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Recommendations for Treatment of Blood Pressue

...evidence that lowering systolic blood pressure can save lives. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a serious condition that affects 50 million Americans i.e, one in four adults. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, the first- and third-leading causes of death among Amer...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...ed the diagnostic ability to detect the cancer and save almost 75% of the patients an unnecessary biopsy of the gland. PSA exists in blood as either being bound to protein or some of it floats around freely. This free form of PSA is key to identifying the patient who requires a biopsy. Jean deKernion-U...

New drug to treat Heart Attack and damaged tissue

...perfusion leads to the development of new drugs to save the damaged tissue and treat heart attack. During Ischemia / Reperfusion, Early growth response gene (Egr –1) level increases and acts like a common link between the pathways lead to tissue injury, such as the stimulation of chemokines, adhesion rece...

Clinton's new problem - Is the outgoing American president suffering from skin cancer?

...nly because he managed to win at the senate did he save himself and his country further damage. He has been the center of many burning controversies throughout his term and his mid east peace efforts have always come unstuck and has embarrassed his loud secretary of state Madeline Albright more than once...

No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report

...et. The fewer visits appear to be safe and could save money in countries strapped for healthcare resources, according to Dr. Jose Villar of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues. The researchers studied nearly 25000 women in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Cuba and Argentina. This report adds weight to ...

The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

...imary healthcare services for poorer patients. The save Public health Care Campaign, a coalition of Indian non-government organizations, trade, unions, and activists, said: "Under the instructions of the International Monetary Fund and World bank, the government has been steadily withdrawing even its mini...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...nal supplements to people with heart disease could save lives and money.// Dr. Jeffrey A. Tice from the University of California, San Francisco, the lead author of the study, built a computer model to estimate the benefit of fortifying bread and cereal with folic acid, along with any additional benefits ...

Coronary heart disease bids Adieu

...tation given in addition to fortified grains would save more than 300,000 quality adjusted life-years. In addition, for women 55 years of age and older without CHD, the same strategy would result in 140,000 quality adjusted life-years saved, Dr.Tice's group calculated....

Voice may be improved by surgery

...hat vowels were unaltered, as were most consonants save for 'm' and 'n' which became less 'nasal'. The subjects themselves felt their voice was unchanged. But you don't hear your own voice as others do. Friends and relatives thought that surgery had significantly improved the subjects' voices. A similar ...

Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

Doctors can save the lives of many elderly heart attack victims by ...archers said this advice, if widely adopted, could save thousands of people each year. Taking care of anemia is probably as important as giving aspirin, bet...

Fasten belt at the back seat

... in the back, as well as the front, if you want to save a life....

New treatment for diabetics

...d a micro capsule coated with silicon, which could save the diabetics from the usual insulin injection.This microchip works by absorbing nutrients from the body //and stimulates the insulin- producing cells.Some diabetics have to inject insulin more than onece a day to maintain their blood sugar levels. ...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

ASPIRIN could save 40,000 more lives each year worldwide if more people at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke took it, doctors said.// An analysis of nearly 300 clinical trials of aspirin and other “antiplatelet” drugs that help to prevent blood clots confir...

Pig cloning for organs

...safely transplanted into humans. Such organs would save the lives of thousands of critically ill people who cannot get transplants because of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same cloning technique that created the sheep Dolly, scientists say they produced four piglets without one of two genes t...

Arthritis drug can prolong life

...ut a new study provides the first hint it may also save lives. Scientists believe people with rheumatoid arthritis have shorter life spans partly because they face increased chances of getting heart disease and dying from it. The latest study found that patients on methotrexate were 60% less likely ...

Nurses save more lives

...istered nurses (RN) the most highly skilled kind - save more lives from deadly complications, and researchers say in a study that is likely to intensify worries about the nation's growing nursing shortage.``Will we see more of these adverse outcomes because we don't have the knowledge of the registered nu...

Treating wounds without stitches

...the wounds then were. Doing without stitches could save time, money and patient discomfort. <b...

Time to re-assess lung donation concept

...e supply of donated lungs and that, in turn, could save many lives....

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...ts about Rs.50,000 for a basic unit, not only will save lives, but also reduce the number of unnecessary operations in which a spot is cut out just to be on the safe side....

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...c blood during suction process and the only way to save her was to perform an emergency hysterectomy, she claimed. The other was an incomplete abortion. Given in the hands of unscrupulous fly-by-night abortionists who are thriving unchecked in UP, this would wreak havoc here, she said. “Ninety per cent ...

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