Tamoxifen can reduce breast pain in prostate cancer patients
...herapy for prostate cancer. They recruited 151 men who had received primary treatment for prostate cancer from five Italian centres between January 2002 and February 2004. 51 patients were randomly assigned to 150 mg bicalutamide only per day, 50 patients to 150 mg bicalutamide per day and 10 mg tamoxife...University of Chicago receives grant to study connections between religious beliefs and health
...th, according to University of Chicago researchers who are launching the first comprehensive study to exa...ers' initial discoveries is that African Americans who say they have a strong relationship with God were significantly less likely to report depressive sym...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ery. A prospective study of the first 25 patients who had surgery to install the ring shows that it redu... of Michigan Cardiovascular Center cardiac surgeon who presented the results on behalf of the research team, and by Italian cardiac surgeon Ottavio Alfieri...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...ave developed cancer. Meanwhile, millions of women who are already infected must be screened and treated.... Anne Szarewski of the charity Cancer Research UK, who is helping to organise one of the vaccine trials, is that men who get vaccinated to prevent disfigur...Smoking doubles risk of degenerative eye condition
...ely to be visually impaired as non-smokers. Those who had kicked the habit more than 20 years previously...at risk. Based on the numbers of people in the UK who are blind or who are partially sighted as a result of macular degeneration, the authors calculated t...British Asian women have lower risk of breast cancer than all other women
...ed the health and survival of almost 116,000 women who had been diagnosed with primary invasive breast cancer in England and Wales between 1986 and 1990, using information supplied to the National Cancer Registry. Their progress was monitored until 1995. The Asian women were much younger than other women...Prenatal sonography has no effect on the intellectual capacity of the developing child
... epidemiological studies have shown that young men who had been exposed to in utero ultrasonic scans are ...litary service. When researchers compared the boys who had been scanned with those that had not, it transpired that intellectual capacity was lower in thos...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
... double the risk of men in the same circumstances, who ran nearly a fourfold risk. But men who had lost their partner to suicide were 46 times as likely to commit suicide themselves. This was aro...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...e breathing. But only about 30 percent of patients who are prescribed inhaled steroids refill their presc...What we can say is that the patients in our study, who all had mild asthma, did not have many severe attacks, and did not seem to be losing pulmonary funct...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
...people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), those who took the drug donepezil were at reduced risk of pr...s have shown that approximately eight in 10 people who meet criteria for amnestic MCI progress to AD within 6 years of diagnosis and that people with the A...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
... Jefferson Medical College has found that patients who had an initial seizure within the first four month...o do as well in the long term as those individuals who did not. "A patient has surgery to remove some brain tissue, hoping to cure his epilepsy, and has a ...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...rocess as early as possible, buying time for those who may later progress." Dr. Petersen and his co-inves...essing to Alzheimer's disease compared to patients who took placebo, an inactive pill. Although the patients treated with donepezil initially progressed to...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
... -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that people who score in the upper 25 percent in anxiety level on ...wer. "These are the chronic worriers -- the people who worry about things that most people don't seem to worry about. Those are the people we're saying hav...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...e-year, multi-center study found that participants who were treated with corticosteroids intermittently b...on that the new findings might not apply to people who have recently developed asthma. In addition, they do not apply to patients with more frequent sympto...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...ociate is Denise M. Gibo with Wake Forest Baptist, who contributed in a major way to the work on Fra-1 in brain tumors. "She was the first to spot that Fra-1 is elevated in glioblastomas ," said Debinski. The goal of the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence, which was formed in 2003, is to find better treatm...Spirituality, religious practice may slow progression of Alzheimer's disease
..., 2005. The study assessed 68 people aged 49 to 94 who met criteria for probable Alzheimer's disease. Rel...ive decline," said study author Yakir Kaufman, MD, who conducted the research as a fellow at of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto, Ontario ...Essential tremor associated with increased risk of dementia
... times more likely to develop dementia than people who did not have the movement disorder. "This is the first study to suggest that essential tremor is associated with the development of dementia," said study author Julin Benito-Leon, MD, PhD, of Mostoles General Hospital in Madrid, Spain. "We don't yet ...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...iminates the major source of estrogen." Even women who received estrogen treatment after the surgery, rec... The Mayo Clinic investigators studied 1,202 women who had both ovaries surgically removed and 1,283 women who had one ovary surgically removed. All women ...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
...bilize U.S. health professionals and other experts who can train and work alongside their counterparts in developing countries to tackle the pandemic. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing beginning at 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 19, in Room 105 of the National Academies' Keck Cent...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
... event brings together pioneers of the NP movement who will share stories about their experiences over the past 40 years and their views on what the nurse practitioner role will be 40 years from now. While the conference has been shortened to four and a half days, the new format offers more clinical and ...