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Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks

...axo India Ltd. According to Dr. Chandrashekhar, a customized approach to the addiction was essential. "Just popping the pill is not enough, the complete treatment involves a combination of counseling and regular use of Zyban", he said. The product, with a reported success rate of 30 per cent, has a couple of ...

Cured Alcoholics Can Be Cured Of Smoking Also

... a more consistent level of serum cotinine through customized nicotine replacement therapy would enable more smokers to quit for good, and results from this initial study are positive in this group of smokers. Investigators individualized the nicotine patch dose based on patients’ serum cotinine levels taken w...

Hip Replacement Can Now Be Performed On Virtual Patients

...dual patients' muscle tissue. The device has to be customized to model the tissue of each patient to get an accurate indication of the probable outcome before each virtual surgery. The set up can also be voice controlled using simple commands. For example, a doctor would say 'I'm cutting the skin' or, 'I'm lif...

Bill Gates Takes Personal Interest in AIDS Program

...ksha, Project Bhasha, Project Jyoti and the unique customized solutions for the Indian market - all geared towards creating a digitally inclusive society. --Indo-Asian News Service...

Zap the butt (cigarette) with Laser Therapy

...ne, stipulates a combination of laser therapy with customized guidance. The laser technician targets energy points on the body using a “cold” laser beam, releasing natural chemicals called endorphins. Endorphins are known to have a calming, relaxing effect on the body that consequently helps in reducing nicotin...

Personalized Medicine and Innovative Pharmaceuticals

...ill focus on initiatives to develop drugs that are customized for an individual patient's particular condition and side-effects profile, and the process required for innovative pharmaceuticals. The main issues facing the scientists and pharmaceutical industry will also receive focus during the discussion. So...

Ayurveda Boosts Monsoon Tourism in Kerala

... Most resorts have a special ayurveda kitchen with customized menu. To add colour to the ayurveda season, resorts also conduct cooking classes. (Source: IANS)...

Treating Tetracycline Stains Made More Affordable With New Treatment

... for every night for three weeks, the patient uses customized trays that deliver the whitening solution to the teeth. During this time period, the patient maintained a meticulous home oral hygiene care and took potassium nitrate, which also decreases sensitivity after bleaching. Then, after the three week time ...

New Screening System For Early Detection Of Dental Caries in Toddlers

... the nation's largest telemedicine networks, using customized computer and other medical equipment to connect sick children in child care centers and schools with their physicians to facilitate virtual sick visits. Researchers tapped into this infrastructure to conduct a pilot program, where digital photographs...

Salmonella Bacteria Are Deceptive

...ectrometry, or FT-MS. A suite of FT-MS instruments customized by co-author and PNNL-based Battelle Fellow Richard D. Smith enabled the team to rapidly separate and identify many proteins at once even as macrophages were being infected. Most of the initial candidates were designated "house-keeping" proteins, or...

An Infectious Agent of Deception, Exposed Through Proteomics

...ectrometry, or FT-MS. A suite of FT-MS instruments customized by co-author and PNNL-based Battelle Fellow Richard D. Smith enabled the team to rapidly separate and identify many proteins at once even as macrophages were being infected. Most of the initial candidates were designated “house-keeping” proteins, o...

New Drug Blocks Influenza, Including Bird Flu Virus

...e most important defense, but new vaccines must be customized in response to an outbreak of disease and it can take as long as a year to formulate and manufacture vaccine in quantity. Antiviral drugs, it is anticipated, would be used to buy time to produce a vaccine in the event of a flu pandemic. And one int...

Revolutionary Eye Cancer Treatment

...dhood cancer, Dyer said. Targeted therapy uses a customized drug to disable a specific molecule inside a growing cancer cell; local delivery is the placement of a drug at the site of disease, rather than systemic treatment. In systemic treatment, such as chemotherapy, a drug is infused into the body through a...

Pharmacy Care Program Can Increase Medication Adherence in Elderly

...nitially hoped for an improvement rate of 85%. “We customized blister packs according to each patient’s medication regimen because some patients had so many – a few patients had as many as 19 medications – they just had no idea what to take when. We reviewed with patients what their medications were, what they ...

Joslin Diabetes Center Launches Veraxa Health

...y and other ocular disorders. JVN is delivered via customized Joslin software and nonmydriatic cameras supplied by Topcon Medical Systems of Paramus, N.J., which also provided bridge funding to help accelerate Veraxa Health’s growth in the market. Filling a Gap in Care Diabetes is the leading cause of new-...

Gene Discovered by Researchers Tied to Pancreatic Cancer

...owel Project Laboratory in Pittsburgh, developed a customized DNA microarray to assess genes in that region of the chromosome and looked for gene overexpression or overactivity. Pogue-Geile and Brentnall share first authorship on the PLOS paper. The analysis found a mutated palladin gene in all family members...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...ersity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, created a customized DNA microarray to help them isolate the gene responsible. They searched for the genes most abnormally expressed in that area on Chromosome 4, using pre-cancerous tissue from Family X pancreas and from 10 sporadic pancreatic cancers, comparing the res...

Researchers Create Genetically-Matched Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation

...rinciple of using unfertilized eggs as a source of customized embryonic stem cells that are genetically matched ...e in humans, offers an efficient way of generating customized stem cell lines from women,” says George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, senior author on the paper, who is the A...

Patronize 'DNA-diet' Publicized Over the Internet at Your Own Risk!

...iets are also called 'nutrigenomic' diets that are customized diet plans, based on individual's genetic make-up. Since they are personalized, they also cause a huge drain on the pocket, unit cost of such a plan, estimated at $1,950. Researchers sought to understand the motives of the commercially driven nutrig...

First Gene Chip Discovered by Cincinnati Researchers

..."This is the first chip in the world that has been customized to diagnose genetic mutations in patients with inherited types of liver diseases." The chip uses a new technology that rapidly and accurately discloses the composition of several genes known to cause liver disease in children and adults. "The jaund...

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