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Nasal Spray Beats Antihistamine

...tments work when patients take them "as needed'' - after their allergies begin to bother them....

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

...o continue to suck their fingers or use a pacifier after the age of 2 may be more likely to end up// in the...ns do not resolve by themselves, even 2 to 3 years after a habit is stopped." The study of 372 children found that nearly 6% of those who stopped sucking b...

Third artificial heart patient introduced

...s first public appearance, three-and-a-half months after getting the device.// Bobby Harrison appeared at a...the implant, an unidentified 74-year-old man, died after 56 days with the device. The sixth patient died in surgery to implant the heart. Four additional imp...

Panacea Biotech To Market Anthrax Vaccine

...reatment of anthrax. Ciprofloxacin is administered after a person has contacted anthrax. The vaccine develops immunity in the human body to anthrax bacillus. According to marketing director Rajesh, the vaccine developed by JNU is superior to the only other anti-anthrax vaccine available in the US. The vacc...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

...0 percent of children survive for five to 10 years after diagnosis. But the therapies aren't perfect. Radiation and chemotherapy for up to a year at such a young age can lead to hearing loss, cataracts and severe learning disabilities that can leave children unable to live independently in later life. ...

Monday malady

...//They suggested the stresses of returning to work after a weekend's socialising could also be to blame for the number of Monday heart attacks. Nearly about 64,000 men and women who died of heart disease in Brisbane were studied between 1985 and 1993, and it was found the mortality rate was at pinnacle on ...

Postpone intercourse after childbirth

...K says that females having sexual intercorse soon after delivery could jeopardize their lives. A study of ...cause they indulged in sexual intercourse too soon after delivery. Researchers said they were ill fated due to air embolisms, traveling to the heart and bra...

Science of swooning

Blackouts after a couple of drinks is a common problem for heavy d...hat blood vessels do not strengthen so effectively after drinking, causing low blood pressure which can be responsible for blackouts. The research was carri...

To get the better of

...en were asked to go to a clinic within a few hours after their sexual encounter for a post-coital test to m... that contraction during orgasm draws in the sperm after ejaculation. Arousal has also been shown to reduce acidity inside the vagina. According to this theo...

Microchip gives blind a chance of sight

...ses in which healthy retinal neurons remain intact after they lose use of the eye’s photoreceptors.// These receptors convert images into electric impulses. Researchers reported that tests show faces can be recognised and words in large type can be read. Human tests started recently.Dr. Mark Humayun, forme...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...of women's menstrual cycles moved towards extremes after taking in the pheromones - short cycles became significantly shorter, long cycles significantly longer.And she added that the time from the start of the cycle to ovulation, which is not usually shorter than five days, was less than this amount of tim...

AAI Pharma Files Lawsuit Against Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

...ts this to be a routine move as the para IV filing after the patent expiry allows the patent holder to file... has 2 patents on Fluoxetine approved in July 2001 after the 180 exclusivity was granted to DRL and Barr Laboratories. Pharmaceutical Resources Inc is Dr Red...

Plague creates panic in India

...ue from a remote village of Himachal Pradesh state after several people suffered the symptoms of pneumonic ...Thakur said. The first victim died on February 4 after he had gone hunting in a forest last month and had been possibly infected by a wild rat. The highly ...

Kidney cancer on the rise

... is to be successfully treated, and survival rates after surgery can be as high as 94 per cent. But once the cancer has spread, the chance of treating the disease successfully drops considerably. Research says the rise in incidence of kidney cancer is concerning, but can be countered if people adopt lifest...

Delirium linked to death

... and to investigate interventions that can be made after discharge to reduce the risk of death. The study covered 361 patients aged 65 or older, of whom 243 had prevalent or occasional delirium - described as possible hallucinations, disorientation, illusions, anxiety and confusion. Studying the patients...

New swift therapy limits stroke damage

... may turn out to decrease mortality and disability after a stroke....

Resurgence Of Botulism

...rcial foods. One person died in California in 1994 after eating chowder that wasn't properly refrigerated, and after its expiration date. That same year several people became ill after eating twice-baked potatoes at a...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...althy people have the ability to grow new bone but after that time the bone building cells, called osteoblasts die off and with those cells goes the ability to make bone. As the mineral content of bone decreases, the bones become fragile and easily break, which leads to the disability associated with osteo...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...tex Pharmaceuticals Inc. , was forced to drop back after its lead p38 kinase inhibitor showed toxicity in high doses in some animals. There are also many competitors. They include drug giant GlaxoSmithKline, which first isolated the p38 kinase in the early 1990s. Glaxo's drug is in early stage clinical tri...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

... brain's demand for oxygen and this may protect it after a cardiac arrest. Doctors in Vienna have been testing this idea. They looked at patients who had experienced cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation - an abnormal heart rhythm. One group had their body temperature reduced to 34 to 32 degrees...

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