Parkinson's drug linked to heart disease risk factor
...n's develop dementia. Diaz-Arrastia said the study raises the question of whether levodopa increases that risk. Dr. Alan Frol, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern, also participated in the study published in January 2003, as well as scientists from the Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology...Study provides new evidence that cranberry juice may help fight heart disease
...nd that drinking three glasses a day significantly raises levels of "good cholesterol" in the blood and increases plasma antioxidant levels, reducing the risk of heart disease. Although researchers have long suspected, based on laboratory tests, that the antioxidant-rich juice may help lower risk factors fo...Study: Couric's colonoscopy caused cross-country climb in colon cancer checks
...get audience for messages about colonoscopy. This raises the issue of how celebrity health messages are crafted, and how well they encourage appropriate, proven practices. "Celebrity spokespeople should deliver carefully targeted, evidence-based recommendations that will ultimately improve public health," ...Doctors are often strongly affected by patient deaths
...into the effect of patients' deaths on doctors and raises some questions about current medical training in the United States, say the authors. Medical teams may benefit from debriefing within the department to give junior doctors an opportunity to share emotional responses and reflect on the patient's death...Telomere length may be associated with risk of smoking-related cancers
...ably among people of the same age. The observation raises the possibility that individuals with shorter telomeres are at an increased risk of cancer, as short telomeres have been associated with increased risk of intestinal and epithelial cancers. To examine the association between telomere length and risk ...Study raises prospect of practical vaccine for metastatic melanoma
...ore than three years is especially encouraging and raises the possibility that vaccination might be effective in combination with other, existing therapies." Like all vaccines, the one developed by Dranoff and his colleagues seeks to intensify the body's normal immune-system attack on diseased cells. It ...Longer commute for cancer treatment associated with better survival
...sults can be influenced by patient travel distance raises the possibility of biased conclusions about which drugs should advance to phase III evaluation. The study, conducted by Elizabeth B. Lamont, M.D., of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, and her colleagues at the University o...Trans fatty acids: What are they and why shouldn't you eat them?
... that consuming foods containing trans fatty acids raises LDL (bad) cholesterol and the risk of coronary hea...e nickel and in the absence of oxygen. The process raises a fat's melting point, turning liquid vegetable oil into products ranging from soft margarine to sol...EUROCARE 3 - new European cancer survival figures
...n EUROCARE will probably join the EU in 2004, this raises a major new problem of inequity in health within the EU. Professor Coleman added that "The wide differences in survival trends are likely to reflect differences in both stage at diagnosis and the availability of and access to health resources, both o...Non-human molecule is absorbed by eating red meat according to study by UCSD researchers
...u5Gc happens to be very common. The current study raises the possibility that human antibodies against Neu5Gc might recognize the Neu5Gc in the pig organ and facilitate its rejection." In describing the research approach taken by his team, Varki explained that humans do not produce Neu5Gc because they lack...Gastric bypass surgery resolves or improves diabetes in most patients, reports Pittsburgh study
...ry on morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes raises an argument for lowering the threshold for surgical intervention to moderate or mild obesity," Dr. Schauer said. "Further investigation demonstrating risk versus benefit for patients with moderate obesity is warranted." The LGBP procedure involves co...Mayo Clinic finds weight not a factor among women using fertility technologies to become pregnant
...weight women using fertility technologies, it also raises questions. "We still need to explore possible connections between weight and other factors such as hormone levels or embryo development, which can affect a woman's ability to become pregnant and carry a pregnancy to term," says Dr. Tummon....Whole-breast irradiation after lumpectomy may protect women from recurrence long term
... of the breast containing the primary tumor. This raises the question of how much the standard whole-breast radiation is reducing the risk of recurrence in other parts of the breast.Freedman and his colleagues looked at the overall risk of recurrence after breast-conserving surgery and whole-breast radiati...UCLA researchers find gingko biloba may help improve memory
...e yielded conflicting results. "The research also raises questions regarding the significance of supplement quality and treatment duration," said principal investigator Dr. Gary Small, a UCLA professor on aging and director of the Aging and Memory Research Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. "Th...Tumor size predicts survival in patients with lung cancer
...the Oncology Nursing Society, The CHEST Foundation raises awarenessabout lung cancer, encouraging early diagnosis and offering educational andemotional support to lung cancer patients and their loved ones. In the United States, lung cancer causes more deaths in both men and women than the next three most co...Thanksgiving: A time for healthful eating?
...y that heat processing of sweet corn significantly raises the level of naturally occurring compounds that help fight disease, including cancer and heart disease. The study was reported by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry . Coffee - For many people, an autumn fe...Novel delivery system devised for toxoplasmosis treatment
...them inside cells and the organism." The discovery raises the possibility of treating active and latent infection in the eye by applying a lotion containing arginine-bound triclosan outside the patient's eye. Additional authors of the paper include Stephen Muench from the University of Sheffield; and A.B. L...Brain area identified that weighs rewards
...r visual field. "One hypothesis that this research raises is that what's happening in such cases is that there's no motivational significance or emotional significance to that part of the visual world. It has become meaningless to the patient, because the posterior cingulate cortex is imbuing that part of t...Fertility worries common in young breast cancer survivors
...ther a pregnancy following breast cancer treatment raises the odds of a cancer recurrence. Partridge said that data on the latter are "reassuring," but that the question is not yet answered.......vitamin E, saw palmetto and selenium. This finding raises concerns about the potential for adverse interactions, says Boon. For example, taking a product such as vitamin E an antioxidant might actually diminish the effectiveness of some conventional therapies because antioxidants may interfere with how so...