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It pays to quit smoking before surgery
Sep 03, 2009 |
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People who start nicotine replacement therapy at least four weeks before surgery can halve their risk of poor wound healing. This is what the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) concludes in ...
Why some prostate cancer returns
May 27, 2009 |
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The majority of men who receive one of the standard treatments for localized prostate cancer - surgery or radiation therapy - have an excellent outcome.
Oxygen therapy might ease pain of migraine, cluster headaches
Jul 16, 2008 |
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Two types of oxygen therapy could offer some relief to adults who suffer from disabling migraine and cluster headaches, according to a new research review from Australia.
Stem cell infusion and hyperbaric oxygen treatment improve islet function in diabetes
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A study to determine if patients with type 2 diabetes can benefit from a combination of autologous (patient self-donated) stem cell infusions (ASC) and hyperbaric (above the normal air pressure of ) oxygen treatment (HBO) ...
Light Reveals Breast Tumor Oxygen Status
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Light directed at a breast tumor through a needle can tell pathologists how much oxygen the tumor is consuming, and help oncologists choose treatment options that would be most effective for an individual ...
Oxygen + MRI might help determine cancer therapy success, researchers find
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Study: Added oxygen during stroke reduces brain tissue damage
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Scientists have countered findings of previous clinical trials by showing that giving supplemental oxygen to animals during a stroke can reduce damage to brain tissue surrounding the clot.
The benefits of reperfusion therapy
Sep 01, 2009 |
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The wider use of reperfusion therapy in patients with heart attack (AMI) can save millions of lives in Europe. Effective reperfusion therapy in an AMI patient can cut the individual risk of dying by half. AMI is caused by ...
Worm provides clues about preventing damage caused by low-oxygen during stroke, heart attack
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Neurobiologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified pathways that allow microscopic worms to survive in a low-oxygen, or hypoxic, environment.
'Normalizing' tumor vessels leaves cancer more benign
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A report publishing online on February 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests a counterintuitive new method to make cancer less likely to spread: by normalizing the shape of tumors' blood vessels to ...
Bioengineered proteins: Trial confirms new way to tackle cancer
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Re-engineering a protein that helps prevent tumours spreading and growing has created a potentially powerful therapy for people with many different types of cancer. In a study published in the first issue of EMBO Molecular Me ...
Long-term study shows low oxygen levels in prostate tumors can predict recurrence
May 15, 2009 |
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Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have discovered that low-oxygen regions in prostate tumors can be used to predict a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, a marker of tumor recurrence in prostate cancer. The ...
Study finds high-dose HBO2 therapy extends survival window after cardiopulmonary arrest
Jul 15, 2008 |
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A ground-breaking study by researchers at the School of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans published in the August 2008 issue of Resuscitation has major implications for the #1 cause of death of Americans -- sud ...
Helium helps lung patients breathe easier
Mar 09, 2009 |
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New research published in the international journal Chest, by Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed a mix of 60% helium and 40% oxygen during a rehabilitation progra ...
Nanoparticles Yield Safer Light-Activated Cancer Therapy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 27, 2007 |
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Photodynamic therapy, in which light activates a chemical known as a photosensitizer, triggering the production of cell-killing reactive oxygen, has proven itself as an effective therapy for a limited number of cancers.
