Tuberculosis Drug Resistance 'alarming' in India
...he country in 1997 in a phased manner to achieve a cure rate of 85 percent of new sputum positive cases and to detect at least 70 percent of such cases. The entire country was covered by March 2006. Till date, 6.7 million patients have received DOTS treatment averting more than 1.22 million deaths. T...Child Struck With Mystery Illness Shows Signs of Recovering
...r lost hope. We do not know whether this will be a cure but we're keeping everything crossed that this is." Timothy was referred to Professor Peter Clayton, of the metabolic department at Great Ormond Street, who decided vitamin deficiency might be the problem. The boy supposedly produces only small a...Swell Gel May Bring Respite From Back Pain
...s of this study, there is an urgent need to find a cure for damaged intervertebral discs. They also felt that an extensive study should be undertaken on this subject which might look to biodegradable microgels that will promote regeneration of intervertebral disc. JY...Tuberculosis – 125 Years Since Discovery, Yet a Challenge to Dat
... 2007 with the means we have, we could potentially cure all drug-susceptible cases of TB, we still see one-point-six million deaths every year, we still see 45-hundred deaths every day. So the point here is, the world must wake up." One reason why TB still remains a challenge, especially in countries li...FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder
...ttacks and intestinal disease. Soliris does not cure PNH, but treats the breakdown of red blood cells, the most common characteristic of PNH. Soliris acts to block the complement system activity, including the destruction of PNH red blood cells. FDA based its approval on the company's randomized, do...Gene Therapy To The Aid Of Cystic Fibrosis.
...iversity College London (UCL) are trying to find a cure for this condition by using a modified version of HIV. If this procedure is successful, it might help the babies get rid of this ailment while developing in the womb itself. Scientists are currently attempting to replace the faulty gene which is re...President of an African Nation Claims Herbal Cure for AIDS, Experts Skeptical
...l western African nation, says he has discovered a cure for AIDS.// He has no medical degree and clai...cine of the President. But he won’t relent and his cure is being administered across the country. The raging controversy has resulted in the expulsion of ...Barking Up the Right Tree to Cure Retinoblastoma
...m the bark of a South American tree, as a possible cure for a notorious type of childhood// eye cancer, called retinoblastoma. Retinoblastoma accounts for nearly 3% of all cancers in children, affecting about one in 15000 children. Usually the cancer affects children below 6 years of age, and if left un...Surgery, Radiation Treatment Double Life Expectancy for Prostate Cancer Patients
...elieve that aggressive prostate cancers are beyond cure and should only be followed with watchful waiting, forestalling any immediate treatment. This new study points to the fallacy of this outlook, finding surgery and radiation more than double the life expectancy for these patients," says Dr. Ashutosh T...Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer
...ivity throughout the body. She said it was not a cure for cancer, but the research showed that when vitamin C was low or absent in the body, cancer cells in tumors could make more blood vessels grow well and resist chemotherapy. "This also means that a lack of vitamin C increases tumor growth and prev...TB Incidence on Rise Among Children in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra
... a phased manner. 'Our objective is to achieve a cure rate of 85 per cent of new sputum positive cases and to detect at least 70 per cent of such cases,' the official said. All children below six years of age who are household contacts of smear positive TB cases are screened for TB and after excluding...New Zealand’s Pharmac Subsidies Two More HIV Drug
...s," says Smythe. Yet, prevention is better than cure or treatment, in this case.“ For HIV-negative people, it's important to remember that avoiding infection in the first place is still the best weapon we have against HIV (which) means always using condoms’, Smythe advises. NN......Melodies recommended by him//, say the healed, can cure stress, tension and insomnia. Jaimini and his associate D. Turi, a guitarist from Italy, worked on fusion music till they purified strains effective on both musical and non-musical listeners. Turi, who is also a member of the Italian Creative Mus...Green Tea may Help to Fight Lung Cancer
...erial and viral infections, cavities and reduce or cure inflammatory diseases. Source-IANS...Government Allot More Funds for Revised TB Program
... in a phased manner with an objective to achieve a cure rate of 85 percent of new sputum positive cases an...erall performance of RNTCP has been excellent with cure completion rate consistently above 85 percent and death rate reduced to less than 5 percent," the mi...Researchers Discover Breakthrough in Malaria Treatment
...rchers found that both treatments provided initial cure from disease. However those receiving a treatment which stayed in the blood stream for longer were three times less likely to have another episode of malaria within 42 days and were less likely to be anaemic. MSHR scientist, Dr Ric Price, said that...Partners of Alcoholics May Need to Seek help
... 'Alcoholism is an illness for which there is no cure and it can only be stopped through abstinence, and that can occur only if the alcoholic has the will to do it,' said Grosse. Relatives can provide details about self-help groups or addiction counsellors, said Marita Voelker-Albers of the German cen...New Study: Pine Bark Significantly Reduces Endometriosis
...of endometriosis is unknown and treatment to fully cure endometriosis has yet to be developed," said Dr. Takafumi Kohama, a lead researcher of the study. "Common hormone treatments such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone agents (Gn-RHa) may likely restrict women from becoming pregnant during treatment. Dan...Triptolide: A Potential Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease
...ide from kidney transplantation, there has been no cure for PKD, nor has there been a suitable drug treatment to slow its progression,” said Crews, associate professor of chemistry, molecular, cellular & developmental biology and pharmacology. “We hope that is about to change,” he said. The mesh of Trad......fice and other agencies concerned are targeting to cure at least 85 percent of patients afflicted with TB in this city. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...