A recent analysis at Johns Hopkins researchers suggests people with diabetes who undergo cancer surgery are more likely to die in the month following their operations than those who have cancer but not diabetes.
The study finds that newly diagnosed cancer patients - particularly those with colorectal or esophageal tumors - who also have Type 2 […]

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In a paper published in the April issue of the urology journal BJUI, urologists at a leading Irish hospital have reported an alarming increase in the number of teenage boys and young men developing mumps orchitis.
They are urging colleagues to offer the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to unvaccinated males in the 15-24 age group and educate them […]

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There are experts that always have believed that preoperative training of the pelvic floor muscles (using Kegel exercises) would be likely to improve recovery of continence after radical prostatectomy, but there have never (as far as we know) been any good data to substantiate this belief.
An Italian research at San Raffaele Turro Hospital, Milan, has […]

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According to a study at Boston University School of Medicine women with serum uric acid levels over 5 mg/dl had a significantly lower risk of developing gout than men.
This study also evaluated purported risk factors for gout and found that increasing age, obesity, hypertension, alcohol use, and diuretic use to be among leading contributor factors.
This […]

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In a recent study, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
Articles revealing the new discovery appeared in news publications around the world, focusing on the point obese patients have […]

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A research led by Dr. J. Kellogg Parsons and colleagues found significant variations in prostate cancer treatment patterns for economically disadvantaged men in California by healthcare institutions providing care for disadvantaged as opposed to non-disadvantaged men.

Private patients were 2.5 times more likely than county patients to receive radiotherapy and 4.5 times more likely than county […]

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A recent study at Iowa State University’s Nutrition and Wellness Research Center (NWRC) may give men a chance to fight high cholesterol without drugs - if they don’t mind sprinkling some flaxseed into their daily diet.
Research team examined the effects of flaxseed lignan in 90 people diagnosed with high cholesterol. The results showed that consuming […]

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Two recent studies have revealed the antioxidant properties of maple syrup as well as the discovery of substantial quantities of abscisic acid.
Findings published in the recent edition of the Journal of Medicinal Food suggest that maple syrup can substantially slow the growth of cancerous cells in the prostate and lungs and to a lesser extent […]

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Ronald G. Victor, M.D, a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute cardiologist has been recently awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The grant will be used to study whether drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction could also be used to improve muscle blood flow and reduce fatigue in muscular dystrophy patients.
The […]

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According to a new study, men with infertility issues may be more likely to develop more aggressive forms of prostate cancer than fertile men.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have found that infertile men who did develop prostate cancer were more than two-and-a-half times more likely to develop high-grade or […]

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