Another ray of hope for Arthritis Sufferers
...lions of people all over the world. Anti-arthritic drugs can cause side effects and surgery can be expensive, however there is hope from a natural product liquid glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates. Some excellent results with an approach based on a combination of the two supplements have been reported by...Human Genome Project Achieves Technological Triumph
...the practice of medicine by paving the way for new drugs and medical therapies.Specific sequences of DNA characters form the genes and this makes us what we are and determines our susceptibility to illnesses like cancer or diabetes. Mapping involves three separate steps: sequencing, assembling and annotat...One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains
... receive lifesaving therapies such as clot-busting drugs or the artery-clearing treatment angioplasty. And they were more likely to die -- approximately one in four patients without chest pains died during their heart attacks, compared to one in 10 patients with chest pains....Low Cholesterol Linked to Severe Depression and Violent Behavior in Men
...old that after researchers began testing the first drugs designed to lower elevated cholesterol levels, she found that a lot of people taking the drugs were dying of causes unrelated to cardiovascular system. Another researcher added that, "A lot of t...Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs
...igh less could prove the magic ingredient for diet drugs of the future.British scientists from drug giant SmithKline Beecham and the University of Cambridge have created mice with a human protein known as Uncoupling Protein 3 (UCP3) that increases their metabolism.In what is every dieter's dream, the mice ...Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives
...in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as long as those who do not. In research published in The Lancet medical journal, they compared the doses of painkillers given to 238 dying patients to determine the impact on their survival."There is no connection betwee...Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments
...d the disease is becoming resistant to many of the drugs used to treat it. This important finding provides ...rmation, researchers may be better able to develop drugs to cut off the parasite's nutrient supply. In addition, any new protein that the parasite adds to th...Nobel Prize for Medicine shared by Three scientists
... brain and have resulted in the development of new drugs and anti-depressants like Prozac. The studies have also helped in better understanding of Parkinsons disease....Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos
...nuclear transfer technology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious diseases including cancer. ...ic proteins in chicken eggs – which can be used as drugs to treat serious diseases. Professor Grahame Bulfield, Director of Roslin Institute at Edinburgh, s...What happens when Medications go wrong?
Have you ever wondered how the dosages of drugs are determined? How drugs are being tested? On whom are these tested and who tests them? What happens if the dosages are unwit...What happens when Asthmatics consume Aspirin?
...a. But apart from being one of the most prescribed drugs in the world, aspirin is also extensively used in the prophylaxis of ischemic heart diseases and strokes. When a situation arises that an asthmatic is in dire need of being administered aspirin, the researchers say aspirin desensitization can be trie...New drug to treat Heart Attack and damaged tissue
...emia / Reperfusion leads to the development of new drugs to save the damaged tissue and treat heart attack. During Ischemia / Reperfusion, Early growth response gene (Egr –1) level increases and acts like a common link between the pathways lead to tissue injury, such as the stimulation of chemokines, adhes...Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.
Delivering drugs via nasal spray might overcome a major obstacle to treating brain ailments such as strokes according to researchers. Based on early studies in rats, researchers from the Stroke Lab and Alzheimer's Research Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, reported tha...Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant
...back to his circulation. Also the infant was given drugs to stimulate the production of red blood cells. Recycling ones own blood is permissible amongst the Witnesses. The surgery is the first of its kind in an infant but with the successful result obtained many more similar procedures will follow suit./p...Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap
...ced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people all over the world ganging up against rising prices of essential life saving medicines. However critics say even now many in the poorer cou...Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?
... testing when sometimes very toxic new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in the name of ...eing studied. Placebos are never used in trials on drugs that may be used to treat cancer.While a few drug trials are very successful, a few of them are very...Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995
The number of drugs being developed for the treatment of cancer has ne...f variouscancers, up from 215 in 1995. Many of the drugs are alternatives to standardradiation and chemotherapy. For lung cancer, the leading cause ofcancer-...Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos
...ent. With the costs of the few available anti-AIDS drugs still very much beyond the affordability of the victims, a vaccine is being perceived as a welcome development. DBT and the Union Ministry of Health have already started a vaccine development project under the Indo-US initiative on HIV/AIDS....TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa
... and the major stumbling block is the high cost of drugs used to treat tuberculosis. The classical symptoms are gradual loss of weight, evening rise of body temperature, and moderate to severe cough. The disease spreads through air as droplets when a person coughs or sneezes and the sputum carries the bact...Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer
...ed. Based on the test, women might be treated with drugs shown to prevent breast cancer....Beware of the oral patch! It could be cancer!!!
