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Best ways to split a pill

... neglecting off a medication, or be given a double dose of a medicine that's expensive//. Either way, you may need to split a pill into two or more doses. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic offer you some advice on how to go about pill splitting. First, you need to check if your pill is amenable to splitting at...

Caffeine reduces infant blood flow

...es. Researchers gave 20 preterm infants an initial dose of 25 milligrams of caffeine over a period of 10 t...t found no changes. Thus they conclude an initial dose of 20 milligrams of caffeine reduces BFV in brain and intestinal arteries, while cardiac output rema...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

According to a new research, a daily dose of a soybean nutrient in ground beef can lower total cholesterol and the "bad", or LDL, cholesterol levels in young men. Functional foods are foods that have a health benefit beyond just supplying essential nutrients. //There has been a trend of addi...

Effect of drug on Renal Cancer

...rting at 200 mg per day. Researchers increased the dose by 110-200 mg per day until a target dose of 1,300 mg per day was reached. The most common, but reversible, side effects were constipation, d...

Herbal extract aids in rheumatoid arthritis

...heumatoid arthritis was assigned to either high or dose TWHF or to placebo capsules. In rheumatoid arthrit... who completed the study, those on the high or low dose of TWHF reported at least a 25 per cent improvement in symptoms. None of the placebo group experienc...

Rectal Cancer treated with radiation

...x weeks, an iridium implant delivered a completion dose to the tumor. No chemotherapy was given to any of the patients. Researchers found the five-year overall survival rate was 60 percent and, for patients under age 75, it was nearly 70 percent. Rectal function was maintained in 90 percent of the patien...

Almonds Improve Cholesterol

...rent diets. For one month, participants ate a full dose of almonds, which represented just under one quarter of their total daily caloric intake or two handfuls. For the next month, participants included half the amount, or one handful, of almonds in their diet. For the third month, participants ate a low...

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

...ancer can be effectively controlled with a higher dose of radiotherapy, with weekends off to recover. Standard treatment for lung cancer involves a daily dose of radiotherapy five days a week, for six weeks.// But better results have been found from a more in...

Errors in medication

... time of delivery (36 percent), omission of needed dose (30 percent), wrong dose (18 percent), and unauthorized drug (8 percent). Seven percent of the errors held the potential to c...

Ingredient in turmeric protects skin

...arious doses of the compound and then exposed to a dose of radiation. Those given the higher doses had far fewer burns or blisters. They also developed new cells in the area of tumour, which might be expected to make the therapy more effective. It is too early to know if this would work in humans, but cur...

Coenzyme Q10 may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease

...oup of 80 people with Parkinson's either a varying dose of coenzyme Q10 (300, 600 or 1200 milligrams a day... illness every four months. Those on the highest dose of coenzyme Q10 had far better ratings than those on placebo - being 44 per cent better at the end o...

Brachytherapy for breast cancer

... group of 200 women were assigned to either a lose dose or a high dose implant, placed in the lumpectomy cavity after surgery for early stage breast cancer. Follow-up sugg...

Focussed treatment for Hodgkin's disease

... showed that IMRT would allow them to increase the dose of radiation to the tumour, and spare more healthy tissue from side effects. So IMRT seems to have great potential for improving the long-term outcome for survivors of Hodgkin's disease....

Associated therapy for multiple myeloma

...incurable despite the use of conventional and high dose chemotherapy....

Tentative inhaled steroids is worse for lung patients

...ve pulmonary disease (COPD).// All received a high dose of inhaled steroids, to manage their condition, for a period of four months. After this time, they either continued the steroids or received a placebo inhaler for the next five months. During this time, 40 per cent of those in the steroid group exp...

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

...been taking over 2,057 times the recommended daily dose of the B vitamin niacin. The treatment, which involves implanting radioactive 'seeds' in the tumour had to be cancelled. For the vitamin would have interacted with a drug commonly given before the treatment, raising the risk of haemorrhage. The story...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

...placebo 15 to 20 minutes before, or with the first dose of antibiotics, and received it every six hours for four days. Patients were then followed to see how they recovered. Researchers say 150 patients received the dexamethasone and 142 patients received a placebo. Researchers report the group receiving...

A new male contraceptive

... Few unwanted side effects were noted. Because the dose needed to induce infertility was so much lower than the standard dose given humans for Gaucher's disease, the investigators believe side effects in men would be negligibl...

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

...ho had already sufferd a previous attack. A daily dose of HRT or a placebo was given to these women and the frequency of a recurrent heart attack or cardiac death over that period was studied. It was reported that there was no significant difference, either in the number of women who suffered another hea...

Vision loss could result due to MSG

...ompared to those rats which were fed with a lesser dose of MSG. This study is the first to have shown that eating food containing MSG could lead to eye damage, though previous research has shown that MSG causes nerve damage when injected directly into the eye....

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