AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
...ation in the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The Role of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disturbances in Cancers of the Colon, Prostate and Pancreas - Edward Giovannucci, MD, Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues review the evidence for and against a connection between obesi...Glucosamine-like supplement inhibits multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes
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...nesium may each be associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a report and meta-analysi...-up period, 844 individuals in the study developed type 2 diabetes. Those who consumed more fiber through cereal, bread and other grain products (cereal fib...Anxiety hikes risk of heart attack, death
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...s we become a nation with an older population, the type of routine preventive care we studied will become even more important," Bird said. "Understanding these gender differences may allow us to improve care." The RAND study is one of four published in the latest edition of Womens Health Issues reportin...High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half
...ly dose (75 mg) for up to a year, depending on the type of stent used to prop open the clogged coronary artery. To evaluate the effect of the clopidogrel loading dose, researchers from University of Turin and Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, performed a meta-analysis of data from 10 studie...Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
...ercent were women, and 60 percent experienced some type of stress shortly before coming to the emergency room. The intensity of the stress varied dramatically, however, ranging from armed robbery to a heated argument, tooth extraction, or preparation for a colonoscopy. "We don't know why some women dev...Elsevier announces launch of Brain Stimulation
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...epresent a model for leukocyte adhesion deficiency type III AUTHOR CONTACT: Denisa Wagner CBR Institute for Biomedical Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Phone : (617) 278-3344; Fax : (617) 278-3368; E-mail : wagner@cbr.med.harvard.edu Wolfgang Bergmeier CBR Institut...New therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
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...xpect to enroll about 25 patients from each cancer type for the first two years of study.Using state-of-the-art technologies that provide images to guide the delivery of radiation doses, researchers first will carefully examine the movement of tumors and then employ adaptation techniques based on the uniq...Animal study identifies promising new target for brain tumor therapy
...ad cells in their tracks by giving the good ones a type of bulletproof jacket." The researchers speculate that patients with a restored immune system will be better equipped to fight off brain tumors. They hope to start a clinical trial soon. The results of this study hold promise for the development...Hepatitis C increases risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
..., and a three-fold increase in the risk of another type of lymphoma, according to a study in the May 9 issue of JAMA. The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is estimated at 1.6 percent of the U.S. population. It is more common among U.S. military veterans who use the Veterans Affairs (VA) medical sy...Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection
... developing Waldenstrm's macroglobulinemia (a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) went up by 300 percent ... that 71,380 Americans will be diagnosed with some type of lymphoma, which will take 19,730 lives. The researchers note that this study was limited to mil...Home improvement warning -- Ladder-related injuries increasing in the US
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