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Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...c infection, and it can be fatal. A 6- to 12-month course of interferon treatment, sometimes given along with the antiviral drug ribavirin, wipes out HCV in about 40% of infected people....

A way to slow the progression of Type 1 Diabetes

...with anti-CD3 mAb, a modified antibody.// A 14-day course of the drug appeared to slow the progressive decli...o helps to retain insulin production well into the course of the disease. Kevan Herott, M.D., of Columbia University, felt that, the goal of this trial was t...

Guard against heart attacks

... the use of naproxen versus the commonly suggested course of aspirin for patients at risk for heart attacks, and the results should apply only to patients already in need of NSAID therapy....

Migraine relieved by deadly toxin

...ad gained any relief from painkillers. Following a course consisting of one to four botox injections over three months, 80% reported an improvement in their condition....

Ultrasound test may detect heart condition early

...is hard to identify patients with HCM early in the course of disease. One treatment for the condition involves implanting a defibrillator to restart the heart if it stops suddenly. Researchers have suggested that abnormalities in the heart's diastolic function--meaning how it behaves when it relaxes and fi...

Antibiotics help heart patients

...e the reasons for the long-term effects of a short course of antibiotic treatment."...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

... Dr Taimela felt that the concept uses the latest course to chronic pain management called evidence-based medicine and makes use of special proprietory software and analysis models to devise individual treatment profiles for patients. Reddy said it was planned to launch similar centres in Delhi and Hyderab...

Role of wives of Alcoholics

...kit says the next step is to look at the onset and course of problems in the alcoholic male as well as behavioral and psychological problems in the children....

Keep fit with salads

...raw food. Whether just to munch on till// the main course arrives or at home as a filler,no meal is complete without a salad. There are infinite varieties of salads. Apart from the usual salads of cucumber - tomato - onion etc., there are fruit salads, salads with sprouted grams, Russian salads, salads wit...

New therapy improves quality of life for cancer

...of the drug, some a placebo injection. After their course of treatment, those on the epoetin alfa had significant improvements in their energy levels, ability to do everyday tasks and in their overall quality of life. There are already drugs that can help with the severe nausea that results from chemotherap...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...cal developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of this study, have also helped identify a faulty connexin gene as the cause of a skin and deafness disorder known as "KIDS" (for keratitis, ichthyosis and deafness syndrome), while previous findings by others have linked a connexin to Charcot-Marie-...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...a, cola, tea, and certain medications - during the course of the study. Researchers found that though both coffee and caffeine capsules raised homocysteine levels, coffee had a much greater effect than caffeine alone. While caffeine capsules raised homocysteine levels by 5%, coffee led to an increase of 11...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

... venous thromboembolism includes a five- to 10-day course of heparin followed by three to 12 months of the oral drug warfarin. However, the problem with this treatment is that once the patient goes off warfarin, venous thromboembolism recurs. While recurrence rates of this problem are reduced if the patient...

A drug in vogue to deccelerate the course of Alzheimer's

... future. A new drug has been developed to slow the course of Alzheimer's disease. There is a special chemical called glutamate, which is one of the brain’s messenger and this chemical//is regulated by a drug called Memantine. Learning and memory are the fields, which are enabled by the chemical glutamate. T...

Scientists review SARS

...tion. Detecting andisolating patients early in the course of theirinfection and quarantining their contacts has had ahuge effect on slowing the spread of the outbreak, Dr.Chan said. Her department conducted the study withresearchers from Imperial College in London. But Dr.Chan also said the recommended publ...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

... element of the strategy is the adoption of a life course approach to child and adolescent health. This recognizes that the quality of life at early ages is important not only for immediate wellbeing, but also for health and development later in life and, given the crucial links between maternal, neonatal a...

Breast Cancer in Men Often Underestimated and Under-treated

...ffects about a third of men at some point over the course of a lifetime, thereby causing the diseae to be discovered at later stages in men than in women. "It is perhaps ironic,that tumours in men are easier to feel than they are in women, yet the disease is being discovered at a later stage in men than in...

Admission to Russian varsities is looking up

..." said Ravichandran. The fee structure for theMBBS course in Russia varies from US$2,000 -3,000 ( roughly Rs... the university, while the fee for the engineering course is around $ 2,000 per year. Requirements Students who finish medicine in Russia will have to pass a...

Alternative Therapy in HIV Patients

...reported using at least one type of CAM during the course of the study. The four most commonly used methods were relaxation, spiritual healing, self-help and herbal medicine. More than one-fourth of the patients used CAM with the potential for side effects and 3 percent reported using CAM in lieu of convent...

New Treatment for Chronic Eczema

...ation upon improvement of the condition or a short course of topical corticosteroids followed by a maintenance regimen using emollients.// However, neither of these methods has proven to be particularly effective in stabilizing the condition or extending remission time. In a study conducted in Europe, rese...

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