Scientist works to reduce side effects of radiation therapy
...earcher has received a $1.5 million grant to study whether the same drugs that fight obesity and diabetes may...m the National Cancer Institute, Robbins will test whether drugs designed to block certain receptors in the brain can help prevent brain injury from radiation....Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...e-changing event for parents and researchers doubt whether many of them ever come to terms with it. Those are...diabetes. "However our findings raise doubts about whether many parents of children with diabetes ever fully accept the diagnosis. Even a year after diagnosis ...New research reveals working mothers do not adversely impact on children's diets
...ily and household, the mother's qualifications and whether or not she was working. Both 'less healthy eating'...y eating' nor 'unhealthy snacking' were related to whether or not the family ate meals together on a daily basis or to family structure (child living with both...Long term outcomes for children who undergo ear tube placement surgery
...ng their hearing levels, children were assessed on whether the ear had healed, for a history of repeat procedures, for abnormal outcomes and on whether they required more extensive ear surgery. The hearing level of healed ears was comparable to that of...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...ow which activity assay the manufacturers used and whether these would meet pharmacopoeial standards." Dr Andreotti said that it was a drawback that only one sample per batch had been tested and she pointed out that the product produced by the authors' company had an exemplary profile. However, the data in t...More evidence suggests statins help cut risk for advanced prostate cancer
...tion between use of cholesterol-lowering drugs and whether or not men were diagnosed with early, curable forms of prostate cancer. But they did find that men who took cholesterol-lowering medications, as opposed to those not taking them, had half the risk of eventually developing advanced prostate cancers (...American Dietetic Association statement on new 'MyPyramid'
..." Food Guidance System graphic will be measured by whether it can serve as an effective tool to help people eat according to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Time will tell if MyPyramid will convey to consumers the vital nutritional messages of balance, variety, moderation and adequacy. If MyPyrami...Clinical trial of gefitinib for advanced lung cancer closes early
... on May 14, 2005. The study was designed to assess whether maintenance therapy with gefitinib -- gefitinib given to help keep cancer in control -- would improve overall survival and progression-free survival as compared to placebo in patients with stable or responding disease. These patients had inoperable ...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...ear to confirm this idea. However, the question of whether HRT has a long-term benefit for women at risk of C.... It was impossible to say anything definite about whether memantine is useful in less severe Alzheimer's disease. The reviewers also looked to see if memantin...Hospitalized babies with severe breathing problems may benefit from lying on their stomachs
...ourse of several hours, making it difficult to say whether stomach positioning has any long-term benefits or ...ere not enough data among the studies to determine whether any of the other sleeping positions could relieve breathing problems, the Cochrane reviewers found. ...NSAIDS okay for tonsillectomy, new study finds
...ildren through age 16. All of the trials analyzed whether severe bleeding that required additional surgery occurred more frequently when NSAIDS were used instead of other painkillers. However, such events are rare under any circumstances. "All the papers studied had insufficient numbers to be able to demons...Combination chemotherapy shows small survival benefit in advanced stomach cancer
...erapies, however, so "it remains an open question, whether the benefit in survival does indeed compensate for the burden of additional toxicity to be endured by the patient," Wagner says. The overall rate of toxic deaths among the studies was 2.1 percent for combination chemotherapy and 0.9 percent for singl...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
...not clinically significant, and it remains unknown whether there is a true benefit in mild to moderate cases, McShane and colleagues write. The Food and Drug Administration approved memantine for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer's dementia in 2003. The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medi...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...urotoxicants, this study was an attempt to examine whether this rapidly growing group is sensitive to even lower levels of exposure. Since the blood mercury levels in our study did not appear to be associated with adverse neurobehavioral effects, our results suggest that these levels of exposure may not pres...Being obese, underweight, associated with increased risk of death
...ES conducted during the last 40 years and examined whether long-term changes in levels of key cardiovascular risk factors have been different in overweight or obese persons compared with lean persons. The risk factors included prevalence of high cholesterol levels (240 mg/dL or greater [6.2 mmol/L or greater...No improvement in overall survival with lymph node removal in treatment of advanced ovarian cancer
... the procedure remains controversial. To determine whether systematic aortic and pelvic lymphadenectomy improves progression-free and overall survival, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici, M.D., of "La Sapienza" University in Rome, and colleagues conducted a clinical trial in which 427 patients with advanced ovarian ...Study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
... a randomized clinical trial. The investigation of whether antibiotics could be used to treat the bacteria, and therefore reduce the risk of cardiac events, was conducted at 27 different sites in the United States. All U.S. adults have been exposed to C. pneumoniae, which spreads through the air and causes p...New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
...aged 25, 45, and 65, to a questionnaire that asked whether they thought men or women (or both equally) were m...her a bias towards thinking any health experience, whether positive or negative, is more probable for one's own sex than the opposite sex thinks."...New study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
... artery disease. This led to the investigation of whether antibiotics could be used to treat the bacteria and therefore reduce the risk of cardiac events. Approximately 50 percent of U.S. adults have been exposed to C. pneumoniae at some point in their lives. It spreads through the air and can cause pneumo...... to a perfectly healthy child. It remains unsolved whether risks for birth defects vary with different drugs. One drug, valproate, has been associated with a higher risk of birth defects than some others although the reasons for this have not been completely clarified. However, for some patients, valproate ...