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Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors

...esult was further strengthened.” How does this affect the Indian physician? It just makes the differential diagnosis of headache just a little more intricate, especially when dealing with the successful, middle-aged businessperson with a headache....

New Drug in Diabetic Neuropathy

...ction of pain compared to placebo. What does this mean for India? Well, my uncle, the neurologist, will be pretty happy....

New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

... also been proven to induce symptomatic relief.How does that apply to the Indian context? Well, first we can try by ridding ourselves of pollution and other noxious stimulants....

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

...llers to ease the agony of terminally ill patients does not shorten their lives.Some health professionals have criticized the practice, comparing it to euthanasia, but doctors at St Christopher's Hospice in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as long as those w...

A Porcine Dolly

...body carries some 50 copies of PERV. Even so, this does not necessarily mean the end of pig-organ transplantation. Indeed, PERV-infected mice remain as healthy as immunosuppressed animals can be. Needles to say that the jury is still out on using pigs as a granary for much need organs for transplant....

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD

Transdermal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not reduce the risk of cardiac events in postmenopausal women with existing coronary artery disease (CAD). In the PHASE trial (Papworth HRT Atherosclerosis Study), researchers randomized 255 postmenopausal women with angiographically proven coronary ...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease

Transdermal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not reduce the risk of cardiac events in postmenopausal women with existing coronary artery disease (CAD). In the PHASE trial (Papworth HRT Atherosclerosis Study), researchers randomized 255 postmenopausal women with angiographically proven coronary ...

Patient’s perception of health status helps in better recover

...about our recovery because the patients perception does help in speedy recovery!!...

Liver donors can thrive after transplant

... strictly screened to make sure that the procedure does as little harm as possible to their health. People in need of liver donations include those with livers damaged by hepatitis C, cancer, alcohol consumption or primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease of the liver and bile ducts. Potential liver donors a...

Skinny people need to exercise too

...ada, who headed the study, says that heart disease does not develop from a single factor. “Fitness and fatness are both important factors”, he adds. Even skinny people need to exercise to stay trim and fit thereby reducing the chances of developing heart diseases. Lean, couch potatoes who don’t work out...

Researchers urge caution in using ear tube surgery

...es in young children who develop fluid in the ears does not improve speech, hearing or psychological devel.... "We were led to the conclusion that ear disease does not cause any developmental problems," said Dr. Jack Paradise, University of Pittsburgh School of Me...

African HIV strains more resistant to anti HIV drugs

...act on them according to researchers. This however does not mean that these drugs will be powerless against the virus but these drugs find it difficult to latch on to the protease, which is an enzyme useful in the replication of the virus inside the body. If the drug attaches itself to the protease, then...

Spouses and other partners lower blood pressure says new research

... of New York, the lead study author said that this does not mean single people are doomed to high blood pressure. Rather he said the findings simply suggest that comfortable relationships, close friends included, have a soothing effect on blood pressure. Effects of short-term changes in blood pressure o...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

... intractable epilepsy - a form of the disease that does not respond to commonly used drugs. Children who have their first epileptic seizure before their first birthday which is also called symptomatic generalized epilepsy - are at greatest risk, according to Anne Berg, an associate professor in biologica...

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...Shuren, who oversaw the proposal told that the FDA does not have the authority to implement a ban since the ads are allowed by law. At the same time several doctors told committee members that such as would encourage patients who otherwise would not seek medical attention when needed. This point has bee...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

... glioma is an aggressive kind of brain tumour that does respond to treatment. Reseachers have now come out with a partial solution and answer for such a catastrophe. It was found that Reo virus, a common inhabitant of gastrointestinal tract and respiratory tract, not known to cause any harmholds promise a...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...e injecting purified botulinum toxin into the skin does a greater relief for such condition. Most sufferers "can find relief with prescription antiperspirants, special medicated powders, and other topical treatments," says Jim Baral, MD, who is a dermatologist at the American Dermatology Center in New Yo...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the cancer? According to Klausner, "Gleevec offers proof that molecular targeting works in treating cancer, provided that the target is correctly chosen. The challenge now is to find these targets." Court...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the cancer? According to Klausner, "Gleevec offers proof that molecular targeting works in treating cancer, provided that the target is correctly chosen. The challenge now is to find these targets." Court...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...ages over the other surgical needles as this probe does not damage the vulnerable vein. He now plans to test how good the plasma-powered bullets are at cutting tissue during microsurgery. As lasers tend to damage the surrounding tissues by creating bubbles in local body fluids, the pure saline jet might m...

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