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Understanding The Effectiveness Of Antibiotics In Treating Urinary Tract Infection

...fficult because of antimicrobial resistance ,hence alternative antibiotics have become the answer in many cases. Researchers studied 370 women between ages 18 to 45 and compared the effectiveness of a three-day regimen of amoxicillin-clavulanate to ciprofloxacin for treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis. C...

Energy Therapy For Quicker Healing

...imulation to help ease pain. Thus researchers say, alternative therapy practitioners who are sensitive to their patients can use their own energy field to help stimulate the healing response. Tiny fields [of energy] have big effects on cells hence, therapy can be done with less energy and more effectiveness . T...

Soluble Ingredient Can Make Fatty Fast Foods Healthier

...s texture. The use of this ingredient as a healthy alternative is being investigated for the first time. It is still unclear exactly how HPMC works to reduce fat absorption. According to Dr. Yokoyama of the research team, the compound appears to slow down the absorption of fats in the digestive track, in the st...

Acupuncture May Well Be The Next Cure For High Blood Pressure

...hniques acknowledged by WHO as a form of prevalent alternative treatment to clinical conditions. Acupuncture means to puncture with a needle. In a broad sense the process includes traditional body puncturing with needles, as well as some variants like moxibustion, electric acupuncture or electro-puncture, laser...

Herbal remedies can have harmful interaction when taken with drugs for rheumatic arthritis

...fact that herbal preparations and over the counter alternative medicines// may react badly when taken along with ...ication at some point of time. Some commonly taken alternative remedies were cod liver oil, glucosamine, chondroitin, and evening primrose oil. 28 of them had take...

Using herbal remedies with chemotherapy may not be a good idea

...ol of Medicine in a research report have said that alternative medication or self medication taken by breast cancer patients may alter the way cells respond to chemotherapy. Most of the time doctors are not even aware of the fact that their patients may be taking alternate medications even while being under the ...

Detecting DNA Damage With In-Vivo Alkaline Comet Assay

...ty, speed, versatility and economy and is an ideal alternative supplementary in-vivo study. The Comet assay can be used to detect various types of DNA damage induced by different classes of genotoxic compounds. The principle is that strand breakage of the duplex DNA leads to difference in size of the molecule a...

Warning Issued by FDA on consumption of the drug Tysabri used to treat Multiple Sclerosis

... to contact their physician to discuss appropriate alternative treatments while the reports are being evaluated. A single fatality and one possible case of progressive Multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) have been reported in patients receiving Tysabri for MS. However, this adverse effect was not reported wh...

FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Tysabri, a New Drug for MS

...uld contact their physician to discuss appropriate alternative treatments while these reports are being evaluated," added Dr. Galson. FDA received a report from Biogen Idec, the manufacturer of Tysabri, of one confirmed fatal case and one possible case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in pat...

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives May Increase Risk For Heart Attack Or Stroke

...ardiovascular outcomes and prompt consideration of alternative therapeutic or contraceptive interventions," he wrote. "A number of women with metabolic syndrome or polycystic ovary syndrome already are at increased risk for heart attack, and a majority of women with PCOS are treated with low-dose oral contrace...

Strong Magnetic Stimulation Can Help Treating Severe Depression

...id not help the ECT image. Now a less aggressive alternative seems to be provided by what is known as "Tran cranial magnetic stimulation". A new study reports its results with 30 patients in the British Journal of Psychiatry (vol. 186 [2005], pp. 410-416). The 'Tran cranial magnetic stimulation' (TMS) has fe...

The Central Government of India had issued a list of approved ingredients for use in ayurvedic, siddha, unani drugs

...Act. According to the notice issued preservatives, alternative sweeteners and colouring agents that are used should be mentioned on the label of the product and manufacturing units should maintain the records of additives used in various processes and dosage preparation....

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

...ho do not have this receptor may benefit more from alternative infertility treatments. Researchers say they have found that the beta estrogen receptor plays a role in moving the egg outside the ovary so it can be fertilized. They also say that if the results from the recent study on animals are found to be ap...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...hniques acknowledged by WHO as a form of prevalent alternative treatment to clinical conditions. Acupuncture means to puncture with a needle. In a broad sense the process includes traditional body puncturing with needles, as well as some variants like moxibustion, electric acupuncture or electro-puncture, laser...

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...ackground noise in these environments. A healthier alternative is to find a truly quiet place to study and minimize the use of headphones coupled directly to the ear." Novak says adults should ask themselves the following questions to determine if they should contact their hearing health-care provider for a hea...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

... taking supplements at the levels promoted by some alternative therapists and celebrities, warned dietician Catherine Collins. The mainly affluent middle-class professionals who turned to vitamins and minerals in search of 'nutrition nirvana' were putting themselves at risk, she said. "A lot of these people ...

Combing Hair More Effective Than OTC Medicine For Head Lice

...e versus 13%), suggesting that the kit is a viable alternative to over the counter insecticide treatments, say the authors. Some may consider that the cure rate of only 57% detected with the Bug Buster kit is still unacceptable and may not provide an efficient treatment against head lice. At present there are n...

An effective pain killer

...ainful response," he said. "It would be used as an alternative to capsaicin." The most likely way to administer ginger as a painkiller would be in the form of a tea taken several times a day, but more work needs to be done on the amount of ginger powder needed per dose to take effect, and the time required betw...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

... found that nearly three-quarters use some kind of alternative medicine, and almost a third take dietary suppleme...m, found that heart patients seem to be turning to alternative therapies even more than the general population, even while they stick to mainstream drugs too.// "...

Potato powder to stop bleeding

...e alone. The potato-based hemostat also offers an alternative to collagen-based and other animal-derived hemostats, which can cause mild to severe allergic reactions in some patients. Mark H. Ereth, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic, says, "Of the many topical hemostats developed over the past 40 years, none has had a...

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