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The best treatment for migraine

...n with the 'gold standard' sumitriptan, a standard dose of rizatriptan was more effective and reliable, and equally tolerable.// Eletriptan was also more effective - but less tolerable. And a third drug almotriptan was similar in its effectiveness, but scored higher on tolerability. Other drugs were simil...

Cardiac diseases develop early

...h enough glucose to maintain safe body levels. The dose of the insulin was "clamped," meaning that it was held at a certain amount. Researchers then measured the amount of glucose needed. Lower amounts of glucose processed by the body indicated insulin resistance. At the time of the second measurements, ...

FDA Approves New Arthritis Drug, Bextra

...enstrual pain. The exact launch date and price per dose has yet to be determined....

Research of Ritalin

...en just sweetened milk.According to Dr Walker, the dose used was comparable to the high end of the dose used to treat children with ADD and ADHD, after taking into account differences in metabolism betwee...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...early 1990s, the standard treatment was to apply a dose of 3,600 cGy or rads (units of radiation) to the w... The current US treatment protocol administers a dose of 2,340 cGy, supplemented with several rounds of chemotherapy. Despite increases in survival rates ...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

...entification bracelets to prevent giving the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. The bar codes would include such information as a unique product code number, a lot number and an expiration date. Such information would not only facilitate matching, but would aid in recalling products when necessary. The D...

Ibuprofen weakens aspirin's effect

...cines. In the study, when patients took a single dose of ibuprofen beforehand, aspirin lost 98 percent of its blood-thinning power. When aspirin was taken first, three daily doses of ibuprofen weakened aspirin of 90 percent of its benefit. The researchers believe that ibuprofen clogs a channel inside a ...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

... of the heart between beats within minutes after a dose is administered. If the heart doesn't recover, it can go into a potentially fatal irregular beat. While apparently rare, the side effect is serious enough that anesthesiologists should reserve the drug for patients who don't respond to alternatives....

A boon to epileptics

Stimulating the brain with a dose of low-frequency magnetism reduces the number of seizures suffered by severe epileptics, a study has found. Researchers at Gottingen in Germany used a coil which was placed on the side of the head to direct// the magnetic pulses to the brain. The u...

High Demand for a child vaccine

...rtainly past a year. If we don't give the 12-month dose until 18 months or 24 months, the children are still well protected....

Asprin aids in pregnancy

...re analysis would be needed to clarify the optimal dose of aspirin and the best time to start the drug in pregnancy....

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...sites, with 8.0 mg total petasine per tablets. The dose was one tablet four times daily. The participants on antihistamines were given a single 10 mg tablet daily. While the butterbur recipients did not report any adverse symptoms, a small number of people taking antihistamines reported side effects, mos...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...estion. So scientists tried giving women a week's dose at once, enrolling 1200 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in a two-year international trial (medical centres from the US to France participated). They found that taking one pill a week could protect bone just as well. And related research, a fo...

Experimental drug to fight flu

...romise in animal studies, and may require only one dose to be effective.// The compounds, known collective...ence on Antiviral Research in Prague that a single dose of multimeric zanamivir successfully treated mice infected with human influenza A and B....

New drug helps allergies

...hours and 24 hours. Indeed, Claritin's recommended dose is one pill a day. With Claritin's $2.8 billion in sales expected to plummet, Schering-Plough is trying to switch patients to Clarinex. In addition to running television, print and Internet ads, the company is selling Clarinex at 20% less than Clari...

FDA Approves Anti-Cancer Cell Drug - Zevalin

...d their tumors shrink significantly after a single dose of Zevalin. In between 15% and 30% of the patients, the tumors seemed to disappear....

Herbal treatment should be estimated

...sites, with 6.0 mg total petasine per tablets. The dose was one tablet four times daily. The participants on antihistamines were given a single 10 mg tablet daily. While the butterbur recipients did not report any adverse symptoms, a small number of people taking antihistamines reported side effects, mos...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...en in WEST received the standard 1 milligram daily dose of oral estrogen in the form of estradiol. The other half got a placebo. Neither the women nor the researchers knew who got which pills. Patients were studied for three years on average. They stopped receiving the estradiol or the placebo if they had...

Dangers of sunlight

...mportant to cataract formation." The greater the dose of solar radiation, the higher the chance of developing a cataract. Mr Jonathan Dowler, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, said previous research had also linked cataract formation to light exposure....

A new method to help smokers quit

...moking at 6 weeks. Results show those on the lower dose had twice the chance of being abstinent and those on the higher dose had nearly four times the chance of abstinence. Smokers receiving the active lozenge showed continua...

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