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Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver
...ugh functioning liver mass to get them through the acute process," Theise said....Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children
...er of cases coming into their emergency rooms with acute respiratory failure during these festivals where unfortunately the victims themselves give history of lighting fireworks and inhaling a lot of smoke in the process. The death rate is appalling during these festive times going up nearly thrice in so...ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids
... who received standard steroid treatment. Also the acute rejection was 33% lesser in these patients. Rejection was reversed in all patients who received rabbit ATG by increasing the anti-rejection drug alone, while 60 percent of patients in the steroid group required additional steroids for reversal. Thes...Paracetamol May Cause Live Damage Warns Consumer Education and Research Centre
...western Medical Centre, has documented that 38% of acute live failure cases in 22 hospitals in the United States were associated with excessive paracetamol usage. Also 35% of the study group were found to be suffering from severe liver damage as a result of paracetamol use. In children paracetamol can ca...Special proteins to fight TB identified
...s able to grow in the lab and was able to cause an acute infection in mice. But this mutant form of TB did not cause a chronic infection unlike ordinary TB bacteria. It is possible that high levels of heat-shock proteins block the TVB bacterium's ability to infect cells, but another explanation is that t...Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.
...cell breakdown.HUS is one of the leading causes of acute liver failure in young children.The study examined children with diarrhea caused by E. coli and found 56% of the children who were given antibiotics developed HUS compared to just 8% of those who were not treated with antibiotics. On the basis of t...TELITHROMYCIN - the proven effective new drug for cap
... and Drug Administration for the treatment of CAP, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (ABECB), and acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS) and is marketed by Aventis Pharma....New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine
Axert has been approved by the FDA for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adul...ne therapy from Pharmacia, proven effective in the acute treatment of migraine....New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients
...d an injection of Natrecor as a way to treat these acute flare-ups. Natrecor, known chemically as nesiritide, is a biologically engineered version of a natural hormone that helps dilate blood vessels. That dilation helps blood flow from the weakened heart. But it also can cause seriously low blood pressure...... women, they may be admitted to hospital at a more acute stage of heart attack, and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term....... women, they may be admitted to hospital at a more acute stage of heart attack, and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term ....... appetite suppression. Headache stimuli lead to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after they are applied.This shows that there is an intimate link between the brain regions and the pain and appetite.......llus GG is already known to reduce the duration of acute diarrhoea in children, but there have been few studies into its possible preventive effects. The latest study in the British Medical Journal is the first to examine long-term effects in normal healthy children. The researchers monitored 571 childre...Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment
...amined data from 29,102 adults with a diagnosis of acute sinusitis receiving initial antibiotic treatment. The antibiotic treatment received was divided into first-line therapy and second-line therapy. First-line antibiotics include amoxycillin, trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole or erythromycin. Results sho...Patients Pressure Would Result In Overprescription
...tices in the US. All of the visits were related to acute respiratory tract infections such as the common cold, bronchitis or middle-ear infection. The findings show that "the encounter between the physician and the patient with respiratory infection is an intricate dance in which both partners play importa......ied 800 people needing treatment by ventilator for acute lung problems. Those with heart failure were not included in the study. They found that 50 per cent of those under 60 left hospital alive within 160 days, but the figure fell to 20 per cent for those over 60. The older patients needed more time on th...Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer
Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at a greater risk...effective drug combination used to treat childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (prednisone, vincristine, daunorubicin, L-asparginase, etoposide and cytarabi...Northfield Labs Receives FDA Comments
...e enough dosages to be considered a substitute for acute blood loss in trauma and surgical settings. As a result of the process used to manufacture the blood substitute, essentially a solution of polymerized hemoglobin, PolyHeme has a longer shelf life than blood, requires no cross matching and does not tr...Medications linked to xerostomia and caries
...,” Dr. Salinas notes. “Use of albuterol to control acute asthma tends to decrease as kids get older and as many as 75 percent of children who had asthma when they were younger than age 5 will outgrow it.” ...Interference helps Heart Patients
...sitive results in treating heart failure. Costs of acute care for the phone-call patients was about $1,000 less than for usual-care patients during the study. According to researcher Barbara Riegel of San Diego State University, this savings is more than double the estimated $440 cost per patient for the ...Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication
...eficiency virus (HIV) is briefly suppressed during acute measles. A study of HIV-infected children found that HIV levels in the blood// were significantly lower while having measles compared to HIV-infected children who did not have measles. "We were surprised by these findings, because we expected to se...Young women prone to heart attack
... women, they may be admitted to hospital at a more acute stage of heart attack, and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term ....Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication
...S Food and Drug Administration approval for use in acute coronary syndrome. People with acute coronary syndrome are at high risk for heart attack, typically because they have unstable angina, or...Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment
