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People with skin cancer at higher risk for other types

Skin cancer usually is so easily cured that Luvie Owens almost forgot she had it.But results of a major new study are giving her cause for concern: Women who have had the most common forms of skin cancer// are 2.3 times as likely to also get deadlier cancers such as breast, lung and colon. Among African-American women, the risk of getting other cancers is 7.5 times higher. The study di...

Sunlight Could Be Beneficial For Certain Types Of Cancer

Exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer – melanoma ,however researchers as the number of patients with skin cancer has increased, so has the number of patients surviving the disease. // Two new studies show sun exposure may have a beneficial influence on some kinds of cancer. In a study conducted by researchers on patients who were diagnosed with melanoma in the late 1980s it was discov...

Different Types Of Multiple Sclerosis May Be Treated Differently

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic had demonstrated that there are differences in pathological subtypes of multiple sclerosis that may react differently to treatment. Only those multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with evidence for antibody deposition or complement activation // -- immune cells that can cause tissue destruction -- in their lesions are likely to respond to plasma exchange, a tr...

Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

Investigators from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had said that implants inside the ear that are implanted to help the hearing impaired people can be equally effective for all, irrespective of the degree of hearing loss suffered by the individual. // There is growing evidence that the amount of hearing in an ear prior to surgery is unrelated to a patient’s ability to inte...

Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis

Scott Thompson and colleagues from University of Rochester Medical Center, has found from review of records of patients treated with corticosteroids that Corticosteroids is the most effective and useful treatment// option for Infectious mononucleosis, including severe airway compromise mononucleosis. The results of the study have been published in Achieves of Otolaryngology – Head and Nec...

Placing a Finger on Responses to Placebo Types

The placebo effect has been a raging topic for several years, gaining momentum over the past one year with lab trials being conducted to // analyze physiological responses to them. A new study, published in the Feb1 issue of the British Medical Journal examines the perceptible effect of types of placebo devices Vs pills on patients administered over a period of time. Earlier studies u...

New Abnormal Karyotypes Discovered in China

Experts at the Technological Centre for Healthy Birth under the Guangdong Family Planning Research Institute in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province claim that they have discovered 39 cases of new abnormal chromosomes. // They said that these would provide more information to scientists for genetic and cloning researches. Director of the centre Zheng Lixin told the press that th...

Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer Seen Among Women Infected with Multiple HPV Types

The risk for developing the tissue abnormalities, or lesions, that typically precede cervical cancer is much higher for women infected with multiple genotypes// of the human papillomavirus (HPV) than previously reported, according to a study published in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Although doctors have known that the cervical tissue at the opening...

Two Distinct Types of Vocal Cord Dysfunction Identified

Two distinct phenotypes of vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) – an involuntary functional disorder during inspiration often misdiagnosed as asthma – were identified// in a long-term study published in the current issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). Investigators at the Pediatric Allergy an...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

A study published this week in Anticancer Research confirms that solar UVB irradiance is associated with reduced risk of 16 sites of cancer, apparently through production// of vitamin D. These cancers include 6 sites of gastrointestinal cancers, 3 cancers of female sites, 3 urogenital cancers, 2 types of lymphomas, and 2 upper aerodigestive tract cancers. The analysis examined age-adj...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

A man’s stereotypical self-image as the “strong, silent type” and the stigma of depression are major reasons why older men //are less likely than women to be referred to studies of depression, to seek treatment for depression, and to recognize and express symptoms of depression, according to clinicians and recruiters interviewed for a new study from the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry a...

New Test May Better Identify Certain Colorectal Cancer Types

A new test may more accurately identify colorectal cancer patients with a specific type of gene mutation. These mutations usually indicate that a patient has an inherited// form of the disease or may respond to certain cancer drugs differently. Some people with colorectal cancer have defects in their so-called DNA mismatch repair genes. Researchers test for these mutations by looking...

Human Skin Harbors Many More Types of Bacteria

According to a new and first study to identify the composition of bacterial populations on the skins using a powerful molecular method, it appears that the Skin, which// is the largest organ in our body harbors many more new types of bacteria than that was thought previously. Researchers said that it appears that the skin, is a kind of zoo and some of the inhabitants are quite novel. Re...

Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

NEW YORK, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research announced $710,000 in total funding to seven research teams for projects leveraging existing data and patient populations to initially characterize Parkinson's disease subtypes -- distinct forms of the disease that may differ in onset, progression and response to treatment. "One of the most frustrating aspects of Park...

Brain Activity Reflects Variation in Types of Anxiety

A recent research by UI psychology professors Gregory A. Miller and Wendy Heller has found that brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety. Researchers, whose work will be published this month online in Psychophysiology, have found the most convincing confirmation yet of contrary patterns of brain activity connected with each of two types of anxiety: anxious apprehensi...

Researchers Identify Five Distinct Subtypes of Alcoholism

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has identified five distinct subtypes of alcoholism by analysing a national sample of individuals suffering from alcohol dependence. Our findings should help dispel the popular notion of the typical alcoholic, notes first author Dr. Howard B. Moss, NIAAA Associate...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

Scientists at University College London have revealed that autistic children have a capacity to understand other people through stereotypes . Professor Uta Frith of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, psychologist, who led the research, believes stereotypes could be used to help improve how autistic children relate to other people, by playing to their strength for understanding g...

Soon, a Vaccine That Could Keep All Types of Flu Away for Lifetime

British scientists are developing a flu vaccine that will give lifelong benefit to patients and it is also expected to fight anything from winter flu to bird flu . Compared to traditional jabs, the new FLU-v vaccine is easier to make and can also be stocked for a global epidemic. "We expect one course of injections - probably of two a week apart - to give life-long immunity," the Dai...