British Asian women have lower risk of breast cancer than all other women
...y were diagnosed with breast cancer. They averaged just under 52 compared with almost 63 for other women. ...re alive five years after diagnosis, compared with just under 67% of all other women with the disease. Affluence is known to boost health and survival, and...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...and and are advised to take them for a week or two just when their symptoms flare up." About 20 million Am...ma Clinical Research Network several years ago for just this purpose -- to generate meaningful data on new therapeutic approaches." Participating centers in...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...the past, we are not completely there yet. This is just the tip of the iceberg." Eckburg works with David Relman, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases and geographic medicine) and of microbiology and immunology. Relman's lab at the Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Heath Care System specialize...Golfers' yips may be movement disorder
...dence of co-contractions of muscles in the forearm just prior to the impact of the putter with the ball. The co-contractions were similar to those of task-specific dystonias--or movement disorders--such as writer's cramp and musician's cramp." None of the golfers without yips had evidence for co-contracti...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...n grape juice, then why isn't it on wine, which is just fermented grape juice?" Both Tapert and White noted the implications of these findings for how alcohol researchers assess drinking behavior. "The findings certainly do not suggest that we should stop using surveys to study college drinking," said W...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...e," said King. "We chose to test people who smoke just half a pack or less per day to see if alcohol would increase smoking urges. We also wanted to see if their desire to smoke while they drink is related to the amount of alcohol they consume during a drinking episode." Researchers recruited 16 (11 mal...Mesotherapy not proven as a safe alternative to liposuction
...s mesotherapy, sounds too good to be true - and it just might be. According to an ASPS Device & Technique Assessment (DATA) Committee report published in the April 15 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), patient...Learning software developed by Rutgers-Newark scientist helps 450,000 students with reading
... America. For Tallal and her colleagues, the kudos just seem to keep coming. In addition to winning the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award, in 2004 the Congressional Black Caucus's Education Braintrust awarded Scientific Learning an ET3 (Education Technology Think Tank) TEC (Technology to Empower Community) Ch...Columbia study shows women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
... of Cardiology, shows that drug eluting stents are just as effective and safe in women as they are in men. "The prevailing opinion has been that percutaneous coronary interventions including drug eluting stents are more dangerous in women and don't provide the same benefit, but our study shows that there ...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
.... "A lot of it, within the first few months, is just pure fearit's dealing with an illness that you know absolutely nothing aboutand the first month you're petrified, because you've got all this information coming at you, which you have to have, but you're thinking I am never going to come to terms wit...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...ers plan their itinerary for their vacation while just 19 percent seek travel health advice from a health...ine. "As travel agents, our job involves more than just booking the best trip possible," said Kathy Sudeikis, ASTA President and CEO. "We also educate trav...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...d from 86% of the claim on the label right down to just a fifth. European Pharmacopaeia demands activity of 90111%. There were also differences in composition and purity. Said Dr Hermentin: "The dose of fibrinolytic agents such as streptokinase must be carefully controlled to maximise therapeutic activit...American Dietetic Association statement on new 'MyPyramid'
...elopment of the Dietary Guidelines, and we will be just as involved in using them to set the nation's policy directions in nutrition programs, research, education, food assistance, labeling and promotion. On an individual level, our members will incorporate MyPyramid and its accompanying materials into ou...Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
...mphasis on reducing binge drinking." "This is not just a statistical bump or noise in the data," he added. "This is a true behavioral change." The authors point out that motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in the United States for people between the ages of 1 and 34. Thirty percent o...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...e received transplants via paired donation because just a handful of institutions are performing the procedures based on local or regional patient databases, added the authors. "Clearly, a national matching program is the best solution for incompatible donors and recipients, but for such a program to be ...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...usal women start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) just to prevent cardiovascular events. Also, women at p...eir expensive electronic counterparts, and protect just as well against inflamed gums. In fact, the only type of electric toothbrush more effective than a m...Combination chemotherapy shows small survival benefit in advanced stomach cancer
...al with a combination of chemotherapies instead of just one, according to a new review of previous studies. The review also concludes that the best combination is 5-FU, one of the oldest and most commonly used chemotherapy drugs, along with powerful antibiotics called anthracyclines and a platinum-based d...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
...ess of all common esophageal cancer treatment, not just an analysis of how one or two "candidate" genes re...dvanced stage, when the five-year survival rate is just 14 percent. Surgery is offered to most patients, as well as one or all of the following treatments -...Football players are sportsmen most at risk of injury
...soccer players had sustained an injury compared to just 28.1% of swimmers The study also found that tennis players had significantly more upper-limb injuries while soccer players had more lower-limb injuries and gymnasts had more back injuries. Just eight of the 109 sports participants were competing at...Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene
...t that it may be possible to use RNAi in more than just experiments that silence genes temporarily," says the study's principal investigator, Ralph Arlinghaus, Ph.D., a professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Pathology. Details of the study appeared in the April 1 2005 issue of the journal Canc...