Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
... to develop muscular tissues, but suchamounts have unproven long-term safety," said Hellerstein, who also is anassociate professor of nutritional sciences at UC Berkeley. Research results are reported in the current issue (April 14) of the Journalof the American Medical Association. There were 22 st...Research: Concussion in rugby appears to be hidden epidemic
...football, and most dont wear soft-shell helmets -- unproven to protect heads well -- either. We followed two Utah rugby squads carefully for three years and were surprised at how many concussions there were, said Dr. Stephen W. Marshall, research assistant professor of epidemiology at the UNC School of Public...Costly cancer treatment aimed at protecting kids hearts offers no additional benefit
A new study refutes a long-held but unproven theory that children suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia might suffer less heart damage if treated with longer-lasting infusions of chemotherapy. Each of these longer-lasting treatments requires a child to spend at least two days in the hospi...Hormone therapy study stopped due to increased breast cancer risk, lack of overall benefit
...clinical trials are designed to test promising but unproven preventive measures for heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis. In addition to the trials of estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestin, other trials are studying a low-fat eating pattern and calcium/Vitamin D supplementation....Concern over billion dollar alternative medicine bill
...ogy). "Australians now spend four times as much on unproven therapies as on prescribed pharmaceuticals," Profe...tients, what concerns me is the increased usage of unproven alternative therapies, many of which are costing the public more and more each year. Allowing for i...Scientific task force to examine usefulness of testosterone replacement therapy in older men
...tosterone supplementation remains a scientifically unproven method for preventing or relieving any physical and psychological changes that men with normal testosterone levels may experience, as they get older. Until more scientifically rigorous studies are conducted, the question of whether the benefits of te...Dartmouth/VA study questions screening priorities of prostate and colon cancer
...al cancer screening would be more common than the unproven prostate cancer screening. This was not the case. More men had been tested for prostate cancer than for colon cancer in all but four states [where rates were equal]. That tells us there is a mismatch between the scientific evidence of screening be...Unproven prostate cancer screening more popular than valuable colon test
...al cancer screening, would be more common than the unproven prostate cancer screening, but this was not the case." Sirovich speculates that the PSA test is more popular because it is just a simple blood test, while colon cancer screening is more involved. The study provides the first national population-bas...Tooth loss may be early warning sign of cardiovascular disease
... This may begin to shed light on the potential but unproven link between the two diseases, researchers say. Co-authors are Ryan T. Demmer, M.P.H.; Tatjana Rundek, M.D., Ph.D.; Bernadettte Boden-Albala, DrPH; David R. Jacobs Jr., Ph.D.; Panos N. Papapanou, D.D.S., Ph.D.; and Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., M.S....Do doctors sometimes fail their heart failure patients? New study seeks hard data
...tropic drugs, which is associated with high costs, unproven clinical efficacy and the potential to shorten survival while achieving palliation. "This therapy makes patients feel better, but it's unclear whether it helps them live longer," Hauptman said. Researchers will use administrative and clinical data ...NIAID awards $81 million for HIV vaccine development
...pitope-based vaccination is a promising but as yet unproven technology that could be applied to many infectious diseases. The priming inoculation will be a DNA-based vaccine expressing HIV epitopes specifically selected to induce immune responses in most of the world's population. The same HIV epitopes expre...NIA statement on IOM testosterone report
...er," testosterone therapy remains a scientifically unproven method for preventing or relieving any physical or psychological changes that men with normal testosterone levels may experience as they get older. Except for a relatively few younger and older men with extreme deficiencies, testosterone treatment is...Solitary pancreas transplant not associated with improved survival for patients with diabetes
...death, toxicity of immunosuppression, expense, and unproven effects on the secondary complications of diabetes. Whether transplantation offers a survival advantage over conventional therapies for diabetes is unknown. Jeffrey M. Venstrom, B.S., of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Dis...Parents' vaccine concerns on the rise, making accurate information crucial
...expressed concerns about known vaccine effects and unproven effects, about one-third of all the physicians said they sometimes or often heard concerns about the kinds of effects listed on the CDC's Vaccine Information Statements (VIS), such as pain and fever. But a roughly equal proportion of all physicians s...Many children with autism may receive complementary or alternative treatments
... treatments into four categories. First, there are unproven but harmless biological treatments that have no ba...ions or antifungal agents). Another group includes unproven but harmless treatments with some theoretical basis (like Vitamin C, gluten-free diets or hormones)....Doubling of steroid before severe asthma attack ineffective
...control deteriorates is widely advocated but is of unproven value. Tim Harrison from the department of respiratory medicine, Nottingham City Hospital, UK, and colleagues studied 390 asthma patients, deemed to be at risk of an asthma exacerbation. Patients monitored their asthma for up to one year and were ins...Some screening tests should not be advocated
...ng. Giving information to people considering these unproven screening tests when the only honest information is complete uncertainty is useless, argues Law, while encouraging people to decide for themselves is ducking the issue. For a new drug, a rigorous set of experimental data must be presented before it i...Seal of approval scheme needed for complementary and alternative websites
... of extremely variable quality, that many endorsed unproven therapies and some were even dangerous. In a paper published today in Annals of Oncology [1] , researchers from the Plymouth Peninsula Medical School in the UK said that their survey findings were somewhat reassuring as most of the evaluated websites...Widely used treatment for head injuries found to be harmful
...f CRASH, however, is that applying treatments with unproven effectiveness is like flying blindly. In future, we should avoid trusting in underpowered clinical trials with surrogate rather than clinical endpoints, and transferring evidence from one disease to another".......o seek care. They also say that the "plausible but unproven link" between physician supply and the volume of medical care could mean that more doctors will generate more medical services and therefore higher health expenditures. For all these reasons, the editorial writers say, "even when we have done our hom...