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Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...increasingly being performed in the West where the demand for donated organs often outstrips the supply. However, potential donors are strictly screened to make sure that the procedure does as little harm as possible to their health. People in need of liver donations include those with livers damaged by he...

Way to monitor blood pressure

...ise, the less able the artery was to expand to the demand for increased blood flow. This strains the heart and raises the risk of heart attack or stroke....

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...diseased tissue. // Following this report, the demand for surgery increased enormously and the National Institutes of Health launched further trials to see if the operation was really effective. People had either surgery or standard medical management for their condition. The first report of the trial n...

Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug

...infections coming to light has led to an increased demand for the drug used in its treatment - Ciprofloxacin...uction of Ciprofloxacin to cater to the burgeoning demand and will supply 200 million tablets in the next three months. In fact, Bayer holds the U.S. patents ...

An effective way to treat angina

... supply to their heart cannot cope with the oxygen demand being made on it. They can be treated by angioplasty, to open up a blocked artery to the heart, or bypass surgery to short-circuit a vessel blockage.// Angina can relieved by another, less invasive, method by increasing blood flow to the heart. En...

Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

... start policing farmers but only to streamline the demand and supply position. The board is also proposing a buyback arrangement for cultivators as they face an uncertain market. For an improved system of testing, the government has decided to recognise private testing laboratories. A notification is bein...

More Elderly Take Inappropriate and Harmful Medications

...ecial training in geriatric care, and patients may demand certain medications that have worked for them in the past. Educating doctors and patients and conducting further research into the effectiveness of medications in elderly patients can help solve the problem....

High Demand for a child vaccine

High demand for a new vaccine against childhood pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections has led to a shortage around the country. Meanwhile, doctors are directing the supplies they do have to children// who run the highest risk of infection, such as those with ...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

...cing some MMR vaccine, supply has not kept up with demand in a nation that uses 1.8 million doses a month. In October and November, the average delivery of the MMR vaccine fell 61% below national demand, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which asked Merck to supplement production by taking 700,0...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...at perhaps cooling the body can reduce the brain's demand for oxygen and this may protect it after a cardiac arrest. Doctors in Vienna have been testing this idea. They looked at patients who had experienced cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation - an abnormal heart rhythm. One group had their bod...

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...group, these morbid events comprise a considerable demand on and cost to the heath care system,"Dr. Mayer added....

Pig cloning for organs

...le die waiting for an appropriate organ. While the demand for organs increases every year, the supply of human donor organs has remained stable. Even if animal-to-human transplants become feasible, there are still likely to be questions about whether such procedures are morally acceptable. Most transplant p...

The essence of cosmetic surgery

According to a new study, as the demand for facial cosmetic surgery has increased, so too ...en more popular. Most products go down in price as demand goes up. Now economics researchers in Texas have looked at how cosmetic surgery, as a product//, has...

Nightlights could ward diabetic blindness

...ls responsible for night vision) which have a high demand for oxygen. Researchers at the University of Car... that night time illumination can reduce the rods' demand for oxygen. The work was done with seven patients with type 2 diabetes and eight healthy controls. I...

Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

...e diseased tissue. Following this report, the demand for surgery increased enormously and the National Institutes of Health launched further trials to see if the operation was really effective. People had either surgery or standard medical management for their condition. The first report of the trial n...

Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Degrees can now practice in India

...rg). The downloaded forms MUST be accompanied by a demand draft of Rs. 3,500/- (form + exam fee) drawn in favour of National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. The envelopes may be superscribed - "Application for Screening Test for Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Qualifications". Instructions contain...

SARS: India's drugs in demand

...m the Indian capital, the SARS virus has increased demand for macrolides, resulting in severely affected countries like China approaching the Indian pharmaceutical companies for additional supplies. Macrolides are a family of antibiotics that treat a wide range of bacterial infections. While doctors are sti...

SARS necessitates medical masks

The N95 mask is in demand once again. In the past this mask has been well tested whenever there has been need to protect our lungs from airborne infection. During all the previous instances around the world for example the world trade center tragedy and during the anthra...

Does Your Prescription Have An Inappropriate Medicine?

...ian knowledge, habit, cost management, and patient demand -- for antidepressant, anti-anxiety, sedative/hypnotic, and pain reliever prescribig....

Painkilling Patch As Effective As Intravenous Delivery Systems

...kin with a very, very tiny electric current at the demand of the patient. For the study 636 patients following major surgery were assigned either to the patch with the painkiller fentanyl hydrochloride or an intravenous system that delivered morphine. Of those wearing the patch, 74 percent rated it good ...

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