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Common painkillers lower levels of prostate cancer biomarker

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen appear to lower a man's PSA level, the blood biomarker widely used by physicians to help gauge whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer.





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The drink and violence ?gender gap?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women and men are at the same risk of violence - until they start drinking, new research from Cardiff University has shown.


Relatives of boys with sexual birth defects not at risk for testicular germ cell cancer

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created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Boys with the sexual birth defects known as hypospadias and cryptorchidism are at risk for developing testicular germ cell cancer, but their relatives are not, according to a new study published online December 21 in the ...


New Web tool may help predict risk of second stroke

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have developed a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke, according to research published in the December 16, 2009, online issue ...


Does Glutathione-S-transferase associate with gastrointestinal cancer in Korean population?

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) null genotypes have been linked to increased risk of developing cancer. The results regarding the association between GSTM1 and GSTT1 null ...


Kidney injury in hospital increases long-term risk of death

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with sudden loss of kidney function, called acute kidney injury (AKI), are more likely to die prematurely after leaving the hospital—even if their kidney function has apparently recovered, according to an upcoming ...


Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide, reports a new study in this week's PLoS Medicine. Katja Falland Fang Fang from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden ...


Chinese-American and Korean-American women at highest risk for diabetes in pregnancy

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of ...


Regular coffee, decaf and tea all associated with reduced risk for diabetes

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Individuals who drink more coffee (regular or decaffeinated) or tea appear to have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of ...


Study: Sticking with heart rehab boosts survival

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created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease who attended more cardiac rehabilitation sessions had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to die within four years than those who went to rehab less, researchers ...


Elevated-risk women refuse MRI breast cancer screening

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a new study published in the January issue of Radiology, 42 percent of women eligible for breast cancer screening with MRI declined to undergo the procedure.



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