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Ebola Virus - 'Outbreak' Claims More Lives In Uganda.

...fter days of high fever, chest pains, vomiting and extensive internal bleeding. Doctors can do little except provide supportive rehydration therapy...

Now you can identify Sperm and Egg donors

...ome into force only in the New Year and only after extensive debating by the decision makers. However the ruling is not retrospective- so old donors will not be identified. Only people who donate after the new rule comers into effect will be identifiable...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

...infection are high fever, chest pain, vomiting and extensive bleeding. Most victims die after several days....

Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

...income groups. These candies are the end result of extensive research undertook by Mayang Sari of Helen Keller International in Jakarta, Indonesia and colleagues. The results of the present study indicate that the iron-fortified candies, which provided 48% of the recommended dietary allowance of iron per wee...

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

...art defects than of normal weight women. In their extensive research which compared 608 infants born with an isolated heart defect with 2,767 infants without heart defects between 1968 and 1980, they found that infants of underweight women were 26% less likely to have a heart defect than infants of average-we...

Better prostate cancer detection

Recently a more extensive biopsy detecting technique for prostate cancers has been found out by researchers. This is very effective than the traditional examination. In the traditional exam for prostate cancer, the doctor takes six tissue samples from the prostate gland. ...

Herbs for Rememberance

...a to promote good memory and circulation. Recent extensive clinical and experimental trials in postgraduate medical and drug research institutes in Lucknow, Benares and Madras show that Brahmi "not only arrests further loss but also slows down the process of subsequent reduction in senile dementia". The he...

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

...ing to leverage its combined marketing prowess and extensive distribution network. Ranbaxy official said that the company is keen that the benefits of Ciprofloxacin in terms of convenience and better patient compliance should percolate to the maximum number of doctors and patients. The company believes that t...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...to be individualized. Smoquit will be backed by an extensive patient education program, which will outline the do's and don'ts at each stage of the smoking cessation therapy....

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...he Japanese scientist Ryoji Noyori has carried out extensive research and developed better general catalysts for hydrogenation. Alongside the advances in chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions, Barry Sharpless has developed corresponding chiral catalysts for other important reactions, oxidations. These ach...

Antioxidants used for longevity

...antioxidant defences, the free radicals will cause extensive cell damage, of the kind that may set the scene for neurodegenerative disease. The SOD-deficient mice do indeed develop brain disease and live for only a week. But when they are treated with synthetic antioxidant molecules which take the place of SO...

Risk Of Developing Arthritis

...er people with sports injuries. It is also funding extensive work into improving hip, knee and other joint replacemens....

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...om the Medical Research Council, plan to undertake extensive trials to find out conclusively if this type of treatment can lessen asphyxia's serious effects. During the study, parents of more than 200 children suffering from asphyxia will be asked to allow their infants to take part in the trial. Half the chi...

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...c disease...with a poor prognosis." Because of the extensive destruction it causes in the lungs and other tissue, they have dubbed the illness S. aureus necrotizing (death of living tissue) pneumonia. It is unclear how common this pneumonia is, Etienne told Reuters Health. But based on the current evidence, h...

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

Recently a more extensive biopsy detecting technique for prostate cancers has been found out by researchers.// This is very effective than the traditional examination. In the traditional exam for prostate cancer, the doctor takes six tissue samples from the prostate gland. ...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...mation for each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated the frequency of consumption of approximately 100 foods over a one-year period. Results point to several foods that appear to be inversely associated with mouth cancer. Cereals and starchy foods, ...

High Levels of Protein Linked to Brain Shrinkage

...ns to detect brain atrophy. Participants with more extensive brain atrophy were more likely to have higher blood levels of homocysteine, according to a team led by Dr. Perminder Sachdev of the University of New South Wales in Australia. The presence of vascular disease did not explain the connection, Sachdev ...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...e drug gabapentin. However, doctors suggested that extensive studies were needed to determine the long-term implications of the drug....

New heart disease marker

...art disease than cholesterol. Researchers surveyed extensive medical literature to conclude that apolipoprotein B levels are a more accurate indicator of who is most at risk of heart disease than cholesterol levels. They also say that the apolipoprotein B to apolipoprotein A-1 level is important. This is all e...

Medicaid cuts leave patients in a lurch

...state of Massachusetts has gone in for a huge and extensive termination of its services to people and this means they won't be eligible for Medicaid rolls. Even more, benefits on prescription drugs have also been cut . Further cuts are planned in the near future. Physicians find themselves in a dire predicame...

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