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New research indicates that giving patients a continuous low dose of an immune system booster, a method known as metronomic dosing, as part of a therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine strategy is safe and produces similar immune responses and fewer side effects than the more common dosing method, which is not well tolerated by many patients. This study, led by researchers at that National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of health, was published in the Aug. 15, 2008, issue of 'Clinical Cancer Research.'

Poor physical control and coordination in childhood are linked to an increased risk of obesity in later life, suggests a study published on BMJ.com today.The research contributes to a growing body of evidence on the link between poorer cognitive function in childhood and obesity and type 2 diabetes in adults.The findings are based on 11 042 individuals, who are part of the ongoing National Child Development study in Great Britain, which began in 1958.read more

The NHS and private healthcare are not providing good enough basic care to a large portion of the population in England, especially older and frailer people, according to a study published on bmj.com today.Overall, only 62% of the care recommended for older adults is actually received, conclude the authors.The large-scale independent study of quality of care involved 8 688 people aged 50 and over and looked at 13 different health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, depression and osteoarthritis.read more

Women who survive breast cancer for at least five years after treatment have an 89% chance that they will not have a recurrence of the cancer after 10 years and an 81% chance after 15 years, according to a study published online Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, USA Today reports.

Treatment with medication over time is as effective as an angioplasty, which can cost $40,000, in the alleviation of chest pain in patients with stable heart disease, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of medicine, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Younger women who smoke have more than double the risk of stroke compared to nonsmokers, with the heaviest smokers among them having nine times the risk, according to a US study published on Thursday....

Married women in India whose husbands physically and sexually abuse them are about four times more likely to contract HIV compared with married women in the country who do not experience abuse, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters UK reports. Researchers, led by Jay Silverman of the

A BiacoreT system played a key role in the discovery of a drug target for the sleeping sickness parasite T. brucei (subsp. rhodesiense and gambiense). The paper was published in Science, May 2008; 320: 677 - 681 and is the result of a collaboration between scientists at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

A new study from Germany suggests that belly size and other markers of abdominal fat may be a better predictor of stroke than body mass index (BMI). The study was the work of lead author Dr Yaroslav Winter from the University of Heidelberg and other colleagues based there and at other research and clinical centers in Germany, and is published online before print on August 14th in the journal Stroke.

A new study published in the July/August 2008 issue of Journal of Women's health highlights the importance of women knowing their own risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and cautions that a frequently used risk assessment tool could lead to false reassurance that a woman is at low risk for heart problems.