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Oral Edible vaccine for Allergy Vaccines

... said, Plant-based vaccines have several potential advantages over traditional whole-allergen injected vaccines since they are simpler to administer and cheaper to produce but admitted that more clinical trial as to be conduced before a human vaccine is developed. Muriel Simmons, chief executive Allergy UK, s...

Novel Technique For Targeting Small-Cell Lung Cancer

...l imaging techniques including endoscopy. The main advantages of this method are high sensitivity and outstanding spatial resolution. In a recent work, researchers from Israel used novel backbone cyclic peptides, which function as Somatostatin receptor (SSTR) binding, tumor-targeting vectors. They synthesized ...

Glimepiride in the medical management of Type 2 diabetes

.... The unique properties of glimepiride may provide advantages over other currently available insulin secretagogues. Type 2 diabetes mellitus can lead to serious long-term sequelae, such as blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, neurologic impairment, and stroke. Stringent lifestyle modifications, including ...

A new approach to vaginal hysterectomy

...go total vaginal hysterectomy instead. Despite the advantages of lower morbidity // and faster recovery, very few hysterectomies are performed by the vaginal route, although there is a high feasibility rate. Vaginal hysterectomy can be more complex and gynecologists need to be familiar with surgical techniques....

Evoprinter, a multigenomic comparative tool for rapid identification of functionally important DNA

... compared with other such tools, the two principal advantages of Evoprinter are its speed (derived from the speed of a BLAT alignment) and the fact that only a single curated genomic sequence is required to initiate the analysis of orthologous DNAs from multiple species. Based on the success of the Evoprinter i...

New Drugs For High Blood Pressure Better Than Old Ones

...dies have suggested that newer agents would confer advantages over diuretics and Beta-blockers. Researchers from Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden had compared the effect of combinations of older drugs—atenolol and thiazide—with newer drugs, amlodipine and perindopril. The investigators recruited 19257 p...

Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?

...hese two forms of treatment remain unanswered. The advantages of the procedure over the others have not been documented and the risk-benefit ratio is yet to be assessed....

T-waves to sweep over imaging technology

...useful for sensing and imaging objects, with major advantages over other techniques. T-ray systems offer more than just images: they can provide valuable spectroscopic information about the composition of a material, especially in chemical and biological species -- something that X-rays may not be able to do. T...

The Two-In-One Estrogen Therapy For Managing Menopause And Maintaining Healthy Skin

...ous studies and debates have been conducted on the advantages and disadvantages of the same. Long-term hormone therapy used earlier in menopause has been found to be associated with fewer wrinkles and less skin rigidity in postmenopausal women, and may have cosmetic benefits according to a new study. Hormone ...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...ost, the researchers cautioned. Screening has both advantages and disadvantages as early diagnosis helps for better treatment and also can bring unnecessary testing and treatment. Celebrities who organize the program should be judicious in using their powers of persuasion for undergoing the screening the screen...

The Risks Involved In Purchase Of Over The Counter Medications

...the trend in over the counter availability and the advantages and disadvantages of over the counter medication might encourage patients to report adverse reactions....

Making MRIs Safe for Patients With Implantable Heart Devices

...patible, so that all patients can benefit from the advantages of both technologies....

Estrogen therapy for hot flushes

...particularly at higher doses. On the contrary, the advantages of low-dose therapy is that a patient can get the same effect as with higher doses and also reduce the side effects. A second study of the same group of women found that lower doses of hormones stopped irregular bleeding more effectively tha...

Blood Test May help Heart Prediction

... measurement. The researchers noted a few apparent advantages of the new test. It was good at predicting later fatal heart attacks in people whose cholesterol tests were normal. Also, it worked just as well in young as old people. Traditional cholesterol tests are not found to be useful for people over 70. Acc...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

... block the CatSper channel might have considerable advantages over hormonal contraceptives. “Hormonal contraceptives have to be taken daily throughout a woman’s fertile life,” he said. Also, they have potential side effects, such as increased risk of blood clotting and cancer.”“If a drug could be designed to b...

Beat menopausal symptoms with low-dose estrogen

...particularly at higher doses. On the contrary, the advantages of low-dose therapy is that a patient can get the same effect as with higher doses and also reduce the side effects. A second study of the same group of women found that lower doses of hormones stopped irregular bleeding more effectively tha...

Breastfeeding Revisited thanks to WHO and UNICEF

...is nothing that was better than mother’s milk. The advantages were innumerable and could not be made up for substitute milk. Most people kno that...

Spray on contraceptive clears Phase I trial

...am. The contraceptive skin spray has the potential advantages of not having to be taken at exactly the same time...he transdermal delivery of drugs has some distinct advantages over oral or intravenous dosing of drugs. It avoids issues such as gastric irritability due to chang...

Contact Lenses Found To Slow Progression Of Myopia in Kids

...rcent. Though the study didn’t show any long-term advantages for wearing the RGP lenses, researchers say even the temporary slowing of the progression of the condition could hold important health implications because severe myopia can lead to a detached retina and even blindness. RGP lenses are also healthier...

Embolization Effective For Uterine Fibroid

...’s less painful and less invasive. One of the main advantages is that multiple fibroids at multiple different locations can be treated. Now, new key players are tiny beads called “microspheres.” Unlike larger materials used to cut off blood flow, the microspheres block smaller vessels by going further into the...

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