...d way to tell whether they have removed enough. No drugs have yet been proved to prevent oral cancer, but many are being tested. Several other studies published within the past year have found other genetic markers for oral cancer. For instance, there's also a risk of cancer if cells from the white patche...Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers
...ed mining giant, Anglo American for supplying AIDS drugs to South African workers. About 11% of South Afric...and research has shown that providing workers with drugs is cheaper than paying for absenteeism, loss of productivity, hospitalization, funerals and replacin...Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin
...ergies. Penicillin and penicillin-like antibiotic drugs are often preferable to alternative antibiotics, S...nd noted, because they are cheaper than many other drugs and less likely to induce side effects or cause drug resistance.The best way out of this problem is ...New drug helps boost cancer treatment
...ells and gives new potency to failing chemotherapy drugs thereby extending survival of advanced colorectal cancer patients. IMC-C225, the new drug which is actually a monoclonal antibody, is designed to interfere with the epidermal growth factor receptor, a molecular structure that, when blocked, makes it...African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs
...in Africa make it more difficult for the anti AIDS drugs to act on them according to researchers. This however does not mean that these drugs will be powerless against the virus but these drugs find it difficult to latch on to the protease, w...Tattoos may significantly increase risk of hepatitis C infection
...ll millions. Although there is no cure, antiviral drugs combined with interferon therapy can be useful. The treatment is very long and can extend upto a year. Unpleasant side effects include nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue and depression. Hepatitis C is spread by blood-to-blood contamination, says ...Vedic vibration technology- the new cure for arthritis
... joints. Usually non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed by doctors to fight arthritis. But the treatment is usually protracted and has many side effects like irritation of gastro-intestinal tract. The Maharishi College of Vedic Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico has now claimed that this ne...The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live
...ts to stop the treatment. Regimens that contained drugs called nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, especially nevirapine and efavirenz, were particularly hard on the liver, Chung and colleagues found. In more than 25% of the cases the HAART regime cost elevation of liver enzymes to more than ...South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants
...tients in the world now wants to secure affordable drugs from around the world to tackle its AIDS epidemic....a law permitting South Africa to import cheap AIDS drugs was beaten off by the court. Health experts and AIDS activists say that this would lower the cost o...Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances
...f the total export earnings of the country is from drugs and pharmaceuticals which amounts to $3.5 billion....of safety, efficacy and quality with 400 different drugs and 2,000 formulation. Mr. Chokani hoped that the new branch in Delhi would act as an effective int...Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids
...eed more aggressive therapy such as surgery, newer drugs or a specialized diet. A lot of these children do well on currently available medications and treatment. But if doctors see these abnormalities, alarm bells should go off, and they might want to explore some of the newer treatments...."Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand
...ncome is such that they are not able to afford the drugs they need. So I really don't think respecting the monopoly of a drug company in the face of AIDS is a good argument. AIDS is unique and I think we have to draw a line."...GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia
...ogenous leukemia (CML). Other molecular-targeting drugs previously approved by the FDA interfere with proteins associated with other cancers, but not with proteins that directly cause the disease. Gleevec, was discovered and developed by Novartis Oncology in collaboration with its colleagues. CML is ...GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia
...ogenous leukemia (CML). Other molecular-targeting drugs previously approved by the FDA interfere with proteins associated with other cancers, but not with proteins that directly cause the disease. Gleevec, was discovered and developed by Novartis Oncology in collaboration with its colleagues. CML is ......sms genetically engineered to produce vaccines and drugs to treat IBD and other diseases. Weinstock said even genetically engineered helminths are a possibility. But doctors face at least two potential hurdles before probiotics with genetically modified organisms becomes a reality: controlling the reprodu...India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war
...ases has lured many companies to develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting inno...ipla triggered a controversy by offering anti-AIDS drugs at a drastically lower prices. Pharmaceutical companies in India are able to gain good healthy reve...RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment
...utical company, is planning to enter the anti-AIDS drugs segment. According to Ranbaxy's regional director ... a bulk drug manufacturer, will be formulating the drugs which will be converted to the final drug at Ranbaxy's unit at Dewas in Madhya pradesh. The company ......asma to shoot tiny bullets of blockage-dissolving drugs into a clogged vein.// The tiny blood vessels tha...e developed a needle-shaped probe that could shoot drugs right at the site of blockage and reopen the vein. The hollow needle is 1.5 millimetres in diameter...New FDA Approved Drug To Treat Migraine
