Researchers show the BEST way to reduce osteoporosis risk
...minutes of resistance training--two sets of six to eight repetitions--using six core exercises: 1. Back Extension 2. Lat Pull Down 3. Leg Press 4. One-Arm Military Press 5. Seated Row 6. Wall or Smith Squat Seven to ten minutes of cardiovascular weight-bearing activity, such as weighted walking, stair clim...Paclitaxel chemotherapy for breast cancer not associated with serious radiation pneumonitis
...osphamide (FAC) and then radiation therapy or with eight cycles of FAC followed by radiation. There was no difference in the rate of radiation pneumonitis between the two groups--5.0% in the paclitaxelFAC group versus 4.5% in the FAC group--and no patients were hospitalized for or died from the side effect...No link found between pneumonitis in breast cancer patients and taxane-based chemotherapies
...clophsphamide (FAC) and then radiation therapy; or eight cycles of FAC followed by radiation. The researchers were able to review chest X-rays of the women in both groups and could directly evaluate the rates of lung injury. They concluded that there was statistically no difference in the rate of ra...Custom-built facial implants helpful for patients with HIV and facial wasting syndrome
...om implants for more severe midfacial changes, and eight patients received "off-the-shelf" submalar implants for midfacial conditions of moderate severity," the authors write. "The dramatically improved therapy provided by HAART has enabled patients with HIV to live longer and healthier lives. Human imm...'Birth control pill may reduce knee injury': McGill researchers
... to ligament tears or injuries. "Women are four to eight times more likely to sustain a serious knee injury than men," says Paul Martineau, MUHC chief resident in the division of orthopaedic surgery and principle investigator. "In one year, approximately 30,000 female athletes will suffer serious knee inj...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...out in the first four weeks. One subject completed eight weeks and 18 stayed in the study for the nine-week duration. Of those 18, 16 were methamphetamine- and cocaine-free for more than four consecutive weeks while two continued using but in reduced amounts. 12 of the 16 remained free of methamphetamine a...Subanalysis finds patient-controlled, transdermal pain management system may be comparable
...en IONSYS TM and the IV PCA groups at four and at eight hours, and also at the last pain intensity score. A similar proportion of patients in each group requested supplemental pain medication during the first three hours of treatment, 18.1% of IONSYS TM patients and 21.2 % of IV PCA patients. Inadequat...Immigration, lack of partner support are postpartum
...tudies have identified high-risk mothers at six to eight weeks after birth. Why wait until the mothers are depressed? Why not identify symptoms early so that so secondary preventive interventions can be initiated?" Previous research has suggested that 13 per cent of new mothers suffer from postpartum d...Study finds computer vignette to be effective way to measure quality of physician practice
...tandardized patients -- at all four sites, for all eight types of cases, in all five domains of patient car...m developed the vignette method over the course of eight years of research. He says this method would be easy to implement nationwide for several reasons: ph...Crohn's disease treatment shows promise in clinical trial
...-18--that are produced by the activated T cells in eight volunteers who received treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. The researchers measured the proteins before and after treatment and found that many of the inflammatory proteins had dropped dramatically by the end of treatment...High doses of vitamin E supplements do more harm than good
...in both of these studies (in fact, in seven of the eight high-dose vitamin E trials in this analysis) the patients on vitamin E supplementation were more likely to die than those in the placebo group. "Typically, we get about 6-10 IU per day of vitamin E in our diets. Vegetable oils, nuts and green leafy ...Intervention boosts activity in kids, especially minorities
...ool intervention involved 24 exercise lessons over eight weeks, with three sessions of 20 minutes each per week, at low or no cost to the schools. "This modest, eight-week school intervention changed and heightened the intensity levels of the existing physical exercise program in the schools and benefited...Study shows high-dose vitamin E supplements may increase risk of dying
...ore) showed an increased risk of death. The other eight trials involved low-dose vitamin E users. It was unclear whether low amounts (200 IU per day or less) of vitamin E supplements increased a person's risk of death. Because most of the patients in all of the trials were over 60, and a majority had pre-...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
...illigrams of testosterone daily or placebo. After eight weeks their treatment was reversed. After each eight weeks the men rested and underwent cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) scans. Computer analyses...Antidepressant may help people stop smoking when used with nicotine patch
...ipants on the determined quit day and was worn for eight weeks. The researchers found that at six months, cessation rates were 23 percent for those taking nortriptyline and 10 percent for those taking placebo. Neither group experienced a reduction in withdrawal symptoms. However, the nortriptyline group ...Close control of blood pressure associated with fewer eye problems in patients with type 2 diabetes
...llimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Seven hundred fifty eight patients were randomly assigned to the tight BP control group (aiming for a BP of less than 150/85 mm Hg), and 390 were assigned to a less stringent BP control policy (aiming for a BP of less than 180/105 mm Hg). The researchers found that 4.5 year...ZETIA(R) co-administered with fenofibrate provided complementary lipid lowering efficacy
... 18 to 75 with mixed hyperlipidemia after a six to eight week washout and dietary run-in period. Baseline LDL cholesterol levels ranged from 130 to 220 mg/dL (100 to 180 mg/dL for patients with type 2 diabetes) and triglycerides (TG) from 200 to 500 mg/dL; patients with a history of coronary heart disease...MRI technique for measuring blood volume helps distinguish between abscesses and tumors in the brain
...urham, NC. For the study, the researchers analyzed eight patients who underwent DSC MRI--four with cerebral...duced by DSC MRI of cerebral blood volume in these eight patients, the researchers found no overlap in the blood volume between the group of abscesses and th...Study: Physical activity in middle age cuts risk of early death
...re about 35 percent less likely to die in the next eight years than those who were sedentary. For those who had a high heart risk because of several underlying conditions, the reduction was 45 percent. And the adults in the study didn't have to run marathons to get the death-reducing benefit: The reduction...University of Pittsburgh researcher gets CDC grant to study youth violence
...he late 1980s through 1994, and then decreased for eight consecutive years. In 2002, the juvenile arrest rate for violent crimes was 47 percent below its peak in 1994. Other collaborators on this study include Frederick Rivara, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center ...