Early promise of new treatment for type 2 diabetes
... a naturally occurring intestinal hormone could be beneficial for the future treatment of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes affects an estimated 10% of adults over 60 years of age, and has recently been reported in teenage children. Treatment for the disorder usually includes alteration to diet, exercise, oral ...School-based program effective in lowering teens' HIV risk
...at while peer influence is an important force, the beneficial effect of a peer-delivered intervention may have dissipated due to changes in the teenagers relationships or inconsistencies in the peer-educators own behavior. While teens already in intimate relationships may have been tentative about introducing ...Alcohol linked to decreased hypertension risk in young women
...e found that alcohol intake at moderate levels was beneficial to blood pressure and at high levels it was harmful," says Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, of the Renal Unit at MGH and the Channing Laboratory at BWH, the paper's lead author. Thadhani and his colleagues found that the association between alcohol consumpti...Could an aspirin a day help keep prostate cancer away? Possibly
...h as 60 percent. The study also suggested that the beneficial effect may increase with age. The findings of this study are published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The 1,362 Caucasian men in this study were followed for an average of five and one-half years. Of the 569 men who reported using NS...... heart disease. "We still dont know if estrogen is beneficial against heart disease, but this study suggests it might slow the progression of atherosclerosis in women," said Lorraine Fitzpatrick, M.D., a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and the principal investigator of the study. "Our data indicate a strong negativ...Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
...in reward areas serve to acknowledge and reinforce beneficial behaviors, for example eating when you're hungry. Specialized nerve cells encourage the body to repeat pleasing behaviors by releasing dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasant feelings, into these reward areas. That was good, is the ...Cholesterol bad for brain too, UCSF study says
...ng statins, which reduce cholesterol, seemed to be beneficial to their performance on these tests, Yaffe said. Declining scores on cognitive tests are a symptom of early stage Alzheimers disease, she said. These results fit with other studies showing that statins may help to prevent Alzheimers disease, Yaffe ...Alcohol and nicotine: A deadly duo
...hat are effective in smoking cessation may also be beneficial for alcoholics. Bupropion (Zyban), for example, wh...ly exciting if a single therapeutic agent could be beneficial for both smokers and drinkers....Screening the controversy continues
...He said that a structured programme had a range of beneficial side-effects, which included the concentration of specialist multi-disciplinary expert teams who become highly skilled at diagnosing, treating and managing the disease. However, he stressed that it was important to acknowledge that there could be dr...Proven heart therapy used in only 25 percent of cases
...nefit. This study's finding of under-use for these beneficial heart attack treatments should be a wake-up call t... to reduce treatment delays and improve the use of beneficial therapies." The data collected so far comes from approximately 80 participating hospitals. By summer...As heart patients flock to alternative medicine, hazards may lurk
...al heart treatments. Many patients find them to be beneficial at reducing stress or increasing body function. They were also included in the U-M study. The survey gave some surprising results. Of the 145 patients surveyed, 74 percent reported using some sort of CAM therapy, says Kline-Rogers. Sixty percent of t...Calcium intake may be associated with reduced risk of colon cancer
...ution, however, that there may be a ceiling to the beneficial effects of calcium. In their study, taking more than 700 mg of calcium per day was not associated with any further protection against colon cancer. Researchers believe that calcium reduces the risk of colon cancer by slowing down epithelial cell gro...Effect of diet on risk of benign prostate disease in middle-aged men
...use some dietary elements such as fish oils may be beneficial in preventing heart disease. In an accompanying editorial, Heber discusses the effect of diet on hormonal balance and BPH risk in older men. He proposes that certain aspects of the typical Western diet, such as a low amount of fruits and vegetables ...Gene enhances effects of estrogen on good cholesterol
...e variant also makes women more sensitive to other beneficial effects of estrogen including maintaining bone mineral density and reducing hot flashes as well as to negative effects of estrogen, such as formation of blood clots in the legs. It makes sense that if one area cholesterol is affected, others migh...Vitamin supplementation could slow arteriosclerosis in heart-transplant patients
...tigations are warranted to investigate whether the beneficial effects of vitamins C and E are sustained over many years when most of the clinical complications resulting from transplant-associated arteriosclerosis occur....UF study shows strength training improves aerobic power in seniors
...ore repetitions but less weight, and still receive beneficial aerobic improvement," Vincent said. Researchers say its unclear exactly how resistance exercise increases aerobic power. They speculate that the aerobic improvement may trigger metabolic or enzymatic activities that improve the bodys use of oxygen...Analyses of Violence Against Women Act suggest legislation saved US $14.8 billion
...st Women Act is, economically and socially, a very beneficial federal program, Clark said. Because of certain reasonable assumptions we had to make, we cant say definitively that the act led to the documented declines in violence against women after its passage, but thats what it looks like. A further computati...Hormone replacement therapy may be associated with increased ovarian cancer risk
...rmed decision about whether or not to use HRT, all beneficial and adverse hormonal aspects concerning [breast cancer,] osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, venous thrombosis, and other health effects must be addressed. However, they write, if our findings are replicated it would be valuable to consider the e...Antiretroviral therapy around childbirth reduces risk of mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission
...omen before, during, and after childbirth could be beneficial in reducing mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission in the first few weeks after delivery, suggest authors of a study in this weeks issue of THE LANCET. However, this short-term benefit could be compromised unless new interventions are identified to preve......uscle cells responsible for generating many of the beneficial effects of regular exercise. The discovery identifies targets for the discovery of new drugs that could improve the quality of life in people suffering from chronic illness who could benefit from aerobic exercise, but are unable to perform the amoun...