Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
... rats who were receiving ginkgo biloba were living substantially longer than those who were not receiving the extract," said Jerrold C. Winter, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and author of the study. "That finding leads us to speculate that...Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...population. Based on these studies, which provide substantially more information than was available for the Research Council's 1988 and 1991 reports on the health effects of radon, the committee developed two models to estimate the number of radon-related lung cancer deaths in the general population. Depending o......linical studiesdemonstrate that BNP7787 appears to substantially protect against the commonmajor toxicities of platinum chemotherapy and does not interfere with theantitumor activity of cisplatin. There appears to be reproducible evidence ofpotentiation or enhancement of cisplatin's antitumor effect by BNP7787. ...Health Workers May Experience Costly Dislocation As Health Spending Growth Slows
...tor employment grew at a 3.7% average annual rate, substantially faster than the 1.6% annual growth in jobs in the private non-farm economy as a whole. But the latest available employment statistics show that total non-government health jobs grew only 2.2% between 1995 and 1996, slightly slower than total jobs for...UCSF Study Finds Popular Blood Thinner Does Not Weaken Bones
...eoporosis. Because post-menopausal women produce substantially less estrogen - whichprotects bones from weakening - most older women are at risk of bone loss andfractures, she said. In fact, one in ten white, post-menopausal women willfracture their hip at some point, she said. Therefore, it is important that al...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...me for producingtooling by a factor of five to 10, substantially shortening the time it takesindustry to get products to market. Unlike other alternative tooling approaches,RSP Tooling Technology makes it possible to create tooling from hard tool steelsat the rate of 2,000 pounds an hour or more, suitable for the ...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
... lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol andfound both drugs substantially reduced LDL, regardless of dose. Both drugs alsoreduced triglycerides to a similar extent. (The lower the LDL, the lower therisk of coronary heart disease, according to the National Cholesterol EducationProgram, a national coalition of medical groups......few days, if death occurs, but does not contribute substantially toover-treatment, the study shows. "Neonatologists sometimes are criticized in the media and elsewhere forover-treating extremely premature babies," said Dr. Mia W. Doron, clinicalassistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North C......rotecting agent, known as BNP7787,which appears to substantially reduce the toxicity of platinum-type anticancerdru...dies have also shown that a single dose of BNP7787 substantially protectsagainst cisplatin induced suppression of the bone marrow. It was also reportedthat, in prec...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A drug given at levels substantially higher than the standard dose can cure nearly five times as many patients who have a certain type of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), new research shows. The study revealed that 78 percent of patients with “core binding factor”...Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
...of all patients whoeventually died) did not change substantially from the third day to the end ofthe hospital stay. Uncomplicated patients could be safely transferred out of an intensivecare unit to a "step down" unit after 24 hours. In patients without complications through 72 hours, the est......cebofor five days, and followed up for 28 days. A substantially high proportion ofpatients (76, 16.7 per cent) were classified as high risk in this study, whichrevealed a 71 per cent reduction in complications (p=0.004)3 and a 65 per centreduction in associated antibiotic usage (p=0.025) in these patients. Patien...Tobacco Will Kill One Third Of Chinese Men
... persist in China, then such projections cannot be substantially wrong. The research is a long-term collaboration between the Clinical Trial Service Unit, Oxford University, the Chinese Academies of Preventive Medicine and of Medical Sciences in Beijing and Cornell University in the USA, supported by the Imperial......high risk of recurrent coronary events that may be substantially reduced bypravastatin treatment, the authors conclude. Because people with diabetes are at substantially higher than normal risk forheart disease, cholesterol-lowering therapy should be much more cost effe...Cherry Hamburgers Lower In Suspected Carcinogens
...oxidative deterioration ofmeatlipids but will also substantially reduce the formation of heterocyclic aromaticamines," says J. Ian Gray, Ph.D., professor of food science at Michigan StateUniversity in East Lansing. HAAs are formed naturally during cooking. Many ofthem have been determined to cause cancer in some...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...m to the presence of cancer. "The addition of IL-2 substantially improved our vaccine's anti-tumor effect,"said James J. Mulé, Ph.D., professor of surgery in the U-M Medical School,director of the Tumor Immunotherapy Program in the U-M Health System'sComprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the U-M Life ......ation of theseapproaches, it should be possible to substantially reduce the risk and number ofheart attacks and strokes among women in the community."...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
...body mass,weight, and strength, but the gains were substantially greater in theoxandrolone-supplemented group. These results were the same whether or notpatients were undergoing protease inhibitor therapy. Previous research done elsewhere in healthy men had found that a very highdose of testosterone combined ...Testosterone Is Mixed Blessing To Men's Health
...inimal effort and the accuracy of salivaassays has substantially improved in recent years."......s in plateletaggregation have been implicated in a substantially higher risk of heartdisease. Some research also suggests that passive smoking may boost plateletaggregation enough to create the extra heart disease risks found by themeta-analysis (Circulation, vol 83, p 38). It is a line of argument that fa...