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New swift therapy limits stroke damage

...irst time that this drug can be used in the field, before the patient even reaches hospital. The study has been done thanks to a unique partnership between the University and local paramedics. Twenty patients presenting with stroke symptoms between a couple of months were treated by paramedics with magnes...

Resurgence Of Botulism

...of ready-to-eat foods// that are only refrigerated before sold could cause outbreaks of botulism. While most U.S. botulism cases involve mistakes in home canning or smoking of foods, some botulism poisoning in recent years has been traced to commercial foods. One person died in California in 1994 after eat...

Smoke less to stay young

...id they had smoked only once or twice in the month before the interview, 11.5 percent displayed one or more symptoms of addiction. According to Jennifer O'Loughlin, chief author of the study and a professor of epidemology, when young people show signs of addiction, the time for prevention is past. "By then...

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...se drugs could be suitable to combat TB many years before an entirely new type of drug can be discovered. Thes ecompounds should be considered urgently,” added Professor Kelly. ...

Northfield Labs Receives FDA Comments

...cated that they are seeking additional information before accepting the application for filing and issued a Refusal-to-File letter to the company. " Refusals for first-time submissions are common,'' said Richard DeWoskin, chief executive officer of Northfield Laboratories Inc. " We are encouraged by the co...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...It was supposed to be taken upon waking 30 minutes before eating, and downed with plenty of water. To top it off, the drug can cause severe indigestion. So scientists tried giving women a week's dose at once, enrolling 1200 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in a two-year international trial (medical c...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

People who stop smoking before they reach middle age can shun most of the dangers of developing lung cancer. There are now twice as many Britishers over the age of 50 who are former smokers compared with those who continue to smoke.// Over the past four decades, Britain has had th...

Nausea Linked To Anxiety And Depression

...y, the possible causes that should be investigated before aggressive treatments are begun// for gastrointestinal disorders. This may lead to avoidance of long-term use of potentially harmful medications for nausea, unnecessary medical investigation and probably a better quality of life for the patients. Ha...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

..."// could be falling prey to the disabling disease before they hit their 30s. It has been recognised for so...r type II diabetes. "And, if they develop diabetes before the age of 20, they face a lifetime of being at very high risk for complications." Diabetic compli...

Scientists found ancient Human Germ Killer

... evolved tens of millions of years ago, Cole said, before birds separated from their reptile ancestors. They...fensin, the one that would have occurred naturally before the mutation appeared. Next they added it to human cell cultures in a laboratory dish and exposed t...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

... do any good,// however, they must be administered before brain cells die. The current standard requires tha...al on time get the drugs within the last half hour before that deadline. Now, a new report finds that earlier treatment - in the first 90 minutes after sympt...

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...f the study need to be confirmed by other research before a recommendation can be made regarding dietary calcium and colon cancer. The study is important because it suggests that adequate calcium in the diet has a benefit beyond building strong bones. This is important because a lot of people don't get it a...

New device for discerning Osteoarthritis

...und it can be used to detect early Osteoarthritis, before it's visible by X ray. Certain features of DEI correlate well with the clinical stages of arthritis. They want to get DEI into clinics to screen for Osteoarthritis, so it can be detected earlier and management started sooner. The other possibility ...

The route to fertilization

...nthase, which remains inactive until a few seconds before fertilisation. "As the sperm approaches the egg," notes Epel, "the enzyme quickly produces large amounts of nitric oxide gas, which is injected into the egg once the sperm and the egg make contact."The injection of nitric oxide gas from the sperm t...

Treating eye pain eases migraine

...with migraine have pain around the eye socket just before an attack starts.// The pain is due to inflammation of the trochlea tendon in the eye socket, a condition known as trochleitis. A new study suggests that treating this may be all that's needed to relieve the migraine itself. According to researcher...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

... an effect. Parents should consult a pediatrician before giving their children an over-the-counter Lactobacillus or other supplements. Over-the-counter dietary supplements are not subject to the same safety and effectiveness standards that medications face. And children with diarrhoea should see a doctor i...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...ed treatments. The researchers took blood samples before volunteers took the medication and again every half-hour to 4 hours over a 24-hour period to measure blood concentrations of the drug. Blood levels were similar for the two treatments and there were no significant differences in the rate at which the...

Epilepsy can be predicted

... Paris team analysed 26 recordings from 60 minutes before a seizure in 23 patients with temporal-lobe epilep...s to anticipate a seizure on average seven minutes before it occurred. They say: "The ability to anticipate seizure may have considerable practical implicat...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

... all the bones of her face but didn't re-join them before sewing her up.// Instead, 10-year-old Alyssa got a promising alternative to grueling bone grafts: Poll attached a pulley-like contraption to her facial bones that her parents tightened each day with a screwdriver, slowly pulling out the sunken bones ...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...a complication of pregnancy, in time to prevent it before symptoms appear.// This study showed that a risk factor that can be detected many weeks before symptoms appear may be able to predict who will develop pre-eclampsia. Women who developed pre-eclam...

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