Metformin May Lower Diabetics' Odds for Pancreatic Cancer
But another study finding suggests insulin treatment could boost the risk SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes drugs, may offer patients the added benefit of lowering their odds for pancreatic cancer by 60 percent, a new study shows. But...Hormone Therapy Increases Odds of Ovarian Cancer
But risk remains low and decreases two years after stopping, study finds,, TUESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Women who take hormone replacement therapy or have taken it in the recent past have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, suggests new research. In a large Danish s...Early Menstruation Lowers Odds of Surviving Ovarian Cancer
Patients who had first period before age 12 are at increased risk of death, study shows THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Among women with ovarian cancer, those who had their first menstrual period before the age of 12 and who had the most menstrual cycles over a lifetime are more l...Living Alone Increases Odds of Developing Dementia
Losing a partner through divorce or death in middle age may triple the risk, study shows THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged adults who live alone are twice as likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who are married or live with a ...Predicting the return of prostate cancer: New Johns Hopkins study betters the odds of success
Cancer experts at Johns Hopkins say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has shown that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis. The new prediction method comprises the length of time it takes for PSA ...For Men Over 50, Odds of Eye Discomfort Increases
Use of antidepressants and other medications raise risk, study says FRIDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Here's more bad news for men turning 50: After their half-century mark, about 4 percent of males develop dry eye disease, making it one of the most common eye conditions and reasons ...Know Your Odds for Heart Failure
Lifestyle plays key role, study confirms, and a new 'calculator' helps gauge risk MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Avoiding four key risk factors -- overweight, smoking, hypertension and diabetes -- can go a long way to keeping you safe from a major killer, heart failure. So fin...Family History of Asthma Boosts Odds Almost 6 Times
U.S. researchers say assessing kin may identify those at risk for developing condition THURSDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with a family history of asthma are up to six times more likely to develop the disease than an average person, say U.S. Centers for Disease Control and P...Malaria Drug Doesn't Boost Survival Odds With Prion Diseases
Oral quinacrine showed no benefit for brain-wasting disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob WEDNESDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- The drug quinacrine doesn't prolong survival of patients with brain-wasting prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), British researchers say. ...Ovary Removal Lowers Odds of Cancer in High-Risk Women
Study confirms women with BRCA mutations are wise to take preventive action TUESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Removing the ovaries of women with a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer due to mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes does substantially reduce their risk of getting both can...Diabetes Gene Raises Odds of Lower Birth Weight
PHILADELPHIA, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pediatric researchers have found that a gene previously shown to be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes also predisposes children to having a lower birth weight. The finding sheds light on a possible genetic influence on ...Gene Marker May Improve Odds of Stem Cell Therapies for Disease
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A single tumor-suppressor gene may provide a unique marker for senescence in Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro, while also playing a role in moving MSCs into senescence, researchers at the Human Health Foundation and the Sbarro Institute for Can...Research: Popular Diabetes Medications Associated with Increase in Bone Fractures
...s issue for diabetes patients since they are already at higher risk for a bone fracture given the nature of their disease and further increasing their odds of a fracture with these medications can be very problematic," said Merri Pendergrass, MD, PhD, national practice leader of the Medco Therapeutic Res...Complications and Costs for Obesity Surgery Declining
...increased surgeon experience arising from the growth in the number of bariatric surgeries performed by hospitals. For example, laparoscopy reduced the odds of having a complication by 30 percent and drove down hospital payments by 12 percent, while banding reduced hospital payments by 20 percent. ...Obesity Associated With Higher Risk for Urinary Tract Infections
...five year period (from 2002 through 2006) to identify whether obesity is associated with a UTI diagnosis. The results show that, as BMI increased, the odds of being diagnosed with a UTI increased as well. This association was strongest for morbidly obese patients. "The effect of the obesity epidemic...NicOx' Naproxcinod Shows Robust Blood Pressure Results in Phase 3 Pooled Analysis
...stant) within study variance. P values for categorized changes from baseline are based on the same mixed model meta-analysis as above performed on log odds ratios from logistic regression. No formal statistical hypotheses were defined and no adjustments were made for the multiple statistical tests perform...Overweight Siblings of Children With Type 2 Diabetes Likely to Have Abnormal Blood Sugar Levels
...body mass index over 95th percentile. The researchers found that overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes had four times greater odds of having abnormal glucose levels (impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes) than other overweight children. However, investigators found no sign...Mothers of multiple births at increased odds of postpartum depression
Mothers of multiples have 43 percent increased odds of having moderate to severe depressive symptoms nine months after giving birth compared to mothers of single-born children, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers examined the relationship be...Weight gain between first and second pregnancies associated with increased odds of male second child
