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Tag: "modality" at medical news

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...up with an earliest intervention. Hence the prime modality to prevent deaths from cancer is by targeting the high risk individuals as this study goes....

New Modality in Migraine Management

...se it and he is confident in implementing the same modality to the comfort level of use. May this be a good find to wind up the miseries for those migraine sufferers....

Ebola Treatment Shows Promise

...c fevers. “The clinical efficacy of this treatment modality now needs to be proven,” they conclude....

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

...tment were to start the doctors can be sure of the modality of the treatment and where to target radiation treatment. "In 1999, we began publishing papers showing that PET scans picked up more cancerous lymph nodes in patients with cervical cancer," Grigsby says. PET scans and CT scans have different meth...

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

...ding to a new report. In fact, routine use of this modality preoperatively could obviate many unneeded surgeries.// The nanoparticles, which are given intravenously 24 hours before scanning, work by binding to lymphatic cells. The particles only bind to normal cells, so it is the areas that do not "light up" ...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

...been made in the field of cardiology. The combined modality approach has been a valuable one in satisfying the demands of the disease. Of these, pharmacology deserves a special mention, which has focused on non-invasive supportive treatment modalities for heart disease. One of the significant finding with th...

Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis in the future

...sful, then it would not be long before a treatment modality for the so called untreatable genetic disoder could be made a reality.The goal of the research is to make a drug that would work efficiently and effectively at low doses....

Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry for speedy diagnosis of Brain disorders

Imaging modality has yet another discovery to its credit. Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry (MRS) as is it called is a safe, non-surgical method of identifying brain infections such as brain abscess, and an accurate// and rapid way of diagnosing meningitis. The new met...

Forensic Phonetics – Scientific Solution for Legal Problem

...n services are some of the broad avenues where the modality can be of help. Phonetic analysis is however very time consuming, requires the painstaking preparation of speech samples and close observation of their acoustic and other characteristics followed by extensive statistical analysis. When we have becom...

PET Scanning can help in early detection of Alzheimer’s diseas

...r degree of precision and accuracy with an imaging modality known as Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is coupled with the radiotracer fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). PET is a safe, effective and painless biological imaging exam that "photographs" or detects the presence and extent of neurological condit...

Novel Actemra monotherapy in treating patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis

...aled that it is superior to conventional treatment modality that uses disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs to inhibit // joint destruction. It has also been found to provide symptomatic relief and improve sensation of pain. Rheumatoid arthritis is a debilitating autoimmune disease in which the lin...

Novel Treatment Found To Prolong Survival Of Liver Cancer Patients

...edict the response of the patients to the combined modality approach....

Risk Of Birth Defects Slightly Increased Due To IVF

... involving the infertile couples and the treatment modality are believed to play a role in the increased risk for birth defects. Although previous studies conducted across different regions of the world, suggested a greater possibility of birth defects in IVF babies, the study is the first of it’s kind to h...

Oxytocin Boosts Trust and Reduces Fear.

... oxytocin on women, use of oxytocin as a treatment modality in other relevant fear disorders, study on the closely related hormone vasopressin and how mutations in these two hormones affect the brain. ...

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...d towards establishing the safety of the treatment modality while the secondary objective would be observation of the potential therapeutic effects. Ten head injury patients with between 5 and 14 years of age would be recruited for the study based upon the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Followed by initial...

Death Risk Of Ovarian Cancer Reduced By Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

... all ovarian cancer patients. This new treatment modality can be difficult to tolerate, but promises an improved average survival rate of nearly 16 months and a 25% reduction in the associated death risk. The results of this study represent one of the largest benefits ever observed for a new therapy in gyne...

Stem Cell Research - Changing Wishes to Possibilities and Possibilities to Reality

...ht incurable. A few areas where this new treatment modality can be applied range from chronic diseases such as diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease to acute conditions like traumatic brain injury and limb amputation. Stem cell therapy and research has drawn much excitement and attention, both from membe...

Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?

... but one should not tell that the entire treatment modality of using magnets is a of no use. All magnets have individual properties and when they are put to use properly the definitive results can be obtained. He also claims that some magnets have immense power in them that the result they offer after treat...

SPECT Can Help Predict Treatment Outcome In Patients With Low Back Pain

...n computed tomography (SPECT), a simple diagnostic modality can help predict the outcome of spinal injections,...ed to their counterparts. The use of the imaging modality was also found to decrease the need for a facet injection by as much as 50% and the associated medic...

Drug Combination Offers Hope in Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis Treatment

...r asthma and chronic bronchitis. The new treatment modality claims to even restore normal breathing in affected individuals. // Experiments conducted on animal models have revealed promising findings, the results of which can soon to integrated to human beings as well. The dual drug combination is believed ...

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