Cancer in patients with hepatitis C
... lymphatic leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma was too low to be included. "The majority of the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma patients were estimated to have been infected more than 15 years, which is consistent with the theory that lymphomagenesis is a slow process and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma d...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
...tion treatment is cost-effective." The "relatively low costs" of providing full benefits for smoking cessation varied between $260 and $2,330 per quitter, compared to partial or no benefits, the researchers say. The review appears in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...tal adrenal hyperplasia. Compared to a relatively low false positive rate of just under half of one percent in 2003, the secondary screen lowered the false positive percentage to six-hundredths of one percent (0.06%) in the last half of 2004. He says the system not only improves the value of screenings,...Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy, team says
...ions in the food supply. In addition, because even low levels of prions are extremely resistant to inactivation, they may contaminate the environment for many years. Prusiner won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that a class of neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform ...Regular cannabis may increase risk of stroke in young users
...apid heart beat (tachycardia), excessively high or low blood pressure, and the decreased oxygen carrying capability of red blood cells. Cannabis also quadruples the risk of a heart attack within an hour of consumption. They are at pains to point out that despite the widespread use of cannabis, there have...How often should women get mammograms?
...hance of detecting an unknown breast cancer is too low to warrant them. "It's clear that the more mammogr...g mammograms at age 40 when breast cancer risk is low rather than at 50, reduces overall risk of death by five percent because the incidence of cancer in...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...who take aspirin should be above 90. To find such low numbers was quite discouraging," Berger said. Looking at the data in more detail, the researchers found that women with existing CVD who were college educated were close to 40 percent more likely to be on aspirin therapy than those who did not have ...Lead in the environment causes violent crime, reports University of Pittsburgh researcher at AAAS
.... Needleman's latest research shows that even very low levels of lead found in bone, as measured by a technique called X-ray fluorescence, can affect brain development. In a 1996 Pitt study of 301 children, those with the highest concentrations of lead still below government-recommended safe levels had...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
... they are placed in the mother's uterus - was very low among all demographic groups. A Slippery Slope? "The specter of unchecked advances raises many fears, such as designer babies, eugenics and genetically modified human beings," the report notes. Fully three-quarters of all survey respondents, for...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...vide a powerful tool to identify those patients at low risk preventing overtreatment in substantial numbers of patients. If confirmed in further studies, the recommendation of additional hormone or chemotherapy in patients with lymph-node negative breast cancer could be guided by this prognostic signatur...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
... in conjunction with lifestyle strategies" such as low fat diets and increased exercise. Norris and colleagues say more research is needed to find out whether weight loss drugs work better when combined with diet and exercise changes. "In general populations, drugs have been combined with various lifesty...HIV patients may be at risk of heart problems when taking protease inhibitor drugs
... experience these unexpected side effects are very low -- much less than 1 percent." Co-investigator Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D. agrees that the benefits of the drugs far outweigh the risks. "Our findings should not jeopardize the availability of protease inhibitors because these drugs are too import...'EuroVacc 02' HIV vaccine trial begins in February 2005
...imen to NYVAC-HIV-C alone in healthy volunteers at low risk of acquiring HIV infection. The study will re...ould be between 18 and 55 yrs, HIV-negative and at low risk of infection. The trial will carefully evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the combinati...Faster, less expensive test proven more effective in detecting bladder cancer
...say "the high specificity of cytology is offset by low sensitivity, ambiguous test results, expense, and time lag to obtain reports."...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...tistical artifact inherent in measurements of very low amounts of virus." Siliciano warns that drug resistance is a growing problem in AIDS therapy, as the virus can mutate faster than medical research can develop new drugs. When HIV becomes resistant to one drug, it may also become resistant to other ...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
... white blood cells in newborns from mothers in the low exposure group, and 7.2 abnormalities per thousand white blood cells in newborns from the high exposure mothers," said Perera. "In particular, stable alterations were increased, which are of greatest concern for potential risk of cancer, since cells ...Study associates alcohol use patterns with Body Mass Index
...es whether or not a person is at a healthy weight low BMI values generally indicate leanness and higher BMI values indicate being overweight. "In our study, men and women who drank the smallest quantity of alcohol one drink per drinking day with the greatest frequency three to seven days per week ha...Changing trends in herbal supplement use
...percent in 1998 1999 to 18.8 percent 2002, with a low of 12.3 percent in 2000 and a high of 19.8 percent in 2001. The percentage of people aged 45 to 64 years who took supplements increased by about half between 1998-1999 and 2001-2002. However, the use of Ginko biloba and Panax ginseng declined during ...Promising treatments for Huntington's disease identified in UCI study
...point in the disease process, so that we could use low doses of each single drug, but together their combined effects all converge on a single disease process. This minimizes toxic side effects while maximizing benefit." Since Huntington's is a dominant disease, a child with one parent who carries the ge......ese quinolines was effective and that toxicity was low for this animal. The adoption of this administration route would simplify treatment of patients in regions devoid of hospital infrastructures. Three of these compounds were eventually chosen for their biological activity, their innocuousness and thei...