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Virus Level could Predict Cervical Cancer Risk

...ld help to identify women at risk from the disease long before it develops or is detected with conventional screening.New research published in The Lancet medical journal suggests that the amount of one strain of the virus, called HPV-16, could be a more accurate predictor of the disease. 'High amounts of...

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

...igher 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 between competent symptom control and eut...

Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

...s not spread beyond the abdomen. Scientists have long known that the "myc" family of genes plays a prominent role in tumor formation, also called neoplastic transformation. The Hopkins team, focusing on c-myc, found that another gene called the HMG-I/Y gene is a key genetic "target" necessary for Myc-me...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...ffects were greatest in the patients who underwent long and difficult surgeries. Following trauma or surgery or during a critical illness, thyroid hormone concentrations plummet. Many experts thought this was an adaptive response by the body to minimize metabolic demands during a time of crisis and that t...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...s learn more about the frequency of ENSOs over the long term....

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

... inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long term effects in children were not clear, and quest...h frequent asthma symptoms, although data on their long term effects in children were limited. Said Lenfant, " CAMP provides scientific evidence regarding t...

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

...medicine for the betterment of the patient. But as long as the patient is benefited who’s complaining? "Prince Charles has been at the forefront of the campaign for integrated medicine. It will be good news if more money is now forthcoming," a spokesman for Charles was quoted as saying...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

...nity and makes us more vulnerable to diseases. For long we have agreed that stress is bad for our health but this aspect of stress decreasing our immune status is sure to cause a lot of concern. With the advent of HIV/AIDS and other immune-disorder related conditions claming many victims every day, the ...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...reathlessness and medication requirements of these long suffering hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the va...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...reathlessness and medication requirements of these long suffering hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the v...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...pecially with the results being unknown for a very long period of time, the harmful side effects become ap...a’s box and it is sure to be a raging debate for a long time to come...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...ould surpass 10 million a year. The short term and long term side effects of smoking are well known and a recent study says that smoking has startling and immediate side effects on the cardio vascular system. While the Indian government is coming down on smoking in public places, there seems to be no decr...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

...'s Middlesex Hospital, advices passengers, who fly long haul flights, that there is nothing to fear. The ...woman on board an airliner, while she was flying a long distance flight, has sparked off this sudden debate that long flights can be fatal to many people. ...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...lated side effects and costs for patients, on life long immunosuppressive therapy to guard against transplant rejection, in a big way....

Tattoos may significantly increase risk of hepatitis C infection

...eron 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 lead study author Robert Haley, MD, Chief of Epidemiology at the University ...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...t after four years of patient waiting, there is a long way to go before this magical technique becomes widely used....

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

... - whether the patient would recover and if so how long would it take. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Maryland devised a method which allows doctors to give patients and their families more accurate information about their chances of recovery. This n...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...earch questions remain to be answered, such as how long Gleevec will control CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the cancer? According to Klausner, "Gleevec offers proof that molecular targeting works in treating cancer, provided that the t...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...earch questions remain to be answered, such as how long Gleevec will control CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the cancer? According to Klausner, "Gleevec offers proof that molecular targeting works in treating cancer, provided that the t...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...mbarking on fertilty treatments. Obese women have long been known to have problems conceiving naturally, and studies have shown that their overall success rates for IVF do not match those of those with a normal body mass. The latest research, from Professor Robert Norman's team at the Reproductive Medic...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...s of North Carolina. It is a well known fact that long term smoking has a significant risk towads the diseases such as heart attack , cancer etc.,. Dr. Firas A. Ghanem and colleagues at the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in a suspicion that smoking m...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...o products, such as tomato sauce and ketchup, have long been associated with a reduced risk of various cancers, especially prostate cancer, but the reason for such an action is yet to be found. Clinical trials have suggested that lycopene, which is found in tomato products and other natural plant nutrien...

Starch fights cancer

...ce, white rice ,wheat and almost all cereals - so long as you do not chew them too much. They are still trying to find out more about resistant starch - which, in the past, has proved hard to study because it is difficult to measure it. Meanwhile, the healthy message is - keep on eating fibre, but st...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

Stuttering has been long thought to be caused by emotional factors, but researchers who studied adults with persistent stuttering found that these individuals had anatomical irregularities in the areas of the brain that control language and speech. The study results, repor...

Young womens woes

...and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term....

Young women's woes

...and may therefore be less likely to survive in the long term ....

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...k of endometrial and breast cancer when used for a long time, but until this study, the effect of postmenopausal oestrogen use on ovarian cancer had not established....

Breast milk is essential

...fluence brain growth as well as the high levels of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids....

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...ons to operate through incisions about a half-inch long made in the armpit. A tiny scope with a TV camera is inserted into the incision and moved along the chest until it reaches the nerve associated with excessive sweating. The probe is also fitted with a cutter that is used to sever the nerve, thus stop...

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...healthy weight throughout all life.// Because in a long term, the early menstruation entails a serious risk for health, because the long exposition to estrogens can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Besides the excess of b...

Waking during surgery

...uring surgery causes psychological problems in the long run. Around half of all patients who wake during surgery experience long-lasting psychological trauma.Thankfully, it is rare to wake up when under anaesthesia. It happens to only 0.2 to 0.7 per cent of patients. Doctors at Boston University School o...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

...onin neurons to emerge.And now the question is how long MDMA-induced brain damage persists and the long-term consequences of that damage,for the researchers to investigate in the days to come....

Obesity shortens lifespan

...n years compared to people who stay slim. It has long been known that obesity is linked to heart disease, but researchers from Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, have become the first to actually quantify the impact on subsequent life expectancy.// The researchers looked at 13 years of deta...

