http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-consuming-coffee-linked-detrimental-liver.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 19 May 2013 01:37:30 EST news288146235 Drinking coffee could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurring in patients taking the widely used drug Tamoxifen, a study at Lund University in Sweden has found. Patients who took the pill, along with two or more cups of coffee daily, reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence, compared with their Tamoxifen-taking counterparts who drank one cup or less. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-coffee-breast-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:40:03 EST news286093348 We are often asked whether coffee is good or bad for the health. The answer is both good and bad. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-coffee-health.html Health Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:20:01 EST news285049051 The answer to longevity may be far simpler than we imagine; it may in fact be right under our noses in the form of a morning caffeine kick. The elderly inhabitants of Ikaria, the Greek island, boast the highest rates of longevity in the World, and many scientists turn to them when looking to discover the 'secrets of a longer life'. In a new study in Vascular Medicine researchers investigating cardiovascular health believe that a cup of boiled Greek coffee holds the clue to the elderly islanders' good health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-greek-coffee-key-longer-life.html Health Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:39:51 EST news282832749 Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day may help to prevent type 2 diabetes according to research highlighted in a session report published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC), a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the study and disclosure of science related to coffee and health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-moderate-coffee-consumption-diabetes-percent.html Diabetes Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:35:53 EST news273839741 A preliminary study of 127 post-menopausal women on hormone replacement therapy in Portugal suggests that there are several risk factors associated with osteoporosis and bone fracture these include age, low bone mineral density, a sedentary lifestyle, coffee consumption and ovariectomy. Details are reported later this month in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-osteoporosis-factors-menopause.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:35:15 EST news272018077 Women who drink five or more cups of coffee a day severely reduce their chance of success from IVF treatment. Indeed, Danish investigators who followed up almost 4000 IVF and ICSI patients described the adverse impact as "comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cups-coffee-day-chance-ivf.html Health Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:30:03 EST news260507763 Increasing the number of cups of caffeinated coffee you drink could lower your risk of developing the most common form of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-coffee-consumption-inversely-common-skin.html Cancer Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:20:01 EST news260420802 While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all. Amidst this conflicting information, research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center attempts to shift the conversation from a definitive yes or no, to a question of how much. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-moderate-coffee-consumption-heart-failure.html Cardiology Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:04:29 EST news259938260 Your parents must have told you a thousand times - don't eat so fast, slow down! Now it appears that scientific research is backing them up. At the recent joint International Congress of Endocrinology and European Congress of Endocrinology in Florence, Italy, a research team from Lithuania presented their research showing that people who eat their food quickly are 2.5 times more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes than those who take their time during meals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-slowly-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:00:01 EST news259821087 (HealthDay) -- Coffee and caffeine are not associated with psoriasis incidence after adjustment for smoking, according to a research letter published in the March issue of the Archives of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-coffee-caffeine-linked-psoriasis-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:12:48 EST news251565118 Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces the risk of advanced fibrosis in those with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Findings published in the February issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that increased coffee intake, specifically among patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), decreases risk of hepatic fibrosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-coffee-consumption-fibrosis-fatty-liver.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:35:24 EST news247404915 Long-term coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk for endometrial cancer, according to a recent study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-coffee-endometrial-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:18:26 EST news241190299 Caffeine could be related to an inverse association between basal cell carcinoma risk and consumption of coffee, a study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-coffee-consumption-decreased-basal-cell.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:55:48 EST news238697731 The risk of depression appears to decrease for women with increasing consumption of caffeinated coffee, according to a report in the September 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-caffeinated-coffee-consumption-decreased-depression.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:25:29 EST news236273115 While an apple a day may keep the doctor away, new research published in the Annals of Family Medicine say that hot tea or coffee may keep the methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA, bug away, or at least out of your nose. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-coffee-tea-consumption-mrsa.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:00:01 EST news229923558 Advanced hepatitis C patients with chronic liver disease may benefit from drinking coffee during treatment, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Patients who received peginterferon plus ribavirin treatment and who drank three or more cups of coffee per day were two times more likely to respond to treatment than non-drinkers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-coffee-hepatitis-treatment-response.html Addiction Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:35:05 EST news226661649 Men who regularly drink coffee appear to have a lower risk of developing a lethal form of prostate cancer, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. What's more, the lower risk was evident among men who drank either regular or decaffeinated coffee. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-coffee-lethal-prostate-cancer-men.html Cancer Tue, 17 May 2011 16:00:01 EST news224853223 Recently published research shows that coffee drinkers enjoy not only the taste of their coffee but also a reduced risk of cancer with their cuppa. More detailed research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-coffee-breast-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 11 May 2011 03:32:02 EST news224303484 (Medical Xpress) -- In a new study presented in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition researchers presented new data showing that there is no definitive connection between coffee consumption and hypertension, or high blood pressure. Previous studies which had once made a connection between the two were only study participants for a short time (less than 85 days). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-coffee-hypertension.html Health Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:52:34 EST news222929532