Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...o breast cancer by at least 35 percent in women aged 40 to 49 compared to at least 24 percent when mammograms are given every other year. The death rate is lowered by 45 percent in women ages 50 to 59 when mammograms are given annually compared to 39 percent when done every other year. ...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...osis prevention studies involving601 healthy women aged 45-60 were also presented at the meeting. These datashowed that Evista maintained favorable effects on BMD at the spine, hip andtotal body and lowered total and LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels withoutstimulating uterine tissue after three years of fo...Better Survival For Women With Breast Cancer -New Evidence On Chemotherapy
...benefits of chemotherapy are substantial for women aged under 50at diagnosis, but survival is also improve...owed 18,000 women withbreast cancer. Among women aged under 50 whose cancer had already spread to the local lymphglands at the time of surgery ("node-posi...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
...ven the clinical trial evidence for benefit, those aged 65 to 75years and with prior coronary heart disease appeared undertreated withcholesterol lowering drug therapy," the report concluded. At the 1989 start of the Cardiovascular Health Study, sponsored by theNational Heart, Lung and Blood Insti...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
.... It involved 285 newly diagnosed AML patients aged 16 and older who were in remission. During the second phase of their treatment, a phase known as “intensification therapy,” the patients were randomly assigned to receive cytarabine at either standard dose (100 milligrams per squa......yndrome occur more commonly in pregnanciesin women aged 35 and older. For women at advanced maternal age, two procedures,chorionic villus sampling (CVS) in the first trimester (first 12 weeks ofpregnancy) and amniocentesis in the second trimester (12 to 24 weeks ofpregnancy), are offered. The accuracy of ...Tobacco Will Kill One Third Of Chinese Men
...least one third (100 million) of Chinese males now aged 0-29 years will be killed by tobacco related diseases in middle or old age. The study also reveals that the pattern of disease caused by smoking varies widely both within China and between China and the developed world. Of deaths caused by tobacco i...Low "Health Literacy" Increases Hospitalizations
...teracy Survey that classified 44 percent of adults aged 65 and older asfunctionally illiterate. "There were approximately 16 million functionally illiterate Medicarebeneficiaries (in 1993)," they report. "If these individuals have higher thanexpected hospital costs, and if these excess hospitaliz...High education plus heart attack: Sure-fire way to quit smoking
... The study focused mainly on 2,391 persons aged 51 to 61 who were smokersin 1992 and for whom there were matching 1994 data on smoking status and othercharacteristics. The smoking behavior of these middle-aged adults was analyzed using datafrom the Health and Retirement Study, funded by th...Ultrasonography Predicts Heart Attack/Stroke Risk
...e. The study involved 4,476 men and women, aged 65 and older, drawn fromthe NHLBI-supported Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a multi-centerinvestigation of older Americans. CHS centers are in California, Maryland,North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. About 40 percent of the ultrasound st...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
...ing and highcholesterol. In one study, 184 adults aged 60 and older were randomized intothree groups: long-term exercise, short-term exercise, and a control group. Atthe end of two years, both exercise groups showed a decreased rate of newcardiovascular diagnoses compared to the controls. The re...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
...beenrecruited. In particular, they lacked recruits aged three to four. But in the US, drugs companies will soon have an incentive to overcomethese difficulties. As part of the new Act, for 493 drugs that the FDA considersa priority, companies will be granted a six-month extension of their patents,......dy fatness were measured by treadmill in 21,925men aged 30-83, of whom 428 died over 8 year followup. All-causemortality risk was correlated with poor fitness irrespective of body fatness.Thus, fitness is more important than leanness and may reduceobesity risk. For more information contack Dr. Blair at ...Study Highlights Flu Risks For Women With Chronic Illness
...993. It was discovered that for every 10,000 women aged 15-44 deemed to be athigh-risk, 23 had cardiopulmo... related to influenza eachyear. Among 10,000 women aged 45-64 years, approximately 58 cardiopulmonaryhospitalizations and four deaths were related to influe...Socioeconomic Status Linked To Enlarged Hearts, Heart Disease Risk
...ributed among childrenaged 8 to 10 and adolescents aged 15 to 17, between white and African American,and between male and female. The population density for the child's neighborhood and parents' education andoccupation were some of the indicators of socioeconomic status. In addition,the children and adol...Exercise Is The Best Means Of Weight Control In Teenagers
...eir study of nearly 2,000 male and female students aged 14-15 over a period of three years, Professor George Patton and colleagues from the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children's Hospital Research Institute, found that female adolescents who undertook heavy dieting were 18 times more likely to d...Debilitating Body Image Disorder Often Begins In Teens; Likely To Be Missed
...The study consisted of 30 females and three males, aged 6 to 17. It isestimated that BDD begins before age 18 in 70 percent of cases, most commonly at age 13. The subjects hadbeen referred for evaluation and treatment to a BDD clinical and research program at Butler Hospital inProvidence, R.I....People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
... cartoons, were compared with 31 consenting adults aged 18 to 70. Half the group had a brain injury (a singlefocal brain lesion to either the frontal or nonfrontal regions) caused bystroke, tumor or surgical removal. Their responses were measured against anormal control group comparable in gender, age and...Cervical Screening Has Reduced Incidence And Mortality From Cervical Cancer
...d 800 deaths from cervical cancer in 1997 in women aged 25-54. The reduction was estimated by comparing t...tions in mortality over the last 40 years in women aged over 54 years, however, are not related to the screening programme, say the authors, as few of these......agueFrank Brennan asked 111 Wilkes undergraduates, aged 16 to 23, how frequentlythey'd had sex over the previous month. They also measured levels of IgA in thevolunteers' saliva. The results showed that participants who had sex less than once a weekhad a tiny increase in IgA over those who abstain...