Periodontal therapy may reduce the incidence of preterm births and low birthweight infants
... generated by preterm birth, and any strategy that reduces the preterm birth rate is likely to produce both health and economic benefits for mothers and infants. "The real cost saving is best represented by the lives of children saved from premature death and biological and social impairment," said Lopez. B...First human tests of antidepressant bupropion as methamphetamine addiction treatment hold promise
...ds bupropion blunts the methamphetamine "high" and reduces cravings prompted by visual cues such as ambient d...use. The research team hypothesizes that bupropion reduces the effects of methamphetamine by preventing the drug from entering brain cells, where methamphetami...Inflammatory markers may help predict stroke risk in middle-aged people
...n of Lp-PLA2 or reduction and/or inhibition of CRP reduces ischemic stroke and whether statins and/or fibrates [two types of cholesterol-lowering drugs] are more effective for stroke prevention in patients with elevated levels of Lp-PLA2."...U of MN study shows nicotine vaccine has promise for helping smokers quit
... brain," Hatsukami said. "This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine." The vaccine may become a new option for helping the approximately 45 mil...Two landmark papers on amputation prevention in diabetes unveiled
...ality of life and nursing support. It also greatly reduces the risk for medication errors." Patients with diabetes are at high risk for wounds, gangrene and amputation because many lose feeling in their feet. This year's World Diabetes Day is focused on increasing awareness of this very common problem, which...Jewelry-making program empowers participants, reduces HIV risk
...ing them with licit options for income effectively reduces their risk," said Susan G. Sherman, PhD, MPH, lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. For this pilot study, the authors targeted women using illegal drugs who wer...Iron-rich rice improves iron status of women
...l development and learning capacity. In adults, it reduces the capacity to do physical labor. Severe anemia increases the risk of women dying in childbirth. "It is estimated that about 56 percent of women in developing countries are anemic due mostly to iron deficiency," said Haas. "In the Philippines, where...Drinking small amounts of alcohol regularly reduces risk of obesity
...ming no more than a drink or two a fewtimes a week reduces the risk of being obese. Consuming four or more drinks perday, however, increases the risk of being obese by 46%. Ahmed Arif, from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, in Lubbock, USAand James Rohrer, from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, analys...New treatment for pancreatic cancer allows life-saving surgery
...t Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center substantially reduces the size of tumors and lowers the risk of local recurrence of the disease. Fifty percent of patients in the study responded to therapy--one of the highest response rates ever seen with pancreatic cancer. Results of the study were published in the Dec...Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments
... 100,000 lives a year. If a drug is available that reduces the mortality rate from that disease by 20 percent, it has the potential to save 20,000 lives each year. But if only 60 percent of eligible patients receive the drug, only 12,000 deaths will be averted. Closing the gap in care -- making it available...Immunosuppressive drug appears effective in reducing new brain lesions in MS patients
CHICAGO A medication that reduces relapse rates in patients with multiple sclerosis ... rejections and autoimmune diseases. Azathioprine reduces relapse rates in MS patients, but its effects on the frequency and accumulation of new brain inflamm...Parents advised to rethink dummy use
...he review had also found that the use of pacifiers reduces the risk for SIDS - but the mechanism of the effect is not understood. "This type of mixed result poses quite a quandary for parents and researchers," Dr Kendall said. "Every parent would want to do all they can to reduce the risk of a SIDS tragedy, ...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in patients with kidney dysfunction
...lease. "It is well understood that kidney disease reduces the usefulness of testing for both NT-proBNP and a...ith kidney disease. While kidney disease modestly reduces the diagnostic accuracy of both markers, when used in the appropriate manner, both tests appear to r...Radiotherapy improves 15-year survival after breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy)
...t radiotherapy to a conserved breast substantially reduces the chances of local recurrence of breast cancer, and now we know that it also reduces the long-term chances of dying from the disease." After breast-conserving surgery the 5-year risks ...Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears
...ure that once it is gone, it stays gone. One study reduces concerns that people whose immune systems were weakened by HIV would re-introduce poliovirus into the community. The other study looks at the how switching forms of vaccine from a live, attenuated vaccine to an inactivated version may affect communi...Tight glucose control cuts heart disease by half in type 1 diabetes
...are huge. Intensive glucose control significantly reduces heart disease as well as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys of people with type 1 diabetes. The longer we follow patients, the more we're impressed by the lasting benefits of tight control." The DCCT results, announced in 1993, clearly showed t...Didgeridoo playing improves your sleep
Regular didgeridoo playing reduces snoring and daytime sleepiness, finds a study publ...raining of the upper airways by didgeridoo playing reduces daytime sleepiness and snoring in people with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and also im...UCSD researchers state vitamin D needed to cut cancer risk
...their lifetime. Early detection using mammography reduces mortality rates by approximately 20 percent. But ...e increased skin pigmentation of African-Americans reduces their ability to synthesize vitamin D. "African-American women who develop breast cancer are more li...Hebrew University scientists develop prototype drug to prevent osteoporosis
...y and showed that it stimulates bone building and reduces bone loss. This indicates that substances that active the CB2 receptor can be used as basis for the development of drugs for osteoporosis patients. Indeed, the Hebrew University researchers have developed a new synthetic compound, HU-308, which acti...Antibiotics do not prevent recurrent myocardial infarcts in subjects with periodontitis
...ltonen V, Nieminen MS, Asikainen S. Clarithromycin reduces recurrent cardiovascular events in patients without periodontitis is published online before print in the journal Atherosclerosis on the 4th of January....