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Comparing Psoriasis Treatments

...te group and 30 patients in the cyclosporine group achieved partial remission. However, after 16 weeks of treatment, no significant difference in overall effectiveness was seen between the two groups. More than 100 patients in the methotrexate group and more than 150 patients in the cyclosporine group report...

Help for Psoriasis

... while only 4 percent of patients in placebo group achieved this score. Patients who took efalizumab also reported a better quality of life than those in the placebo group. Efalizumab is a biologic drug that blocks immune cells. Researchers say the drug modulates T-cells, which bolster the body’s immune resp...

Disease Management Programs – Effective for Heart Patient

...heart disease. Patients taking part in the program achieved substantial improvements in blood pressure, body weight, body mass index, and dietary intake of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and fiber. They exercised more, had a better sense of well-being and better mood. They also had fewer symptoms of c...

Multi-Drug Therapy Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure

...after two years the blood pressure goals that were achieved were similar between the two groups. In the CAS patients, 65 percent of patients achieved the systolic goal compared with 64 percent of the patients in the NCAS group. Similarly, 88.5 percen...

Head injury X-rays may actually be causing harm

...led by Dr Per Hall, examined the educational level achieved by 3,094 men treated in this way between 1930 and 1959. They report in the British Medical Journal that the more radiation the boys were given before the age of 18 months, the lower their subsequent intellectual level. Those given the highest doses...

Intensive Treatment Found To Help Patients With Arthritis

... the patients in the intensive-treatment group had achieved a good response to therapy, compared to 44 percent in the routine-treatment group. Most significantly, 65 percent of intensive-therapy patients were in remission by the follow up vs. just 16 percent of those in the group who received routine care. R...

Multi-Drug Therapy Found To Be More Effective in Lowering B.P

...after two years the blood pressure goals that were achieved were similar between the two groups. In the CAS patients, 65 percent of patients achieved the systolic goal compared with 64 percent of the patients in the NCAS group. Similarly, 88.5 percen...

Effective Management Of Heart Patients

...heart disease. Patients taking part in the program achieved substantial improvements in blood pressure, body weight, body mass index, and dietary intake of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and fiber. They exercised more, had a better sense of well-being and better mood. They also had fewer symptoms of c...

Controlling Asthma

...t. It was observed that 41 percent of the patients achieved total control of their asthma by the one-year foll...combination drug fared the best. The patients also achieved control faster and with lower doses of the inhaled steroid drug. Thus researchers say that their r...

Higher Statin Dose Safely Reduces Stroke and Cardiac Arrest

...of atorvastatin and got 77 milligrams of LDL as an achieved level of LDL had 22-percent less major cardiovascular events.These included fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events. Also, stroke rates went down 25 percent, and this is comparing them to patients already at a reduced risk from taking the 10-milligr...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...om the enzymes that may destroy them. This may be achieved by synthesizing a protease inhibitor cocktail that may inhibit the enzymes that kill the peptides. This cocktail thus may be able to increase the ability of the peptides to treat potential oral infections up to double their original power. One pept...

Inflammation reduced by consuming oily fish

A reduction in inflammation can be achieved by a diet high in oily fish in combination with low doses of aspirin,// such as salmon or mackerel. This is supported by the identification of an anti – inflammatory lipid in humans derived from an essential fatty acid in fish oil. Fatty fish is kn...

Diet to lower heart disease risk for type 2 diabetes

...e LDL and increasing the HDL in people that can be achieved with dietary supplements of fiber, and hence is most beneficial for patients with diabetes type 2....

Lower risk of cardiovascular disease from tight glucose control

...mal levels as possible. Conventionally this can be achieved by regular testing for blood glucose levels, following a diet and exercise plan, and adjusting medication according to the daily food intake and exercising. Long term benefits of tight glucose control currently acknowledged were prevention of eye p...

Schizophrenic patients may be given seroquel

... with atypical antipsychotic seroquel (quetiapine) achieved significant benefit for aggressive episodes in schizophrenic patients. In aggressive behavior patterns of schizophrenia, the researchers reported that the effectiveness of seroquel more significant than the use of placebo. The patients not only found...

New Oral Rinse For Gingivitis Approved By FDA

...tion associated with gingivitis can be effectively achieved by reducing the number of plaque bacteria. The Decapinol Oral Rinse thus works against gingivitis by reducing the number of bacteria that attach to tooth surfaces and cause dental plaque. Decapinol contains a substance called a surfactant that acts ...

Good bacteria to rescue of colitis patients

...ealth of the intestine. Remission of colitis was achieved in 63 percent of patients, while another 23 percent responded with improvement in their symptoms and with healing of the colon's lining. There were no adverse effects to the medication, the study said. In this open label clinical trial, 86 percent ...

Yet Another Use For Green Tea Extract

Teavigo green tea extract has recently achieved GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) affirmation, giving food and beverage makers in the US a strong signal of the ingredient’s suitability in new food products. // Although Teavigo is already being used in a number of supplement products in the Japa...

Primates reveal a new dimension to human genome

...alyze the sequence and interpret it. This has been achieved through the phylogenetic technique. So far only a study on the mouse or the rat had enabled understanding the human genome sequence but now a comparative study between human genome sequence and that of the non-human primates has to be elucidated to u...

New Treatment Option For Kidney Cancer

...treatment. They report complete tumor ablation was achieved in 83 percent of the patients with just one treatment. An additional 8 percent of the patients had complete tumor ablation after two or more treatments and none of the patients were found to have any serious side effects. Researchers say the smaller...

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