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Virus Level could Predict Cervical Cancer Risk

...t is curable in most cases.// The Pap smear is the standard screening method for the disease. It is used to detect unusual, precancerous changes in cervical cells. Two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) are associated with an increased chance of getting the cancer, but not all women who test positive,...

NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

...s showed that the robotic system was comparable to standard laparoscopic surgery in safety and effectiveness. Because of the expected learning curve with the new system, Intuitive Surgical is developing a training program for surgeons in collaboration with FDA....

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...panel suggests five years of drug-Tamoxifen as the standard hormonal adjuvant therapy. Hormonal therapy is not suggested for women whose tumors do not have hormone receptors. 2. Women who have had a mastectomy and have four or more cancerous lymph nodes can best benefit from post-surgical radiation. At this...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...sed in the trial would be less effective than "the standard treatment" and 31% feared that they might receive an inactive placebo rather than the treatment being studied. Placebos are never used in trials on drugs that may be used to treat cancer.While a few drug trials are very successful, a few of them are ...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

...berculosis and meningitis have learned to outsmart standard treatments. Without new drugs, experts fear some bacterial infections will become untreatable. Before 1989, no US hospitals had experienced vancomycin-resistant E. faecium infections. By 1993, however, more than 10% of these infections acquired in h...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...tion and severity rates than patients who received standard steroid treatment. Also the acute rejection was 33% lesser in these patients. Rejection was reversed in all patients who received rabbit ATG by increasing the anti-rejection drug alone, while 60 percent of patients in the steroid group required addi...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...cer (NSCLC) as monotherapy and in combination with standard chemotherapy agents after segmental scrutinization...ere seen with ZD1839 treatment in combination with standard chemotherapy. In a second study, which addressed intermittent dosing of ZD1839 in Japanese patients...

Double impact vaccine

...ne or in combination with radiation therapy is the standard treatment for lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation is given in case of relapse. If proved effective, the treatment derived from measles vaccine virus would become another treatment option for patients with relapsed lymph...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...on and joint destruction. Methotrexate is the standard drug used to treat the condition, but one third of the patients discontinue treatment early due to toxicity.// Patients taking Methotrexate are prone for their drug-related liver damage .This complication can be prevented by taking folate suppl...

New Modality in Migraine Management

...who had experienced no relief after treatment with standard therapies,//treated them with 100milligrams of valproate sodium every 5 minutes until their pain was relieved. By the end of the study, he found that,patients' average rating for symptom relief was 88%, and 59 reported complete pain relief. No probl...

A height problem

The standard way of predicting the height of children is not as accurate as first thought, says research. Their survey of more than 4,200 children found that while the system worked reasonably well for children whose parents were of average height, when applied t...

Digital mammography proves effective

...ew trial will compare digital mammography with the standard technique to confirm if it can detect breast cance...y thousand women will receive both a digital and a standard mammogram and will be followed for several years to assess the accuracy of the two methods in predic...

Decision making made easier

...terial on the videodisc is of the highest possible standard and thus serving the purpose....

Treatment for Meniere's disease

... controlled with drug therapy. The rest - for whom standard drug treatment and measures like salt restriction did not work - had a range of interventions, some of them surgical. An operation called vestibular nerve section - cutting a nerve in the middle ear - gave relief in 93 per cent of cases. There are mo...

Genesis of SUPAC

...at R&D scale the product is developed using fairly standard equipment and under controlled conditions compared to production level. The ultimate success of a product, to a great extent is determined by how easily and cost-effectively it can be commercialised....

Detecting brain aneurysms

...nd, studied a group of 114 patients undergoing the standard method for detecting aneurysm and also tried a number of non-invasive techniques for comparison. They found if they used all three available tests together, the non-invasive methods gave excellent diagnostic results - unless the aneurysm was small - ...

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...was really effective. People had either surgery or standard medical management for their condition. The first report of the trial now urges caution over surgery. The sickest patients - those with the worst lung function- have a higher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't h...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...oking cessation groups. One of the groups received standard smoking cessation therapy, where weight gain was n...i.e. weight control). The third group received the standard smoking cessation program and therapy to reduce their concern about gaining weight, but dieting was ...

New snoring cure

...h few pain fibres so it doesn't hurt like the more standard treatment. And radiofrequency treatment works well - most patients in the trials experienced a significant decrease in snoring, which was maintained for several months following the surgery....

Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

...ockers or clot-dissolving drugs, which are already standard care for heart attacks. // The size of the benefit depends on how anemic people are. But even those with mild cases lower their risk of death by one-quarter during the first month of recovery if they get transfusions. The risk falls by two-thirds ...

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