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Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...appropriate screening tests. Most guidelines for clinical practice do not recommend routine PSA screening for men younger than 40, older than 75 or who are expected to live less than 10 years, according to background information in the article. To our knowledge, there is currently no solid evidence that P...

New Cancer Therapy in Clinical Trial

...s to a promising treatment currently being used in clinical trials. Potency and lack of toxicity to normal ti...ancer therapy, and it is currently being tested in clinical trials. However, most cancer cells have defects in their ability to die via a cell death pathway c...

Early Parkinsons Show Hallucination,sleepiness

...y, researchers reviewed the results of a four-year clinical trial involving 301 people with an average age of 61 who had early Parkinsons disease. Half of the group received the drug levodopa; the other half took pramipexole. No one reported having hallucinations at the beginning of the study. The study foun...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

...ects one in 10 people over the age of 65. The only clinical tests are expensive brain scans carried out in hos...nies, are immense and almost prohibitive."A year's clinical trial can cost 12million as large numbers of patients are needed to get accurate results. "This rese...

Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA

...es to health services must be safe, based on sound clinical evidence and be in the best interests of patients. We will need to examine the details of Professor Sir Ara Darzis proposals to ensure these principles have been met....

Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients

...rug is surrounded by controversy regarding its apt clinical usage and the high cost of ESAs. An August study ...ds, United Kingdom. Based upon data from a recent clinical trial involving ESAs, Dr. Will and colleagues used an approach called functional data analysis to st...

Milk Thistle Extract Effective in Cancer Treatment

...AGE, contains a summary of current research on and clinical application of silymarin, the mixture of chemicals... "This special issue presents both preclinical and clinical studies demonstrating the potential role of milk thistle as an anticancer agent. No other medication...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...). "This selectivity is important and has direct clinical implications. Relaxing the lung arteries alone may...aid. "This drug can have an immediate and direct clinical application, so we're pretty excited about these findings," Michelakis added. The research will ap...

Alternative Option for Type2 Diabetes Treatment

...-term efficacy and safety controlled trials and in clinical practice to assess their effectiveness and safety profile to determine their role among the many available and well-established therapies for type 2 diabetes....

Daily Antibiotics may Not Prevent Future Urinary Tract Infections Risk in Kids

...the medicines. "More definitive studies, such as clinical trials, are needed to look at this issue. But given these findings, it is appropriate for pediatricians to discuss with families the risks and unclear benefits of daily preventive antibiotic treatment after a child has had a first UTI," he said. Th...

Late Nights may Make Preteens Antisocial and Aggressive

...s associate small differences in the readings with clinical depression and antisocial behaviour. As a part of the study the researchers analysed the preference for morning or evening activities among a group of 111 boys and girls aged 8 to 13. They then collected cortisol readings from saliva, and asses...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...sting relief of chronic pain is rare and often the clinical goal is pain management through one or more medicationsBut now researchers at The University of Manchester have examined microscopic amoeboid organisms commonly called slime moulds in a bid to gain greater insight into these pain molecules, known as ...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

...way, then they can be more readily used for future clinical therapy to regenerate damaged tissue such as neuro...ng of human ES cells, that will be required before clinical use of human stem cells of this kind, he said. Editors note: available for downloading at http: ww...

Neoprene Sleeve in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery

... one- and two-year follow-up visits. Based on our clinical experience, we were not completely surprised by the results, Dr. Birmingham comments. These findings provide strong evidence that the average patient does not require a functional knee brace when returning to sport after ACL reconstruction. There m...

Tumor Blood Flow can Improve Chemotherapy

...e drugs such as bevacizumab are being evaluated in clinical trials for children with neuroblastoma. However, there are no standard guidelines for how much of the drug to give or when to give it. Such guidelines would be especially helpful for developing combination therapy with both bevacizumab and chemothe...

Suven Seeks Permission for Trials of New Drug

...eral of India for permission to undertake phase-1 clinical trials of its new drug Suvn-502 for treatment of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. 'Treatment for Alzheimer's disease and Schizophrenia is an unmet medical need and Suven's primary focus is to discover drugs that address si...

Nepal Develops More Effective Drug for Typhoid

...group and 72 hours for the Gatifloxacin group. The clinical failure was observed in 37.6 percent of the Cefixime group 3.5 percent of the Gatifloxacin group. "The study revealed that Gatifloxacin is better than the established drug for typhoid," said Buddha Basnyat, who led the research team. He said Gatifl...

Dental Lasers can Help Eliminate Bacteria in Root Canals

...ithin the proposed range. They also suggested that clinical studies are needed to substantiate their laboratory findings. The study is published in the July issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)....

Laser to Fight Root Canal Bacteria

...ithin the proposed range. They also suggested that clinical studies are needed to confirm their laboratory findings. In a related article in July JADA, Dr. Roy H. Stevens and colleagues at the Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, describe their study of an Er,Cr:YSGG laser with a new tip that em...

Cancer Cures for Canines

...ignificance in cancer. The approach involves using clinical samples from a tissue bank to carry out hypothesis driven immunohistochemical studies to look at tumour metabolism. Certain breeds of dog are known to develop certain types of cancer. For instance Osteosarcoma (bone cancer) is common in the Greyho...

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