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Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...ddition, the Xopenex group needed only 2.0 +/- 2.6 days of ipratropium bromide treatments. Patients receiving Xopenex were found to require significantly less nebulizer therapy and less adjuvant respiratory therapy, according to the study. Xopenex is being marketed as a nebulizer at dosage strengths of 0...

New way to control hospital infection

...d inappropriately between a third to a half of the days that a patient has a catheter and add to this, nea...ays like having a reminder system, which after two days will remind the physician that the patient has a urinary catheter and that default is removal than c...

Care with a touch!

...ter they started chemotherapy and then every three days until they were discharged from the program. Researchers found that there was significant improvements in patient perceptions and comfort levels when touch or massage therapy was provided. Patients receiving massage therapy also had fewer central ne...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

...eriods on four consecutive days, followed by three days of rest. The cycle was then repeated as long as the wound appeared to be healing or until surgery was performed to repair the site. Researchers found that 38 of the wounds healed while receiving the topical oxygen treatment and there were no complica...

Way out of winter depression

...rom feelings of gloom, anxiety and lethargy as the days get longer and nights get shorter. Other SAD symptoms include overeating, especially on high carbohydrate foods, and sleeping for longer than usual. Researchers have now found that light therapy// helps in countering winter depression. The therapy, w...

A new way out for heroin addicts

...aily, and the other that received the drug for six days and then was given a placebo. All patients participated in cognitive behavioral group therapy, received weekly individual counseling sessions, and submitted regular urine samples for analysis to detect drug use. Researchers found that three-quarters ...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

... developing eyes in the normal way in the first 28 days of pregnancy. Babies born with this condition are often fitted with prosthetic eyes to allow normal facial// development. Researchers from the Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh who published their study in the journal Nature Genetics, have discovered...

More signs to an approaching migraine attack

...rtainchanges in the brain that occurs two or three days beforehand, which gives riseto these symptoms. This indicated that there more to migraine attacks than justthe headaches. The researchers concluded that this study could help ineffectively managing migraine attacks by taking medication when the warni...

Relief from cancer pain with anticonvulsants

...es oflevetiracetam over periods// ranging from two days to two weeks. Doses variedbetween 500 milligrams and 1,500 milligrams depending upon the patient response. Researchers said they witnessed dramatic results in all seven patients whoreported improved pain relief with scores going down from 8 to 10 t...

Little sleep as bad as no sleep

...ilar to those who go without sleep for two orthree days continuously. The study that was published in the March issue of thejournal Sleep involved 48 participants divided into 4 groups. The first groupslept four hours a night for two weeks, the second group slept six hours a nightfor two weeks, the third ...

Second SARS suspect fuels worry in India

... so far about the spread of SARS however in recent days has started screening of passengers arriving at its international airports with extended care....

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

...of being active for at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week....

An Indian Bride with signs of SARS

...pital, admitted himself to a hospital in Pune four days after he developed symptoms. He was tested positive for SARS after two tests, and doctors were studying whether he could have spread the disease to anyone because of the delay in reporting the symptoms. Within hours on monday, his mother and sister ...

Snoring Linked To Headaches

... those with chronic headache had an average of 260 days with headaches per year and those with occasional headache had an average of 24 headache days per year.// However researchers said more findings is needed to determine the link between snoring a...

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

... SARS-affected areas on May 14, after more than 20 days passed since the date of the last known case on April 19. The new cluster is believed to come from an elderly patient whose case dates back to April 19. The 96-year-old man developed pneumonia after surgery in an orthopedic ward at North York Genera...

Origin Of SARS Virus Discovered

...and later mutated before passing toothers. Several days back scientists discovered that//the fatal virus was found in mainly three species ofmammals - badgers, civet cats and raccoon dogs. Allwere found in the Dongmen market (Guangdong's capitalof Shenzhen). Though the knew discovery of the origin of t...

Breaking up Dangerous Clots

...f the study participants had received six to eight days of treatment with the drug prior to beginning the study. Researchers were able to measure outcomes in 428 of the patients. The incidence of postoperative venous thromboembolism, a form of deep vein clotting occurring after surgery, was 35 percent in...

World SARS-free within weeks

...ransmission when they have gone for 20 consecutive days without reporting a new case, twice the time it takes for the disease to develop in humans. The WHO says that Taiwan's last SARS patient was isolated on June 15. "This is the period of the greatest danger as was shown in Canada, which exited the li...

Anthrax hammers immune system

...in unsolved, one of the first victims was sick for days before he was seen by doctors, who suspected a case of the flu. His white blood count, a sign of bacterial infection, was only slightly elevated. That suggests the anthrax bacteria were able to fly under the watchful radar of his immune system and pr...

Baltimore doctors perform three simultaneous kidney transplants

...rous time for transplant patients -- the first few days after an operation. "It was really possible because these three donors desperately wanted to see their loved ones receive a kidney and were open to any possibility to make that happen," Montgomery said....

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