Study weighs benefits of transplants for leukemia
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Jan 31, 2010 | Comments Off
LONDON (Reuters) – Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.
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But patients with acute forms the blood cancer appear to do better if they have bone marrow as opposed to blood stem cell transplants, the scientists said, suggesting that for...
Diet changes improve older adults’ cholesterol too
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Jan 29, 2010 | Comments Off
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older adults can cut their cholesterol levels by revamping their dietary fat intake — even if they are already on cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study finds.
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Conventional wisdom holds that people should follow a healthy diet and get regular exercise to help control their cholesterol and triglycerides, another type of harmful blood fat. But there has actually...
Basilea to continue late-stage antifungal study
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Jan 29, 2010 | Comments Off
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss biotechnology group Basilea said it would resume recruitment of patients into a late-stage trial of an antifungal treatment in the first half of 2010 after a U.S. safety panel recommended the study’s continuation.
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Topline data from the Phase III clinical trial of isavuconazole for treatment of life-threatening invasive Aspergillus mold infections should become available...
Plant flavanoid may help prevent leukemia
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Jan 28, 2010 | Comments Off
LONDON (Reuters) – Eating foods like celery and parsley which contain the naturally occurring flavanoid apigenin may help prevent leukemia, Dutch scientists said Thursday.
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Maikel Peppelenbosch of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands said tests showed that apigenin — a common component of fruit and vegetables — was able to halt the development of...
Avoid extremes in diabetes treatment, study finds
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Jan 26, 2010 | Comments Off
LONDON (Reuters) – Moderation appears to be the best approach to controlling blood sugar in a form of diabetes that affects many adults, researchers said Wednesday, since lowering it too far can be as risky as letting it stay too high.
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The scientists also found that people suffering from type 2 diabetes who used insulin to get blood sugar levels down to near normal were 50 percent more likely to die...
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