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Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

...surements. The homoeopathy group had a significant objective improvement in nasal airflow compared with theplacebo group (mean difference 19.8 L/min). While both groups reported an improvement in symptoms, when the researchers combined the results from this trial with those of three previous trials (n = 253)...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...prevalence of smoking and alcohol consumption. The objective was to determine if any particular aspect of the Greek diet could explain the low incidence of mouth cancer in the population. Researchers recruited more than 80 patients with newly diagnosed mouth cancer and an equal number of control subjects matc...

Response to chemotherapy could be measured by Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time

...ho had a rising PSA during chemotherapy. Patients' objective best response for any of the chemotherapeutic regi...here was a significant association between PSA and objective response. The pateints' median PSA doubling time was also studied. Among those patients who had a ri...

Some more sensitive to pain

... the National Academy of Sciences. "Now, we have objective evidence that confirm individual differences in pain are, in fact, real." In their study, Coghill and colleagues used magnetic resonance imaging to assess brain function. They found that the brain regions important in registering pain lit up in those...

Less Pain After Tonsillectomy

...hout any increase in complications, subjective and objective measurement showed that the use of the microdissection needle resulted in significantly less postoperative pain by day three." Pain after tonsillectomy is of special concern since it interferes with eating and drinking. Children are especially pron...

Reducing The After Effects of Tonsillectomy

...hout any increase in complications, subjective and objective measurement showed that the use of the microdissection needle resulted in significantly less postoperative pain by day three."...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...wider development policy, it can never achieve the objective of population stabilisation within a reasonable time frame." "The link between social and human development and demographic trends is obvious and too stark to ignore," he said, urging the states with high population growth to "study and learn from t...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

...als of Neurology, researchers now report the first objective measurement of the brain deficit in congenital amusia.The findings may have implications both for amusia and for speech learning disabilities, said the researchers of the University of Montreal who had conducted the study.Researchers had assessed bra...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...ion, a mixture of Europeans and Indians. The first objective is to determine if every block of nucleic acid sequence will be alike for all the Mexican groups. “My own prediction, “says Jimenez” is that we are not going to find huge differences.” INMEGEN will release newly mined genomic data into the public do...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...and multiple oral doses on healthy volunteers. The objective of this study is to assess the safety and bioavailability of GRC 8200 in humans. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated GRC 8200 to be many times more potent than competing DPP-IV inhibitors. The compound is highly bioavailable and safe, displaying s...

Speed up bird flu vaccine, Bush tells experts

...ed the participants and said, "Let us remember our objective is not simply to defeat H-Five-N-One. It is to be prepared for whatever comes. Because at some point we will most certainly have to use our preparation," he said. Avian flu has primarily affected the Southeast Asian nations although it is largely l...

New laser technology heals acne scars

...12 patients with mild to severe acne scarring. The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the less invasive lasers as an alternative treatment. “Non-ablative laser treatments are becoming popular because they significantly decrease risks for adverse events and reduce the need for post-op care,” said ...

Lower doses of oral contraceptives helpful in treating acne

...ginning in the 1980s were the first to demonstrate objective and subjective reductions in the incidence of acne, severity of existing acne and seborrhea. Placebo-controlled trials have corroborated these findings with a trend toward effective acne treatment with declining doses of EE. Significant reductions in...

Obesity at Midlife and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

...e of Archives of Neurology, was conducted with the objective to investigate the relation between midlife body mass index and clustering of vascular risk factors and subsequent dementia and AD. Participants of the Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging, and Dementia (CAIDE) study were derived from rand...

Indian Olympic Association And UNICEF To Collaborate On HIV/AIDS Awareness

...ned and made vulnerable by the disease. The main objective of the IOA- UNICEF collaboration will focus on promoting initiatives to enhance national awareness of UNICEF program priorities, using the opportunities provided through national games, use of sports celebrities for endorsements, special events, fiel...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

...n and malformation that affects some newborns. The objective of WDSD is to commemorate, create and accomplish a level of awareness and understanding of Down syndrome through highlighting the potential and ability of people with the syndrome to be an integral part of an inclusive community, he said. Dr. Singh h...

