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Is Diabetes the Leading Cause of Kidney Failure in India

...ge renal disease (ESRD)each year. People with ESRD require regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. Almost 25% of patients suffering from diabetes will get kidney problems. Scientists know that high levels of blood sugar and hypertension (high blood pressure) increase the risk of people with di...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...izing antibodies tested in the trials. First, they require frequent administration. Additionally, the body's immune system eventually recognizes the antibodies as foreign and generates an immune response that can exacerbate the disease. Naked DNA vaccination technology may counter these undesirable effects. ...

The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live

...The idea would be to single out those patients who require close monitoring....

Shock it to Heal!!

... the foot ulcer, as damage can be severe enough to require amputation. For diabetics with this dreaded foot ulcer, a boon in disguise would be a new device that delivers a high voltage electric current to the skin. //Such an electrical stimulation would help in the healing of foot ulcers. People with diabe...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

... ECG tests help doctors to decide whether patients require treatment with drugs to combat arrhythmia or may be implant a defibrillator, a device similar to a pacemaker, which operates only when the heartbeat starts to get out of step. Mathematicians at the new Fraunhofer Institute ITWM together with a priv...

Early detection of heart attack

...hese tests normally take a minimum of 24 hours and require hospital admission. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary in England, doctors have now found a way of streamlining the process. Using a new test, they have got the assessment time down to six hours. They compared the new way with the traditional method i...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

... The patient undergoing this treatment will also require counselling from time to time. While the framework for guiding a patient through the treatment protocol is well established, the exact duration of the treatment needs to be individualized. Smoquit will be backed by an extensive patient education prog...

Probiotics can help

...c bacteria suffer fewer respiratory infections and require less antibiotic treatments. Probiotics are live bacteria that colonise the gut and are presumed to promote healing by changing the balance of healthy and unhealthy bacteria.// They also act to boost immunity. They are present, either naturally or ad...

Diabetes on the rise

...as which produce insulin are destroyed. Patients require daily insulin injections, and a carefully controlled diet, for life. The more common variety, type II diabetes, generally happens later in life, and happens because the cells of the body become less responsive to the regulatory effects of insulin. T...

Collagen improves voice quality in Parkinsonism

...e surgeons think the new procedure, which does not require a general anaesthetic, is very promising for many Parkinson's patients with voice problems....

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...troubling menstrual bleeding so excessive they can require more than 20 tampons in a single day. Thousands of women every year get hysterectomies to cure menorrhagia, while other women try hormone treatment.// The other option is to destroy part of the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium. Gynecolo...

New Drug PP188 Helps Sickle Cell Disease

...vessels, the result is often pain severe enough to require hospital admission. // Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied more than 250 patients with sickle cell disease. Half of the patients received a drug known as purified poloxamer 188 (PP188), while the other half rece...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...e, similar to a conventional angiogram.It does not require the injection of an external contrast because MRA uses the natural magnetic properties of the hydrogen atoms present in our bodies to create (with the help of a computer) images of the blood vesels. It is a special type of MRI study and often, the p...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

...uman Services (HHS) will propose a rule that would require drugmakers to put bar codes on their products in an effort to reduce the incidence of medical errors. // The proposal is largely aimed at preventing medication errors in hospitals. The idea is to have drugs, including those that are packaged in sin...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...search has found that if pregnant women whose jobs require too much exposure to solvents like kerosene, gasoline,glues etc may be more likely to have chilren with defective eyesight. Head researcher Dr. Gideon Koren and colleagues//, from Toronto published this in Jornal of Occupational health. They found t...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...al hours for conventional methods. And it does not require an injection of material to make the X-ray visible....

Cure for osteoporosis in prostate cancer patients

...n should be considered as a monotherapy in men who require long-term antiandrogen therapy.// Over 18 months the researchers evaluated 54 patients with clinically localised prostate cancer and 24 with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Those with prostate cancer were either treated with external beam radiotherapy...

Headache splitter

... for at least six months. Although antidepressants require a prescription, they may be a better choice than over- the counter pain relievers, which can trigger rebound attacks in chronic sufferers....

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...er in children ages 3 to 6. More severe forms, may require patches....

Awakening call for fall prevention

...er people. And surgery on a broken bone might even require the insertion of plates or screws. The best way to avoid all these complications is to do your utmost to prevent a fall from occurring....

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