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The study, which included 6,000 Wisconsin women aged 20 to 69, found that those who took bisphosphonate drugs such as Fosamax, Boniva and Zometa for more than two years were 40 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than were women who did not take the drugs. However, the protective effective was seen only among women who were not obese. "Obese women may have elevated estrogen ...

The new hope comes from three studies being presented this week at the annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco. "Genitourinary cancers include cancers of the prostate, kidney, bladder and testicles," Dr. Nicholas J. Vogelzang, chairman and medical director of the developmental therapeutics committee at U.S. Oncology, explained at a Wednesday teleconference announcing the ...

"We think it [angiotensin] is one of the most important factors determining healthy blood vessels and also acts in the brain to help neurons to be a little more resilient," said Dr. Benjamin Wolozin, a professor of pharmacology and neurology at Boston University and senior author of a report on the findings, published online Jan. 13 in BMJ. That report describes a study of more than...

Researchers from Boston found that older people taking a certain type of blood pressure medication known as angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) were significantly less likely to develop the brain-wasting illnesses. Dementia affects some 35 million people around the world and the number of cases -- and their impact on health policy and the economic and social costs of healthcare -- is se...

Borderline personality disorder, or BPD, is a serious mental illness marked by intense mood swings and difficulty with emotional control, impulsive behavior, problems maintaining personal relationships, and high rates of self-injury and suicidal behavior. Right now, "talk therapy" is the cornerstone of managing BPD, and no drug is specifically approved for treating the disorder. But in a...

The researchers tested candesartan (Atacand), a drug known as an angiotensin receptor blocker, on mice to see what would happen to 65 proteins in the retina that appear to be linked to diabetes. They found that the drug prevented more than 70 percent of the proteins from having abnormal changes. The findings, which come in the largest study of its kind, could spell hope for people ...

Citing a lack of clinical trials to determine how medications affect mothers and unborn children, the FDA said it will collaborate with other researchers in the new study, called the Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program. The agency said data shows that about two-thirds of women who deliver a baby have taken at least one prescription medication during pregnancy. "...

Pooling patents for treatments for AIDS will make newer medicines available at lower prices for low and middle-income countries, saving more than $1 billion a year, it said in a statement late on Monday. The patent pool could make it possible to offer licenses systematically to generic manufacturers, reducing prices and facilitating the combination of drugs from different makers into fix...

In a report, the World Health Organisation also pinpointed insecticide- resistant mosquitoes as another "major threat" to attempts to drastically cut and ultimately eradicate the mosquito-borne parasitic disease. The WHO’s annual snapshot of efforts to tackle malaria, which affected 243 million people in 2008, showed that the caseload had fallen by about two percent in two years while ...

One study found that a higher (500-milligram) dose of Faslodex (fulvestrant) works better than the currently approved 250-milligram dose in hormone receptor-positive breast tumors that had already spread to other parts of the body. There was no difference in the severity of side effects between the two doses, researchers added. Many breast cancer cells are sensitive to circulating es...