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Levothyroxine Thyroid Hormone Replacement, Approved for Hypothyroidism

...e optimal replacement dose of levothryoxine for an individual adult patient is determined, blood tests are usually done less frequently; e.g., every six to twelve months. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include poor growth in children and, in those born with this disorder, impaired intellectual development if this...

Controversial deal on public access of the human genome map

...l enable one to have the information to manipulate individual characteristics like the color of the eye or even skin. It will also help say whether a cell will function normally or not, enabling one to screen babies in the womb for diseases, and device specific advancements against many hereditary diseases and ...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...a better understanding of the vulnerability of the individual to specific stressors is also required and needs monitoring. So next time you are watching your favourite game “Keep your Cool!” ...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...tor the drug resistance of bacterium as they treat individual patients. If resistance to a particular drug develops, the physician should consider switching the patient to an alternate antibiotic or an alternate therapy. The scientists are also probing the possibility of harnessing a therapeutic vaccine to pr...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...upon the cell. A vertical microlaser beam enters individual cells as they are pushed by a micropump through tiny channels cut into the glass surface of the device. Because cancer cells contain more protein than normal cells, their greater density changes (refracts) the speed of the laser light passing throug...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...beat rhythm and placing them in the context of the individual patients' health. The reliability of its prediction has been tested in collaboration with practising physicians at the major hospital in Ludwigshafen. Comparisons were made with an earlier study of ECG data on 600 patients who had suffered a hear...

Big and Bright

... size are trivial and of no clinical importance to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the populati...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

...the brain that control speech and language puts an individual at risk for the development of stuttering.// Using MRI scans to measure the brains of 16 persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) patients and 16 controls, the right and left temporal lobe were found to be significantly larger in the adults with ...

Menopause considerations

...ically different to that of non-twin sisters. An individual woman cannot accurately predict her age at menopause without knowing the particular genetic factors involved, the researchers say. Menopausal ages between relatives can still vary greatly. day.Lowered fertility is not the only consequence of early me...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...5,500 chemists. According to him, in the long run, individual chemists will not survive and these retail outlets will join the society. Mr. Shah triumphantly declares " We are not against anybody. Now we will do the business the way we want and they will do the way they want." <br...

More about HIV

...00-1200/uL to less than 200/uL. At this stage, the individual becomes susceptible to a myriad of illnesses and major diseases. Here is what the typical immune system profile looks like for someone infected with HIV:Stage 1: Primary HIV Infection. Initial flu-like symptoms, which may last 4 weeks or longer. At t...

Predictable genes

... that eventually, doctors will be able to gauge an individual woman's risk of developing cancer by looking closely at her genetic makeup.Only a small proportion of breast cancer cases are currently thought to be caused by inherited genetic factors. Two genes have already been firmly linked with some cases of ...

Antidepressants-important role

...tant role in mood. But there is no evidence on how individual SSRIs compare with one another. However, a new stu...ich drug they were on. This is good news - because individual patients may not respond to one of these SSRIs or find they have side effects. The doctor can now sw...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...apidly at first, infecting 6 to 12 people for each individual already infected. As steps were taken to hinder the spread of the disease--including mass vaccination campaigns, restriction of infected individuals' movement and quarantines--the rate of disease spread would fall. Nonetheless, significant epidemi...

Risk Of Developing Arthritis

...ut sport and exercise must be tailored to people’s individual capacity and age. Don’t overdo it now because you might regret it later,” Logan says. The charity has launched a campaign to raise ￡ 250,000 to fund its sports injuries-related work. The charity is currently financing work into a new type of cartil...

Weight-Loss Drinks Can Make You Gassy

... have lactose intolerance. A condition in which an individual lacks a sufficient supply of an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of milk-based foods. Consuming large amounts of lactose can cause such individuals to experience bloating, diarrhoea and flatulence. While eating solid foods with milk can...

Risk for Pregnant Women

...hington, had the most pregnant women at risk in an individual community or water system. WSSC drinking water was pretty safe. "I speak from a unique perspective. I'm nearly six months pregnant and I drink our water every day," Kalinowski said. Chlorine is added to tap water to kill microbes. The environmental ...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...archers also found that the clinical outcome of an individual child's struggle with medulloblastoma could be accurately predicted by examining the patterns of gene expression in the cancer at the time of diagnosis....

Infertile men at cancer risk

...emen characteristics" for the absolute increase in individual risk is small. The study compared results of semen analysis conducted at Apollo laboratories between 1975 and 1995 with the incidence of testicular cancer in the Indian national cancer register. It found 78 cases of testicular cancer among infertil...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...data sources are not of a high quality and rely on individual hospital reporting rates. He says the policy lessons to be drawn from the study are unclear and that it does not necessarily follow that concentrating resources in fewer centres will lead to lower death rates....

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