More evidence suggests statins help cut risk for advanced prostate cancer
...cer Center. Although earlier, smaller studies have linked the use of statins to a lower risk of prostate and other cancers, such as breast and colon, this is the first to tie risk reduction to prostate cancer stage while tracking the medication use before study participants got cancer. Still, the researcher...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...The effects of music therapy seemed to be strongly linked to the number of therapy sessions. "In order to benefit from music therapy, a person needs to participate in regular sessions over a few months," says Dr Christian Gold who works in the Faculty of Health Studies at Sogn og Fjordane University College...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...dysfunction. "When we reported that nesiritide is linked to worsening kidney function, some physicians did not seem convinced that concern was warranted," says Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, M.D., the study's principal investigator and director of clinical research at the Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Cent...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
...s safety mechanism." Anxiety disorders previously linked only to fear Most anxiety research focuses on the brain's fear circuits and it's easy to understand why. Fear, after all, is the problem in anxiety disorders. "When someone goes to a psychiatrist in terror or grinding anxiety, the doctor doesn't thi...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...helping to create, cancer research centers will be linked to each other in real time, using common research tools and instantly sharing new information gleaned from the thousands of clinical and basic cancer studies that are in progress at any one time. Because of that, the way data is shared and results a...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...ost wipe out the 40% higher risks of heart disease linked to diabetes in that community. Warwick Medical School researcher Dr Paul O'Hare will use the launch of the Clinical Sciences Research Institute to outline that diabetes is four times more common in the UK Asian population than it is among Caucasians....American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
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...standardized patients made brand-specific requests linked to DTC advertising (53 percent)," the authors found. "Among standardized patients portraying major depression, paroxetine was rarely prescribed (approximately 3 percent) unless the standardized patient specifically requested Paxil; if Paxil was requ...Burden of parasitic worm infection greater than previous estimates
...that human schistosome infection was significantly linked to anaemia, diarrhoea, chronic pain, fatigue, exercise intolerance, and malnutrition, and concluded that the resulting disability was substantially higher than the World Health Organisation's current estimates. The authors also found that the loss of...Lipoprotein abnormalities found in severely obese children
...ed cardiovascular risk. In addition, studies have linked smaller LDL particle size with higher risk. The study focused on 160 children, average age 12.6 years, who were evaluated at Wright State University's pediatric lipid clinic. Severe (morbid) obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI) of 36 and abo...Social connections: Could heartwarming be heart-saving?
...d levels of a blood marker for inflammation that's linked to cardiovascular disease, according to data from the Framingham Heart Study presented today at the American Heart Association's 45th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. "Our analyses suggest that it may be good f...A common bacterium leads to serious blood infection in many seniors, new study finds
...ation and incontinence. In women, risk factors are linked to incontinence, congestive heart failure, and coronary artery disease....Exercise training in ordinary people affects the activity of 500 genes
...g healthy men. Some of these genes are most likely linked to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These training study findings can therefore be important for the development of new treatment strategies for such diseases. Some people respond more easily to training than others. It is not known what explain...3 questions may provide good clues to smoke exposure
...kers is well documented. Tobacco smoke exposure is linked to an increased incidence of ear infections, pneumonia, asthma and other upper respiratory infections in children. Additional authors are Robert Castile and Stacy Hoshaw-Woodward of The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and...Molecular change occurring during brain tumor progression also evident in breast cancer
...ted alpha (), beta (]) and gamma (^) -- that are linked together in various combinations to form 15 known isoforms or types of laminin. Each isoform has distinct characteristics and functions. Isoforms are known to change in normal tissues at various stages of development but they also have been found to ...Three-fold risk of sudden cardiac death from some non-cardiac drugs
... Although the antibiotics have been reported to be linked to sudden cardiac death, we found no statistically significant increase in our study, although that may have been due to the limited number of cases." The highest risk level was for those using higher daily doses of GI or anti-psychotic medications. ...Changes in brain receptors linked to seizures and anxiety during the menstrual cycle
...rived neurosteroids are active, and are inexorably linked to an altered behavior of nerve cells, which in turn changes the whole animal's susceptibility to seizures and anxiety. "This may be quite relevant to the way nerve cells respond to stimuli in the human brain during the menstrual cycle," Mody said. T...Obesity linked to colorectal and esophageal cancers
...m associated with numerous illnesses, has now been linked to an increased risk of developing colorectal and ...bstract 344) Esophageal adenocarcinoma has been linked to high body mass index (BMI), a history of smoking and Barrett's Esophagus (BE), a disorder which c...Yoga takes a bite out of eating disorders
...ours a woman spent performing aerobic activity was linked with greater disordered eating. The article discusses two studies. Study 1 consisted of three types of women: those currently taking yoga classes, those partaking in aerobic classes, and those who had not participated in either for the past two ye...Weighing the evidence: A forum to examine the latest news about overweight, obesity and mortality
...en hearing for years; being overweight or obese is linked to type II diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and premature death. Thursday May 26, at the Harvard School of Public Health's Snyder Auditorium some of the nation's top researchers discuss the latest reports, examine the methodology that yielded...