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Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

... HDL (good) cholesterol showed that 3 years of the combo treatment improved HDL levels, caused artery blockages to recede and significantly lowered heart complications compared with an inactive placebo. // Both lowering LDL, the "bad" cholesterol, and raising HDL help lower the risk of cardiac "events" s...

Good News for HIV Patients Also Suffering From Hepatitis C Virus

...nd ribavirin. Results showed the Pegasys-ribavirin combo was 40-percent effective in reducing HCV RNA to undetectable levels, compared to 12 percent for the older treatment. The drugs were even more effective in patients with the HCV genotypes 2 and 3, reaching 62-percent effectiveness. Patients with these...

Relief From Asthma With New Combo Therapy

... sleep interruption in those who took the bud/form combo compared with the other two drug combinations. It was also observed that the bud/form combination helped maintain a reduction in asthma attacks severe enough to require medical attention, using a corticosteroid dose that was one-fourth the amount in ...

Calcium-Vitamin D Combo For Reduced Fracture Risk

...cause of majority of fractures in the elderly. The combo of the two nutrients will prove to be a boon in these cases. Source : IANS Medindia on Osteoporosis : Further Information Osteoporosis: In Greek, Osteo means "bone" and porosis mean a "porous condition". In osteoporosis the bone mass in the ...

Prohibited diet medicine found in Chinese herbs

...1997 after numerous reports the off-label cocktail combo increased the risk of heart valve damage in the United States and also in the United Kingdom. Researchers reported that high concentrations of fenfluramine were found in the Chinese supplements, researchers reported, and also in the patients' urine....

Small Cars, Anti-AIDS And Anti-Cancer Drugs Would Be Cheaper

...he prices of electronic items like DVD players and combo drives will also come down, as also those of instant food mixes, ice cream, condensed milk, aerated drinks and footwear. Prices of steel and plastic products are also expected to head south with the excise duty on these reduced. Excise duty on petr...

Two in One Cell Offers Hope to Find a Cure for Cancer

...growth factor for NK cells. The drug-growth factor combo served as a lure, leading the IKDCs to tumors implanted in the mice. The results were that tumors shrunk in mice, which received injections of IKDCs, but not in those receiving conventional NK cells only. Housseau's group is conducting further studie...

Varying Amount Of Fat In Fast Food Chain Across the World

...n New York City, a large fries and chicken nuggets combo contained 10.2 grams of trans fats, compared with about 3 grams in the Czech Republic, Russian and Spain, and 0.33 grams in Denmark. While a large order of KFC hot wings and fries in New York had 5.5 grams of trans fats, compared with 19 grams of tra...

Germ - Chemo Combo Fights Cancer

...y at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The combo approach temporarily wiped out both large and small tumors in almost 100 mice and permanently cured more than two-thirds of them. The likely explanation for the greater cancer cell kill by the combination treatment is that the bacteria expose the ...

Paucity of Tetanus Vaccine

...ut some children are not in a position to take the combo vaccine due to prevalent health conditions. The Ministry of Health is still on the search for alternative sources of the exclusive Tetanus vaccine, which is the only vaccine suitable for children under seven....

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...y found no clear proof that the popular supplement combo glucosamine and chondroitin reduces joint pain. While glucosamine is believed to stimulate production of cartilage-building proteins, chondroitin may inhibit production of cartilage-destroying enzymes and fight inflammation too. Cartilage is a smo...

Researchers Claims to Have Found Cure for Hepatitis C

...ted with either peginterferon alfa alone or with a combo of peginterferon alfa and ribavirin. Thereafter, researchers monitored serum levels of the hepatitis C virus once a year for an average of 4.1 years(range 0.4 to 7 years). It was found that 989 of the 997 patients maintained undetectable levels of ...

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