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MS Drug Helps Reduce Vision Loss

...nts every 12 weeks. The study found vision loss, defined as a worsening in score by two rows of letters on the eye chart, was reduced by as much as 47 percent among people taking natalizumab compared to those taking placebo. "Not only does natalizumab prevent the worsening of vision loss in people with r...

Obesity may Be Linked to Middle Ear Effusions in Children

... "For both triglycerides and total cholesterol, we defined obesity as values not within the normal range for age and sex," the authors write. "Using serum triglyceride concentration as the standard, we found that 34.7 percent of children who underwent ventilating tube insertion were obese, whereas with serum...

Insomnia-related Symptoms High Among ‘Night Owls

....” Insomnia, a classification of sleep disorders defined by difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, waking up too early, or poor quality sleep, is the most common sleep complaint at any age. About 30 percent of adults have symptoms of insomnia.The amount of sleep a person gets affects his or her physi...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...stance pattern in 75 patients; two genotypic tests defined resistance in 23, and three tests defined resistance in the remaining 12 patients. Thymidine analogue mutations (TAMS) accounted for 75% of al...

Elderly Population on Rise in India, China

...jected that by 2050 the number of elderly people - defined as aged 60 or more - would exceed the number of children for the first time in history. By then, there should nearly two billion elderly persons, up from about 705 million this year. The world's poorest nations, many of which are located in sub-Sah...

Male Child Birth Dropping in US and Japan

... out that examine sex ratio in smaller groups with defined exposures as a potential indicator of environmental contamination." <...

PSA Doubling Predicts Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...e and death from prostate cancer. Doubling time is defined as the duration for PSA levels in the blood to increase by 100 percent. Mayo’s study concludes that patients with a PSA doubling time of less than three months after therapy are at imminent risk of death from prostate cancer. Patients with a doubli...

Abbott to Subsidize Price of HIV Drug

...re than 40 low and low-middle income countries (as defined by World Bank criteria) and NGOs a new price of $1,000 per patient per year. This price is lower than any generic price available in the world today for this medicine and is approximately 55 percent less than the average current price for these co...

Combined Imaging Approach may Be Effective in Diagnosing Some Brain Clots

...Detailed contrast-enhanced techniques produce more defined distinctions between abnormal and normal veins in ...anced magnetic resonance venography—produce better defined pictures of difficult-to-detect abnormal flow areas within vessels of the brain. These areas may be ...

Study Finds Link Between Secondhand Smoke and TB Infection in Children

...uberculin skin test for the study. Researchers defined M. TB infection as a reaction of at least 10mm, and secondhand smoking as residing with at least one adult who smoked for at least one year. Of the 1,344 children surveyed, 432 -- or 32% -- had a positive tuberculin skin test, and 1,170 -- or 87% -- ...

Combined Imaging Approach may Provide Better Identification of Difficult-to-diagnose Brain Clots

...Detailed contrast-enhanced techniques produce more defined distinctions between abnormal and normal veins in ...anced magnetic resonance venography—produce better defined pictures of difficult-to-detect abnormal flow areas within vessels of the brain. These areas may be ...

Intercell to Begin Phase II JE Vaccine Trials in India

...utive Officer of Intercell, said, “We have clearly defined a straight forward development process for our Japanese Encephalitis vaccine to enter endemic markets. It is our priority to make the vaccine, which is based on proven and safe technology, also available for the population and especially the children...

Chances of Tackling Racism in Mental Health Care is Still Remote

...mitted involuntarily. Once in hospital, people who defined themselves as black Caribbean had the longest stay. In a separate survey of people with learning disabilities, comprising 4,609 inpatients from 124 hospitals, only 11% were from black and minority ethnic groups. Rates of admission were lower than a...

Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...verweight child, as measured at age 3. The authors defined overweight as a BMI greater than the 95th percentile for the child's age and sex. "Our study shows that excessive weight gain during pregnancy was directly associated with having an overweight child," says Oken. "Just like adults, children who are...

Hormone-based Heart Pill to Control High Blood Pressure

...ay, the team designed a novel chimeric peptide and defined its heart-kidney action by testing it in laboratory animals. Results showed that Mayo’s chimeric peptide had the desirable attributes of increasing salt excretion in the urine, as well as increasing urine production. Says Dr. Burnett, "This finding...

Study Attributes Elevated Liver Enzymes in HIV/hepatitis to Coinfection Rather Than Antiretrovirals

...h signs and symptoms of acute hepatitis. LEE was defined as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels (>5 x the baseline level or >3.5 x baseline when the baseline was >40 IU/l). Changes of ALT from time of enrolment in the study were analysed as a continuous variable to see if findings were affect...

Low-dose Omega-3 Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

...tion," concluded the researchers. Hypertension, defined as having a systolic and diastolic BP greater than 140 and 90 mmHg, affects about 600 million people worldwide and is associated with over seven million deaths. Commenting independently on the study, June Davidson, a cardiac nurse from UK charity, ...

Managing Emotions to Prevent HIV

...elf-efficacy is akin to self-confidence and can be defined as a person's beliefs about his or her own capabilities to produce effects or change in his or her life. In the context of this study, the authors found that teens with higher self-efficacy about condom use (i.e. they felt that they could effectively...

Hypertension, Diabetes and Obesity, a Deadly Trio

...s also known as insulin resistance syndrome and is defined as a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors. ISH President Dr Sridhar Diwedi explained that those with the MS were twice as likely to die as those without the syndrome. And their chances of suffering a heart attack or a stroke wer...

FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products

... which may include sleep-driving. Sleep driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of the event. "There are a number of prescription sleep aids available that are well-tolerated and effective for many people," said Steven Galson, M.D.,...

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