The panel stopped short of recommending that all men take the drug because clinical trials have not yet shown that it reduces deaths.
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among men, behind lung cancer, with 186,000 new cases diagnosed and 28,660 deaths each year.
Finasteride is used in low doses under the brand name Propecia as an anti-balding drug and in higher doses under the name Proscar for shrinking enlarged prostate Read the rest of this entry »
, a time to raise awareness about one of the deadliest killers on the planet: heart disease.
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But there are plenty of things Americans can do to improve their chances when it comes to heart health.
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, the director for women and heart disease at the Heart and Vascular Institute of Lenox Hill Hospital, joined “Good Morning America” to share her top five lifestyle changes that could keep Americans just a little healthier. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government and the richest
charity are offering bounties to a new wave of scientists to
wipe out HIV, the virus that causes AIDS and is one of the
world’s biggest killers.
Frustrated by one failure after another, the U.S. is asking
scientists to outline a major program to find a cure for HIV,
while the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle is offering
grants of $100,000 for researchers working on ways to drive Read the rest of this entry »
The panel stopped short of recommending that all men take the drug because clinical trials have not yet shown that it reduces deaths.
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among men, behind lung cancer, with 186,000 new cases diagnosed and 28,660 deaths each year.
Finasteride is used in low doses under the brand name Propecia as an anti-balding drug and in higher doses under the name Proscar for shrinking enlarged prostate Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 29, 2008
– Local Milwaukee fat loss expert BJ Gaddour, CSCS, is the founder of Get Sexy Boot Camps, Milwaukee’s premier fitness boot camps for men and women. He has helped countless people prevent the holiday weight gain that so many busy Americans succumb to at this busy and stressful time of year.
Gaddour claims: “There are a bunch of handy damage control diet strategies that you should employ to best prevent yourself from overdoing Read the rest of this entry »
Alzheimer’s disease is a serious yet incurable brain disease affecting an estimated 4.5 million Americans. A recent study suggests that taking ginkgo biloba supplements is useless in helping the elderly prevent the disease.
The finding does not apply to all people at all ages although it does suggest that ginkgo may not be effective against the development and or progression of Alzheimer’s disease in people age 75 or older, at least Read the rest of this entry »
The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren’t helpful in protecting users against heart disease.
“At least in the context of two very common outcomes — cardioprotection and chemoprevention — we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Howard Sesso, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Read the rest of this entry »
The
traditional Cretan Mediterranean-style diet, based on a variety of plant foods,
may help prevent prostate cancer, according to a
review.
The researchers showed
that dietary intake of fruits, vegetables, wholegrain cereals, nuts and legumes
along with olive oil as the main source of fat may provide protection against
cancer. Moreover, low intake of red meat, moderate to low intake of dairy foods,
moderate to high intake of fish and moderate Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) — Selenium, vitamin E and vitamin C won’t prevent men from getting prostate cancer.
In findings that were released early because of the public health implications, the results of two large randomized, controlled clinical trials showed the supplements failed to provide a cancer-prevention benefit, despite past findings that seemed to indicate great promise — particularly for selenium. Both studies were expected Read the rest of this entry »
ROCKVILLE, Md — October 10, 2008 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new use for antihemophilic factor recombinant (Kogenate FS) to reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes and prevent joint damage in children with haemophilia A.
“Administering [the drug] to children with haemophilia A on a daily basis before a bleeding event occurs will reduce bleeding into joints and help prevent joint damage, a major cause of disability Read the rest of this entry »