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El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...El Ni?o event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks. Details of the climate-disease model are reported in the latest issue of the jour...

Glivec - New Hope For CMC Patients

... leukemia - commonly called 'blood cancer' - kills thousands across the globe. Chronic myeloid leukemia was one of the deadliest killers around and still continues to be one. But there's good news. Multinational pharmaceutical giant Novartis - has announced that a new drug called 'Glivec ' can be used as ...

Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

...a, Los Angeles. Ayurveda which originated in India thousands of years ago has attracted world wide acclaim and meditation is the hallmark of Indian school of medicine and forms the crux of even the rituals and patterns of worship in Hinduism. Unfortunately in India as more people take up and ape the West in a...

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

...ork round the clock trying to ease the pain of the thousands who survived the quake. While the actual treatment might end in a few hours, for the injured to recover it might well take several weeks or even months before they become normal again. Even if they do it is unlikely that anyone of them would ever f...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...tion Center at the University of Chicago said that thousands of people die every day due to sudden cardiac arrest, which is a different condition unlike a heart attack, where the heart stops beating suddenly. Many patients survive if they are resuscitated and if the heart starts beating in 3-4 minutes. The lo...

Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

...ccording to traditional theory, the human body has thousands of acupuncture points along pathways called meridians. And these pathways conduct energy throughout the body. Acupuncture is believed to keep this energy flow moving smoothly. According to the Arthritis Foundation in Atlanta, there is enough evidenc...

Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice

... virus antibodies. The dreaded Ebola virus killed thousands in Africa and the symptoms of Ebola infection are high fever, chest pain, vomiting and extensive bleeding. Most victims die after several days....

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

...ied to treat other diseases such as diabetes. For thousands of hemophiliacs around the world, this treatment using gene therapy will come as a life saving blessing. However the researchers are cautious and feel more examination is necessary before the method can be declared safe. Further studies are on to c...

Mechanical Heart

... two decades. If successful, the device could help thousands of patients who die each year waiting for a heart transplant. Patients considered for the implant were critically ill with fewer than 30 days to live and the life expectancy of the patient who got the new device is expected to be extended by about a...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

...reast cancer risk.The flax plant has been used for thousands of years - the fibres to make linen and the ground seeds in bread and cereal.The seeds are rich in lignans, which resemble the female hormone oestrogen.// High levels of oestrogen are linked to breast cancer and lignans may lower levels by blocking...

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

...icroarray technology, it's now possible to analyse thousands of genes in one experiments.// Doctors at the University of Michigan have now produced the first ever molecular fingerprint of prostate cancer. They examined more than 700 prostate tissue samples from more than 50 men - covering normal tissue, tiss...

Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

...rs said this advice, if widely adopted, could save thousands of people each year. Taking care of anemia is probably as important as giving aspirin, beta blockers 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...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...eves the drug could safely slow hypermetabolism in thousands of patients, including many with crush and broken bone injuries from falls or car wrecks....

Cipro Has Cheaper Cousins to Treat Anthrax

...edia as dozens of people exposed to anthrax -- and thousands who weren't -- clamor for the potent antibiotic. But if the supply dwindles, doctors say other cheaper and widely available medications can be used, including a previous generation's wonder drug: penicillin. Although alternatives exist, Cipro is the ...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...he arteries -- may provide a viable new option for thousands of patients suffering with heart disease.// Treatment options for people with heart disease range from drugs to surgical procedures that open blocked arteries and improve blood flow to the heart. But the success of these treatments has created anot...

First human clone is near

...ke in mixing politics with medical issues. He said thousands of childless people from all over the world were helping in their research....

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...patient’s response to drugs or screen patients for thousands of genetic mutations and diseases, all with one si... for certain diseases or conditions. “We have put thousands of strands of DNA onto a chip that can screen for the genes linked to breast cancer, cystic fibrosis...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...rdered manufacturer Akorn Pharmaceuticals to write thousands of doctors alerting them to the problem. Apparently the drug can delay recharging of the heart between beats within minutes after a dose is administered. If the heart doesn't recover, it can go into a potentially fatal irregular beat. While apparen...

Rubella nearly wiped out

...rman measles, a disease that once infected tens of thousands of people a year and was responsible for numerous birth defects, is on the verge of being eliminated in the United States. Cases of rubella have fallen from almost 58,000 in 1969//, the year the vaccine was introduced, to 272 in 1999. Rubella, which...

A novel augmentation

...e an option to donor transplants. His team refined thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to draw ot various organs. Modifying the concentration of the retinoic acid led to the stem cells developing into different kinds of cell. Dr Asashima said a lower concentration activates a se...

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