...blood supply. The condition - transfusion-related acute lung injury, or TRALI - is believed to be caused in most cases by an immune-system reaction to antibodies in the donor's blood. Though it produces lung damage that is generally reversible, TRALI is a leading cause of death for transfusion recipients....Treatment of antibiotics ineffectual in bronchitis
...fit.// They arbitrarily allocated 150 adults with acute bronchitis to either azithromycin or low-dose vita...s say it should not be prescribed to patients with acute bronchitis....Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children
...ed countries. Studies have shown zinc given during acute episodes of diarrhea is effective in reducing the ...n as effective as zinc in reducing the duration of acute diarrhea in children of developing countries.......aproxen versus other NSAIDs //in the prevention of acute myocardial infarctions (AMI), or heart attacks, in older patients. The study evaluated all patients in Quebec over age 65 who had been hospitalized between 1995 and 1998 for a heart attack. Researchers found naproxen had a protective effect against ...Special proteins to fight TB identified
...s able to grow in the lab and was able to cause an acute infection in mice. But this mutant form of TB did not cause a chronic infection unlike ordinary TB bacteria. It is possible that high levels of heat-shock proteins block the TVB bacterium's ability to infect cells, but another explanation is that t...Viagra for heart and lung patients
...he effects of sildenafil in healthy young men with acute hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension would relate to the effects of sildenafil in patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension who would probably be much older and have structural changes to the heart and/or lungs resulting from chronic illness....Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack
...ntrolled trial of magnesium in 5,800 patients with acute STEMI. The death rate at 32 days for those given magnesium was 15.3 per cent, compared to 12.2 per cent for those on placebo. In other words, there is no survival benefit in giving magnesium for patients with this condition on a routine basis....Alternative to blood Transfusions
...d for blood transfusions in surgical patients with acute anemia. The new drug, polymerized bovine hemoglobin (HBOC-201),// is delivered intravenously and supplies oxygen to the blood of the recipient. The structure of the HBOC-201 is smaller and more mobile than blood cells, therefore allowing the HBOC-201...Drug for pediatric brain cancer
...sults from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intravenously every three weeks, was found to be partially effective in shrinking the tumors. // The drug is one of a group of drugs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959...Women's stroke indications vary from men's
... women presenting with what was later diagnosed as acute stroke revealed some interesting gender differences. Overall, 30% of the women reported non-traditional stroke symptoms, compared to 15% of men. The researchers also found that men were more likely to report imbalance and paralysis, while women were ...Drug for pediatric brain cancer
...sults from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intravenously every three weeks, was found to be partially effective in shrinking the tumors. // The drug is one of a group of drugs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959...... dexamethasone improves the outcome in adults with acute bacterial meningitis. Furthermore, researchers say the drug does not increase the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.......wo spinal bones may grind together, giving rise to acute and disabling pain. One treatment for the 'slipped' disc is to remove it and fuse the two spinal bones together, but this sometimes limits the range of motion available to the patient. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been testing an...Just one cigarette could cause significant damage
...d, have found from a recent study that there is an acute increase in arterial stiffness after smoking even ... chronic and non-smokers. The researchers compared acute and chronic effects of smoking on large artery properties in 185 healthy young smokers and non-smoke...... for topical oxygen in the treatment of chronic or acute hard-to-heal wounds....Heart problems detected better with a Cardiac MRI
...orrectly diagnose a set of heart problems known as acute coronary syndrome (ACS) which can lead to heart attack. The study involved 161 patients who came to the ER after experiencing 30 minutes of chest pain, but had ECG results that didn't suggest a heart attack. These patients were later (within 12 hours...WHO Travel Advice to prevent spread of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
...velopments in the multi-country outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). ?A further release said that the new travel advice is intended to limit further international spread of SARS by restricting travel to areas where the transmission patterns of SARS are not fully understood. The SARS situa...Answer on SARS 3 to 4 weeks away
...stigation of SARS. China has 1,435 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome - SARS, accounting for about half of the global total. The WHO teams are working to have access to information in Guangdong province, where the epidemic began in November. // They also said it isn't clear whether SARS is transm......and Guangdong Province as the hot spots for severe acute respiratory syndrome. //This formed a challenge to officials optimism that the disease could be stopped. But now, with the disease spreading nearly every day and a sixteenth Toronto patient dying early today what once looked like a model for the worl...SARS necessitates medical masks
...nthrax danger this mask was used. SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome, the new viral disease N95 is the safest mask to use to protect against infection.. Hoarding of masks due to fear of shortage during this SARS crisis is being reported. In some places the masks are being very carefully ratione...Baby born to SARS mother is healthy
...ibavirin, which is usedto treat adults with severe acute respiratorysyndrome. Two of the mothers died after giving birth, but the surviving mother was in a stable condition in PrincessMargaret Hospital, the statement added....Russia Reports First SARS Case
...8,200 around the world. The Russian case of severe acute respiratory syndrome was a blow to Hu's public relations campaign.......might be more effective in the treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) than drugs now being used against the deadly disease.In a research letter published in this week’s issue of The Lancet, the scientists outline results of a study comparing the standard drug used in SARS patients, ribavirin...In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment
