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Long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy Increases Breast Cancer Risk Until 5 Years After Use, Study Finds
Now there is proof for women in Germany, too: If hormone replacement therapy is taken over a period of more than five years, the risk of breast cancer will increase....
Findings released from 1 of the largest percutaneous coronary intervention trials ever
A study led by Gregg W. Stone, M.D., professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian and chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, has shown that heart attack patients who...
How Common Vaccine Booster Works
A common ingredient in many vaccines stimulates and interacts with the immune system to help provide protection against infectious diseases. Vaccines must possess not only the bacterial or viral components...
DHEA Supplements Not Effective In Treating Cognitive Decline, Study Suggests
DHEA supplements are widely-available and touted as a preventive agent for many chronic diseases. A new study however, finds no evidence of a beneficial effect of DHEA supplements on cognitive...
New Study Firms Up Promise Of Potential New Cervical Cancer Screening Tool
New research into the causes of cervical cancer appears to lend weight to the promise of a potential early detection method that could help prevent the disease.
Gatekeepers are discovered in the human cell 'shredder'
Insulin, a hormone released in large quantities when food is consumed, is reduced by 50% only three to five minutes later. However, if the cell’s internal waste disposal system malfunctions,...
Bangladesh reports 1st human case of H5N1 bird flu
(AP) -- Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected.
High-school Girls Who Consider Themselves Attractive Are More Likely To Be Targets For Bullying
High school females who viewed themselves as attractive had a 35 percent higher risk of being indirectly victimized. This includes being involved in emotionally damaging scenarios such as receiving hurtful...
Doctors Can Unmask Deceptive High-risk Breast Tumors Using Genetic Profile
A unique genetic signature can alert physicians to high-risk breast tumors that are masquerading as low-risk tumors, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and...
No Link Found Between Antidepressants And Birth Defects, According To New Study
Expectant mothers can safely use prescribed antidepressants during their first trimester, according to a new study in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers found that antidepressants had no effect on...
Stabilizing cancer-fighting p53 can also shield a metastasis-promoter
Efforts to protect the tumor-suppressor p53 could just as easily shelter a mutant version of the protein, causing cancer cells to thrive and spread rather than die, according to research...
Sports-related knee injuries more severe in girls than boys: study
When it comes to playing sports, the knee injuries that boys and girls sustain are very different, suggests new research. Boys suffer more injuries overall, but in girls, the injuries...
Tiny barcodes could aid diagnosis
Scientists have developed fluorescent barcodes , known as nanostrings, that could revolutionise both clinical diagnoses and research.
No closing of ICUs, health minister says
A consultant's report on intensive-care units in Nova Scotia concludes the current system is unsustainable, but the health minister says that doesn't mean hospitals will lose their ICUs.
ICU Physicians Less Likely To Discuss Prognoses With African-American Patients
An important study raises concern about the way intensive care physicians approach patients and families facing serious end-of-life medical decisions. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 ICU physicians at...
Pioneering face surgeon, 42, is found dead
Co-founder of charity Facing the world who pioneered reconstructive surgery for children with facial disfigurement
Friends quit smoking? You probably will too
(AP) -- The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern...
Merck ends study of cholesterol drug
(AP) -- Merck & Co. has halted a study of an experimental drug it had touted as key to energizing its sagging cholesterol franchise, barely three weeks after U.S....
Outaouais ER wait times 20 hours, 42 minutes and counting
Got an urgent medical problem? If you visit an emergency room in western Quebec's Outaouais region, prepare to wait an average of 20 hours and 42 minutes before being discharged...
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Gene Therapy: Oral Gene Delivery System For Inflammatory Bowel Disease Works, Study Shows
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) afflicts as many as 10 out of 100,000 people in the United States and currently available treatment options are short-term and invasive with toxic side effects....
Presidential election will bring change in federal stem cell policy
Embryonic stem cell research will likely have a more sympathetic ear in the White House after November’s presidential election, but a panel of speakers said last night that an era...
Lab breakthrough seen in lethal dengue fever
Scientists in Taiwan believe they can explain how a form of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that is triggering widening concern, reaps its deadly toll.
Chip-Based Device Measures Drug Resistance in Tumor Cells
Multiple drug resistance is a major cause of anticancer therapy failure. Most drug-resistance cancer cells develop this unfortunate characteristic due to a drug-pumping protein known as P-glycoprotein.
Counting Immune Cells On A 'Protein Printboard'
In order to monitor how far an HIV infection has progressed, the number of immune cells – lymphocytes – must be counted. Researchers have developed a method that neatly arranges...
Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity
A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher...
Seniors deserve break on pharmacare rates, opposition says
Nova Scotia's opposition parties want seniors to get a break on what they pay into the provincial drug plan.
Malaria 'causes immune system to attack own DNA'
Malaria infection can cause children's immune systems to attack its own DNA, worsening the severity of the disease, a study reveals.