Growth Hormone

Growth Hormone - most related articles:

- Growth hormone enhances immunity in HIV patients - 5.5
- Breast cancer risk increases with high hormone levels - 5.3
- Pregnancy hormone predicts postpartum depression - 3.8
- Hops compound xanthohumol may prevent prostate cancer - 3.6
- Cancer risk found for long-term hormone therapy - 3.6
- Excess hair growth in women may indicate PCOS - 3.5
- Gene mutations may extend human life span - 3.3
- Hormone therapy at menopause may lead to breast cancer - 3.2
- Environmental toxins cause early onset puberty in girls - 3.1
- Combined hormone therapy makes breast cancer detection difficult - 3

Growth Hormone articles

Breast cancer risk increases with high hormone levels
Eight different sex and growth hormones may rise the risk of breast cancer, each elevated hormone level increase risk by 16% in post-menopausal women.

Potential target identified for therapy for prostate cancer
A monoclonal antibody targeting a well known cell surface protein inhibited prostate cancer growth and metastasis in an aggressive form of the disease that did not respond to hormone therapy.

Pomegranates may prevent breast cancer growth
Eating fruit, such as pomegranates, that contain anti aromatase phytochemicals reduces the incidence of hormone-dependent breast cancer, according to results of a study published in the January issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Ghrelin can slow Parkinson's disease
Stomach hormone - Ghrelin - may be used to boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

US children low in vitamin D
Seven out of ten U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, raising their risk of bone and heart disease, according to a study of over 6,000 children by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Breast cancer linked to inherited high breast density
A unique mother-daughter study that used magnetic resonance to measure breast density in younger women shows that percent of breast water could be linked to the risk of breast cancer in middle age and older.

Gene mutations may extend human life span
Mutations in genes governing an important cell-signaling pathway influence human longevity, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found. Their research is described in the March 4 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Growth hormone enhances immunity in HIV patients
Growth hormone helps boost the immune system of HIV patients, revealed by researchers. Growth hormone (GH) treatment was associated with increased thymic mass, and increased the number of immune cells HIV patients had circulating in their blood.

Environmental toxins cause early onset puberty in girls
Although scientists have speculated over the negative effects of environmental toxins for years, new data suggest that certain environmental toxins may disrupt the normal growth and hormonal development of girls.

Treatment of HIV associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome
Researchers in Montreal and Boston have identified a potential new treatment for the HIV/HAART*-associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome. This syndrome is a common side-effect of anti-retroviral medications to treat HIV infection.

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