Ovarian Cancer Presents ‘Target Symptoms’ Six Months Before Diagnosi

...n Sacramento says that their observations 'provide objective evidence that patients with ovarian cancer, as a group, are distinguishable symptomatically from controls at least 6 months prior to diagnosis.' The team monitored the pattern of appearance of the symptoms like abdominal bloating and pain, and the a...

Relief for HIV/AIDS patients: ART therapy now available in India

...vailable to all who need it, and to make available objective assessments of the effectiveness of school systems....

Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener, A Safe Bet!

...ntific body charged with providing independent and objective advice on food safety issues in the European Union) stated, “EFSA does not consider it appropriate to suggest any change in consumers’ diets relative to aspartame… .” All of the approved low-calorie sweeteners, including aspartame, have been determ...

Increased Fish market enables hike in fish pricing

...ting India International Seafood Show-2006 and the objective of the show is to market Indian fishes in all foreign countries....

Chemotherapy Treatment Can Be Given To The Elderly also

...at – they are recommendations for therapy based on objective data from randomized clinical trials but they are not currently enforced." He added that physicians "pay attention to guidelines from various and assorted organizations but may feel that a particular guideline should not be used for each and every ...

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...fety of the treatment modality while the secondary objective would be observation of the potential therapeutic effects. Ten head injury patients with between 5 and 14 years of age would be recruited for the study based upon the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Followed by initial treatment and evaluation, the...

Rogue Mammary Stem Cells Could Hold Key To Breast Cancer Relapse

...herapy, which targets rapidly cells. “The ultimate objective is to create a drug that will, in effect, switch off breast cancer cells,” Dr Visvader commented. “To do this, the exact make-up of genes expressed by normal and rogue stem cells will need to be determined. Then a drug will be designed to engage with...

Sex Health Clinics Unable To Meet Increasing Demand

...eful that the clinics would be able to achieve the objective following the financial kick-start, due this April....

Placing a Finger on Responses to Placebo Types

...atients and the status of the condition. On a more objective analysis, the responses to the two placebos were no different, conveying an underlying probability - that side effects communicated by medical specialists to the patients, could actually fuel an experience of them. ...

President Bush proposes HSAs scheme for the benefit of both the workers and the country

...t problems may arise due to the lack of available, objective information about the cost and quality of health care providers, facilities and procedures. Hence Haugh said that transparency in pricing is very essential. Jim Wilhite, director of compensation and benefits at Baker Hughes, said that the oil serv...

Mystery behind Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Unraveled

... This is due to the fact that there are very few objective findings, diagnosis and the treatment is difficult. Some have even raised the question of whether such syndromes are real or are a result of psychosomatic illness. Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander and colleagues, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, did...

OpenMED Nominated For Stockholm Challenge 2006 Award

... software. The site's disclaimer says so. "(Our) objective is to encourage the self-archiving culture amongst medical professionals in India. The goal is to preserve valuable research publications for future medical researchers and, side-by-side, to publicise research being conducted in the country," the pro...

Prime Suspect Apprehended in AIIMS Question Paper Leak

...tely after distribution and sending answers to the objective type questions through short messaging service (SM...eir service, who were sent answers to at least 300 objective type questions, were made to pay at least 2 lakhs. A senior CBI official reported that six message...

Academics Question Veracity Of NHS IT Upgrade Plan

... have to support a huge volume of data. "Concrete, objective information about NPfIT's progress is not available to external observers. Reliable sources within NPfIT have raised concerns about the technology itself," the academics tell the MPs in their letter. "We propose that the Health Select Committee help ...

MP Plans Education Campaign To Attract School Dropouts

...younger section of the population. The scheme's objective is to ensure that all children in the state complete a minimum five years of primary schooling by 2007 and eight years of elementary schooling by 2010, while bridging all gender and social category gaps. --Edited IANS...

