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Arthritis is a very common affliction, affecting as many as 48% of Americans over the age of 65. No curative therapies are known yet and, therefore, treatment focuses on management of symptoms and reduction of disability.
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CoQ10, ecSOD, hike! CoQ10 and CAD, MDs and DS: Are Regulations Understood?, and Fish with Sugar? O-3s and Childhood Type 1 Diabetes
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Creatine remains one of the most popular supplements for athletes, especially those lifting weights. Much evidence supports claims that creatine enhances power output during short maximal bursts of exercise, such as power lifting or sprinting. The benefit is noted particularly when the bursts are repeated intermittently in what is called interval training.
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Apart from dietary interventions, mind/body approaches are one of the most popular groups of non-pharmacological approaches for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Many types have been tried, and practitioners need to be aware of the evidence concerning the many programs that are offered to parents of children with ADHD and to adults with the disorder.
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Pills in Peds: Supplement Use in Children, Eye C? Dietary Antioxidants and ARMD, and A Fit Mind: Exercise and Depression
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The Royal Marsden randomized, double-blinded tamoxifen breast cancer prevention trial began in 1986, enrolling 2,471 women with a positive first-degree family history of breast cancer.1 The treatment group received 20 mg tamoxifen daily for 8 years.
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The author reviewed a year's worth of data from a busy hospital in France where manual rotation was liberally used. The procedure, which will be described below, was used in 796 patients, in whom 85 (9.7%) failed.
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Germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 associated with the Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer syndrome have an increased lifetime risk for breast (up to 85%) and ovarian (up to 46% BRCA1, up to 27% BRCA2) cancer.
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A team of epidemiologists from several institutions in the US performed a case-control study of the association between oral contraceptive use and lobular and ductal breast cancer occurring in young women (under age 44).
