International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...st cancer. Exemestane could provide women with an alternative option to tamoxifen, the only drug FDA approved for prevention of breast cancer. "Breast cancer is a major public health issue every 30 seconds somewhere in the world a woman is diagnosed with this disease," says Dr. Paul Goss, the ExCel research...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
... the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative approaches to menopausal symptom management, including behavioral interventions. While many studies have been published, most have important limitations that make their findings unclear. The evidence on most botanical products used or advocated for t...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...tality. Therefore, thrombolysis is still a viable alternative to primary PCI, provided that it can be delivered within 3 hours after onset of chest pain or other symptoms. 11. Primary PCI compared with thrombolysis significantly reduced stroke. Overall, the recommendation is for primary PCI over thrombolysis i...Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
... of sunless tanning lotion as a safe and effective alternative to UV exposure would induce more individuals to try it. Based on the trends observed in this experiment with the small percentage of participants who tried the sunless tanning lotion, this might lead to additional sun protection behaviors."...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...1990s. Cognitive behaviour therapy is an effective alternative to drugs, but has not been developed for widesprea...velopment of psychological therapies is a feasible alternative to antidepressants, say the authors. There is a clear need for further research to establish the mos...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
.... Pledging may lead some young adults to engage in alternative sexual behaviors in order to preserve their virginity. Among virgins--those who have not had vaginal intercourse--male pledgers are four times more likely to have anal sex; male and female pledgers are six times more likely to have oral sex than non-...Aspirin's potential ability to prevent colon polyps may not apply equally to all
...idence of colon polyps more strongly in women with alternative forms of a gene involved in the metabolism of aspirin than in those with the most common form of the gene. The report from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...at the results should encourage others to consider alternative systems, or at least more flexible systems to help reduce heart disease risk among African Americans. Co-authors include Lisa R. Yanek, M.P.H.; Wallace R. Johnson, Jr., M.D.; Diane Garrett; Taryn F. Moy, M.S.; Stasia Stott Reynolds, M.D.; Roger Blume...Ethical discussion should come before research
...ell research and prompted scientists to search for alternative ways to create embryos for research. They are using techniques such as cloning and parthenogenesis, which uses genetic material from a single parent. Some scientists argue that these artificially created embryos provide a new source for human embryon...How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
...is important that the safety and efficacy of these alternative treatments be established." Although some herbal supplements have shown promise for treating various illnesses, they may have not been appropriately tested; some may even be harmful or cause interactions with other therapies. Parents and guardians ...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...using MRIs only when clinically necessary and when alternative diagnostic tests are not recommended. Evaluation of a safety protocol for clinically indicated magnetic resonance imaging of patients with permanent pacemakers and implantable defibrillators at 1.5 Tesla. Saman Nazarian, Ariel Roguin, Menekhem Zviman...Sunflower seed oil can protect low birth weight babies from infection
...xic effect on the skin, and persuade people to use alternative proven, available and low-cost products such as sunflower seed oil." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Inpatient smoking cessation counseling is associated with early differences in mortality
...ortality by smoking cessation counseling early, an alternative strategy for risk reduction in those patients unwilling to quit for good would be to recommend, at a minimum, to maintain the in-hospital mandated smoking deprivation for a brief period after discharge." Many states are already beginning to pay for a...Study examines three-day antibiotic regimens for treating bladder infection in women
...bial resistance, which has led to increased use of alternative antibiotics. There have been no published studies on the efficacy of one such antibiotic, amoxicillin-clavulanate, in the treatment of acute cystitis (inflammation of the urinary bladder) in the current era of high-level amoxicillin resistance. Thoma...Investigational transplant drug effectively preserves kidneys while avoiding toxic side effects
...hing human clinical trials to develop an effective alternative to current anti-rejection therapies. Findings from one of the nonhuman primate studies appear in the March issue of the American Journal of Transplantation, which currently is online and appeared in print on February 21. More than 23,000 organ trans...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...ored frozen for years. It is sometimes used as an alternative to bone marrow for treating diseases such as cancer and immune disorders - the cord blood is given to siblings or unrelated recipients. Many women altruistically choose to donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private b......s against imatinib led to the rapid development of alternative kinase inhibitors that work even against tumors with the resistance mutation. Similarly, the results by Pao and colleagues should help researchers develop second generation drugs for lung cancer....How often should women get mammograms?
... Because breast cancer risk increases with age, an alternative screening schedule derived from the model calls for fewer mammograms at early ages, but increasingly often later on. This "threshold" method provides for 18 screenings between 40 and 79, and predicts a mortality reduction of 26 percent. Women who ha...Stem-cell research hints at better looking cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
...present approach represents another step toward an alternative tissue engineering approach for soft-tissue augmentation and reconstruction," the researchers reported. Mao's colleagues include Adel Alhadlaq and Minghui Tang of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The research was supported by grants from the Na...... genes included. Dr Jenssen comments: "Faced with alternative gene signatures for very similar prediction problems, we are left with the obvious questions of which to trust and why they differ. Although Wang and colleagues present the largest study of this type of data, it may still be too small to provide a fi...