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Experimental vaccine for shingles is effective

...ved it, and reduced significantly the severity and complications of the disease in most of the vaccinated people. Shingles is a condition that keeps on affecting people and affects the elderly people more severely. The new vaccine for adults will now be able to bring relief to all people who have been suffering ...

New treatment for babies with sickle cell anemia

...of oral liquid hydroxyurea can prevent some of the complications generated by this disease. Hydroxyurea increases the generation of fetal hemoglobin. This can prevent the blood cells from becoming sickle cells. This method of treatment had been used currently to treat adults and older children with the disease. R...

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

... flow and oxygen to the fetal brain that can cause complications during pregnancy, and brain injuries to babies born pre-term or before completing 34 weeks gestation. Hypoxia ischemia brain injury can have far reaching consequences like seizures or a condition called hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, or even cerebr...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

...ople died or had severe life-threatening breathing complications after taking Serevent compared with placebo. In the study 20 black people had serious complications or died compared to 5 taking placebo. Though these results should not give misleading conception tha...

Insomnia is not normal for the elderly

... in the geriatric people in order to avoid further complications like depression that may stem from insomnia. Reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 2005...

Ruboxistaurin (RBX) may prevent vision loss in diabetic patients

...ntration of 8, 16 or 32 mg/day. Incidence of eye complications is high in Diabetic patients, with common complications of diabetes causing diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema. Diabetic retinopathy is charact...

Warning Signs On Powered Baby Milk

...h hospital had reported two deaths and four severe complications in infants who had consumed contaminated formula. This is due to the fact that although the pathogen is minute in powdered milk formulas it multiplies rapidly when improperly prepared. This is not a recent problem. Some estimated that the poisoning...

Surgery Offers Better Treatment For Third Degree Piles

...and duration" of surgery. He says that RBL prompts complications in only about 1 percent of cases as compared with surgery, which prompts complications in 5 percent to 8 percent of cases. Hemorrhoids are classified by degree of severity, into first, ...

Stem Cell Therapy For Treating Heart Attacks

...en there is the potential to forestall the serious complications that traditionally result from a heart attack, including disturbances of heart rhythm that can lead to sudden cardiac death, and decreased muscle pumping function that can lead to congestive heart failure. The researchers are using a special kind...

Brain Function can be impaired by Flavonols

...avanols could aid in treatment of serious vascular complications associated with long-term diabetes. ...

Co-trimoxazole Use Reduces Childhood AIDS –Related Death

...period. Co-trimoxazole usage reduced the secondary complications and infections in children with AIDS, which can be just as fatal as HIV. This affordable treatment was successful in spite of wide spread resistance to Co-trimoxazole in Zambia, and shows that treating respiratory infections in HIV-infected children ...

Healthy At 50: Possible?

...ars as it brings along with it lot of other health complications and health restrictions. Source: Indo-Asian News Service More Information on Medindia Diabetes: All of us know someone suffering from diabetes. This sums up the prevalence of diabetes. It is, apart from being one of the most prevalent diseases ...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...ts get out of the operating room faster, have less complications and recover faster. Dr. J Stuart Wolf, director of the Michigan Center for minimally Invasive Urology and Caleb Nelson, M.D., U-M Urology resident, co-authored the study of 38 patients who had a kidney removed at the U-M because of suspeted renal cel...

Transplant helps diabetes

...is type of disease often leads to life-threatening complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. The Edmonton protocol has been replicated successfully in centers in the U.S. and Europe. Another opiton is a whole pancreas transplant which will eliminate the need of insulin injections. Since ...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

...an reach 90%. However the flip side is that severe complications like spread of cancer, bleeding and recurrent blockage can recur. Upto 2% of patients can die on table from the procedure itself. However Dr. Baron asserts that in most cases of cancerous blockages, the benefit of expandable stents outweigh th...

Vitamin C reverses pre eclampsia

...re eclampsia is one of the leading contributors to complications in childbirth and in late stages of pregnancy. This can lead onto eclampsia which, when left untreated, causes life threatening consequences. Pre eclampsia occurs when a pregnant woman develops high blood pressure, swelling in the legs and ot...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

...s of osteoporotic fractures women often experience complications following a hip or spine fracture that results in death strategies to identify and manage osteoporosis in the primary-care setting need to be established and implemented. Dr. Felca Cotman, assistant professor of medicine at Cleavland University,we a...

New contact lens materials

...tion.The most significant and devastating clinical complications among contact-lens wearers have been corneal ulcerationand infection, which can lead to permanent visual loss. He said that this is the first randomised, prospective, masked clinical study with contact lenses that demonstrates significant differenc...

Stress relief for Diabetics

...tays, the more likely you are to develop long-term complications from the diabetes. A recent Duke University study finds diabetics need to reduce stress to keep their blood sugar down. First, they need to identify what triggers their stress. She said that if you have diabetes and you don't know what your triggers ...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...ts get out of the operating room faster, have less complications and recover faster. Dr. J Stuart Wolf, director of the Michigan Center for minimally Invasive Urology and Caleb Nelson, M.D., U-M Urology resident, co-authored the study of 38 patients who had a kidney removed at the U-M because of suspeted renal cel...

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