Boston, MA -- A slightly greater number of males than females are born worldwide every year. In recent decades, although there are still more baby boys born than girls, there has been an apparent decline in the ratio of male to female newborns in several industrialized countries, including Canada,...Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
...g both blacks and whites. Black women, however, have nearly two times the odds of having a preterm birth compared to white women, according to Amelia Gavi...lack women compared to white women may indirectly contribute to the greater odds of preterm birth found among black women." In the study 18.1 percent of t...American Institute of Physics announces awards for best science writing
...hunks of space debris. They routinely estimate the odds of these objects colliding with the Earth, and the...ing "Asteroid," NASA was continually adjusting the odds of a collision with Apophis, downgrading the risk ..."I'm embarrassed to admit I was sort of hoping the odds wouldn't be reduced too far," confesses Cort. "At ...Hispanic women and breast cancer: An understudied group
...ls of lack of insurance of any minority group, and because of that they are hesitating to get the care they need," said Martinez. #PR-4. Increased odds of family history for triple-negative breast cancer in Mexican-American but not African-American women. A final ELLA Binational Breast Cancer Stud...From seed to nuts: human ancestor's face evolved to eat survival foods
...change," Slice said. "The overall structure of the Australopith face looks well-adapted to the sort of function we tested in our paper, but this is at odds with molar microwear patterns that suggest a varied diet of relatively few hard foods. It is possible that their facial architecture was driven not by...Physically fit kids do better in school
...ademic year. Results of their study show that there is a significant relationship between students' academic achievement and physical fitness. The odds of passing both standardized math and English tests increased as the number of fitness tests passed increased, even when controlling for gender, race/...Process can cut the cost of making cellulosic biofuels
...hat the chemical compounds created when the stover goes through the AFEX process can improve the overall fermentation process," Lau added. "This is at odds with the general perception that these compounds are detrimental and should be removed." The research is published in the current issue of the Pro...The heart disease mutation carried by 60 million
...d some without, were studied. Scientists express this genetic risk as an odds ratio, where 1.2 would be a small effect and 2.0 a large one. For the MYBPC3 mutation, the odds ratio is almost off-scale, a staggering 7.0. Carriers usually show few symp...Mayo: Variants in gene on X chromosome associated with increased susceptibility to Alzheimer's
...pies of it did not have disease. But, overall, the odds were substantially greater that female patients wi...ounkin says. "Compared to female non-carriers, the odds ratio was 1.75 for women with two copies of the va...arriers." To put these findings in context, the odds ratio for two copies of the well-established, high...Rules-Based Medicine, Inc. Launches DiscoveryMAP(TM) Service for Drug and Diagnostic Development
...physiologically relevant pathways, providing biological information and leads for further study. This unique and comprehensive offering increases the odds of identifying new protein biomarker patterns in almost any drug development or diagnostic discovery project. "Despite the known benefits of bio...Gender-Selection Technique Embraced for Hopeful Parents
...trifugation process, known as "sperm sorting," which allows embryologists to choose sperm with X- or Y- bearing chromosomes that provide three in four odds of determining the correct gender. The selected sperm is then used to create the embryo through in vitro fertilization (IVF). "For parents who ...New Website Connects Physicians to Solve Challenging Cases and Share Experiences
...re knowledge, experience and perspective on challenging patient cases. "No matter where a physician practices, there will be tough cases, but the odds are other doctors, maybe in the same town or maybe on another continent, have already faced the same challenges and learned from them," said Dr. Bonni...Study Shows Machine Perfusion Significantly Improves Transplant Results
... consecutive deceased donors in Europe and randomly assigned one kidney to machine perfusion and the other to static storage. Results showed that the odds of a delay in kidney function post transplant were reduced by almost half when machine perfusion was used compared with static cold storage. Delay i...Noninvasive Medical Technologies Helps Make Young Tennessee Woman's Wishes Come True
...pioneering highly advanced, award-winning medical assessment and communications solutions for military and civilian medical use. Aiming to improve the odds for people medically at risk from dehydration or congestive heart failure, ORNL and NMT were actively engaged in improving and miniaturizing NMT's pro...Breakthrough Technology Takes Egg Freezing from Myth to Dependable Reality
...tively confident that they will have a 26%-to-27% chance of a having a baby from each cryopreserved, genetically selected oocyte. Significantly, these odds are better than those with conventional IVF at its best. The patent pending process called Egg Competency Testing (ECT), when coupled with ultra-rap...Expert Neurology Panel Weighs Impact of New Reports of PML in Multiple Sclerosis Patients on Tysabri
... of high-profile failed trials, both in relapsing-remitting and in progressive MS," said Dr. Berk. "The panel talks about strategies for improving the odds of success through better designs and better metrics." Companies and partnerships discussed in this report include: Acorda, Amgen/Epix, Artielle Imm...HDSA-San Diego's Team 2CureHD Continues its Race to Cure Huntington's Disease
... After overcoming incredible odds and raising more than $120,000 in the prestigious Race Across America the past two years, Team 2CureHD is suiting-up again...Physicists saved from drowning in complexities of wetting theory
... not been included in any previous formula. Previous descriptions have all ignored or misrepresented these interactions and consequently were at odds with experimental results and computer simulations. The new formulation appears to explain all these outstanding problems in a very elegant manner,"...