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Obesity Increases Risk Of Prostate Cancer Recurrence For Both Blacks And Whites
A new look at a large database of prostate cancer patients shows that obesity plays no favorites when it comes to increasing the risk of recurrence after surgery. Being way...
No proof MRI helps breast cancer
Using magnetic resonance imagine to assess the extent of breast cancer before surgery may do more harm than good, according to a new review.
Scientists Advance Understanding Of Cell Death
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding the biological processes involved when cells are prompted to die. The work may help scientists to eventually develop new treatments for the...
Impact Of Cannabis On Bones Changes With Age, Study Finds
Scientists investigating the effects of cannabis on bone health have found that its impact varies dramatically with age.
Bypassing Bypass Surgery: New Blood Vessels Grown To Combat Heart Disease
Although open-heart surgery is a frequent treatment for heart disease, it remains extremely dangerous. Now groundbreaking research has shown the potential for an injected protein to regrow blood vessels in...
Chocolate linked to stronger heart
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Chocolate eaters in a study of heart attack survivors had lower blood pressure and were less likely to die of heart disease, scientists...
Cancer Mortality Rates Experience Steady Decline: Conventional Method May Underreport Declining Death Rate For All Age Groups
The number of cancer deaths has declined steadily in the last three decades. Although younger people have experienced the steepest declines, all age groups have shown some improvement, according to...
Vision Researchers See Unexpected Gain One Year Into Blindness Trial
Three young adults who received gene therapy for a blinding eye condition remained healthy and maintained previous visual gains one year later, according to a new report. One patient also...
Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option (w/ Video)
Uterine fibroid embolization -a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors -is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for...
Asthma drug probed for links to cardiac problems
The safety of the asthma drug Xolair is under review to investigate a potential link to cardiovascular problems, Health Canada said Thursday.
K-State lab gives researchers the tools to study porcine circovirus associated diseases
Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year. That's why Kansas State University virologists Dick Hesse and Bob Rowland have been working...
Abbott expanding study of its popular Xience stent
(AP) -- Abbott Laboratories Inc. is expanding a study of its top-selling heart stent by more than 2,000 patients, who may also be put in a second, landmark stent...
New mini-hospital to be built in Ottawa's east end
A "first of its kind" health centre in Ottawa's Orléans neighbourhood will provide kidney dialysis, cancer assessment, some day surgeries and other services usually found only in hospitals.
4 who died at Quebec hospital had C. difficile
Four people infected with the C. difficile bacterium have died since June at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Sorel-Tracy, Que., but doctors are not certain the deaths were caused by the...
New study suggests possible genetic links between environmental toxins and multiple myeloma
North Hollywood, CA -- August 13, 2009 - The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) -- supporting research and providing education, advocacy and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers and physicians --...
Sleep patterns in children and teenagers could indicate risk for depression
Sleep patterns can help predict which adolescents might be at greatest risk for developing depression, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found in a five-year study.
Podcast Examines Link Between Arsenic Exposure and Flu Susceptibility
In the latest installment of The Researcher's Perspective, the new podcast series by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), Dr. Josh Hamilton discusses the potential implications of his recent mouse study on...
Lifting weights reduces lymphedema symptoms following breast cancer surgery
Breast cancer survivors who lift weights are less likely than their non-weightlifting peers to experience worsening symptoms of lymphedema, the arm- and hand-swelling condition that plagues many women following surgery...
Researchers call for drug labels to disclose lack of comparison with existing medications
The labelling information that comes with prescription drugs tells you what's known about the medication, but researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine think it's high time that the...
Schwarzenegger vows to boost patient protections
He says lengthy delays in dealing with those accused of misconduct are 'unacceptable' and promises that his reforms will put patients first. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday conceded that long-standing delays in disciplining errant...
Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care
A rural organization offering its services near Los Angeles has already been overwhelmed by an outpouring of need.
'Factory Worker' Signals in Cells Hold Possible Key to Anti-cancer Drugs
Research from scientists at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and Yale University describes gatekeeper-factory worker interactions in cells to govern how obsolete proteins are recycled.
Vision researchers see unexpected gain a year into blindness trial
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Scientists have discovered that even in adults born with extremely impaired sight, the brain can rewire itself to recognize sections of the retina that have...
Antidepressant suicide risk declines with age
The risk of suicide among people taking antidepressants declines with age, according to a U.S. review.
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Investigational drugs made more accessible
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved new rules designed to allow seriously ill patients more access to investigational, or trial,...
Researchers Show Probiotics are a Promising Treatment for NEC
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have determined that using probiotics, or healthy live bacteria, is an effective method to reduce and prevent a gastrointestinal disease that predominantly affects premature infants.
The Medical Minute: Hot weather and vehicles are a deadly combination
A few minutes might not seem like a long time, but there are circumstances when it can mean the difference between life and death. During the "dog days" of summer,...