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...cessible drugs have led, in part, to an 80 percent decline in HIV-related deaths in India between 1997 and 2003. Despite ART's importance in improving HIV-infected people's health, it can also cause problems. Adverse events, such as rash, nausea, diarrhea, headache and anemia, can arise from antiretroviral u...Dementia research: Hope for the future
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...om baseline for children treated with MTS versus a decline of 9.9 (24%) for those treated with placebo (P In both studies, MTS was generally well tolerated during both the dose optimization and double-blind phases. Adverse events typically were mild to moderate, resolved with continued therapy and were con...Preventing pneumonia in children helps prevent pneumonia in older adults
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...es of benefit, all seven groups concluded that the decline in the rate of death from breast cancer is a combination of screening and therapy and not restricted to one or the other," he says. "Screening would have no benefit if not followed by treatment, including surgery, and treatment has the potential to b...Population growth could be bigger threat to reducing poverty in Africa than AIDS
...ther poor regions of the world and see a pervasive decline in birth rates. But Cleland and Siding state four reasons to doubt that this will happen. First, desired family sizes in Africa remain high. Second, uptake of modern contraceptive methods by married women remains very low in western and middle Africa......e year, and two patients (7 percent) experienced a decline in PSA that was not statistically significant. The remaining patients' PSA levels increased while taking the drug.Other researchers at Hopkins are conducting studies on using the chemotherapy drug docetaxel in men with non-metastatic disease. DeWees...CHEST 2005 abstract highlights
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...ction, blacks were over three times more likely to decline surgery, with 18 percent of blacks and 5 percent of whites declining surgery. "Knowing blacks decline surgery at a higher rate than whites is the first step to decreasing lung cancer mortality among thi...Sexually satisfied but feeling frumpy: It's body image, not 'the change'
...ss attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline in sexual desire or activity over the past 10 years. Two- thirds of the women reported one or more changes in their sexual response, most frequently desiring sex less and engaging in sex less often; although some women reported improved sexual respo...A good night's sleep can mean a better day at school
...odity for schoolchildren. "There's a pretty steady decline in the amount of sleep kids get once they start school, and it's scary to look at how little sleep kids actually get once they become teenagers," Dr. Fallone said. This pattern likely holds true for children who have been diagnosed with ADHD as well....Positive study results for methylphenidate transdermal system
...om baseline for children treated with MTS versus a decline of 9.9 (24%) for those treated with placebo (P < 0.0001). ADHD-RS assesses 18 individual symptoms of ADHD as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision(TM), a publication of the American Ps...Wide racial disparities found in heart device implantation
...e procedure, or it is not explained well, they may decline the procedure. If an African-American physician or a culturally sensitive health care provider explained the procedure and what it entailed, more African-American patients might agree." Thomas found it quite telling that African-Americans and whites ...High-sugar diet pushing some Latino kids toward type 2 diabetes
... less or even no insulin. Researchers believe this decline in beta cell function may result in the accumulation of sugar in the bloodstream that characterizes type 2 diabetes. In the children studied, those who consumed more sugar on an everyday basis had signs of decreased beta cell function, implying they ...