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Cancer Doctors Okays Controversial Prostate Therapy

...NCCN members allows us to expand the guidelines to include brachytherapy," said Dr. Howard Sandler, head of radiation therapy oncology at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center one of the NCCN hospitals. Three years ago, when the NCCN produced its prostate cancer guidelines there was no menti...

Levothyroxine Thyroid Hormone Replacement, Approved for Hypothyroidism

...six to twelve months. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include poor growth in children and, in those born with th... Symptoms of hypothyroidism in children and adults include fatigue, cold intolerance, dry skin, lethargy and weight gain....

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

... Kampala. More shocking is the fact that the dead include many health workers including doctors & nurses. But what shocked the nation was the death of Dr. Mathew Zukeviya, who was a prominent doctor spearheading the fight against Ebola in Gulu. There is no cure yet for Ebola although researchers in Paris ...

Vitamins-The answer to Heart Disease?

...products, beans and lentils. Major sources of B-12 include meat, poultry, fish and dairy products. A healthy lifestyle and a wholesome diet complemented by the above may be in order, thoug!...

Teens turning to Internet for medical queries

...re involved with.Topics most frequently researched include sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), diet, exercise, sexual behaviors, violence and alcohol use, among others. Boys were just as likely to turn on their computers in search of health-related answers as girls. Ethnicity, the mother's education, and t...

Cancer drugs in development nearly doubled since 1995

...2 for prostate cancer. Othercancers being targeted include solid tumors, sarcomas, pancreatic cancer,ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, liver cancer, leukemia,kidney cancer, brain cancer, stomach cancer and bladder cancer.Of the drugs in development, 17 are waiting for Food and Drug Administrationap...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...o their health. People in need of liver donations include those with livers damaged by hepatitis C, cancer, alcohol consumption or primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease of the liver and bile ducts. Potential liver donors are generally limited to family members, spouses or close friends. While an exact geneti...

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

... from patents. The pharmaceutical companies, which include some of the biggest in the world, had challenged the order on the ground that it violates their intellectual property rights (IPR) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The move by the firms to back off is "a victory for millions of poor people...

Tattoos may significantly increase risk of hepatitis C infection

...d can extend upto a year. Unpleasant side effects include nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue and depression. Hepatitis C is spread by blood-to-blood contamination, says lead study author Robert Haley, MD, Chief of Epidemiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre (UTSW) in Dallas. Injec...

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...he project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include drug manufacturing, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...he project, called the Diflucan Partnership, would include drug manufacturing, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...that the acupuncture has multisystem effects which include inducing the chemicals in the brain called endorphins that has analgesic effects....

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

...delay death occurs." The symptoms of this disease include high grade fever, headache, diarrhoea, pain in the joints or muscles. The disease is present in the urine of rats and is transmitted to humans through dogs, cattle and on contact with contaminated water....

Risk of heart disease begins in teens

...y to manage the disease. Complications of diabetes include heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and limb amputation. According to the ADA, atherosclerosis accounts for roughly 1.5 million heart attacks and 600,000 strokes each year, in the general population. According to researchers patients with more...

Double impact vaccine

...sed with lymphoma. The two main types of Lymphoma include Hodgkin's disease and non Hodgkin's lymphoma, each having its own spread, growth and response to treatment. Chemotherapy alone or in combination with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow tr...

Prevention is better than cure

...rom virus contaminated objects. Symptoms of a cold include one or more of the following: running or stuffy nose, sore throat, hoarseness, 'dry' cough, tiredness, headache, bouts of sneezing and fever. Children are six times more prone to colds as compared to adults, one reason being that they are in close...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

... are often a result of miscommunication, which can include poor hand writing of the prescription and confusion between drugs with similar names.// It is important for patients with epilepsy not to have an interruption in treatment because it could lead to consequence such as status epilepticus. Conversely,...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...e fetal alcohol syndrome. Symptoms of the syndrome include physical defects as well as problems with intellectual functioning, such as lowered IQ, attention deficits, and behavioral and emotional problems. hence the researchers conclude that we should reinforce the Surgeon General's recommendation that pre...

Young womens woes

... attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, gray colour and increased sweating, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack beca...

Young women's woes

... attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, gray colour and sweatiness, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack because of i...

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