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New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

..., we thought that we had antibodies for just about everything well, we have an anti-IgE antibody now for bronchial asthma. This is particularly useful in bronchial asthma where an attack can be brought by a number of noxious and non-noxious stimuli. This has also been proven to induce symptomatic relief.How doe...

Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

...the first line of therapy not the last resort when everything else fails." In this specific case the incision was about 2-1/2 inches, he added....

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...rights, sued health authorities in court, and done everything in their power to delay and defeat meaningful action on second-hand smoke". Another startling and worrying statistic is that figures predict that nearly 20% of the women in the world, that is one in five women the world over, will be smokers by 2025...

Humour inherited

...e of humour has nothing to do with your genes, and everything to do with your upbringing say UK biologists. Most personality traits such as being introverted or extroverted are believed to be at least partly genetically determined - so researchers presumed the same applied to our sense of humour. The team aske...

Wishes of unspoken patients

...n their symptoms. A doctor need not tell a patient everything on his mind. One may feel anxious and forget what you meant to ask about, he or she may seem rushed, or it may be that the relationship between the two of you is not as open and trusting as it could be.// Researchers at the University of Texas have...

Dangers of heat

... temperature down and this increases the stress on everything else." However, he said anybody could be at risk if they did not take sensible steps. There are a number of sensible things that everybody should do to avoid illness when temperatures soar. Increase your intake of non-alcoholic, non-carbonated, caff...

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

...rist weapon is real and health officials are doing everything they can to "keep the citizens of our nation safe" from such an attack, the head of the National Institutes of Health said Friday. Health officials are working to stockpile vaccines and prepare local officials for a potential attack....

Frequent meals can reduce cholesterol

...eat no breakfast, they may skip lunch and then eat everything they can lay their hands on for supper. Others 'graze' through the day, while some people stick to three meals a day and no snacking between times. If these people eat the same amount, does it really matter when they eat it? Ofcourse it does, accordi...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

Television commercials for drugs to treat everything from heartburn to impotence have prompted one in eight viewers to get a prescription. But many viewers fail to retain critical information about the drug and possible side effects. TV commercials for prescription drugs have become commonplace since t...

Burden of lung disease

... only in one disorder, chest physicians look after everything from lung cancer to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder(COPD), asthma, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis and sleep apnoea. There are some 30 or 40 respiratory conditions. As a result, lung disease, on the whole, has not been high enough up the governme...

Pig cloning for organs

...lanting them into non-human primates. "We think if everything is successful with what we think are the major issues, in two to three years we'll be able to develop a program to test the organs in small numbers of human patients," said Julia Greenstein of Immerge BioTherapeutics, a company created to lead the re...

Relief of pain for suffering patients

...tient worse, and it is good medical practice to do everything possible to relieve it. It's to be hoped that others will adopt the Toronto guidelines - so that no-one ever has to die in pain....

A Drug That Can Keep Cancer In Check

...they’ve found one drug that may successfully treat everything from breast to prostate cancer.// In a study of 22 patients with breast, prostate, lung, ovarian, colon and pancreatic cancer, 42 percent had their tumors either stabilize or shrink by more than 50 percent. Specialists say , it turns off one of the s...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

... John Bailey can relax today, knowing he's doing everything he can to avoid a second open-heart surgery. Eight years ago, he had a quintuple bypass operation. . But earlier this year, Bailey had the same kind of chest pain. He says, "It was a grabbing, squeezing type of pain right in the middle of my chest....

Yet Another Treatment Option For Cancer

...they’ve found one drug that may successfully treat everything from breast to prostate cancer.// In a study of 22 patients with breast, prostate, lung, ovarian, colon and pancreatic cancer, 42 percent had their tumors either stabilize or shrink by more than 50 percent. Specialists say , it turns off one of the s...

Shrinking Cancer Cells

...they’ve found one drug that may successfully treat everything from breast to prostate cancer.// For the study 22 patients with breast, prostate, lung, ovarian, colon and pancreatic cancer were involved , 42 percent had their tumors either stabilize or shrink by more than 50 percent. Specialists say , it turns o...

Condoms May not be safe Enough

...us sexually transmitted disease, AIDS. To my mind, everything else is gravy," He further added, "All of this is ideologically motivated. What they're really concerned about are people who are not married having sex." The health professionals have always known this issue. In 2001 National Institute of Health ex...

Blood Test May be Able To Predict Heart Attack Risk

...'s a novel test in the blood that's independent of everything else we can measure currently to determine how much coronary blockage is present, “we still need to do some more studies to validate the findings”. At present the test is not available commercially. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in t...

Experimental Blood Test May Spot Heart Attack Risk, Study Says

...'s a novel test in the blood that's independent of everything else we can measure currently to determine how much coronary blockage is present,`we still need to do some more studies to validate the findings”. At present the test is not available commercially. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the ...

Secret Of Heartbeat Protein Unravelled

...n.edu. This protein is believed to play a role in everything from cardiac contractions to memory creation. SAP97 is found mainly in the central nervous system and is known as a "scaffolding" protein. In this role, it serves as a sort of tether, grabbing proteins inside the cell critical to nerve signalling a...

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