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Fifteen Minute Immobilization After Artificial Insemination Is Beneficial
Research published today on bmj.com reports that women who lie on their backs for fifteen minutes after artificial insemination have a "significantly higher" chance of getting pregnant than women who move around straight after treatment. Lead author Dr Inge Custers from the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam and colleagues are now recommending that all women undergoing intrauterine insemination should be offered fifteen minutes of immobilization after the procedure.
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Tai Chi Exercise Reduces Knee Osteoarthritis Pain In The Elderly
Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine have determined that patients over 65 years of age with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who engage in regular Tai Chi exercise improve physical function and experience less pain. Tai Chi (Chuan) is a traditional style of Chinese martial arts that features slow, rhythmic movements to induce mental relaxation and enhance balance, strength, flexibility, and self-efficacy.
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Natural Products Foundation Representatives Meet With Federal Regulators On Truth In Advertising Campaign
The Natural Products Foundation (NPF) recently met with officials from both U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to turn over the names of 10 companies that have continued to make drug or disease claims in their advertising and other promotional materials. These meetings were part of an ongoing effort through the foundation's Truth in Advertising (TIA) program, which aims to first educate advertisers to help them bring their advertising into compliance.
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Chicago Fertility Clinic Offers Baby Or Your Money Back Guarantee
A new study has confirmed anecdotal reports that the recession has caused a decline in fertility treatments across the country. With price being the major deterrent, the report indicates that
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Embryonic Stem Cells Transformed Into Human Germ Cells
Researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health have discovered how to transform human embryonic stem cells into germ cells, the embryonic cells that ultimately give rise to sperm and eggs. The advance will allow researchers to observe human germ cells - previously inaccessible - in laboratory dishes. "This achievement opens a new window into what was only recently a hidden stage of human development," said Susan B. Shurin, M.D.
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Mortality Rates Reduced Among Children Whose Mothers Received Iron-folic Acid Supplements
Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations, including the multiple micronutrient supplement, did not confer the same benefit. Nearly 40 percent of pregnant women worldwide are estimated to be anemic.
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More People Rely On Alternative Medicine
As consumers look to save money in a tough economy, many turn to alternative health care options. CBS 4 reports: "Health care costs are soaring. Thousands of people are without jobs and without the benefits afforded them. Now, those people are turning to preventative or alternative measures. ...
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Propolis Has Proved To Be A Product With Ability To Have Beneficial Effects For Health
Growing concerns about health has caused the scientific community to focus their interest on investigating functional foods which contribute to boosting the prevention and reduction of the risk of suffering from certain illnesses. The benefits of this product lies in its composition and, thus, its study, identification and subsequent extraction provides a useful tool which enables making high added-value products, given their high concentration of biologically active compounds.
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New Bcl-2 Inhibitor Shows Promise In Cell Death In Prostate Cancer
In trying to better predict a patient's response to chemotherapy for cancer treatment, a team of investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has identified a way to better manipulate a gene product to cause cancer cells to die. And in order to further examine this mechanism, researchers also created a new vehicle for pre-clinical testing of cancer treatments that acts as a bridge between experimental models and human subjects.
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Replication Of Prostate Cancer Risk Loci In A Japanese Case-Control Association Study
Genome-wide association studies can identify genetic allele variants of low penetrance that are strongly associated with cancer. This has been reported for prostate cancer (CaP) in a cohort of men with European ancestry. In the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Yamada and associates evaluate the association of 23 risk single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and clinical characteristics with CaP in a cohort of Japanese men.
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Why Are Pretreatment Prostate-specific Antigen Levels And Biochemical Recurrence Poor Predictors Of Prostate Cancer Survival?
UroToday.com - In the online edition of Cancer, Dr. James Denham and colleagues evaluated the initial, pretreatment PSA (iPSA) level as a prognostic predictor of prostate cancer (CaP) survival. A cohort of 802 patients from Australia and New Zealand received radiotherapy (XRT) with either 0, 3, or 6 months of neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Trial endpoints were biochemical recurrence free survival (BRFS) and prostate cancer specific survival (PCSS).
