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Tag: "trails" at medical news

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...Dublin, Ireland, is poised to begin human clinical trails of a potential treatment based on the vaccine. Nearly one in ten people over the age of 65 suffers the dementia by Alzheimer’s disease, and the risk rises fourfold for those over 80. Several genes have been linked to the condition – particularly on...

Artificial lenses- Boon to cataract patients

...le focus lenses, this could be a problem. If such trails are successful, they add, however, some patients might not need to wear glasses at all - unlike most elderly people, who gradually lose the ability to focus at different distances as the natural lens becomes more rigid with age....

Pomegranate juice delays prostate cancer

...nd prostate cancer. The results obtained after the trails proved encouraging and can be useful in treating this form of cancer. Pomegranate juice was administered to men whose average PSA doubling time was 15 months. The data collected after treatment showed that in the same men the PSA doubling time had ...

Short Stature Can Be Treated With A New, Non-Growth Hormone In Future

...catalyst the body needs to grow. Ongoing clinical trails would be directed towards assessment the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the drug over the conventional treatment....

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

...ne for Chennai. The scorecard was developed after trails on 10,000 people. After a first score was developed, this was further validated with another 5,000 trials in Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata. A score of 42 was given against age, body mass, waist girth, family history of diabetes, lifestyle and no phy...

Scorecard to help in diabetic risk assessment of the Indian Population

...ne for Chennai. The scorecard was developed after trails on 10,000 people. After a first score was developed, this was further validated with another 5,000 trials in Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata. A score of 42 was given against age, body mass, waist girth, family history of diabetes, lifestyle and no phy...

Dominant Discoveries and The Darker Side Of Methamphetamine Drug Addiction

...etamine addiction in humans, the Phase II clinical trails of which have already offered a new ray of hope. Out of the 26 participants, all of whom where active users of the drug, aged between 18 and 45, nearly 20 completed the study. The participants were randomly assigned to receive either a placebo or bup...

Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia Using Gene Therapy.

...results prove to be positive they will start human trails and bring about the treatment procedure in the main stream of medicine within a few years. The stem cells taken from the bone marrow are cultured in the lab and a small RNA sequence that interferes with the production of beta S-globin is integrated...

Vaccine to protect birds against avian flu, engineered

...ty to contain outbreaks of mutant strains. Further trails in the humans have to be conducted in order to understand the efficiency of the vaccine in humans. ...

Congestion for Use of Clarinex-D 12 Hour cleared – FDA Gives the No

...eople or more who suffered seasonal allergies. The trails involved comparison of the treatment with Clarinex-D 12 HOUR extended-release tablets with pseudoephedrine alone and desloratadine alone. The results depicted that the extended-release-combined medication eased nasal congestion as well as provided im...

Alternate ways to produce HAS from tobacco plants

...ore the leaf biomass the more the albumin. But the trails are all conducted in the tobacco plants have been with laboratory varieties. The aim is to do tests with commercial varieties. The commercial varieties of tobacco are some 30 times more productive in terms of biomass. But further experiments have t...

A Protein May Help In Weight Loss Treatment

...cal trials of its CNTF medication Axokine. But the trails were discontinued when patients developed antibodies to CNTF that neutralized the effect of the drug....

Cure For Pompe Disease

... drug after passing through a variety of tests and trails has won the federal approval to sell the drug in the market. Genzyme officials said that the dug Myozyme, would cost about $200,000 to $300,000 a year. The disease incidence is less than 10000 people and they are all grateful for Genzyme's drugs. Ge...

Is Melatonin Effective For Sleep

...s supplements during the day it works but clinical trails says that it is not very effective in the night. There is no clear cut evidence that melatonin has the same sleep-inducing effect in the night. The study was conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. This ...

Phase 1 Drug Trials on Humans to Be Made Public

...on all clinical drug trials on humans. // All drug trails including the details about Phase I trials, initial toxicity tests that were conducted on healthy humans are to be registered on independent registers as soon as they begin. Though this decision is not been made legal but it is to spark mixed reactio...

Clinicians Participating In the Pharmaceutical-Sponsored Trails Tend To Prescribe Their Drugs

...n Funen County, Denmark. The result was that these trails increased the use of the sponsor’s medication. Hen...hers said that the clinicians involved in clinical trails sponsored by the company are a potent tool for influencing company-specific drug preferences. ...

Pharmac Blamed Of Depriving People of Lifesaving Drug

...lesterol levels by about 58%. The initial clinical trails conducted during1986 is a proof for the efficiency of the drug. Despite of its efficiency the drug was not made widely available to patients in New Zealand until 1997. After which only statins which showed no mortality and low beneficial outcomes wer...

Latest Drug for AMD, Beyond The Reach Of Common Man

...tually a gap in the center of their vision. In the trails session itself Lucentis was found to have improved the patient’s eyesight by at least three lines on a vision chart. The only disadvantage is that Lucentis will cost more than 100 times as much as the temporary fix. A dose of Avastin for the eye c...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

... study found. “Promoting and enhancing existing trails or adding nearby trails could be a useful intervention in rural communities,” Boehmer says. “They may be a more economical a...

Practise Of Male Circumcision In Africa May Reduce HIV Risks

...eam would now try and collect more data from newer trails that are being conducted, especially on the transmission from male to female so as to boost and improve the model, she said, "Safety, acceptability and cost of male circumcision will also be important beyond just modelling this impact, because if you...

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