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Useful drug for stem cell transplant problem

... and 35 per cent of them survived for at least 100 days after their transplant. This is important for only 10 per cent of this desperately ill group would be able to survive this long with usual care. The standard treatment for VOD is clot-busting drugs, which have been linked with severe bleeding and a...

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

... cancer involves a daily dose of radiotherapy five days a week, for six weeks.// But better results have been found from a more intensive programme known as CHART which uses three doses a day for 12 days. Now researchers at the Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex, England, have taken CHART further. Using c...

Focussed treatment for Hodgkin's disease

...er result for people with Hodgkin's disease. These days a full cure is likely for most of those who develop// Hodgkin's disease. But their recovery may be impaired by short and long-term complications of conventional radiation treatment. The problem lies with radiation damaging healthy tissue, i...

Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack

...00 patients with acute STEMI. The death rate at 32 days for those given magnesium was 15.3 per cent, compared to 12.2 per cent for those on placebo. In other words, there is no survival benefit in giving magnesium for patients with this condition on a routine basis....

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...D patients reported having heartburn at least four days per week and having woken up with heartburn at least one night a week. More then 15 million Americans experience daily heartburn symptoms and may suffer from GERD....

Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

...ng function- have a higher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't have surgery. Whether those who survive surgery will do better than those on medical management in the long term remains to be seen. In the meantime, it appears that surgery should not be regarded as a uni...

Decision making made easier

...ake important decisions about their treatment. The days when doctors told you what treatment //to have are long gone. Patients today expect to participate in the decision-making process. But sometimes this is difficult, when the clinical evidence gives conflicting messages and new research comes up all th...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...s someone who rides more than two hours a day, six days a week, and more than 3,000 miles a year. In his presentation, Dr. Frauscher said more than 10 million Americans mountain bike, a number that has risen in recent years. While the sport has been associated for some time with erectile dysfunction, thi...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...ook the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin four days after treatment, while the others went on a strict low-cholesterol diet. Later, they too went on the statin drug. There was a marked difference in survival between the two groups. The rate for the simvastatin group was 85.4 per cent and for those w...

Memory deprivation after operations

...ems had a fall in oxygen levels in the blood a few days after the surgery - but the reason for this is unclear. The leading UK charity, Research into Ageing, has been helping fund a large international study into POCD and its causes. Results are to be published, but so far it looks as if surgery may be ...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

... loss and the patient can be discharged within two days of the procedure. This method, the Micro Endoscopic Discectomy Method (MED) is also being used in Bangalore and Delhi apart from Ahmedabad where it was recently introduced....

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

...arm and road traffic injuries increased during the days following the match. The match ended with a penalty shoot out - a tense situation where in each team takes a shot at the goal and the one who misses first loses the game. England lost the game - and the researchers recorded a 27 per cent rise in hea...

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

...ith 1,305 patients who had been in the ICU for two days and were expected to stay there for at least two more days. Participants were assigned to receive either a placebo or 40,000 units of rHuEPO on day three in the ICU and weekly while in the hospital. Results show that patients who received rHuEPO w...

Reduced fertility in men who mountain bike

... as those who biked more than two hours a day, six days a week, and more than 3,000 miles a year. Analysis of semen of the two participating groups indicated a considerable reduction of sperm count and motility of the bikers. The sperm count and motility of bikers was 20 million/ml and 29 percent respecti...

Diabetics & Foot infections

...owed poor improvement. Recovery took as long as 95 days and a higher percentage of patients reported new infections and required surgery. The study, which was a part of a larger initiative for a Diabetic Foot Clinic at the hospital found that good foot care practice was achieved by proper education and ...

Good news for moderate alcohol drinkers!

... found that men who consumed alcohol three or four days a week had approximately two-thirds (68%) the risk...nce a week. Men who consumed alcohol five to seven days per week had slightly less (63%) risk. However, study data suggested that there was no additional ca...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...rmal growth and no abnormalities, consumed oats 25 days per month. They were given 1 gram (gm) of oats for each kilogram (kg) of body weight per day, up to a maximum of 50 gm/day. The clinic followed up by telephone at 1, 3, 6, and 9 months and with blood testing and biopsy at one year. None of the chi...

Hormone regimen and how recently used may determine cancer risk

...ed hormone therapy(estrogen combined with 25 to 31 days per month of progestin use) was associated with an...rapy or sequential HT (estrogen combined with 5-14 days per month of progestin use)....

Response to chemotherapy could be measured by Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time

...ng those patients who had a rising PSA, it was 238 days in patients who experienced a partial response, 224 days in those with stable disease and 113 days in patients with progressive disease. The researchers con...

Novel Anti-Neutrophilic Effect produced by Salmeterol in mild asthma patients

...-responsiveness and the percentage of symptom-free days and nights improved significantly....

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