A large population of healthy people are taking Aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease, a new study out of the Faculty of Medicine (and) Dentistry shows. This trend is prevailing despite the fact that new literature shows it is not as beneficial as once thought. Olga Szafran and Mike Kolber, in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, surveyed patients over the age of 50 at two clinics in Alberta. They found that more than 40 per cent of people ...
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In improving our performance, the stick works as efficiently as the carrot. This is what a new study by a team of academics at the University of Nottingham has concluded. The study led by researchers from the University's School of Psychology has found that punishment can act as a performance enhancer in a similar way to monetary reward. "This work reveals important new information about how the brain functions that could lead to new methods ...
According to a report, a study that compared the benefits and harms of the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman ages 50 to 74 years who undergo biennial screenings have a similar risk of advanced-stage disease and a lower cumulative risk of false-positive results than those who get mammograms annually. The report was published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network ...
Very low birth weight infants, those weighing less than 3.25 pounds, account for half of infant deaths in the United States each year. Despite this, a new study released in today's issue of JAMA-Pediatrics/a documents that these critically ill infants do not receive optimal nursing care, which can lead to hospital-acquired infections that double their death rate and may result in long-term developmental issues affecting the quality of their lives as adults. These ...
Extensive research has shown that hormonal therapies can help control advanced prostate cancer for a time. However, for most men, at some point their prostate cancer eventually stops responding to further hormonal treatment. This stage of the disease is called androgen-insensitive or castration-resistant prostate cancer. In a study published March 18 in iCancer Cell/i, a team led by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) ...
