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Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...n five years, according to a Finnish study. The incidence of chronic wounds in the United States has grown. That trend is expected to continue with the steady increase in adult and child obesity. One-in-3 Americans born in 2000 are expected to develop diabetes if current trends continue, according to the Ce...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

... They found that at their institution the 10-year incidence of second cancers in these patients was 3.1 percen...and carcinoma in situ of the cervix were excluded, incidence was 2.3 percent. That risk was 1.85 times that of the general population. The median time to diagnos...

76 percent of workers older than 60 years of age are overweight or obese

.... Through these subjects, the project analyzed the incidence of metabolic syndrome, in conjunction with cardiovascular risk factors which tend to appear in the same individual, in order to obtain a common related physiopathology. Within the mutual periodic revisions, it was discovered that 12% presented this p...

Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food

...imately 1 percent of children under age 5, and its incidence has been on the rise over the past 15 years, according to Burks. Studies have shown that about 20 percent of children with egg or milk allergy will go on to develop a peanut allergy. ...

More kidney cancer is detected and treated early, yet death rate rises

...curable, kidney masses. But even though the rising incidence has been paralleled by greater use of surgery for ...sizes. But the greatest increases in kidney cancer incidence were among tumors 4 centimeters or smaller. Tumors of this size, often found in patients without any...

Cigarette smoking impedes tendon-to-bone healing

... age and more common in the dominant arm. The true incidence of the injuries is hard to determine because between 5 percent and 40 percent of people who may have a torn rotator cuff have no accompanying shoulder pain. What surgeons do know is that rotator cuff repairs can fail in the days and weeks after su...

Common cold virus leads to death in lung transplant patients

...eneva, Switzerland, and 13 associates assessed the incidence of chronic rhinovirus infection and its potential clinical impact on 69 lung transplant recipients at two centers. Over a 19-month period, they screened all lung transplant patients using molecular analysis to detect 13 different respiratory viruses....

High HPV concentrations combined with smoking significantly raise risks of cervical cancer

...ly high in developing countries. Although rates of incidence and mortality have dropped by 50 percent in the past 20 years, out of the 9,700 women diagnosed just in the United States this year, 3,700 will die. Early diagnosis and treatments have helped curb mortality rates, but the disease still remains one of...

Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes

...rs found that veterans exposed to dioxin had lower incidence rates of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), better... increase in testicular cancer, an increase in the incidence of cryptorchidism (undescended testes, a condition where the testes are not in their normal location...

New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'

...ffects millions of children, with estimates of its incidence ranging from 5 to 15 percent. Sperling, who conducted her research as a doctoral student at USC, said the new findings point to a deeper problem - not just a visual deficit - affecting all areas of perception. Sperling said people with dyslex...

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early

...s study will likely not have a large impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the United States or Europe where heterosexual transmission of HIV is low compared with areas like sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia," Bailey said. "However, there are other proven health benefits of circumcision, including better h...

New engineered drug may offer prolonged arthritis relief

...erage age of the population continues to rise, the incidence of osteoarthritis will increase. Osteoarthritis had been attributed primarily to the gradual wear and tear of joint surfaces. More recently, however, scientists have discovered that inflammation sparked by the immune system also plays an important ...

New research shows big improvement in survival after stroke

...poor diet etc. Only through this can we reduce the incidence of stroke and ultimately improve stroke outcome."...

Antibody extends life of mice with breast cancer

...eflected by both a dramatic decline in the overall incidence of spontaneous metastasis to the lung -- 88 percent to 47 percent -- and fewer macroscopic metastatic lesions." The research group currently is determining if JAA-F11 could increase the effectiveness of existing cancer drugs, she said, as wel...

Novel vaccine shows promise against early-stage breast cancer

...possible methods of prevention to reduce the total incidence of the disease. One study presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Boston looks at a specific target in the fight against breast cancer and evaluates a potential vaccine tha...

HIV-1 kills immune cells in the gut that may never bounce back

... T cells in the GI tract translates into increased incidence of colonic polyps or colorectal cancer, routine monitoring practices will have to be re-examined, with HIV-positive patients receiving colonoscopies earlier and perhaps more frequently than current recommendations allow. In the laboratory, these find...

New study finds chocolate chip cookies lower cholesterol

...result in an estimated 30 percent reduction in the incidence of coronary heart disease. The soluble fiber in Right Direction Cookies absorbs fluids, cholesterol, fat and bile, carrying them through the digestive tract and out of the body in the stool. The plant sterols lower blood cholesterol by blocking c...

New clues to how sex evolves

...esult of failed pairing of X chromosomes is a high incidence of males having only one X chromosome. The observa...tion that a mutant him 8 gene gives rise to a high incidence of males is what gave the gene its name. "In all organisms, sex chromosomes do special things," ...

Older fathers more likely to have autistic children

...s processes, but could also reflect an increase in incidence of autism, according to the authors. Older parenta...n theory, it could thereby lead to a change in the incidence of genetic causes of autism." "Although further work is necessary to confirm this interpretation, ...

Monoclonal antibody reduces exacerbations in asthmatics

...rapy was well-tolerated and appeared to reduce the incidence of asthma exacerbations, anti-TNFá therapy merits further study in larger clinical trials in patients with severe asthma," concluded Dr. Hansel. ...

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