Smoking increases risk for liver, pancreatic and colorectal cancers
...inoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer, little research has been done in North America, where liver cancer is on the rise. Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine found that a history of smoking significantly increased the risk of liver cancer. Investigators compared the records...Colonoscopy: A woman's best defense against colon cancer
...study found that the sigmoidoscopy results told us little if anything about the health of the colon beyond the lower one-quarter reached by the sigmoidoscope," says co-author Andrew Flood, Ph.D., epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and School of Public Health. "To detect polyps in th...Clinical trial proves link between chiropractic and migraines
...at everybody's going to be cured, but there's very little to lose." May 23-29 is National Chiropractic Care Week. This year the theme is safe drugfree treatment of headaches. It is estimated that 10 to 12 percent of the Australian population suffer from migraines which costs the country $1.5 billion each ye...Long-term outcomes studied for stem cell transplant recipients
...ng-term survivors of stem cell transplants, though little is known about the impact transplants have on patients' lives long after treatment. To find the answers, researchers from the City of Hope Cancer Center and the University of Minnesota assessed 854 cancer patients that had undergone stem cell transpl...Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...abeth continues, "to begin with I felt just like a little child, wanting to know everything and people were ...e future and I'm happy when I think that in my own little way I've made a useful contribution". "One day women will go to Mars", explain Monica and Laurence, ...Physiotherapists cure incontinence
... the key to long-term success. Exercise takes very little time and can be done at times that suit participants, and as part of their everyday activities. "There's new evidence showing that if women train the pelvic floor muscles for strength, the muscles actually improve in their tone and form a firmer supp...Lack of funds hampering important child health study
...lf many times over if it reduces this burden by as little as 1% a yearUS Congress needs to have the long-term vision to leave a legacy to help future generations of children, not just in the USA but throughout the world."...The role of the Royal Society should be reviewed
The Royal Society today has contributed little to medical science and should undergo an urgent re...uring recent times, the Royal Society has produced little of public value in medicine and public health. It has launched inquiries into non-human primate rese...As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
...neducated, 21-year-old pharmacist's assistant with little equipment but loads of curiosity. Serturner wondered about the medicinal properties of opium, which was widely used by 18th-century physicians. In a series of experiments, performed in his spare time and published in 1806, he managed to isolate an...Boys, too, suffer long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse
... sexual abuse has focused on female survivors, and little information was available on male victims. The new study shows that being male offers little protection. "All children are vulnerable to this form of abuse, and the burden is similar for both m...Narcotic drugs effective for severe, chronic pain in older patients
...ely ease severe, chronic pain in older people with little risk that these patients will seek ever-increasing doses, UCSF medical scientists have found. Younger patients, however, are likely to want to rapidly increase their medication dose, the researchers found, posing serious potential health consequences...Ramelteon demonstrates no abuse potential according to study results
..., underscoring the need for sleep medications with little or no abuse potential." It is estimated that 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia at least a few nights per week. Most currently prescribed sleep agents and some investigational drugs work by targeting gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, w...Researchers study natural products that may prevent certain cancers
...ptible to chemotherapy and radiation, while having little effect or even reducing some of the toxic effects of radiation on normal cells," said Koumenis. Over the next four years, Wake Forest Baptist will investigate if CAPE and curcumin enhance radiation therapy in gliomas (the most deadly brain tumors) an...A 'mind-reading' mum - rich or poor - is key to baby's progress
... delays in key areas such as speech and play. "But little was known about which aspects of such schemes may ...whether she suffered from maternal depression, had little effect on the child's talking and playing abilities. However, the study found a definite link betwee...Transplanting kidneys which have stones poses little risk to organ's viability
...have kidney stones for living donor transplant has little impact on the organ's function one year later. "This shows that a small kidney stone should not preclude people from being donors," says George Chow, M.D., Mayo Clinic urologist and senior investigator of the study. "It's not likely for the stones ...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...again six months after the initial trials and show little or no deterioration in their ability to recognize moving dots in a visually noisy background. "It's possible that other parts of the brain could work this way too," Watanabe says. "People might be able to improve their pronunciation of a new languag...A&E doctors call for ban on pointed kitchen knives
...ted knives to be publicly available at all, having little practical value in the kitchen, argue the authors - who consulted ten top chefs from around the UK. None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed. A short pointed k...Patients with metabolic syndrome, moderate coronary calcium have greater risk of blocked arteries
...gnificantly greater chance of having ischemia too little blood flow to the heart during a stress test." Coronary calcium indicates the presence of atherosclerosis plaque build-up in the arteries surrounding the heart. The amount of coronary calcium in the arteries, called a calcium score, is measured b...Short on time, long on feeling: Study suggests deadlines intensify emotions
...ntially powerful variable that has so far received little attention," Teuscher said. "It would be worthy of further investigation both in the fields of life-span development and decision-making."...Cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries not being adequately addressed
..."More than 60 percent of the world's children have little or no access to effective cancer therapy," Pui said. "And their survival rates are very inferior to rates in countries with advanced health care systems. However, the World Health Organization and many international charities don't even list chronic ...