Tag: "cautioned" at medical news

AIDS Disaster in India is Imminent

...ountry. And speakers at two press conferences here cautioned that a pervasive culture of denial about the Indian epidemic, among both government officials and healthcare professionals, threatens to allow the crisis to spin out of control."There's been an extraordinary degree of denial about the nature of the p...

Another injectable contraceptive Pill approved by FDA

...be administered by a health care provider. The FDA cautioned that women cannot go longer than 33 days between shots, or they will need a pregnancy testbefore the next injection....

International community warns India on HIV situation

...eoples Health Assembly at Dhaka, Bangladesh , have cautioned India not to be complacent about the looming HIV crisis in the country. Rebuffing the optimistic statement of Union Health Minister, Dr.C.P.Takhur, the experts said if corrective measures are not taken India might become another Africa in ten years. ...

Toddlers stressed out

... the National Association of Primary Education has cautioned that "a lowering of the standards achieved in primary education could well result".// Giving the example of learning a nursery rhyme as an activity that could combine pleasure with finding out about numbers, she said the government's proposals were...

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

...with beta carotene instead of retinol. Researchers cautioned that people should not stop taking multivitamins, which help lower the risk of other diseases. Instead, consumers might consider a multivitamin that supplies some of its vitamin A from beta carotene....

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...gs that really target this mutation." But Langman cautioned it is premature to suggest this new finding will quickly lead to development of osteoporosis treatments. He predicted that it would have more value in finding ways to "treat this particular genetic disease." The research was funded by a grant from th...

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...ng further strokes, and the company has twice been cautioned by the FDA not to promote the drug. Finally, the British Medical Journal concluded that addition of dipyridamole to aspirin produced no significant further reduction in vascular events compared with aspirin alone....

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...irfax, Va., and director of the Krasnow Institute, cautioned in an interview with UPI. He said since there is no cure and limited treatment, telling a person they have Alzheimer's when there is no cure means that person must knowingly live with it for a longer period of time -- while they still have most of t...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

...h levels of microwave radiation on health. Tarone cautioned that low-energy radiation emitted by radar detectors, cell phones and microwaves is different from extremely high-energy radiation like x-rays, which, as numerous studies have shown, can cause harm. Furthermore, he explained that the Navy veterans fo...

Vision loss could result due to MSG

...published in the Experimental Eye Research journal cautioned that Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), which is used in flavouring oriental and processed foods could result in vision loss due to retina// injury. Glutamate is an amino acid which acts as a neurotransmitter, a chemical that sends signals between nerve cel...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

... antibodies are farthest in the pipeline. Khurana cautioned that there is a real risk in inhibiting myostatin in an unregulated and unmonitored fashion, as this could deplete the cells at an accelerated pace and actually worsen the muscular dystrophy. He also added that long-term inhibition of myostatin might...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...n in the risk of death. However, the study authors cautioned that additional follow-up is necessary to confirm this overall survival benefit. The study also found that patients on dose dense chemotherapy did not have increased side effects than those on the conventional treatments. It was also found that sequ...

Use of CT scans to detect lung cancer questioned

...Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore cautioned that Computed Tomography(CT) scans may not be valuable for mass screening for lung cancer. They claimed that the harm of unnecessary testing for lung nodules detected by the CT scan that turn out to be benign,// and the costs of the scan far outweigh...

New and unique treatment for Psoriasis patients

...ng additional treatment. The FDA's Dr. Karen Weiss cautioned that though the drug has a much more selective effect, it is still too soon to say it is very selective and very safe. In fact, she added that patients on the drug would require a blood test before each weekly dose to ensure their levels of infection...

Treatment for fibroids with "Abortion Pill"

...specialist at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston cautioned that there may be long-term safety issues connected with Mifepristone as almost a third of the women in Eisinger's study had developed hyperplasia of the lining of the uterus. Though, it is not a cancerous lesion, hyperplasia can become cancerous ove...

Hyaluronan supplementation therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

...ncentration and treatment regimen. Therefore, they cautioned clinicians to look at the evidence supporting the use of a given product before they use it. The study also revealed that the therapy may actually help with the disease and not just the symptoms as certain hyaluronan products have structure modifying...

Pfizer unveils anti-smoking drug

...drug might hit the market. The company, however, cautioned that the results of its big clinical studies will take time, and a positive outcome isn't always guaranteed. Pfizer said it is unclear how long patients need to be on Varenicline after quitting....

Gene treatment maintains normal Heart Beat

...however that the work is really "experimental" and cautioned that use in patients is unlikely in the near future. Hajjar agreed that this genetic approach is at least five years away from clinical use. And the first human studies will probably combine this gene transfer with another therapeutic approach, possi...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

...medical officer of the American Heart Association, cautioned that large, careful studies must be finished comparing the new stents with the ordinary kind. Nevertheless, he said, ``these are very impressive and very encouraging results. When you see zero restenosis at one year, it's a breakthrough. It's almost ...

Molecule aids fight E. Coli Infections

...conclusions when they compare one with the other," cautioned Dr. Eyal Raz, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Beyond the potential furthering of understanding of the human response to E. coli, the research provides important insight into insect immunity, Hackett said."...

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