Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
...t prostate cancer vaccines currently are tested on men whose cancers are growing and no longer responsive...e therapy," says Drake. "Fewer than 20 percent of men respond to vaccines alone." Drugs that suppress male hormones such as testosterone, which fuels pro...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
... Begun in 1993, the PLCO study has screened 34,244 men across the United States, aged 55 to 74, for prost...sequent medical history. The PLCO protocol advises men to consult their own physician if either the PSA or DRE tests given by PLCO are suggestive of cancer...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 15, 2005
...isk factors. Nearly one-sixth of the CHD events in men and one-tenth in women occurred before age 55. Editorial writers say that the results do not support a strategy to give all adults over age 55 a "polypill," containing low doses of several drugs that modify some CHD risk factors (Editorial, p. 467)....Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...conclude. "These data add to available evidence in men suggesting a similar link and suggest that the predictive role of the WBC count is independent of CRP. Cardiovascular risk categorization by inflammatory markers, including the WBC count, may identify high-risk individuals who are not currently ident...Mountain life spells longer life
...are similar - farming and animal husbandry for the men and home making for the women. Information on risk... the profile of biochemical health. Overall, both men and women living in the mountain village had a worse coronary heart disease risk profile than their ...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
...Overall, 76 percent of the patients (70 percent of men and 81 percent of women) were overweight or obese.... of women younger than 55 years and 7.0 percent of men in that age group qualified as class three obese. Presence of diabetes mellitis increased with incr...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...e UK via at least six large transmission chains of men having sex with men, suggesting separate introduct...a recent increase in infections amongst homosexual men in the UK, which may partly have come through this chain. Dr Deenan Pillay of UCL's Centre for Virol...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...ed the tibia- bending stiffness in 175 able bodied men without known orthopaedic or neurological impairment(s) and in 33 men with SCI. Data suggest a direct relationship between health status, tibia length, age, and shin-bend...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
... the leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in this country. An estimated 163,510 deaths from lung cancer will occur in 2005 in the United States, accounting for about 29 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the nation....Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
The study of 16 young men who were habitual spit tobacco users measured their responses 30 minutes after dipping snuff. These readings were compared with measurements from another session involving the same participants after they had used a placebo product that was similar i...Growth hormone treatment improves symptoms of metabolic disorder in postmenopausal women
...cts in adults. A previous trial of GH treatment in men with abdominal obesity demonstrated reduction in abdominal fat mass and beneficial effects on insulin sensitivity and lipids. Many postmenopausal women experience a natural increase in obesity, particularly an increase of intra-abdominal fat, which r...Steady rise in HIV among heterosexuals in the UK
... are infected abroad, mainly in Africa. Homosexual men remain at greatest risk of acquiring HIV in the United Kingdom. Using national HIV surveillance reports, scientists at the Health Protection Agency show that 21,115 adults diagnosed with HIV in England Wales, and Northern Ireland between 1985 and 20...Drug abuse treatment slashes HIV-related sex behaviors in urban meth addicts
...NTEXT: Methamphetamine-dependent gay and bisexual men are at high risk for HIV transmission, largely due to drug-associated sexual risk behaviors. FINDINGS: A randomized, controlled study evaluated the effectiveness of four behavioral drug abuse treatments in reducing methamphetamine use and HIV-relat...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...ncer frequently affects previously healthy younger men and women in the middle of their most active life. Glioblastoma is the most common type of primary malignant brain tumour in adults with a yearly incidence of 5-7 persons per 100.000. Thus in the European Union approx. 20'000 new patients are diagnos...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...orking -- but they appear to be working better for men than for women, new research shows. That finding,...le, was much more pronounced in men. Overall, both men and women treated in the four months after the quality effort began had a better chance of being ali...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...ress makes quitting smoking harder, especially for men While a stressful job has links to cardiovascular disease, it can also make quitting smoking harder. This is what Francoise Leynen at the Dpartement d'Epidmiologie et de Promotion la Sant Ecole de Sant Publique, Universit Libre de Bruxelles in Be...Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...nited States indicate that lung cancer rates among men are on the decline, while the rate in women remain...ddition to the unequal incidence of lung cancer in men and women, there are other gender-linked differences, including subtype of lung cancer and survival ...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...oking, healthy volunteers, equally divided between men and women, whose average age was 33. The participants had normal blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels. Each volunteer was shown part of two movies at the extreme ends of the emotional spectrum. They were randomized to first watch eit...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
... UK, examined data from 101 patients with COPD (35 men and 66 women) and found that 13 patients (13%) had anemia. When researchers compared nine patients with anemia to nonanemic patients with COPD and normal control subjects, they found that patients with both anemia and COPD had increased inflammatory...Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
...gression. Finally, only the "aggressively hostile" men released high levels of cortisol, a key stress-hormone, after taking an anti-depressant drug that makes serotonin more available in the brain. The authors speculate that, after being deprived of serotonin, these men's neural receptors were exquisite...