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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 13 -- There are some advantages to artery-opening angioplasty over drug treatment for people with heart disease, but those advantages disappear within three years, according to the latest report on a pivotal study on the subject.Angioplasty does offer a higher quality of life for months to a couple ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 8 -- A protein produced by fat cells may play a pivotal role in increasing an older American's risk for a heart attack even if they are losing weight, a new report says.Levels of adiponectin increase in the bloodstream when people lose weight and appear to endanger the ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 8 -- Eating foods with soy protein has been promoted as a way to lower cholesterol, but a new study finds it has no significant effect on cholesterol levels.The findings "do not support the current health claims for soy protein in a general population," said study author Peter ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 7 -- Having excess fat around your heart may be more dangerous than a high body mass index or a thick waist in terms of your heart attack risk, according to new research.Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers and colleagues measured fat deposits around the heart ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 4 -- Programs to lower cholesterol from childhood on could lower rates of coronary artery disease and save lives, according to a review from a team at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.Current approaches to lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease are "too little, too ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 4 -- The widely used anti-clotting drug Plavix appears to have a stronger effect in people who smoke, a study indicates.Plavix is often given to heart attack patients after the attack. It inhibits formation of clots by blood cells called platelets.The study of 259 people given Plavix ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 14 -- Preliminary results from an early trial of a new immunotherapy suggests doctors may soon have another weapon for the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.A team of German scientists and clinicians led by Patrick Baeuerle, chief scientific officer at Micromet AG, a Munich-based biopharmaceutical company, demonstrated partial or ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 12 -- The risk of relapse can linger for some breast cancer survivors even after completing five years of what doctors call systemic therapy, a new study found.But, as gloomy as that news sounds, there is a relative bright spot: the risk may not be as dire as ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 12 -- Cancer patients are at increased risk for suicide, according to three new studies.In the first study, researchers at the University of Washington analyzed U.S. data from 1973 to 2002 and found that the suicide rate among cancer patients was 31.4 per 100,000 person-years, compared to 16.7 ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 12 -- Preliminary research has produced promising findings regarding a possible alternative treatment for people with a common type of lung cancer.The new combination of chemotherapy drugs could eventually become another option for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, which is very difficult to treat, the Japanese ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 11 -- One in five men in their 40s has had a prostate-specific antigen test in the past year, and young black men are more likely than young white men to have undergone the test, a new analysis shows.The findings, published in the Sept. 15 issue of ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 8 -- A new method of freezing damaged cells in the esophagus to prevent them from turning cancerous is being used by gastroenterologists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.A condition called Barrett's esophagus can result from ongoing heartburn, in which stomach acid constantly splashes ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 7 -- Researchers in Massachusetts have succeeded in generating several disease-specific stem cell lines which should advance both research and, one day, treatment.The lines will be made available to researchers around the world through a Harvard Stem Cell Institute "core" facility being established at Massachusetts General Hospital, institute ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 6 -- Physical activity can reduce the risk of colon cancer, but few American adults are aware of this, a new study shows.A sedentary lifestyle accounts for as many as 14 percent of all colon cancer cases in the United States. People who get lots of exercise have ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
August 6 -- A fifth of British adults who survived childhood cancers currently smoke, while almost a third were regular smokers at one time in their lives, a new study reports.Compared to the general population, adult survivors of childhood cancer have a greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease, lung ...
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