Vitamin D, NSAIDS provide double whammy against prostate cancer, Stanford study finds
... Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 30,000 men die annually in the United States from prostate cancer. Among cancers, only lung cancer kills more men. Although prostate cancer is often a slow-growing, noninvasive type of cancer, there are some cases where a deadly migration of cancer cells invades ot...Prevent prostate cancer with antioxidants? Gene pathway may reveal more clues
...ally in the United States, and close to 30,000 men die each year of the disease. Most men over the age of 50 will have some experience with prostate disease -- with either an enlarged prostate or cancer....Breast cancer screening trial shows digital mammogram benefits
...h breast cancer and an estimated 40,410 women will die of the disease in the United States in 2005. At Brown's Center for Statistical Sciences, faculty, students, and staff develop bio-statistical methodology and conduct interdisciplinary research in medicine, public health and the biosciences. The Cente...Digital mammography trial results announced
...d cancer in women. An estimated 40,410 women will die of the disease this year in the U.S....UVa participates in landmark breast cancer screening trial
...h breast cancer and an estimated 40,410 women will die of the disease in the U.S. in 2005. The results of the trial, called DMIST (Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial), are reported in a special online publication of the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial was funded by the NCI and cond...Defective lymphatic vessels identified as a novel cause of adult-onset obesity
...us (i.e., having only one copy of the gene) models die quickly in the postnatal period as a consequence of extensive lymphatic leakage that accumulates in the abdomen and thorax (chest). "However, those with a milder disruption of their lymphatic vasculature were able to survive and become obese with age...Leading experts discuss how to protect premature infants against RSV, a potentially dangerous virus
...year approximately 400 children under the age of 1 die from RSV ; in 2003-2004, 32 children under age 2 died from the flu. Because RSV shares many symptoms with the common cold and influenza, it often goes un- or misdiagnosed, raising the risk of serious health complications. During this national med...Just one to four cigarettes daily triples risk of dying of heart disease or lung cancer
...arettes a day were almost three times as likely to die of coronary artery disease. While there was little...cer. And women were almost five times as likely to die of the disease as their non-smoking peers. Light smokers also had significantly higher death rates f...'Healthy weight, healthy shape' key in preventing heart disease
...derately active persons were 30-40% less likely to die from heart disease as compared to the inactive, sedentary person. He went on to say that despite this solid epidemiologic evidence, the proportion of people who do not engage in sports at all continues to increase. He added that lack of sports is clo...Severe maternal morbidity in Canada, 1991-2001
... these complications were 158 times more likely to die than women who did not have the complications. An analysis over the 10-year period of the study showed that rates for some complications, such as hemorrhage requiring transfusion, were declining, while others, such as uterine rupture, were increasing...Cars, computer chips and heart attacks?
...rted. In general, the chance that a patient would die within a month or a year of going home from the hospital was 21 percent to 26 percent lower after the quality-improvement effort. The findings, published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, come from a study le...Arranon cancer drug receives advisory committee support
...accidental injury. Each school day, nine children die from the disease. Texas Children's Cancer Center, located within Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, is the largest pediatric cancer and blood disorder program in the country. The Cancer Center sees patients from 34 states and 26 countries and see...Health experts urge counseling patients about dangers of second-hand smoke
...e United States alone every year about as many as die from colon cancer. They explain that, "Although certain populations are particularly vulnerable (e.g., children and patients with coronary artery disease or asthma), everyone who is exposed has increased risk for heart and other diseases." In ligh...Annual report to the nation finds cancer death rates still on the decline
... we will achieve a time when no one will suffer or die from cancer." Death rates from all cancers combined declined 1.5 percent per year from 1993 to 2002 in men, compared to a 0.8 percent decline in women from 1992 to 2002.** Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women. Dea...Other highlights in the October 5 JNCI
...pancreatic cancer last year, and most of them will die from the disease. The 5-year survival rate is less than 5%. Identification of risk factors for the disease has become a part of prevention efforts. Some dietary studies have identified meat, dairy product, and egg consumption as potential risk factor...Children and adolescents with advanced cancer can make complex end-of-life care decisions
...om there.'" Other patients said they were ready to die and go to heaven (50 percent) or that they had seen other patients die on mechanical support and wanted to avoid that course of treatment (50 percent). Clinicians see this...Consensus panel calls for expanded role of needle biopsies, MRI and less invasive procedures
...h invasive breast cancer and more than 40,000 will die from the disease this year. The panel concluded that minimally invasive needle breast biopsy is "the procedure of choice for image-detected breast abnormalities" and keeps themajority of women with non-cancerous findings out of the operating room. Fo...Mechanism controlling DNA damage response has potential novel medical applications
...ells in the body mutate, and whether cells live or die after DNA damage. A report on this work appears in...tein, and thus failed to stop growing or failed to die as they should have. This demonstrated that RPL26 production is a critical player in the cell's resp...Sports utility vehicles should carry health warnings, say experts
...ople over 60 are more than four times as likely to die if injured by a car than younger people. In Europe sales of SUVs have increased by 15% in the past year, while sales of standard cars have dropped by 4%. A recent US study found that, for the same collision speed, the likelihood of a pedestrian fatal...Trauma victims' survival may depend on which trauma center treats them
...ng serious injury are significantly more likely to die than comparable patients treated at a major level ...auma centers were nearly 20 percent less likely to die than those in level II centers. A level I facility is a regional academic trauma center and must mee...