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ROCHESTER, Minn., March 2 (UPI) — Medications can reduce low-density lipoprotein — the bad cholesterol — but lifestyle choices can also greatly help, according to a U.S. health organization.
Losing just 5 to 10 pounds of excess weight can lower total cholesterol levels, and exercising 30 to 60 minutes a day can drive down […]
SAO PAOLO, Brazil, March 2 (UPI) — Using both immunotherapy and chemotherapy to treat malignant melanoma has not been found to improve survival rates, according to a Brazilian review.
Study leader Dr. Andre Sasse of the research center Onco-Evidencias in Sao Paolo reviewed 18 studies of 2,625 patients who were treated with either chemotherapy […]
UTRECHT, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) — A Dutch meta-analysis found no clear benefit from the hormone glucocorticoids used to enhance the effectiveness of infertility treatments.
“This meta-analysis shows that empirical use of glucocorticoids is not supported by evidence from studies,” said lead review author Carolien Boomsma, a researcher at the University Medical Centre Utrecht […]
LOS ANGELES, March 2 (UPI) — Few primary-care practitioners in Los Angeles offer HIV tests or safer-sex advice to their Hispanic patients, according to a study.
The study, published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, found 41 percent of the primary-care doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants had regularly offered advice about […]
PONDICHERRY, India, March 2 (UPI) — Researchers in India say lymphatic filariasis, which causes limbs and genitals to fill with fluid and swell, could be treated by treating salt with a drug.
In a systematic review of 21 studies, Srividya Adinarayanan of the Vector Control Research Center in Pondicherry, India, found that DEC-medicated salt — […]
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