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More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...also translate to AMD and diabetic retinopathy. If clinical trials find that supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids is as effective in protecting humans against retinal disease as demonstrated by the findings of this study, this cost effective intervention could benefit millions of people." The participants...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...ng they had skin or blood infections or some other clinical symptom. And 12 per 1,000 were "colonized," meaning they had the bug but no illness. Most of the patients were identified within 48 hours of hospital admission, which means, the researchers believe, that they didn't have time to become infected to ...

New Research Centre at Sydney to Lead Cancer Fight

...ian first to establish facilities for research and clinical drugs trials into both adult and children's cancers, was announced by University of NSW Vice-Chancellor Fred Hilmer. State and federal funding along with other donations will be pooled together to build what will be the only fully unified childhoo...

Shahnaz Hussain Takes Ayurveda to London's Harley Street

... care programmes. The Shahnaz Husain specialized clinical treatments and therapeutic formulations have received international acclaim as a perfect practical application of Ayurveda. The treatments use plant ingredients and natural substances, known for their powerful healing and skin rejuvenating properties...

The International Diabetes Federation Launches US$ 10 Million Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

...advances in science, particularly through landmark clinical trials, diabetes still continues to rise, and the related morbidity and mortality have not been reduced. Translational research is needed to identify practical strategies that can improve the lives of people living with diabetes," said Professor Jean...

New Definition Helps Identify Children at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

... The new definition is simple and easy to apply in clinical practice. Waist measurement is the main componen...percentiles) and the presence of two or more other clinical features (elevated triglycerides, low HDL-cholesterol, high blood pressure, increased plasma glucose...

Frustration and Anger of the Medical Profession Highlighted in Archdeacon's Speech

... bureaucracy, administrative intrusion rather than clinical judgement, over-regulation, league tables and market-based reforms; all of which contribute to feelings of unease, anxiety and even disillusionment, and that amongst some of the most highly motivated people in our society. There are real problems i...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...gained. Based on three-year follow-up of a recent clinical trial, the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant che... studies of the similar regimens and support their clinical use. The cost-effectiveness ratios calculated for both exemestane and trastuzumab were below those o...

Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care

...cal care that isnt evidence-based, or supported by clinical research that establishes the optimal approach to care for a particular disease, says Brian Gibler, MD, chairman of UCs department of emergency medicine. We wanted to assess how we were doing in our emergency practice and how we could improve. Our...

Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study

...ll side effects, and researchers will soon begin a clinical trial on premature infants at the Children's Hospital Boston, said lead author Kip Connor, a doctor at the hospital. Babies born before their eyes have finished growing run the risk of contracting the disease, which inhibits the development of vess...

Storing Medical Info Under Your Skin

...to identify patients and enabling secure access to clinical information. These radio frequency identification tags (RFIDs) are already used by Wal-Mart and other businesses to speed up their shipping systems by sending out small signals that can be scanned more easily than bar codes. Implanting them in pe...

Brain Tumor Drug in Frogs A New Report

...CONASE(R) (ranpirnase), is currently in late-stage clinical trials as a treatment for unresectable malignant m...e and fatal form of lung cancer, and in Phase I/II clinical trials in non-small cell lung cancer and other solid tumours. We are pleased with the superb work ...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

...undertaking an assessment using questionnaires and clinical records, together with an auditory examination and... the process, monitoring is required involving 5-6 clinical visits over 2 years, although this can vary according to the individual....

Obesity Linked to Lower Tuberculosis Risk in Older Chinese Population

...whole spectrum of BMI could have major biological, clinical and/or epidemiological implications. Further studi...ed to explore the underlying mechanisms, potential clinical utilities and possible epidemiological consequences, the authors said. The study has been publishe...

Tree Bark Substance may Hold New Lung-cancer Treatment

...cancer properties and is presently being used in a clinical trial to inspect its efficiency against pancreatic..., Dr. Boothman said. Dr. Boothman cautioned that clinical trials of beta-lapachone in lung cancer patients will be needed to establish its effectiveness as a ...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

... direction the body is moving, says Chamberlain, a clinical instructor at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. The messages from the inner ear (balance department) conflict with the messages from the eye (vision department) causing the brain to take some measures to remove the...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPHM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targete...us infection, today announced initiation of a new clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its tumor necrosis therapy (TNT) agent Cotara(...

Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

...presents positive results of its pivotal phase III clinical trial positive results from the Phase III clinical study of Vekacia(R) in children suffering from Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) at the XIV Afro-As...

China Biopharma to Introduce an Immunotherapeutic Vaccine into China

...agreement is to be signed. This product requires a clinical study and an approval from the Chinese SFDA before it is sold in China, though the product already has the FDA approval. As many as 1.2 million U.S. hospital patients may be infected each year with a Staph infection which is resistant to antibiotic...

Experimental Drug Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202) Treats Alzheimer's as Diabetes of the Brain

...is extensive amyloid deposition and decades before clinical signs of dementia are evident. We hope that our ea...he disease." Accera recently completed Phase IIb clinical trial that confirmed Ketasyn's safety and efficacy as measured by improvement in ADAS-Cog scores, th...

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