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Hope for tinnitus sufferers

...e phantom limb pain. For 5% of the population, the condition characterised by ringing in the ears, is chronic and debilitating.// Researchers have launched a full-scale trial of a promising study suggesting that differentiating between computer-generated tones could help relieve the problem. Unlike people wit...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...placebo with a drug for worsening heart failure, a condition that sends about 1 million Americans to the hospit...ficiently, affects nearly 5 million Americans. The condition may be chronic, but patients can develop severe attacks of breathing difficulty that require hospita...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...e protein is associated with insulin resistance, a condition that can sometime lead to diabetes. Both overweight and lean women who had the low levels of SHBG went on to develop pre-eclampsia. "It also may provide the only clue that a lean woman is at elevated risk. There might be a window of opportunity in th...

Skin cancer on the rise

...urvival rates from skin cancers are good if it the condition is caught early.Cancer experts say women have previously had higher rates of malignant skin cancer, probably because of the fashion for suntans. But now they are starting to listen to the warnings about skin cancer, and are protecting both themselves...

Vitamins enhances recuperation of organ transplant patients

...m the Maryland's Women's Hospital, USA, found the condition was emanted among patients given the vitamins during a year-long study. Dr James Fang, who led the research, called for further tests to see if the benefits were permanent and if lung, kidney and liver transplant patients could also be helped. Arte...

Alzheimer's with psychosis runs in families

... run in families. They studied 200 people with the condition and found a further 400 siblings who had the condition. Analysis showed that a sibling of an affected person had more than double the average risk of also developing Alzheimer's with psychosis. This is an important step towards finding the genes th...

Fatty deposits affect the stomach too

...se of the pain involved and may lose weight. The condition can be treated in much the same way as atherosclerosis in the arteries serving the heart that is, with bypass surgery or with angioplasty, which involves insertion of a balloon-tipped catheter which widens the artery. In fact, mesenteric ischemia sho...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...ot able to diagnose it or treat symptoms until the condition has progressed into more advanced stages. There is no cure for Alzheimer's but scientists are interested in an early screening test because earlier detection could mean starting treatment before symptoms -- such as forgetfulness, disorientation and d...

Children's snoring may indicate a serious problem

...too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide. The condition can lead to poor heart and lung development as well as behavioral problems and even death if unchecked. Problems are reversible if the disease is caught early....

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

... is approved for use in cancer patients to treat a condition in which calcium seeps from the bones. The drug was found to slow the rate of bone less and increase bone density, and the effect persisted for at least a year after treatment, long after the medication had disappeared from the blood.// It will be a...

Dental implants are turning to gain popularity

...ind that you need good gums, and a jawbone in good condition too, because implants do require surgery. You also need to be very careful about dental hygiene after the implant surgery....

Artificial silicon retina

...ople who had lost their vision due to a hereditory condition called retinitis pigmentosa,said that implanting three more people will give them a large data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men suffering from retinitis pigmentosa .The whole procedure would be about 2-1/2...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...o full-blown dementia. It may, in some cases, be a condition in its own right. But it should not be seen as a normal part of the aging process....

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...utine screening of the nation's blood supply. The condition - transfusion-related acute lung injury, or TRALI - is believed to be caused in most cases by an immune-system reaction to antibodies in the donor's blood. Though it produces lung damage that is generally reversible, TRALI is a leading cause of death...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

... factors, since people who have relatives with the condition are more likely to have it, with 40 to 60 per cent concordance between identical twins. "This tells us there's something genetic but that it's not that simple — otherwise there'd be 100 per cent concordance in identical twins," said Dr Ward. "We nee...

How to determine allergies?

...octors at the Mayo Clinic remind us there's such a condition as non-allergic rhinitis. Here the inner lining of the nose is just extra-sensitive to certain substances such as perfume, smoke or even rapid changes in temperature. But the immune system is not involved, so there is no allergy. Once exposed, the na...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...// increase their risk of peripheral neuropathy, a condition marked by weakness, numbness and pain in the hands and feet. The research team at the University of Texas looked at statin use among those who had peripheral neuropathy, comparing them to those without the condition. This revealed that statin users ...

Fast screening for macular degeneration

...ould then be fast-tracked for treatment before the condition takes hold. In Raman scattering, the spatial distribution of retinal pigment can be imaged. Any abnormal patterns, which may indicate AMD, can rapidly be detected. The research is currently being done with human eye tissue, but the knowledge gained...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...ar-regulating hormone insulin. For most women, the condition goes away after giving birth. However, Moore's team points out, for some women gestational diabetes signals an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. For others, it may be precursor to type 1 diabetes, a form of the disease caused by an abnor...

Healing a painful neck

...rcent to 15 percent of the general population. The condition strikes most often around age 55, and women experi... clear diagnosis. Many physicians try to treat the condition with pain relievers but may also refer patients to physical therapists or manual therapists for exer...

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