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ViroPharma Shares Fall As FDA Moves Towards Generic Vancocin

...-acquired bacterial infections caused in the lower digestive tract by the bacterium Clostridium difficile. Basically, the FDA's changed stance means that a clinical trial for generic vancomycin might not be necessary if it dissolves at the same rate as Vancocin. ViroPharma has intimated that it has filed a pet...

Over 100 Persons Taken Ill After Feasting At A Marriage Dinner

...ibility of botulism infection - a rare but serious digestive disorder - afflicting them cannot be ruled out, Ratlam district chief medical officer K.C. Pathak said. Police have registered a case. Food samples have been taken for tests. --Edited IANS...

Beans Devoid Of Flatulence Causing Compounds Would Soon Hit The Market

...is has a beneficial effect on the gut and help the digestive system get rid of toxins, increased by 97.5%. Dr Frankie Phillips, a nutrition expert and spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association, said that the study helps in overcoming the negative aspects (flatulence) of eating legumes while ensuring pre...

New Camera Pill To Diagnose Stomach Problems

...and we look at the record," Uma Sundaram, chief of digestive diseases at WVU, said. This technology allows for a more non-invasive way for doctors to look inside the small intestine and diagnose disorders that are difficult to detect using endoscope procedures, it said. This procedure gives doctors high-d...

India is the "IT" destination for obesity cure: med tourism

...ly impaired, by bypassing the major portion of the digestive tract. This is called 'Gastric Bypass', which is now considered to be the gold standard in bariatric operations." "Obesity cure by operations in India can form a major chunk of our medical tourism revenues in future," adds Ramana. <br...

Ill Health among Soldiers Returning From Iraq

...ans complained of symptoms such as respiratory and digestive problems, nerve damage, fatigue, pain, numbness and memory and psychological problems. The main cause of this syndrome is associated with the immunizations given to the veterans. But the professor said that the vaccines given to British soldiers goi...

News Antibiotic To Combat Hospital Infection

...ycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) that live in the digestive and genital tracts and people infected often need prolonged treatment, usually with several antibiotics being given together by injection. The researchers tested their antibiotic known as platensimycin derived from a substance found in the soil rel...

Excessive Alcohol Consumption May Cause Ill health Of The GI System

...ns of alcohol consumption may significantly affect digestive health," said Lee Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center. "Researchers explore a variety of drinking methods to differentiate which patterns are mo...

Finnish research: Cysteine Chewing Gum as a cure for cancers of the mouth

...ng. This results in a strong exposure of the upper digestive tract to acetaldehyde which causes cancer. The res...ypothesis, that microbes representing normal human digestive tract flora produce locally acetaldehyde from ethanol and that this may expose them for an increased...

American Study Shows the Association between MMR and Autism

...re diagnosed with autism and suffered from serious digestive problems for which no explanation could be found. The study is being presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Montreal and is yet to be published in a scientific journal. But other researchers examined the link between MMR and au...

New Gene Therapy Treats Diabetic Neuropathy

...including the heart, kidneys, sex organs, eyes and digestive tract. ‘Diabetic neuropathy is a major problem in insulin-dependent diabetes, particularly in patients who have had the disease for a period of time,’ said Professor Tomlinson, who is based in the University's Faculty of Life Sciences. ‘Our app...

Depressed Patients Recover Sluggishly After Stress Test

..., heart rate, airflow to the lungs, as well as the digestive process, insulin secretion, urinary function and sexual response. The researchers examined 260 patients entering phase II cardiac rehabilitation in the current study. The recovery of heart rate after exercise was slower in patients who had higher s...

Bariatric Surgery Solution to Obesity and to Boost Medical Tourism

...c gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, where the digestive system is short-circuited to decrease absorption of fats, Bariatric surgery reduces the intake capacity of the stomach. "This makes for lesser food intake and subsequent reduction of weight. The patient, however, is kept on essential vitamins and nu...

Role of Vitamin D in Preventing Cancer

... vitamin D each day reduced the risk of developing digestive cancers by 45%. According to a study which was part of the Women's Health Initiative trial, it was found that 500 milligrams of calcium plus 200 IU of vitamin D, taken twice daily, would reduce the risk of breast cancer in women aged 50 to 79. Incr...

High Fiber Diet to Fight Colon Cancer

According to Dr. Alexis Carrel digestive wastes which become stagnant in our body result in Colon cancer. He received the Nobel Prize in 1911 for his discovery that growing live tissue cells can be damaged if the wastes are not removed properly.// When they are not removed for three days th...

Cats To Aid in Prevention of Bird Flu

... can then excrete the virus via the respiratory or digestive tract thereby transmitting the infection to other cats. In addition cats that are fed with virus-infected chickens can be infected directly through the gut. Prof Waage asks Defra to hasten the reporting of avian influenza cases as well as taking s...

No More Dietary Restriction for Heartburn Patients - Study Says

...alve that keeps the food you've swallowed and your digestive acids down in your stomach, where they belong. Heartburn is most commonly caused when the esophageal sphincter relaxes more often than it is supposed to, allowing stomach acid to flow up into the esophagus. That causes a burning sensation behind th...

Chinese Surgeons Separate Conjoined Twins, One Critical

...ina's Zhejiang Province. They shared a liver and a digestive tract before the surgery and have congenital heart disease, doctors said. Although the operation was successful, the girls still face many challenges to survive, such as the failure of internal organs after the surgery, they said. Seventy doctors a...

One Of China's Conjoined Twins Dies

...The twins shared a liver, spleen, gall bladder and digestive tract and weighed 16 pounds before the surgery. The girls were born to a farm family and in the photos provided by the hospital looked unusually frail. Reports said the hospital had planned for the surgery right after their birth. A business group ...

Test for Esophageal Reflux Licensed to Bayer by University

... heartburn with excess stomach acid, but it is the digestive enzyme pepsin (and not acid) bathing the lower area of the esophagus that causes the damage,” said Koufman. “For patients with severe esophagitis, the tissue in the esophagus is literally being self-digested.” “Besides helping to diagnose gastroeso...

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