...hout aura in adults. Axert belongs to a class of drugs known as selective serotonin receptor agonists.Axert tablets contain almotriptan malate, a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor agonist.// This drug targets serotonin receptors and act against migraine headaches by inducing the constriction of blo...GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging
...epileptic drug, is one of the several prescription drugs that has encountered the problem of dispensing err... writing of the prescription and confusion between drugs with similar names.// It is important for patients with epilepsy not to have an interruption in tre......n on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....Detecting anomalies in heart rythm
... to decide whether patients require treatment with drugs to combat arrhythmia or may be implant a defibrillator, a device similar to a pacemaker, which operates only when the heartbeat starts to get out of step. Mathematicians at the new Fraunhofer Institute ITWM together with a private service company, ...Iron supplementation for a common side effect
Hypertensive drugs in general have a common side effect- cough. Iron supplementation cures the annoying cough that often plagues people on a widely-used blood pressure medication. The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are often used to treat high blood p...Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws BAYCOL - A Drug Associated With 50 Deaths
... approved by the FDA, belongs to a statin group of drugs that lowers cholesterol by blocking enzymes that are essential in the synthesis of cholesterol in the body. Bayer Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily recalled its cholesterol drug Baycol( cerivastatin ) because // it has been linked to approximately 50 ...Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage
...n of taking strong non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like indomethacin (ibuprofen). Researchers used p... no drugs. The study found that while taking such drugs did not cause more birth defects, low birth weight or preterm births, it did cause a higher rate of ...Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement
... that the object of distribution of samples of the drugs to the doctors is to make them aware that such drugs are available in the market in relation to the cure of a particular affliction and therefore to pers...Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .
The ACE inhibitor is one of the most widely used drugs in cardiovascular medicine.It improves the survival rates and reducing complications in patients with cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension and heart failure.But however this drug produces dry cough as its most frequent side effect.// In mo...Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx
...COX-2 inhibitor is Rofecoxib, sold as Vioxx. The drugs are popular because they provide the same pain- ki...cyclooxygenase enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2. These new drugs specifically inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting...... serotonin can also be affected. Smoking and other drugs can speed up the onset of memory loss, as can prolonged anxiety, grief and negative emotions. Recently some herbal formulations also claim to improve memory.Smriti Rasayans (memory rejuvenators), as they are called, include indigenous Indian herbs...Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.
...and with the increased incidence of consumption of drugs in teens.Researchers at a conference sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse said that the drug known as ecstasy has a negative impact on blood flow to parts of the brain and that the effect can persist for weeks. ECSTASY is the name in vo...Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk
...found to have been cut to half by a combination of drugs that keeps blood pressure in check. The study invo...quarter among patients given the drugs. // The drugs are inexpensive and easily available. Use of the drugs cut both strokes and heart attacks and conseq......er by starving it of blood. Then, hopefully, other drugs will finish it off. DMXAA should enter full clinical trials towards the end of next year....Memory problem? solve a crossword
...DHEA, testosterone and human growth hormone. These drugs and supplements may have long-term adverse effects.// Other strategies to keep the mind functioning, say experts, include lifelong learning and memory training, physical activity, meaningful work and social activities. Seeking help for sleep disord......, and there has seen to be a need, now, to develop drugs which can handle obesity.// Researchers at Harvard University in the USA have discovered that the drug bupropion, which is used for depression and smoking cessation, is helpful in helping women sustain weight loss. They gave 50 non-depressed overwe...Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off
... as ‘‘anti-resorption drugs’’. The second group of drugs promotes bone formation and is referred to as ‘‘bone forming drugs’’. // No single class of drugs is perceived to manage osteoporosis on a standalone basis. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and bis...Wonder drug - could end in disaster
Prozac and drugs like it could be making healthy people with no his...ent years. Prozac and Lustral belong to a group of drugs known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). This class of drugs of which Prozac is the...Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels
...f the blood vessels that feed them nutrients. Four drugs that disrupt angiogenesis - blood vessel formation...San Francisco, USA, said: " We've shown that these drugs have beneficial effects when used to treat mice developing organ-specific cancer ". The work on mice......campaign has received a boost, in the form of free drugs donated by the pharmaceutical giant Aventis. But scientists say free drugs are not enough. According to WHO estimates, some half a million people in Africa are currently inf...According to Italian scientists, Both drugs and surgery may be effective in treating Meniere's disease.Meniere's disease is a condition of the middle ear, affecting the hearing apparatus. A build up of pressure causes vertigo and nausea which can be very disabling. Generally Meniere's disease ...