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Cure for common cold

...f symptoms, which some panel members said might be difficult for a drug that would be sold by prescription. The major concern, was that Picovir appeared to lower the effectiveness of oral contraceptives, which might cause inadvertent pregnancies. Some women taking both Picovir and birth control pills experien...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...nclude folks with mild dementia. Alzheimer's is a difficult disease to detect and doctors usually are not able to diagnose it or treat symptoms until the condition has progressed into more advanced stages. There is no cure for Alzheimer's but scientists are interested in an early screening test because earlie...

Hypertensive drugs may cause cough

...ne that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be recommended to patients on ACE inhibitors who are troubled by a cough. Since this is a small study, it is too soon to come to conclusions. Extensive work should prove effective....

Obese women likey for Cesarean

...al mortality.// Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined. Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated each woman's body mass index (BMI), a measurement of body fat calculated using a ...

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...ar. Testing for the antibodies in donated blood is difficult and not part of routine screening of the nation's blood supply. The condition - transfusion-related acute lung injury, or TRALI - is believed to be caused in most cases by an immune-system reaction to antibodies in the donor's blood. Though it produ...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

...of appetite or fatigue. Pancreatic cancer is often difficult to treat, so identifying any patients who might be at increased risk of the disease may help detect the disease before it becomes untreatable....

Anorexia in boys is common too

...nce anorexia is relatively rare in boys, it can be difficult for them to accept they have the disorder. For example, during inpatient or day hospital treatment programs, male patients are usually surrounded by girls. Castro added that her findings demonstrate the importance of studying bone mass in boys, as we...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...leeping, hibernating Rafii added that it would be difficult to administer MMP9 directly to adults who wanted to produce more of their own stem cells, but researchers may soon be able to administer the growth factors that, in turn, activate the enzyme to do its job. Adult stem cells may some advantages over t...

Iron supplementation quite necessary

...ne that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be recommended to patients on ACE inhibitors who are troubled by a cough. Since this is a small study, it is too soon to come to conclusions. Extensive work should prove effective....

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

...icate HIV from patients, this has proved much more difficult than once thought. The new findings add to that challenge, providing one more hurdle that doctors must overcome. But the hope is that we will be able to use this new information for good," he said. "For example, we may be able to tailor future treat...

Combined scan gives exact cancer diagnosis

...er than the conventional method. It is notoriously difficult to get an accurate picture of ovarian and cervical tumours,// because the tissue is dense and so it's not always possible to detect the border between malignant and normal areas. Doctors at the University of Texas now say that combining positron emis...

Detering memory problems

...ave been done on the link, primarily because it is difficult to look inside the brain for these abnormalities. These investigators studied microvascular abnormalities in retinas a hallmark of cerebral microvascular disease and an easy site to examine through noninvasive measures -- to see if those with evidenc...

Best ways to split a pill

...d present you with no problem. But other pills are difficult to split and for these you need the right tool - a dedicated pill splitter, in fact, available from the drugstore. Don't use a regular knife for these. And, again, check with the pharmacist that the active ingredient is evenly distributed throughout ...

Pregnancy complications indicate health problems

...t evidence justifies monitoring women who have had difficult pregnancies //- for they are at risk of health pro...may be underlying genetic factors influencing both difficult pregnancies and diabetes and heart disease....

Watch your weight when pregnant

...al mortality. //Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined. Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated each woman's body mass index (BMI), a measurement of body fat calculated using a ...

An effective drug for lung cancer

... and 80 years old. Doctors say this cancer is very difficult to treat. People diagnosed with the disease generally only survive for six to eight months. Researchers at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom conducted a clinical trial to determine if the anticancer drug combination of pemetrexed and carbop...

No connection between epidurals and backache

...to questions about everyday tasks that may be more difficult in the presence of lower back pain. Researchers studied 135 women randomized to receive epidural and 140 randomized to receive another form of labor pain relief. They conducted a follow-up study 24 months after delivery. The incidence of self-report...

Stem cells aid to cure brain cancer

...y into healthy tissue, making the growth extremely difficult to removeResearchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have found that neural stem cells can track and destroy brain tumour cells. The scientists engineered the cells to produce interleukin-12, a natural compo...

Help Quit Smoking

...uccessfully and the the younger you start the more difficult it is to quit. Researchers have developed a new program which guides parents who have teenagers who smoke to help them quit. The program which offers articles on new ways to talk to teens and facts on smoking and cancer in addition to an addiction ...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...ds and burns as well as urine infections which are difficult to treat as many strains of the bacterium are resistant to more than one antibiotic, with the most resistant strains only treatable by one or two drugs. Researchers from Leeds University have now found that ionising machines, which work by produci...

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