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Survival after heart attack improves in younger women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In recent years, women, particularly younger women, experienced larger improvements in hospital mortality after myocardial infarction (MI) than men, according to a study published in the Oct. 26, 2009 issue of Archives of ...


Younger men with advanced prostate cancer have shorter survival times

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

While young men with prostate cancer have a low risk of dying early, those with advanced forms of cancer do not live as long as older men with similar forms of the disease. That is the conclusion of a new study published ...


Researchers find medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use may benefit from brief intervention

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that some medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use may benefit from a brief intervention. The BUSM study appears in the May issue of Journal of St ...


Quality of life may impact coping strategies of young women with breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Numerous studies have shown a relationship between coping strategies and quality of life (QOL) among women with breast cancer. In a study published today in the online edition of Journal of Behavioral Medicine, an invest ...


Younger men with erectile dysfunction at double risk of heart disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study.


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Charcoal evidence tracks climate changes in Younger Dryas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A new study reports that charcoal particles left by wildfires in sediments of 35 North American lake beds don't readily support the theory that comets exploding over the continent 12,900 years ago sparked ...


Study shows younger women with endometrial cancer can safely keep ovaries, avoid early menopause

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the largest study to date on the safety of ovarian preservation in women aged 45 and younger who were surgically treated for early-stage endometrial cancer, researchers have found that there is no survival benefit associated ...


Researchers find that healthy, younger adults could be at risk for heart disease

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created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even younger adults who have few short-term risk factors for heart disease may have a higher risk of developing heart disease over their lifetimes, according to new findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.


Old and young brains rely on different systems to remember emotional content

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated with negative emotions.


Panic attacks linked to higher risk of heart attacks and heart disease, especially in younger people

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

People who have been diagnosed with panic attacks or panic disorder have a greater risk of subsequently developing heart disease or suffering a heart attack than the normal population, with higher rates occurring in younger ...


Intense chemotherapy wards off recurrence in half of mantle cell lymphoma patients after seven years

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than half of younger mantle cell lymphoma patients who received an intensive regimen of chemotherapy as frontline treatment remain in remission seven years later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Old as you want to be: Study finds most seniors feel younger

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age. That is one of the findings of a study forthcoming in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science. The researchers analyzed the respon ...


Sex differences narrow in death after heart attack, study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In recent years, women, particularly younger women, experienced larger improvements in hospital mortality after myocardial infarction than men, according to a new study.


Older renal cancer patients appear to benefit from sorafenib treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older and younger patients with renal cancer derive similar benefit from sorafenib therapy and tolerate the drug equally well, according to a study published online October 7 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Cholesterol drugs lower risk of stroke for elderly too

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created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elderly people who take a cholesterol drug after a stroke or mini-stroke lower their risk of having another stroke just as much as younger people in the same situation, according to research published in the September 3, ...