Posts Tagged ‘Journal Of The American Medical Association’

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

27th October 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

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But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that [...]

Study: New Prostate Cancer Surgery Technique Is More Risky

16th October 2009 by admin No Comments

The risk of losing sexual function and urine control may be greater in men who have prostate cancer surgery designed to reduce blood loss and hospital stays than those having traditional operations, a Harvard researcher reported Tuesday.

The technique, in which surgeons make three or four small cuts in the abdomen, is used in [...]

Eating Light on the Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Depression: Study

10th October 2009 by admin No Comments

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The celebrated Mediterranean diet of fish, lean meats, vegetables and olive oils now has another point in its favor: it may prevent the blues.

Feeling depressed?
Go Mediterranean.
Spanish researchers have found that the Mediterranean diet – already effective at battling heart disease and cancer – also has a positive effect on mood, according a report published in [...]

Minimally Invasive Surgery Not Better for Sciatica

9th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Minimally invasive surgery for the excruciating back pain that can be caused by sciatica didn’t work as well as the conventional procedure in a Dutch study.
“The expected treatment benefit of a faster rate of recovery from sciatica after tubular diskectomy could not be reproduced by this double-blind study,” according to a report in the July [...]

Fat-Cell Protein May Reduce Diabetes Risk

7th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Higher levels of a protein created by fat cells are associated with a lessened risk of type 2 diabetes.
The protein, adiponectin, appears to have anti-inflammatory and insulin-sensitizing capabilities, according to a study published in the July 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“Our finding was that adiponectin is associated with a low [...]

Weight-loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Risks in Women

24th June 2009 by admin 3 Comments

Weight-loss surgery may help obese women lower their risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday.
They found women who had weight-loss surgery were 42 percent less likely to develop cancer during a 10-year study published in the journal Lancet Oncology.
Men in the study did not benefit, possibly because many cancers are driven by female [...]