Appendix isn’t useless at all: It’s a safe house for bacteria
Public release date: 8-Oct-2007 DURHAM, N.C. – Long denigrated as vestigial or useless, the appendix now appears to have a reason to be – as a “safe house” for the…
Prostate cancer therapy linked to increased risk of heart disease death
Public release date: 9-Oct-2007 The use of androgen deprivation therapy to treat localized prostate cancer is associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease, according to a study…
Protein enhances lethality of influenza virus
Public release date: 10-Oct-2007 It is relatively rare for an influenza virus to be virulent enough to cause death in healthy humans. Many deaths associated with influenza are caused by…
Cancer conflict with chemotherapy treatment
Public release date: 10-Oct-2007 Young women suffering from breast cancer do not necessarily benefit from chemotherapy treatment Women under the age of forty with breast cancer who are given drugs…
Obesity boosts gullet cancer risk 6-fold
Public release date: 10-Oct-2007 Obese people are six times as likely to develop gullet (oesophageal) cancer as people of ‘healthy’ weight, shows research published ahead of print in the journal…
Red Wine and Grape Juice Help Defend Against Food-Borne Diseases, according to MU Researchers
Public release date: 10-Oct-2007 COLUMBIA, Mo. – Red wine is known to have multiple health benefits. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found that red wine may also protect…
Patients can’t recall their medications to tell doctors
Public release date: 11-Oct-2007 New research from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has found that nearly 50 percent of patients taking antihypertensive drugs in three community health centers were…
Study measures impact on productivity from functional gastrointestinal disorders
Public release date: 15-Oct-2007 Impairment from chronic digestive problems amounts to 1 lost day per week Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2007— Those who suffer from common functional gastrointestinal disorders face…
2 studies highlight the risks and significant health-care costs of NSAIDs injury
Public release date: 15-Oct-2007 Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2007 – Patients underreported their use of common but potentially dangerous over-the-counter pain medications known as NSAIDs, according to research presented at…
Americans spend most on Lipitor, drug survey finds
Public release date: 12-Sep-2007 (updated 2004 figure’s) Lipitor - 9 Billion Zocor - 4.7 Billion Nexium - 4.2 Billion Prevacid - 2.4 Billion Zoloft - 1.9 Billion Plavix -…
Less than one-third of women aware of landmark hormone therapy study, Stanford researcher finds
Public release date: 18-Sep-2007 STANFORD, Calif. - Despite the huge publicity generated by a 2002 study on the potential dangers of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women, new research from…
Vaccine tied to ‘superbug’ ear infection
Public release date: 17-Sep-2007 CHICAGO --A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause…
Pomegranate juice: Tart, trendy, and targeted on prostate cancer cells
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Researchers in California are reporting new evidence explaining pomegranate juice’s mysterious beneficial effects in fighting prostate cancer. In a study…
How much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by drug companies?
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Drug companies control or shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of a large proportion of the medical literature, and they do so…
Researchers say lack of sleep doubles risk of death… but so can too much sleep
Public Release: 24-Sep-2007 Researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London, have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.…
Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids associated with decreased risk of type 1 diabetes
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 Preliminary research suggests that in children at increased risk for type 1 diabetes, dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with a reduced risk of…
Tufts University biologists link Huntington’s disease to health benefits in young
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral…
Sense of taste different in women with anorexia nervosa
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that…
Why don’t painkillers work for people with fibromyalgia?
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 Research may explain why common drugs don't help ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they…
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