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Triglyceride Drug Found To Lower The Risk Of Diabetes

...ir arsenal against type 2 diabetes. A drug used to combat high triglycerides also appears // to lower the risk of diabetes in heart disease patients. For the study researchers compared results between mostly male heart attack patients who received either a daily dose of the triglyceride-lowering drug beza...

Laser Surgery for Allergy

...s infections. Newer treatments are now availble to combat such an allergy problem Rajiv Pandit, M.D. a ENT and Head and Neck Surgeon at , of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, now uses a powerful laser to shrink nasal tissues called turbinates. He says: "This is the tip that is going to be placed in the no...

Identifying Irregular Heart Beats

... many lives, because effective treatments exist to combat the problem and they also recommend that people should have their pulse checked by a physician to screen for atrial fibrillation at every doctor’s visit and at least every two years....

Women With Diabetes At Increased Risk Of Developing Cognitive Impairment

...olism and their effects on cognitive impairment to combat the problem....

Better Control Of Sugar Levels

In order to help combat an increased risk for life-threatening cardiovascular diseases, people with type I and type II diabetes would be well // advised to monitor their blood sugar levels more than the standard twice a day, according to a new study. Researchers conducted ...

Walnuts Could Aid Patients With Diabetes

... kind of fats and fatty acids that might also help combat insulin resistance, which is associated with early stage type 2 diabetes. A team of dieticians developed individualized diets for about 60 people with type 2 diabetes for a six-month study.The diets were based on the core food groups of cereals and ...

Green Tea Might Help Patients With Prostate Cancer

...substances called polyphenols present in the drink combat the disease on multiple levels. Polyphenols alter the insulin-like, growth-factor-driven pathway present in prostate tumors and cause reduced expression of proteins known to cause the cancer to spread to other parts of the body. The green tea polyphe...

Baking Soda Treatment for Life-Threatening Asthma

...conducted before sodium bicarbonate can be used to combat both blood acidity and respiratory distress....

Understanding Chronic Infections May Help in Developing Therapeutic Vaccines

...ines aim to enhance the immune system's ability to combat an infectious agent, such as a virus. Now Researchers are also developing therapeutic vaccines to treat a variety of cancers. But no dramatic progress has been made in this field. However now, scientists in a recent publication in the Journal of Vi...

15 Anti-SARS Drugs Identified By China-Europe Team of Researchers

...than 8,000 existing drugs to find those that could combat SARS and now have identified 15 existing drugs that have the potential to kill the virus that causes SARS. This three-year research collaboration is funded by the European Commission and was launched in 2004 to identify 50 compounds that have the po...

Malarial gene ascertained

...ery will lead to a new drug that will specifically combat resistance. Dr Alan Donald, Head of the research team said the finding has been a long time coming.About twelve years ago we discovered this gene and suggested that it might be involved in drug resistance, but another report from another laboratory ...

Potato powder to stop bleeding

...rom minor cuts to surgical incisions, and may even combat injuries. Hemostat, a blood-clotting agent,produces immediate coagulation at the surface of a wound, followed by the normal blood-clotting processes.// The powder-based coagulant may one day help anesthesiologists limit bleeding during surgeries. As ...

Popularity Of Homeopathy On The Increase

...rved that Peruvian or China bark was prescribed to combat malaria but also caused malaria-like symptoms in healthy people. Hahnemann then tried out several other plant, animal and mineral substances on volunteers and himself and kept a diary of the symptoms and developed numerous medicines in this way. ...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...e health department on Monday lay down measures to combat dengue. The disease has mainly been reported from Lake Gardens, Golf Green, Dhakuria, Jodhpur Park, Tollygunge, Santoshpur and Jadavpur, which have posh apartments as well as slums. The acting Chief Minister Mohammed Amin along with Urban Developm...

New Vaccine Targeted At Effective Treatment Against Tuberculosis

...ne has now been developed with the hope of helping combat the disease better and the efficacy will be tested in the 2006 clinical trials. The recombinant vaccine has been shown to stimulate far more efficacious protection against tuberculosis than the BCG vaccine currently in use. This new vaccine induces...

Free Condom Counters For Border Security Force Cadres

In an initiative to combat HIV infection among its cadres, the Border Securit...AIDS control society and UNDP's REACH programme to combat HIV/AIDS among BSF troopers. "We are setting up these condom counters in each and every BOP (border...

Metal In Medicines Can Fight Diseases Effectively

...to some of today’s treatments, and they could also combat drug resistance. Pharmaceutical companies tend to make drugs from the same limited set of ingredients, drawing upon only about a half-dozen of the more than 100 known chemical elements. At the same time, drug-resistant bacteria and viruses are emerg...

Study holds promise for new way to fight HIV

...r produce sufficient amounts of the A3G protein to combat Vif and shut it down. Therefore protecting whatever amount of A3G that people do have from Vif represents a new way to attack HIV. To confirm that A3G offers strong protection against HIV, researchers in the current study measured A3G levels in the ...

Teaching the immune system to fight diseases is the key to reducing childhood infections

...cognizing it the next time an infection occurs and combat it more effectively than the earlier exposure. This theory holds good in the development of immunity to asthma as well. Scientists believe that knowing exactly which type of dirt provides the best 'education' for the immune system, could be key to p...

High Cholesterol Can Be Controlled By Screening And Prevention

...ghts screening and prevention as two smart ways to combat high cholesterol and subsequent health problems. A simple blood test lets the patient and the doctor know the total blood cholesterol level and allows your doctor to recommend treatment. The Department of VA had offered these guidelines: · The...

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