...ions such as depression (40%-70%), asthma (43% for acute treatments and 28% for maintenance), and HIV/AIDS (37%-83%). In the United States, the United Kingdom and in Venezuela, only 30%, 7% and 4.5%, of treated patients, respectively, had good control of blood pressure. In Sudan, only 18% of non-adherent p...Radiation Not Needed for Childhood Cancers
...urvive cancer. The first study found children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who received chemotherapy b...ment. According to the National Cancer Institute, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, is the most common form of leukemia in children and the most common ...The Downside of Asthma Medication
Could a common class of drugs used for acute asthma attacks be causing the very thing it aims t...agonists are the primary treatment used to relieve acute asthma attacks. The drugs come in many forms -- they may be delivered with an inhaler, given in pill...Therapy Boosts Chemotherapy Effects
... may increase disease-free survival for those with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).// People with AML often suffer relapses of the disease due to small numbers of cancer cells that escape the toxic effects of initial treatment with chemotherapy. Studies conducted in the laboratory show growth factors can inc...Return of SARS possible this fall
...d to humans, the report says. "The wave of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been overcome, but SARS has not been eradicated," according to reports from the national intelligence officer for economics and global issues. It adds that "many health experts fear it could return again in the fall wh...SARS research confirms link to animals
...enetically identical to a virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in humans. Their findings suggest that the markets provide a venue for the animal (corona virus) viruses to amplify and transmit to new hosts, including humans and this is critically important from the point of view of...Preventive Therapies Found to be More Effective in Managing Migraines
... the severity of their migraine by taking too much acute medication, which only treats symptoms after a mig... any. A recent study of patients who switched from acute treatments to a combination of preventive and acute therapies shows office visits declined by more t...Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care
...ly childhood and end of life will become even more acute and significant as the baby boom generation ages and consumes increasing proportions of the health care dollar." Thus medical providers in the public health arena agree that investing in early health care is a policy priority.......e of death in seriously ill patients. They explain acute renal failure -- or kidney failure -- occurs because of renal tubule cell death. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the genetically modified mice, they discovered the high level of HGF actually protected the renal tubule cells. These cells ...Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis
...osure to secondhand smoke could either cause these acute flare ups, known as sickle cell crises, or make them worse. The study involved 52 children between ages 2 and 18. All had sickle cell disease. Twenty-two of the children were exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular basis. None of the children smoked...Ultrasound Screening Could Improve The Outcome Of Critically ill Patients
...nalyze the outcomes of 1,000 patients with assumed acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. They assumed the patients received ventilation for seven days, as well as an intensive care unit stay of eight days, and an additional eight days in the hospital. After calculating the costs, rese...Risk of Heart Attack Can Now Be Predicted
...r death or non-fatal heart attack in patients with acute chest pain. PIGF is a member of the vascular growt...s took various measurements from 547 patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and 626 patients who visited emergency rooms complaining of chest pain. Th...Drug Found Effective In Reducing Vertebral Fractures In Women
...sequence of osteoporosis. Such a break can lead to acute and chronic back pain,// spinal deformity and hip fracture. According to a recent study , it was found that the drug strontium ranelate, for women with osteoporosis appears to be effective in reducing the risk for a vertebral fracture, according to ...SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) is a highly contagious and occasionally fatal illness that often progresses to pneumonia.// The virus killed nearly 800 people in a global outbreak last year. Researchers now say that they’ve discovered a human antibody that bl...Other ContentscrisiscrisiscrisiscrisishemophiliahemophiliahemophiliahemophiliahemophiliahemoptysishemorrhoidhemorrhoidshemostasishemostasisencephalopathyencephalopathyencephalopathyOther TagsBeforeBeforeBeforeMedicareSilentBewareBewareFirstlogic
(Date:5/15/2008)...l. (May 15, 2008) Argonne National Laboratory has...avannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) to collab...nt research projects in support of critical U.S. E...ational priorities. , "The MOU allows Argonne to...nne director Robert Rosner said. "Argonne has the ...
(Date:5/15/2008)... Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room ...er yells fore. Most would agree these seemingly si...spond to a situation. Assistant Professor of Cogni...ark Changizi argues they require something moreour...rain nearly one-tenth of a second to translate the...
(Date:5/15/2008)...ss has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another p...entists an important new tool to unlock the workin...portant but difficult-to-detect molecule, is made ... found in the upper reaches of the Venusian atmosp...esss Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrom...
(Date:5/15/2008)...iness practice usually reserved for boosting profi...g their energy use? Writing in the International J...SCA), researchers in India provide an answer. , ... of NC College of Engineering in Haryana, India, a...e forefront of company efforts. In a global econom...
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(Date:5/16/2008)...th Drops More in 2007, WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNews...n three cancer deaths, the National Cancer Institu... budget in lung cancer research in 2007,according...nce (LCA) today., The two other federal agencies ...rs for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and th...
(Date:5/16/2008)... disseminated to community physicians, audit finds...Partnerships between major academic cancer centers... way to spread cancer treatment advances, say rese.... , Most new cancer treatments are created at m...ided at community hospitals, noted the researchers...
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