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Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...o the trial at approximately 170 clinical sites in sixteen countries on four continents. In addition to the results presented today, the companies expect that more data from the SPARC trial will be presented at future upcoming major medical conferences. Please note: The scientific information discussed ...

HIV Eradication Unlikely Following Bone Marrow Transplantation

...ted for three weeks due to suspected toxicity, and sixteen days after HAART interruption both HIV RNA (4.61 log10 copies/ml) and HIV DNA (2.50 log10 copies/106 PBMC) became detectable again. Phylogenetic analysis of four plasma viral strains (two in 2003, and two after the transplant) suggested that two t...

Tai Chi Augments Immune Response Against Shingles

...who had attended tai chi classes thrice a week for sixteen weeks and other who took up some kind of health classes. Shingle vaccine had been administered to people from both the groups. When the level of resistance was analyzed at the end of twenty five weeks, it was found that it was more than double in peo...

Meningitis in Infancy Erodes Academic Success

...findings are based on the GCSE exam results of 750 sixteen year olds across England and Wales, 461 of whom had had bacterial meningitis during their first year of life. The children were all taking part in a long term national study of infantile meningitis in England and Wales. The General Certificate of...

Britishers Take to Drinking to De-stress

...among two thousand respondents in the age group of sixteen and above. Fifty one percent of them revealed that money is the primary cause of stress while thirty eight percent felt it was work which was stressing them a lot. On a comparative note, 2003 witnessed 23% of people resorting to drinking to de-stre...

Interferon-treatment for Hepatitis C may Cause Retinopathy

... treatment. Retinopathy was first diagnosed two to sixteen weeks after the start of treatment and resolved at the end of treatment in all but nine patients. Of these patients, all experienced an increase in blood velocity, RBF, and WSR. The increased RBF was associated with anemia induced by IFN treatment....

Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

... on a topic. For the review, the authors analyzed sixteen randomized controlled trials involving 1586 women who had given birth by C-section. The women had received either regional or general anesthesia. Multiple newborn outcome measures were considered in the review, including neonatal death, Apgar scores...

Cutting the risk of diabetes with a pill

...ug and 658 on the placebo developed diabetes. Only sixteen patients on the drug, showed a small risk of non-fatal heart failure. The researchers, led by Hertzel Gerstein from the Population Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, said 'Balancing both benefits and risks suggests that for every 1,000 peopl...

Arthritis of the Knee Can be Helped by Exercise and Mobility

...Researchers at San Diego State University analyzed sixteen studies and they have concluded that knowledge of the condition helps the patient to cope psychologically and exercise helps them physically to strengthen the knee joint. Though the improvements are modest but a combination helps he patient cope wi...

New Delhi Hit By Meningitis Deaths

There have been sixteen deaths and 170 suspected cases of meningococcimia or meningitis in New Delhi in the last 90 days, according to health officials who are taking strict measures to check the spread of the disease. // The Government and the MCD are making sure that fami...

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