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Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

...ump forcefully enough. The test, called Triage, is already used by about 500 U.S. hospitals. It measures levels of a protein called B-type natriuretic peptide, which is often greatly elevated during heart failure. The study found that the test alone is 83 percent accurate in diagnosing heart failure in peop...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

...ng the different protein molecules it contains. We already know that the protein profile of cells varies depending upon whether it is in a healthy or a diseased state. Researchers in the US have established proteomic profiles for healthy women and those with ovarian cancer, using blood samples. They then u...

The route to fertilization

...er. Calcium then activates nitric oxide synthase already present in the egg, producing more nitric oxide gas, which in turn causes the release of more calcium throughout the egg. In the 1970s, Epel and other researchers showed that calcium is the essential factor that sparks development in eggs. As calcium...

Periodontal disease may amass the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes

... lipid, levels as a risk factor for people who are already diabetic developing periodontal disease. "Low fat diets, lipid lowering drugs and exercise are vitally important for diabetics who want to improve their quality of life, as well as their oral health," Dr. Iacopino noted....

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...ed at determining the most effective frequency has already begun. So far 30 patients have been treated and the goal is to enroll 120 patients....

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

.... The FDA estimates that scores of medications are already carrying the new label. "The purpose was to create simplicity," said Dr. Linda Katz, deputy director of FDA's division of OTC Products. She added that the new labels carry a larger print size to help consumers read the products. The use of bullets,...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...l never need additional surgery. But the technique already is widely used for easier cleft palate repair, and Poll says only 5 percent of those patients relapse, fewer than with traditional surgical cleft repair....

FDA debates status of decongestant drugs

...t your body, and raise your blood pressure. If you already have high blood pressure, that can increase your risk for stroke or heart attack. Furthermore, the decongestants can work against anti-hypertensive drugs that patients might take for their high blood pressure. There are over-the-counter cold and flu...

Herbs With Estrogen Action Aggravate Cancer Risk

...se the risk of breast and uterine cancer for women already predisposed to those diseases. //Researchers offer...of breast or uterine cancer, or those who may have already had one or more bouts with either disease....

Needle free future for diabetics

... people with diabetes using iontophoresis. There's already a monitoring device called 'Glucowatch' which extr... The method is still in its early stages, but it's already looking extremely promising. Meanwhile, keep watching this space - for iontophoresis is also being d...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...The manufacturer, which paid for the research, has already begun the much larger and longer studies. But doctors who treat osteoporosis are excited by the preliminary results. However, the pills must be taken sitting or standing straight up, before eating, and the patient has to stay upright for 30 minutes ...

Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

...w the memory loss and other symptoms in people who already have the disease. Studies to test that theory are under way...

Artificial silicon retina

... Alan Chow, the co-inventor of the device, who had already done this work an year back over three people who had lost their vision due to a hereditory condition called retinitis pigmentosa,said that implanting three more people will give them a large data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips ...

Pregnancy weight linked to breast cancer

... because levels of the hormone estrogen, which are already raised during pregnancy, are amplified in fat tissue....

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

...lder fathers, he said. The risk factor approach is already common in research on cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but schizophrenia researchers do not yet have the large database of evidence gathered by researchers in other fields. One limitation had been that diagnosing schizophrenia is based on self-as...

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...added to more than 15 million doses the government already has. Officials announced that those doses can be diluted to 80 million if needed. The government also has ordered an additional 300 million shots from Acambis Plc and Baxter International Inc ....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...study provided blood samples and those who did not already have HCV were retested 6 months and 1 year later. About one quarter of the drug users were already infected with HCV at the beginning of the study, the authors report. During the study period, 30 mor...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...se of dangers in recent years, critics say the FDA already is approving drugs too fast and doesn’t adequately monitor problems that can arise when new ones hit the market. Drug companies have paid millions in user fees that help fund FDA’s review of their products since 1993, under a law called the Presc...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

...e identical and non-identical twins where one twin already had breast cancer.// The twins without cancer were then followed up for several years to see who developed the disease. One third of the identical twins were destined to get breast cancer, compared to just one woman in nine among the general popula...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

... is a significant public health problem, and it is already routinely subjected to genetic fingerprinting by different methods by public authorities. It also happened to be the first multi-locus-sequence database put up on the web. There is an enormous amount of interest in tracking this organism. When there...

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