically significant by the ￡q2 test. Source: Newwise...

Statin Therapy in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Improves Survival

...ent in survival was noticeable early on but became statistically certain only after six months of statin therapy. 'The benefits keep accruing,' Dr. Bavry said. 'Once a patient has acute coronary syndrome, there may not be a safe time to discontinue this medication.' <br...

B-Cell Biologic Therapy Could Revolutionize Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

... The different dosages of rituximab did not have a statistically significant impact on the odds of achieving an ACR20 response, and analyses of the proportions of patients who achieved higher ACR improvement scores--50 percent and 70 percent--showed similar patterns. Changes in DAS28 at week 24 reflected the ACR r...

Preeclampsia Risk Can't Be Overcome By Taking Antioxidants

...o the delivery of the baby. Researchers found no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of their risk of preeclampsia. Around 6 percent of the women in the vitamin group developed preeclampsia compared to 5 percent in the placebo group. In addition, mortality rates or other serio...

Link Between Vietnam Service And Prostate Cancer Is Statistically Insignificant

...However by Dr. Leavy and colleagues did not find a statistically significant link between the two. Between 2001 and 2002, 606 men with CaP from Western Australia participated in a case-control study, where they answered questionnaires on personal demographics, family cancer history, screening history and occupatio...

New Study Confers All Clear Status On Letrozole, Infertility Drug

...d in infertility treatment in the recent years. No statistically significant difference in the incidence of minor/major birth defects or other chromosome abnormalities in newborns has been documented by the study. This highlights that letrozole can indeed be used in infertility treatment without increased birth de...

Blood Pressure To Be Taken After Patients Settle Down: Nurse’s Stud

...or. Surprisingly white coats did not result in any statistically significant difference in blood pressure reading in comparison with scrubs or street clothes worn by nurses during the examination. Two different teams of the same research would present the results of the study simultaneously at the national confe...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Reduce Heart attacks On Woman Under 60

...r randomised placebo-controlled trials and found a statistically significant 32 percent reduction in coronary heart disease events for women who start treatment in their 50s. The study also found that HRT significantly reduces the risk of diabetes compared with placebo but increases the levels of a protein assoc...

Treating Bad Breath Yet A Challenge

...versus mouthwashes, but they were not able to find statistically valid studies. However, they did identify two eligible trials comparing different methods of tongue scraping or cleaning involving 40 adults. Researchers in one trial reported a 42 percent reduction in volatile sulfur compounds with tongue cleaning...

Saw Palmetto Extract No Good In Improving Prostate Health

... two groups, it was almost identical. There was no statistically significant difference at any time point during the study,' remarked Dr. Stephen Bent, senior researcher of the study. No difference was seen between the placebo and the herb extract in specific groups of patients with less/more symptoms, large and...

Fatal Attraction: Cholesterol linked To Prostate cancer

...n gallstones and prostate cancer, while it was not statistically significant, suggests a similar biological mechanism may explain the link." Professor Nick James, a cancer specialist at the University of Birmingham, said “There is a lot of circumstantial evidence suggesting that diet is a factor in developing pr...

Pneumonia Vaccine Effective Among Children

...ants. In case of white infants the decline was not statistically significant. In conclusion the authors says that the pneumonia vaccine has resulted in herd immunity because neonates and young infants have had a significant decrease in pneumococcal disease rates, although they are too young to receive a full se...

ROZEREM? Can Be A Better Option For Insomnia Patients

...ersistent sleep, or LPS). Results showed that a statistically significantly greater percentage of adults with chronic insomnia treated with ROZEREM 8 mg demonstrated at least 50 percent LPS reduction compared to those who received placebo at week 1 (63 percent vs. 40 percent (P Those results were sustained th...

Neck Artery Treatment Apart From Clearing Plaques Boosts Memory

...in which case Dr. Raabe said that the results were statistically significant. He said that the memory gains were particularly striking for patients who had not suffered ministrokes but whose arteries were more than 90 % blocked. He also said that Medicare should include stenting in to their policy to help people....

Genetic Experts of Hopkins Assists In Identifying Hurricane Katrina Victims

...rograms to analyze DNA results. These programs can statistically match any individual with genetic material from the same person or with that of family members using as few as 16 unique genetic markers. "One of our major tasks is to contact the families of those still reported missing and to obtain the DNA samp...

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