Most Women Have Unrealistic Expectations From Screening Mammography

...in conversations and these now are shown in a more objective way in the survey.”Sorce: Newswise...

Doctors Join Hands To Spread Awareness Against Maternal Mortality

... in their own local languages, said Venkat. "The objective behind the Yatra was to make rural women aware of the medical services that are available to them today and make them understand the need for availing them to prevent pregnancy and childbirth related complications that can cause debilitating problems...

Salutations For The Selfless Heroes On World Red Cross Day

...ing emergency activities or fulfill our day-to-day objective of protecting human dignity.” The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger, said that volunteers also played a key role in ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for the victims of conflict and armed vi...

US Not Ready To Face The Bird Flu Outbreak

...ccine development. Vaccine production was a top objective laid out in President George W. Bush's "National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza" released Wednesday. A total of 206 people worldwide are confirmed by the World Health Organization to have been infected with H5N1, out of which 113 have died. Le...

ISB To Establish Research Chair On Real Estate And Urban Studies

...ears. 'There is a need for systematic planning, objective information and policy formulation to guide real estate players and support urban development in the country today,' said V. Chandrasekhar, executive director of WCED. --Edited IANS...

Meira Kumar Suggests Monitoring Systems To Check Drug Abuse

...d up and educate cadres of service providers. The objective of the strategy is to empower the society and the community to deal with the problem of drug abuse, she said, adding the ministry has been implementing the scheme for prevention of alcoholism and substance (drug) abuse since 1985 to provide service, ...

South African Died By A HIV Shunned Drug

... Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), said ‘Instead of objective decision-making about medical subjects, political measures coming from within the heart of the ANC is creating confusion around medicine and creating direct pressure on many individuals not to take the drugs. The enormous support given by President...

Hospitals In Scotland Not Diagnosing DVT Properly

...ern about the failure of the doctors to provide an objective second opinion, instead taking for granted the accuracy of the venogram. Stating that ‘It confirms everything we always suspected’ Jane McPherson Katie’s mother said that they had waited for 3&1/2 years to find out why Katie died. She said that they ...

New Delhi to Host Conference on Accident & Emergency Medical Treatment

...sociation of Indian-American and US doctors.// The objective of this conference is to impress upon the government and medical institutions the need for specialty faculties for emergency medicine and disaster preparedness. At a function held in the Indian Consulate here Wednesday to launch preparation for the ...

Students in Pakistan Protest Against Dance, Music in Curriculum

...gs. But the current authorities have reversed this objective and are focussing on the so-called enlightened moderation. They are misleading youth.' The student bodies have said that they will organise a referendum on campuses across the country, the Daily Times newspaper reported. The handbill asks: 'Is Is...

Yoga Along with Treatment for Breast Cancer Improves Quality of Life

...cumulate in cancer patients over time. 'The main objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of integrating a daily yoga program into the treatment care plan for women with breast cancer undergoing radiation treatment, and determine if this is something the patients found useful and enjoyable, as ...

UP Government Fixes Work Schedules for Provincial Medical Service Doctors

...ospitals and PHC heads. He explained that the main objective of the order was to ensure that medical and health services reaches to a large number of patients. He further stated that this order would also ensure that the government doctors would be more serious in going about their duties. He also added that w...

Foreign Fresher Students Offered Scholarship By Fudan

... Chinese peers beginning this fall semester. The objective of the Fudan foreign freshmen scholarship is to award 14 foreign students who have excelled in the university's entrance exam as well as 10 elite postgraduates. The winners of the scholarship would be exempted from the first-year tuition that could...

Migraine, Sexual Desire Interlinked

...raine and perhaps lead to improved treatment. The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between migraine headache and self-reported sexual desire. There is evidence of a complex relationship between sexual activity and headache. (Source:PTI News)...

Attitudes About Aging Different from Reality

...they age, they become happier -- even though their objective circumstances, such as their health, decline.’ The study was performed using an online survey with six questions, in four different orders. The participants had previously volunteered to take online surveys, and chose to respond to the U-M/VA inqui...

