In a randomized trial of 131 children with perforated appendicitis, appendectomy within 24 hours cut time away from normal activities to 13.8 days from 19.4 and lowered the adverse event rate to 30 percent from 55 percent, compared with surgery 6 to 8 weeks after diagnosis.
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Bone building drugs help fight against cancer
In a population-based case-control study of 933 pairs of postmenopausal Israeli women, taking oral bisphosphonates for more than a year before diagnosis was linked to about half the relative risk of colorectal cancer. Use of less than a year showed no such association.
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60 Lab Studies Now Confirm Cancer Link to a Vaccine You Probably Had as a Child
Mercola revisits a cut interview in which Merck vaccine developer Maurice Hilleman said the company's vaccines had carried dangerous simian viruses worldwide. He also argues Gardasil has never been shown to prevent cancer, citing 20,915 US adverse-reaction reports through December 2010.
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The Common Drug that Destroys Your Memory
Dr. Duane Graveline, a family doctor and former astronaut, recounts starting Lipitor in 1999 and suffering an episode of transient global amnesia six weeks later that left him unable to form new memories for about six hours. He then came out of retirement to study statins.
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Chest radiation boosts death risk from heart disease
A study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found women who received chest radiation for breast cancer faced up to a 76% higher risk of dying from heart disease over 28 years than untreated women. Radiation's vascular damage is rarely publicized, the piece notes.
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Should Your Kid Be on Statins or GERD Medicine?
An eight-year-old on Crestor, Atacand, Protonix, Axert and Singulair opens this look at IMS Health data: since 2001, children's prescriptions have risen 17% for blood pressure drugs, 42% for respiratory drugs, 150% for diabetes drugs and 147% for heartburn medicines.
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Avastin and chemo could be a fatal combo
A JAMA meta-analysis of 16 randomized trials with over 10,000 patients found fatal adverse events in 2.5% of those given bevacizumab with chemotherapy against 1.7% on chemotherapy alone, a 1.5-fold higher risk that was greatest with taxanes or platinum agents.
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These Popular Drugs Can Make You Violent – Avoid Them
A study identified 31 drugs disproportionately linked with violent behavior. Time's top ten start with the anti-smoking drug Chantix, 18 times more likely than other drugs to be tied to violence, followed by Prozac, Paxil, amphetamines and several other antidepressants.
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Statins Raise Stroke Risk
Researchers reported in Archives of Neurology that people who have had a bleeding stroke face a higher risk of a second one on statins: 22 percent among those with lobar strokes taking the drugs against 14 percent among those not. Why statins raise the bleeding risk is unclear.
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It's Not Too Late to Get Your Flu Vaccine
The CDC says flu season usually peaks in January or February and can run into April or May, so there is still time to be vaccinated. Everyone six months and older is advised to get a shot each season; FluMist nasal spray is an option from age 2, and many children need two doses.
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Was Early Menopause Hormone More Pharma Spin?
Researchers reported that women on hormone therapy are 60 percent more likely to die from lung cancer if they develop it, yet a Wyeth executive kept promoting Prempro. Hormone makers push a timing theory, urging women to start therapy earlier, to revive sales that sank in 2002.
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Acupuncture may help depression in postmenopausal women
In a 12-week trial of 72 postmenopausal women with hot flashes, both groups reported fewer depressive symptoms, and the acupuncture group saw a 54 percent reduction. Depressive symptoms tracked with sleep problems and self-reported health, not hot flash frequency.
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Study - Breast cancer screening guidelines from ACS are better
Colorado and Michigan researchers reanalyzed the same data the USPSTF and the American Cancer Society used and found women starting annual mammograms at 40 would see breast cancer deaths fall 40 percent, against 23 percent for those starting at 50.
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Shunt may improve quality of life for dementia patients
In a Gothenburg study, seven patients with dementia from white matter changes and hydrocephalus got a working shunt and seven a non-functioning one. Those with the working shunt improved in mental function and walking at once; the others improved only after three months.
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Biomarkers may effectively help diagnose melanoma
Researchers profiled DNA methylation in melanoma and mole tissue and pinpointed sites on 22 genes whose methylation differs between melanomas and non-melanoma lesions, plus 12 locations highly predictive of melanoma, suggesting a methylation test could aid earlier, more accurate diagnosis.
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COPD therapy boosts heart disease risk
Swedish researchers followed 7,628 COPD patients who started long-term oxygen therapy between 1987 and 2004 and found deaths from cardiovascular and digestive disease rising over that span while deaths from respiratory disease and lung cancer fell.
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Birth control pills don't cause weight gain
Oregon Health & Science University researchers gave rhesus macaques human-equivalent doses of oral contraceptives for eight months and saw no change in food intake, activity or lean muscle mass. Normal-weight monkeys held steady; obese ones lost 8.5% of their weight.
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Protein fights inflammatory disease
Nature Immunology reports a protein that acts as a master switch deciding whether certain white blood cells amplify or damp down inflammation. Researchers at Imperial College London and collaborating institutions say the finding may aid the search for rheumatoid arthritis drugs.
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