Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
... and also during different phases of treatment. It likely involves changes in the endocrine system, circadian rhythms, metabolism, cytokines and seratonin production. Predisposing factors must be understood before researchers can develop useful prevention or treatment strategies. -- Measurement of a subjec...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...ttained some college or a college degree were more likely than high school graduates to have a DPAHC. So wer.... Conservative Protestants were only 65 percent as likely as Catholics to have executed a DPAHC. And not surprisingly, the odds of naming a proxy were lower f...Low libido in menopause linked to trouble sleeping
...sexual desire diminishes during menopause are more likely to report disturbed sleep, depression symptoms, and night sweats, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. To the best of the research teams knowledge, this marks the first time that sleep distu...UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
...the toll of violence. Victims of violence are more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and a host of other problems such as substance abuse. There is a huge quality of life component that this research doesnt capture, Corso said. Thinking about the Virginia Tech victi...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...ted results of this study be interpreted" The most likely explanation for the increased risk of advanced and multiple adenomas in the intervention group is that undetected early precursor lesions were present in the mucosa [a type of membrane] of these patients (who are at increased adenoma risk), and that ...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
...ngs, low birth-weight children are 30 percent less likely to be in excellent or very good health in childhoo...w birth-weight children are roughly one-third more likely to drop out of high school relative other children. Low birth weight has significant negative e...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
... Either way, such low-carb, high-fat diets arent likely to work for everyone. "It may be that some people are more likely to turn on FGF21 than others," Maratos-Flier said. In obese individuals, for example, high insulin l...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...entify stage II colon cancer patients who are more likely to benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery, says Georg Lurje M.D., research associate at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). The study was presented Tuesday, June 5 at the 2007 annual meeting of ...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
... with longer follow-up. Breast cancer is also more likely to return in patients who were initially diagnosed with larger tumors, or whose cancer was discovered to have spread to a number of lymph nodes, or who had HER2 + cancer that was further sub-typed as estrogen receptor (ER)-negative. So far, 118 patie...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
... affected by Alzheimers disease. These numbers are likely to triple by 2050 due to the fact that 24 percent of the population will be more than 65 years old. In their attempt to combat the disease, two University of Missouri-Columbia professors have identified new mechanisms that could have major implicatio...Study shows Diachrome improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes
... control, the most costly to care for and the most likely to develop complications. With these clinical research outcomes, Diachromes drug retail presence will expand beyond CVS and Walgreens. The form of chromium in Diachrome, Chromax chromium picolinate, that was used in these studies has been recogniz...After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
.... Because certain risk factors make people more likely to have memory problems after surgery and other risk factors make people more likely to continue to have seizures after surgery, doctors can use these results to help determine who is a...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
... depression, alcohol use and violence, making it a likely risk factor for a suicide attempt. Dating violence...l students in a single urban area, our results are likely generalizable to urban youth across the United States, the authors conclude. Questions about violenc...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...t those who were members of sports teams were less likely to self-report prior or ongoing anabolic steroid u...ming behaviors, they continue. They were much more likely to use other unhealthy substances, including past 30-day use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and c...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...o had not used Ecstasy but reported that they were likely to try it soon. Within three years of the initial evaluations, which took place between April 2002 and April 2004, 58 individuals began using Ecstasy. They were compared with 60 individuals who had the same age, sex and intelligence score but who did...African-American men understimate risk of prostate cancer
...p that underestimates the risk of having cancer is likely to underestimate the value of early detection and ...o had more anxiety about prostate cancer were less likely to have cancer than those who were less worried. In general, although African Americans were les...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
... therapy who reported having hot flashes were less likely to develop recurrent breast cancer than those who did not report hot flashes, according to a study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Moreover, hot flashes were a stronger predictor of outcome than age,...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
... that trials of head-to-head comparisons were more likely to report results and conclusions favouring the sponsors own product than the drug with which it was compared Lisa Bero and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco argue that their findings show that the type of sponsorship availa...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
...d asthma and/or eczema at age five years were more likely to snore. Breastfeeding, birth weight, body mass index at age 4.5 years and respiratory function whilst awake were found to be unrelated. The study cohort was drawn from participants in the Australian Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS) a r......ubstance use, young female steroid users were more likely to have had sexual intercourse before age 13; have...de. Those reporting anabolic steroid use were less likely to participate in team athletics. Overall, more than two-thirds of those surveyed reported trying ...