Brain Cancer Could be Safely Treated with Radioactive Scorpion Venom

...gally and safely,’ Jackson says. ‘Obviously, a key objective is to bring these patients home and to ensure that their loved ones and the environment are properly protected.’ In the trials, one group of patients received the therapy three times over three weeks, while the other group received the therapy 6 t...

Maori diabetes project way off target

...y targets, has fallen flat in achieving //the main objective of lowering the rate of the disease by one-third within a pre-defined time frame. The project has also overshot the budget and turned out to be very expensive as it did not get the estimated participation, and was unable to detect even 50% of the t...

CE Sonography Score Over Others in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Assessment

... sonography proved more useful than others. ‘The objective of our study was to prospectively compare the diagnostic value of sonography, contrast-enhanced sonography, and CT for the detection of solid organ injuries in blunt abdominal trauma patients,’ said Massimo Valentino, MD, lead author of the study. ...

New Tool Found to be Effective in Assessing Blunt Abdominal Trauma

... Valentino, MD, lead author of the study said “The objective of our study was to prospectively compare the diagnostic value of sonography, contrast-enhanced sonography, and CT for the detection of solid organ injuries in blunt abdominal trauma patients”. The study was conducted by the departments of emergenc...

Spanish Initiative Looks At Inflammatory Markers To Predict Strokes

...illo, coordinator of the MíTICO project. A second objective of this work is to determine if the use of habitua... will be known in less than three months. Another objective of the MíTICO study is to find out the influence of the inflammation markers on the cognitive evolut...

Research into Blindness Cure Goes Digital

...m the Glasgow University's physics department, the objective of implanting such an electronic device is to act as a mechanical retina that could "fool" the brain into thinking that the eye is still working. He said, "Blindness is often caused by the light cells at the back of the eye dying off, but by implan...

Panel to Help Combat HIV/AIDS In Asia-Pacific Region

...on on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific will conduct an objective analysis of the developmental consequences of AIDS in the region and its medium- and long-term implications on the socio-economic environment. "There are 8.3 million people infected with HIV/AIDS in the region and if this trend goes unchecked, the f...

Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...ty to prevent the development of a disease. To get objective results, it was indispensable to set a control in order to compare the new therapy with the current situation. It is from this information that the International Health Agencies approve the generalised distribution of Malaria Intermittent Treatment t...

UAE Reports lowest number of AIDS cases

...nt and social-economic crises of Aids and its main objective is stated to be the prevention of transmission of the disease and controlling its entry into the country through primary prevention, early detection and effective management. The report has also said that laws and regulations have been promulgated ...

Africa Set to Control Malaria Using Specialized Software

...s of processing time on a single computer. A key objective of the project was to involve African academic institutions in the development of the software. Due to efforts of non-profit organisations ICVolunteers and Informaticiens sans Frontieres, researchers from the University of Bamako in Mali and the Ag...

Doctors' Bid to End Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace

...ussion and mediation; an opportunity to receive an objective investigation into a complaint; and a formal stage to include possible disciplinary action; Making sure that records of incidents said and/or threats made, the person who made them, the date and time of meeting and who else was present are kept; ...

New Carrier Developed To Deliver Drugs to Gliomas

...never been given to humans. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to document that 131I-TM-601 could be administered to humans safely. In addition, the researchers sought to begin to assess the drug's anti-tumor effect and dosing standards. Six patients agreed to receive additional doses at one of...

Onchocerciasis: Presentation And Treatment

...ology and International Health Research Group. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of 8-year vertical distribution of Ivermectin, the only treatment available against onchocerciasis, among the rural population of 12 communities and two ethnical groups: the Bubis and the Fangs. The fact that th...

River Blindness Incidence Reduced With Effective Treatment

...ology and International Health Research Group. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of 8-year vertical distribution of Ivermectin, the only treatment available against onchocerciasis, among the rural population of 12 communities and two ethnical groups: the Bubis and the Fangs. The fact that ...