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Tag: "applicable" at medical news

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...needed to see whether the antioxidant treatment is applicable to humans. There's also the possibility that this kind of oxidative stress might also play a role in brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, as well as brain injury....

Cure for blindness

...transplant to restore sight in people. It might be applicable to those with retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. There are currently no effective treatments for these conditions. But there's a long way to go, say the researchers, in working out how best to translate th...

A new hearing device improves hearing

...specific consultant and discuss it whether this is applicable in your case....

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

...wn another blank in their search for a universally applicable genetic explanation for schizophrenia, binding the case for new approaches to researching the illness. A paper by Douglas F. Levison and colleagues report that despite earlier findings to the contrary, there is no close link between schizophrenia and...

Microscopic lens monitors heart problems

...might be developing. The lens system might also be applicable to other internal problems, such as the detection of small tumours....

New diagnostic marker for prostate cancer

...and breast cancer, which suggests it may be widely applicable as an accurate diagnostic test....

A new drug for bladder cancer

...creatic and non-small cell lung cancer may also be applicable to bladder cancer.// They administered it directly into the bladder, through a tube, and found that little of it escaped into the bloodstream. This might be why there were few, if any, side effects linked to gemcitabine in this trial. Standard trea...

Quicker healing with active bandages

... The researchers believe that the bandages will be applicable to diabetic ulcers, burns, surgical incisions and other wounds in humans. They could be especially useful in older people, where healing can be quite slow. In the mice, the dressings accelerated healing in the outer layer of the skin by 33 per cent. ...

Cell transplants for stroke

...roach could work in humans. But the cells might be applicable to the treatment of stroke, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury....

Modified antibiotic may support fight cancer

... research will reveal whether this new approach is applicable to the long-term management of human cancer....

Therapy Boosts Chemotherapy Effects

...leukemic cells with growth factors is a clinically applicable means of enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapy in patients with AML."...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...eated with IPHC were studied. The procedure was applicable and had controllable toxicity. The overall results showed significant improvement on patients on whom the procedure was applied. These people were also treated with standard medication for treatment of cancer as well. The rate of survival was more fo...

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

...s from the recent study on animals are found to be applicable to humans, a simple blood test will be able to provide enough information to determine if a genetic mutation may be altering the function of the estrogen receptor beta. The results of this blood test, coupled with information from other medical tests...

Stem Cell Therapy For Treating Heart Attacks

...06. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a widely applicable treatment to repair and reverse the damage done to heart muscle that has been infarcted, or destroyed, after losing its blood supply, says cardiologist Joshua Hare, M.D., and senior author of the study and lead trial investigator. There is reason...

Chocolate To Combat Cancer: So Indulge!

...n this research comes up with a finding that it is applicable in the real world too. So stay tuned and glued to any news research finding!Source: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics...

Risk of colon cancer to be assessed by simple blood test

...d ovarian cancers are great examples, but they are applicable only to a small percentage -- less than one percen...nowledge hasn't been translated yet into a broadly applicable way to identify individuals most at risk. The changes associated with IGF-2 levels are linked to e...

Glucommander: A safe and simple method of glycemic control

...ic control. It has been extensively studied and is applicable in a wide variety of conditions. In contrast to other published intravenous insulin protocols, which have been limited to intensive care units, Glucommander can be used in all units of any hospital. Abbreviations: Computerized Hospital Insulin Pro...

Study Finds No Link Between Statins And Breast Cancer Risk

...cancer observed in experimental studies may not be applicable to humans. We also found no associations of general lipid-lowering drugs and serum cholesterol levels with breast cancer risk. Further study is warranted to evaluate the associations of longer durations of statin use and specific types of statins wit...

A new study by John Hopkins University proposes formula for good health

...in African Americans, the results are particularly applicable to this group, who made up roughly 55 percent of study participants," says study co-author Jeanne Charleston, R.N., a research associate at Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health. Charleston adds that all participants either had high blood pressu...

Relaxation In Donor’s Age for Blood Donation in Scotlan

...s to 66 years to donate blood. This would not be applicable to first time blood donors however as they are more likely to get rejected. In addition to the reluctance of people to donate blood, the severe climatic conditions are also regarded as hindering factors to the noble cause. Generally, men over 50 can ...

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