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Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

...treatment in these patients. It was found that one dose of carboplatin in the short term is as safe as radiation and is less toxic. Patients assigned to chemotherapy also had fewer seminomas occurring in the remaining testis than those receiving radiotherapy. Though needing longer follow up and larger num...

Toll-like Receptor (Tlr3) Attachment Leads To Lethal Encephalitis

...ollowing intraperitonially challenge with a lethal dose of WNV, Tlr3 mice were more resistant to infection than wild type mice. Quantitative PCR assays showed that, following this challenge, the viral burden in the peripheral blood was increased in Tlr3 mice compared with wild type mice. Analysis blood cy...

Testosterone Patches Found To Increase Sexual Desire In Menopausal Women

...weeks. The testosterone patches had three separate dose of testosterone. Compared to the placebo, the in...ing sexual activity whereas the lower testosterone dose offered no benefits. The higher dose was found to be no better than the intermediate dose testostero...

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

...mor, seal the opening and then deliver the lethal dose of anti-cancer toxins like a ‘stealth bimb’.// Thi...e available however they cannot be given in a high dose due to their side effects. However the double-acting, drug-packing "nanocell" can prove to be effect...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...been around for long enough. "People taking high dose supplements are the guinea pigs of the future. The...ement. There was evidence that people taking low dose supplements had reduced rates of chronic disease. "It certainly doesn't do any harm, and could wel...

Deadly Diarrhoea Vaccine – Trail Results Promising

...d provides up to 70 percent protection with single dose in infants, which may increase to complete protection with two to three doses. The phase II trial of the 116E vaccine is scheduled to be conducted in New Delhi. Source:IANS Medindia on Diarrhoea: Replacement of fluids and electrolytes (salts and...

Beat menopausal symptoms with low-dose estrogen

...rregular bleeding more effectively than did higher dose HRT over one year, particularly in the earlier stages of therapy....

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...enefited as well, with women on the higher hormone dose seeing a greater increase in bone mass than those on the lower dose. However, the higher dose was more likely to cause side effects such as nausea and headache. With many post menopausal women d...

Pause as you please

...rchers say. All animals treated, regardless of the dose given, remained in good health and returned to normal cylces 14 to 40 days after treatment stopped. "The modern woman is accustomed to having control over her reproductive functions and menstruation is one function that many women would like to contr...

An effective pain killer

... be done on the amount of ginger powder needed per dose to take effect, and the time required between doses."That’s the nice thing about ginger, it affects the pain pathways directly but also relieves the inflammation which in itself causes pain." In test-tube trials, his group has found that gingerols ...

Estrogen therapy for hot flushes

...rregular bleeding more effectively than did higher dose HRT over one year, particularly in the earlier stages of therapy....

Cholesterol in low levels are good

...gton, D.C., found patients who were given a higher dose of a synthetic cholesterol-lowering drug not only had significantly lower levels of "bad" cholesterol after treatment than those given a regular dose// of a similar medication, but they also showed a decrease in thickness in the main neck arteries su...

New and easier method of radiation

...ngles. According to Dr. Vicini, 100 percent of the dose goes to about four centimeters. Other areas get less than a fraction of the treatment. He added that there is potentially less side effects with this type of treatment as the radiation is confined to only the tissue that requires it. This also ensure...

New ! Male Contraception

...ll under study, while researchers find the optimal dose and method to deliver the hormones. Dr. Wang says these rods could be as effective at preventing pregnancy as the pill is for women. It's important to emphasize that the rods do not protect against STDs, and condoms should be used for protection agai...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...wered. The second study examined whether a higher dose of Exanta would be more effective in preventing blood clots after knee replacement surgery. About 2,300 patients in five countries received either one of two doses of Exanta or warfarin for up to 12 days after surgery. About 20 percent developed cl...

New Treatment Option For Testicular Cancer

...andard of care. The carboplatin group received one dose in one day, a protocol designed to treat ovarian c...ontrol between the two groups, but that the single dose of carboplatin led to a reduced occurrence of a second tumor. At follow-up, there was only one secon...

Getting A Suntan The Easy Way

...second study, more skin cells darkened at a higher dose of MT-1. In the third study, the tanning was greater in those on the drug, and it was maintained for three weeks longer than those not on the drug. Furthermore, the group without the drug required 50-percent more sun exposure to achieve the same tan....

Airlines Pilot At Heightened Risk Of Having Cataracts

...ciation between the estimated cumulative radiation dose and the risk of nuclear cataract. The association between the cosmic radiation exposure of pilots and the risk of nuclear cataracts, adjusted for age, smoking status, and sunbathing habits, indicates that cosmic radiation may be a causative factor i...

A Closer Look into Vitamin D and Fractures

...al Units (IU) per day. It has been found that this dose is not very effective in reducing nonvertebral fracture rates among the members studied. On the other hand, higher daily doses, in the range of 700 to 800 IU, may reduce the risk of fracture by approximately 25 percent. This would mean a careful re...

Immune Boost With LHRH To Help Cancer And Transplant Patients

... The approach involves giving patients a constant dose of a naturally occurring hormone, known as Leuteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone (LHRH), via a slow-release implant under the skin. It is known to inhibit the manufacture of sex steroids and revitalizes a gland in the body known as the thymus, which...

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