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New Research Shows that Hormone Replacement Therapy Decreases Death Rates in Younger Postmenopausal Woman
For more than sixty years the HRT (hormone replacement therapy) has been widely utilized as a treatment targeting women who reached menopause and encountered estrogen deficiency. Some investigations on the hormone replacement therapy proved that when this therapy was used...
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New Research Proves that Anti-tumor Necrosis Factor Therapies Do Not Enhance the Predisposition to Cancer In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
A new investigation regarding people who suffer from RA (rheumatoid arthritis) observed that the patients did not present a high predisposition of developing malignant tumors within the first six years after beginning a treatment with the anti-TNF (tumor necrosis factor)....
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New Research on Cancer Investigates the “Asian Paradox”
Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified the H. pylori also known as Helicobacter pylori a definite carcinogen, debates regarding the fact that there is a small number of people who develop malignant gastric tumors are under way....
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Rapid Detection of Cancer and Follow-up Treatments Thanks to Groundbreaking Lab-on-chip
IMM (the Institüt für Mikrotechnik Mainz), leading European research complex in micro-fluids IMEC which is a large European research complex in nanotechnology and nano-electronics and their collaborators for the European Sixth Framework Project MASCOT managed to set the grounds for...
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Vitamin D2, Taken on a Weekly Basis, Prevents and Counteracts Vitamin D Deficiency
Scientists from BUSM (Boston University School of Medicine) discovered that 50,000 UI (International Units) of the D2 vitamin, taken on a weekly basis during a period of two months, has benefits in counteracting the deficiency of vitamin D. Quest Diagnostics...
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Common Plant Might Bring Insights On Cell Aging And Cancer
A research team coming from the Texas A&M University and the UC (University of Cincinnati) recently underwent a study regarding the association between a common plant entitled Arabidopsis and the malignant cells. The links between these two has to do...
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Short-term Treatment with Celecoxib May Prove to Bring Advantages in Preventing Gastric Carcinogenesis
In 1983 scientists managed to isolate and grow the H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori). Since then it was found that this bacteria represents an essential factor in triggering health conditions such as peptic ulcer, gastritis and gastric cancer. The COX-2 (Cyclooxgenase-2)...
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New Research on Thyroid Surgery. Safer Practices for Elderly Patients
Medical doctors state that older people who undergo a thyroid surgery present lower rates of operation related complications and few readmissions. Thus, this type of surgery is safer in the case of older people. The investigation regarding this matter ranged...
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Researchers Find a Cancer Preventing Gene in Naked Mole Rats
In spite of a thirty years life duration which enables the body`s cell to metamorphose into cancerous one, a species of rodent entitled naked mole rats has never presented such conditions. Undergoing a recent investigation, the scientists from the University...
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The Survivors of the Holocaust Present an Increased Predisposition of Developing Cancer
As a recent published research states, the Jewish people who survived the WWII and also were exposed to the Holocaust present an increased predisposition of developing cancers. This new investigation was released in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
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