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Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...each month. Some might think it sounds like just another excuse to skip school. But young people such as Rachel Gohmann, an 18-year-old college freshman from St. Cloud, Minnesota, know how serious the condition can be. Blinding headaches that often left her bedridden caused her to miss more than 100 days ...

Excess Weight Can Affect Individuals as They Age

New research gives another incentive for individuals to maintain a healthy we...es or heart disease. The participants were part of another study between 1967 and 1973 when they were between 36 and 64 years old. Researchers had the particip...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

...r multilateral agencies, WHO and UNAIDS are taking another big step forward in the global movement to increase access to prevention and treatment services. "The lack of HIV treatment is without a doubt a global emergency," said Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director. "We firmly believe that we stand no c...

Preventive Therapies Found to be More Effective in Managing Migraines

...iminated in 6 percent of the patients. They say another promising treatment may be an injection of botulinum toxin, which has recently shown to be an effective preventive therapy for migraines.Specialists say, “ Hopefully, we can relieve the pain and suffering of people everywhere with new treatments and ...

Antipsychotic Drug Linked to Pulmonary Embolism

...apine was discontinued and the man began receiving another drug instead. Though olanzapine is associated with weight gain, and its sedating effects might lead to inactivity -- thus predisposing someone to develop blood clots -- researchers say the man in this study did not gain additional weight after recei...

Protein said to Improve Muscle Loss

...hen a certain protein called Notch is activated by another protein called Delta. Researchers found that young, middle-aged, and older mice had the same number of satellite cells in their muscles, which contained equal amounts of Notch. They say "It doesn't seem as if there's anything wrong with the satelli...

Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer

... cells. However, they had to boost the activity of another gene to ensure that the virus would not grow in non-cancerous cells. Specialists say, “When the virus infects cells, it takes the altered genes with it, and those genes attack cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact.” Researchers say, in prec...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...he natural molecule hepatic growth factor (HGF) or another natural factor called parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF and PTHrP would affect kidney recovery after blood flow to the...

Dementia and Down Syndrome

...own syndrome patients when compared to controls in another brain area related to Alzheimer's -- the temporal cortex. The investigators plan to continue to follow these patients to see if GMR in the temporal cortex of the Down syndrome patients begins to mimic that seen in the Alzheimer's patients as clinica...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...he natural molecule hepatic growth factor (HGF) or another natural factor called parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF and PTHrP would affect kidney recovery after blood flow to the...

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

...ed eight crucial minutes. "If truly confirmed by another study it would be a major advancement in the treatment of asystole," say specialists....

Antiparasitic Drug Effective In Reducing Seizures In Neurocysticercosis Patients

...ligrams of albendazole per day and 6 milligrams of another drug, dexamethasone, per day for 10 days, or two placebo drugs. Investigators noted a 46-percent reduction in the number of seizures in the albendazole group, although they say this number is not statistically significant. However, the active treat...

New Medication May Decrease The Frequency Of Angina Attacks

...king placebos.Specialists say, the availability of another effective and apparently safe antianginal medication is “particularly important” for angina patients who are not candidates for revascularization....

New Drug Combination Found To Improve Memory in Alzheimer’s Patient

...f the disease, either alone or in combination with another Alzheimer’s drug, is certainly good news ... While memantine is not a cure for Alzheimer’s, if it helps to keep a person with Alzheimer’s at home for six months or one year longer, then it is a vicory.”...

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

...nly have been treated for their known cancer while another malignancy remained undiagnosed. PET scans identify areas of abnormal chemical and metabolic action. According to specialists, unexpected cancers are identified by PET technology because it scans the entire body. Researchers however say that PET sc...

Hope for Babies Born With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

...Every day’s a miracle, so if it’s going to give us another day, that’s woderful.”...

Predicting The Risk Of Preeclampsia During Pregnancy

...ng blood samples taken from women participating in another study, they compared blood levels of sFlt-1 and another blood molecule, PIGF, in 120 women who developed preeclampsia and 120 women who did not develop the ...

Infant Fevers Found to Reduce Allergy Risk Later In Life

...d allergies. Researchers say they are working on another study to determine if early exposure to pets, as well as high levels of bacteria, could lower allergy risk. Researchers also say that if they can determine which environmental factors affect allergic development and why, it may be possible to immuniz...

Elderly Women With Depression More Prone to Heart Disease

...sease and about 30 percent more likely to die from another cause. From the study it was concluded that a large proportion of older women report levels of depressive symptoms that are significantly related to increased risk of CVD [cardiovascular disease] death and all-cause mortality, even after controllin...

The Answer To Prevent Osteoporosis

...ug continued with the drug at the same dose, while another group of women received 20 milligrams of the drug for two years. That was followed by 5 milligrams of the drug for three years and then a placebo for the next five years. Researchers say 247 women stayed with the study for the entire 10 years. The ...

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