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Drug Delivery Made More Patient Friendly And Safe

... technology. Information about whether the correct dose and drug is being administered appears on the wristband screens, and alerts the nurse or doctor if there is an error. Once the patient is discharged from hospital, the information can be uploaded to a central database. The data is wiped from the wri...

Cured Alcoholics Can Be Cured Of Smoking Also

.... Investigators individualized the nicotine patch dose based on patients’ serum cotinine levels taken while the patients smoked their usual number of cigarettes. These levels were measured again in mid-study to assist in customization of patch dosage as well as comparison between levels of serum cotinine...

Soy Benefits May Not Be As Much As Thought Before

... doses of soy isoflavones were tested. The average dose of soy protein in the studies was equivalent to about one pound of tofu or three soy-shakes daily. There was some indication that soy consumption may be more effective at lowering LDL among people with higher LDL levels. Also, larger amounts of soy...

Zinc Supplements Once A Week Can Fight Illness In Children

.... Half the children were assigned to a weekly 70mg dose of zinc and half to placebo. The investigators found mortality was reduced by 85% in the group assigned zinc. Children younger than 12 months in this group also had less pneumonia and diarrhea than those on placebo. According to the researchers, zin...

Treatment For Reversal Of Effects Of Sleep Deprivation In Brain

...ng doses of the drug and re-tested. At the highest dose tested, the drug improved performance to near perfect for the easier trials and by about 15 percent overall. Next, the monkeys were tested after they were sleep-deprived for 30 to 36 hours, which the researcher estimates is equivalent to humans goin...

Low Cost Tissue Culture Vaccine For Encephalitis

...re administered in between 7 to 14 days. The third dose is given after a month and before one year of the second dose. The vaccine requires booster dosage every three years. ‘‘We don’t want to say the areas are endemic and then forget about them. We will make sure the outbreak doesn’t happen next year,’’ ...

They Call It PMS Because Mad Cow Disease Was Already Taken

...he and pelvic congestion. For the first time, low dose oral contraceptive with a unique progestin and dos...h as nausea and intermenstrual bleeding. The low dose oral contraceptive contains drospirenone, a new progestin, and ethinyl estradiol. It was administere...

Olive oil can do more good than just adding taste to your dish

...e oil was equivalent to about 10% of the ibuprofen dose recommended for adult pain relief according to researchers. The active ingredient in olive oil is oleocanthal, which affects the same biochemical pathway as ibuprofen and other medicines. They all inhibit the activity of cyclo-oxygenase, or COX enz...

Soy Not Such A Wonder For Health?

... doses of soy isoflavones were tested. The average dose of soy protein in the studies was equivalent to ab...stically significant improvements in symptoms, the dose of soy isoflavones ranged from 17.5 to 100 mg/day. The evidence review completed by AHRQ’s Tufts-N...

Immunosuppressive drug shows promise in treatment of eye disorder

...lls each morning and two each evening, for a total dose of 2 grams daily. Thirty-six patients (43 percent)...of their inflammation and were able to taper their dose of the steroid prednisone to 10 or fewer milligrams daily. Side effects such as stomach upset or ...

Cannabis to be tested to help patients with respiratory diseases

...us, there is none which is not a poison; the right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy" Paracelsus, circa 1538 Breathlessness can have a major impact on the quality of life for patients with respiratory diseases. //Despite the best efforts of scientists for many years, no one has been able to deve...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

...ized to receive either clopidogrel (300 mg loading dose [a comparatively large dose given at the beginning of treatment to start getting the effect of a drug more quickly], then 75 mg ...

Vitamin D With NSAID Drugs May Prevent Prostate Cancer

A low dose of Vitamin D with non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs may prevent the growth of prostate cancer cells, says a study.// David Feldman and other researchers at Stanford University studied the effects of using calcitrol, a form of Vitamin D, combine...

Sodium nitrite salt intake found to increases blood flow

...lood flow and when people exercised after taking a dose of sodium nitrite the nitrite levels in the muscles increased. "This has led to an avalanche of work," says Gladwin, who this week hosts an NIH meeting where scientists will compare nitrite research. High dosage levels of sodium nitrite is used as a...

Calcitriol [Vitamin D] with combination of painkillers for cancer treatment

... are given together, using what we think is a safe dose in humans," Feldman said in a statement. "It‘s hard to make an exact comparison, as we are talking about cells in a dish and not a person." "We don‘t want the patient to think that if they take over-the-counter vitamin D, it will work in the same way...

Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer

...he conventional operation. Patients receive high dose external beam radiation therapy, followed by high dose irradiation with iridium administered through a catheter passing through the bile duct and tumor. Ch...

Adding Sorghum Compounds To Dietary Supplements May Help Lower Cholesterol

...ed by 69 per cent in hamsters fed with the highest dose of the lipid extract and 36 per cent in the middle dose compared with controls. Liver cholesteryl ester concentration was also significantly reduced in ha...

Proper Validation of Generic Drugs Could Save Millions of AIDS Patients

...ata handling. Recently, the use of Anti-HIV single dose drug // Nevirapine which is used for the prevention of mother to child transmission is very much questioned of its effect. Though Generic drugs is used by the large population of people during epidemics, due to its low cost formulations, which is u...

Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region

...-ray or ?-irradiation. The study also reports that dose response relation appeared with the higher doses (... increasing therapeutic radiation doses in the low dose range up to 20 Gy, but it demonstrates a downturn in the dose response curve with a declining risk a...

New Treatment Discovered For Pediatric Cholera

Single dose of antibiotics may be used to treat childhood chol... children can be treated effectively with a single dose // of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin , according to a study published online by The Lancet. Cholera i...

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