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In the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition study, the researchers investigated whether a varied consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with lower lung cancer risk. According to the researchers, different fruits and vegetables contain many different bioactive compounds. However, none of the previous studies of fruit and vegetable consumption ...

In the survival comparison of adjuvant trial for pancreatic cancer between fluorouracil and gemcitabine, the researchers found that there is no better improvement of overall survival from treated by gemcitabine (Gemzar) than fluorouracil plus folinic acid. The study results, showed the median survival treated by gemcitabine was 23.6 months, and 23.0 ...

At the 23rd European College of Neuropsychoparmacology (ECNP) Congress, a researcher reported that there is significant increased the risk of incident psychotic symptoms in individual with no prior history of psychotic experiences due to use of cannabis. The researchers, Cecile Henquet, PhD, from the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at the ...

Women with fibromyalgia can take benefits from low-frequency vibration cause from recent findings said those vibration can improves their dynamic balance. The study involved 41 women aged 41 to 65 years who were randomized either to the vibration intervention or control group, which included a 30-minute session of instruction plus 3 ...

Although considerably low, however people who had migraine with aura (a perceptual disturbance experienced before a migraine headache) should be careful cause recent findings said that it increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and hemorrhagic stroke. Published in August 25, 2010 in the BMJ, according to the authors of the ...

According to the researchers, it is less known of Waist Circumference (WC; a measure of abdominal obesity) may had linked to all-cause mortality regardless of body mass index (BMI) or at very high levels of WC. In the August issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study authors, Eric J. ...

As August issue in the Obstetrics & Gynecology, the investigator reported that pregnant women with mild thyroid dysfunction had 3-fold risk of placental abruption compared those without that dysfunction. In the study, investigators analyzed 17,298 serum samples from pregnant women with apparently normal thyroids function and found antithyroid peroxidase antibodies in ...

The men who had insomnia should be carefully caused it could increased the risk of death by 4-fold compared those had normal sleep (at least 6 hours per night). Moreover, when the insomnia patients with underlying diabetes or with high blood pressure. Based on current 14-year study results that published in September ...

Leuprorelin or leuprolide acetate is gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist). Although from subgroup analysis, it might benefit to patients with disease duration of less than 10 years, however, the researchers found that leuprorelini does not appear to improve swallowing function in patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). However, according to ...

Due to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in men with prostate cancer increase the risk both fragility and non-fragility fractures based on recent findings, therefore the researchers suggest supplementation with calcium and vitamin D needed to reduce fracture risk, unless they have contraindications. In addition, lead author of the study, Dr. Shabbir ...

The hypothesis that personality has an effect on cancer risk or cancer survival should be terminated caused recent report said that studies so far failed to find any epidemilogical evidence. As August 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, psychologist concluded that cancer patients should not think that their personality ...