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Biochemical Recurrence Rate In Patients With Positive Surgical Margins At Radical Prostatectomy With Further Negative Resected Tissue
UroToday.com - At the time of radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer, a positive surgical margin (SM) increases the likelihood of PSA biochemical recurrence (BCR). Some surgeons use frozen section analysis at the time of surgery, and if positive, then resect more periprostatic tissue. In the September 2009 of the British Journal of Urology International, Dr.
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Critical Role Of The Bone Microenvironment In Cancer Metastases - Treating Bone Metastases In Prostate Cancer Patients
UroToday.com - Most men with advanced, hormone refractory prostate cancer have metastases which occur preferentially in the skeleton (1). Why is this bad? Bone metastases are incurable and cause skeletal-related events (SREs) that contribute substantial morbidity: fractures, nerve compression, and severe bone pain. The linked article describes the basic mechanisms that drive bone metastases in a variety of solid tumors.
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Randomized Trial Of External Beam Radiotherapy Versus Cryoablation In Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer: Quality Of Life Outcomes
UroToday.com - In the online edition of Cancer, Dr. John Robinson and associates present QoL outcomes from a single institution randomized trial comparing external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with cryotherapy for localized prostate cancer (CaP). They previously reported a non-inferiority oncologic outcome for cryotherapy in this study. The trial ran from 1997 to 2003, and 122 CaP patients were randomized to EBRT and 122 to cryotherapy.
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Age At Orchiopexy And Testis Palpability Predict Germ And Leydig Cell Loss: Clinical Predictors Of Adverse Histological Features Of Cryptorchidism
UroToday.com - The association between undescended testes and impaired fertility has been well-studied and well-described. 1-5 Given the readily identifiable anatomic abnormality and the low-risk of surgical intervention, the recommended age at which boys with cryptorchidism undergo orchiopexy has been lowered over the years; currently, most experts recommend orchiopexy prior to 12 months of age.
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A Pollen Extract (Cernilton) In Patients With Inflammatory Chronic Prostatitis-chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome - Phase III Study
UroToday.com - The prostatitis syndrome is a remarkably prevalent condition, frequently seen by urologists, and with a high impact on life quality. This study investigated the safety and efficacy of Cernilton, a standardized pollen extract, versus placebo, in men with inflammatory chronic prostatitis-chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP-CPPS, National Institutes of Health (NIH) type IIIA). The pathophysiology of CP-CPPS is currently not well understood.
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Impact Of Surgical And Medical Castration On Serum Testosterone Level In Prostate Cancer Patients
UroToday.com - Until the development of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), bilateral orchidectomy was the only way to achieve castration. Nowadays ADT can be considered a benchmark in the treatment of prostate cancer and it has been postulated that gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are able to reduce testosterone to obtain a level as low as bilateral orchidectomy. Different GnRH agonists are currently available.
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Racial Differences In Trust And Regular Source Of Patient Care And The Implications For Prostate Cancer Screening Use
UroToday.com - The goal of our study, published in the journal Cancer, was to gain a deeper understanding of the role of racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes. We found that Caucasian (white) men more often tended to be seen regularly by the same physician, which appears to be associated with greater trust in their doctors and in physicians in general.
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Officials Question Validity Of Community Research Center Cancer Studies
The New York Times reports that the whistleblowing of a former vice president of a research hospital in Urbana, Ill., has highlighted some questionable research practices at certain community cancer research sites.
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Yoga And Tai Chi As Pathways To Better Health
For an investment of 20 minutes each morning, the payback is reduced stress, a sense of calm and peace, improved strength, limberness, better immune function and lower blood pressure. It's not too good to be true. The investment is practicing yoga or tai chi, which were developed and revised over many centuries.
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