Carried out by various Canadian universities, the study titled “Cancer-treatment induced bone loss in breast and prostate cancer” says the loss of bone mass in patients treated for prostate cancer can lead to osteoporosis and bone fractures.
They also found that men who received androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer had an increased risk of bone […]

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Dr David Gillen, medical director for the drug company Pfizer, warned men were more likely to “bypass” the NHS in order to obtain treatments anonymously.
A survey by Pfizer of 900 men over 35 found one in 10 had bought prescription medicines without a script.
The UK’s medical regulator said buying medicines online was not illegal, but […]

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Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge say new understanding about how to control autoimmune responses offers promise in efforts to develop treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), British researchers say.
RA — a painful, inflammatory form of arthritis — occurs when the body’s immune system attacks itself. A molecule called Foxp3 […]

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CANCER patients will be allowed to buy drugs privately without giving up their right to free NHS care, the government is poised to announce tomorrow.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson is expected to bow to patient power by ripping up rules that forbid payments for “top-up” drugs not available on the health service.
Currently, patients who opt to […]

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Men with low libido may soon be able to derive benefits from testosterone therapy, as many international organisations have updated their guidelines regarding the use of supplements of this hormone.
The International Association for the Study of the Aging Male, the International Society of Andrology, the European Association of Urology, and the American Society of Andrology […]

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A Cuban vaccine for advanced lung cancer therapy was certified by the Center for State Control of Drugs, said doctor Gisela Gonzalez, specialist of the Center of Molecular Immunology.
The vaccine named CimaVax-EGF passed several clinical tests and showed security and improvement in the quality of life of patients bearing some variants of these tumors.
The research […]

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A new study at Mayo Clinic says women appear to respond better than men to chronic pain treatment, and men who smoke appear to receive even less of benefit.
Previous studies had shown that smokers generally do not benefit as much as nonsmokers from pain management, mostly because their physical health is worse going into the […]

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A new study found no link between the use of a drug to treat an enlarged prostate and an increase in hip fractures in men.
 
The study, published in the Oct. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, does not completely clear the class of medications known as 5-a reductase inhibitors, because it […]

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A new study found no link between the use of a drug to treat an enlarged prostate and an increase in hip fractures in men.
The study, published in the Oct. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, does not completely clear the class of medications known as 5-a reductase inhibitors, because it […]

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Men receiving hormone-deprivation therapy for advanced but localized prostate cancer can develop bone loss as a side effect of the treatment.
But a new study finds that bone-strengthening drugs such as Fosamax (generic name alendronate) can help prevent that damage.

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