Acupuncture provides relief

...to be combined with other therapies when used over long periods.That's the conclusion of one of the most rigorous trials into the effectiveness of the complementary medicine technique, which involves inserting needles into special sites in the nervous system.// The study compared 157 patients undergoing...

Decision making made easier

...s when doctors told you what treatment to have are long gone. Patients today expect to participate in the decision-making process.// But sometimes this is difficult, when the clinical evidence gives conflicting messages and new research comes up all the time. Doctors in the US have been testing a new ai...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

... you weigh now, but how you grew in the past. It's long been known that babies with a low birth weight are roughly twice as susceptible to coronary heart disease in adulthood as heavier babies.// David Barker, an epidemologist at the University of Southampton, and a team at the National Public Health In...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...more than 5,500 chemists. According to him, in the long run, individual chemists will not survive and these retail outlets will join the society. Mr. Shah triumphantly declares " We are not against anybody. Now we will do the business the way we want and they will do the way they want." <br...

Gel prevents pregnancy

...r periods, and researchers are hopeful that in the long term the gel could be a useful addition to the range of contraception currently on offer.Dr Wiesberg says "Its major advantage is that it gives women another option, and the more sage effective methods, the more likely women are to find a method that...

Antidepressant helps obesity

...isease. Weight loss diets don't always work in the long term, 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...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...bitors, may have dangerous side-effects. There has long been concerns that the drug is prescribed to patients who suffer only mild symptoms of depression, and who are not clinically ill. The research was conducted by Dr David Healy, of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine. Dr Healy found t...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...d been dying from the bite of the Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still dying today. Sleeping Sickness has been dubbed as the Silent Killer because its victims are mostly from rural populations where medical screening is rare and cause of death often goes unrecorded. The meeting in Burki...

Long travel increase pulmonary embolism

...ulmonary embolism. There's increasing concern that long haul travel could increase the risk of blood clott...llion. The message is, if you're going on a really long flight, take medical advice on the potential risks of PE....

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

... DMPA -- can cause significant bone loss when used long term. The younger you are when you begin using this contraceptive, the greater your risk of bone-related problems later in life. // From the time we are born, well into middle age, our bone mass is constantly breaking down and re-building, usuall...

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

... do better than those on medical management in the long term remains to be seen. In the meantime, it appears that surgery should not be regarded as a universal solution for emphysema....

Fish for the lungs

... not assume that it is safe to carry on smoking as long as they eat fish. // Eating large amounts of fresh fish may cut the risk of a type of lung cancer called adenocarcinoma; eating dried or salted fish did not have the same protective effect on two other forms of lung cancer. Studies also point out t...

Health at heights

A long balloon trip is a hazardous business. Crew members have to spend days together in a confined space, and if a health problem arises they cannot call a doctor. The crew's bodies are put under immense strain during the days of a major flight. Thi...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...he new endoscope may allow cancer to be identified long before it becomes physically detectable in the form of a lump. They believe that, within the next few years, introduction of the new technique may make it possible to prevent breast cancer by improved screening of high-risk groups of women. Further...

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

...on could be the fact that many smokers do not live long enough to develop the disease, which particularly affects the very elderly....

Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes

...fits doctors once believed. // Many doctors have long thought hormone replacement therapy might help protect women's cardiovascular health, warding off heart disease and, possibly, stroke. But recent research has questioned that reasoning. The American Heart Association issued guidelines stating that ...

Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency

...t breathing in most gases and biological agents as long as the person is wearing the correct filter, which only can be used once....

Contraceptives decreases Libido

...releases an egg and can conceive a baby.// It has long been thought that this increase in sense of smell may be linked to libido, helping increase it at the point of the cycle in which fertilisation is possible. However, when the women took the contraceptive pill, which uses hormones to artificially cont...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

Romance has long been described as a process of bewitchment, but scientists have found that there may be more truth to this than meets the eye. They say female chemical messengers known as pheromones may help dupe men into thinking plain women are more attractive and...

More about HIV

...erted viral genes remain dormant, sometimes for as long as ten or more years. AIDS or Acquired Immune Defi...e the difference between dying from AIDS or living long enough to see a cure or a better treatment....

A new contraceptive

... or women.It would not have to be taken for a very long period to block fertilisation, perhaps only just before or after intercourse", said Dr Chapman....

Irregular Periods Linked to Diabetes

Women who have irregular or very long menstrual cycles have a higher risk of developing diabetes. Women with such menstrual abnormalities needn't panic because the risk can be reduced markedly by lifestyle measures, most notably regular exercise and weight control. // Menstrual cycles ...

Stay away from strenouous work

...sure and underweight babies. Jobs which involved long periods of standing up, shift work and fatiguing work were also significantly linked with premature birth. Physically demanding work was defined as work involving repetitive lifting, load-carrying or other significant physical exertion.// The study...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...ia at the time of delivery. Erythromucin has had a long history as a useful, safe, and generally well-tolerated drug, the researchers reported. However, as a result of their study they say that the antibiotic should be used only with prudence in the first two weeks of life.The IU School of Medicine study ...

Tai chi helps arthritis

...t Chinese system of gentle exercise which has been long held to have a wide range of health benefits. Now researchers at University in Texas report on one of the first studies of the effects of tai chi in osteoarthritis. Seventeen patients, average age 54, did 10 weeks of a tai chi programme especially ...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

... more likely to be re-admitted to hospital. It has long been known that depression is linked to poor physical health, and this relationship may be especially common among older people. Researchers in Switzerland, studied over 300 patients on hospital admission, tested then for depression and then followed...

Constipation can be a cause

...se may have some effect on the function of the gut long before it manifests itself elsewhere. Dr Robert Abbott, who led the research, said: "It could help us more effectively identify people with early or suspected disease or people at high risk of developing the disease in the future."The large study, ...