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Longer Lung Cancer Survival

...e are 172,000 Americans diagnosed with lung cancer each year. Because there are no early screening tests, many of these cancers are caught in their later stages, making them difficult to treat. A new drug is now helping patients who have failed standard treatment. By going after that protein, the drug sto...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

...n in Helsinki between 1934 and 1944. The height of each man had been measured an average of 18 times between birth and age 12, measurements that the researchers linked to records of their level of education, information about income and occupation taken from the 1990 census. The researchers divided the m...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...udy of 46 couples that were trying to conceive. In each couple, the male partner had undergone vasectomy r...a vasectomy, a surgeon cuts a small section out of each vas deferens, the tubes that carry sperm from the testes. The open ends of the tubes are then closed...

Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

...h type 1 diabetes were included in the study. They each received eight weeks of five milligrams of folic a...lial dysfunction using flow-mediated dilatation in each of the children. Endothelial dysfunction occurs in children with type 1 diabetes and is associated w...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...that over 50 million people are affected by dengue each year, with about five percent of patients dying of the illness. The findings may complicate the search for a vaccine against the deadly mosquito-borne illness, according to British and Thai scientists. Now scientists believe they have solved the den...

A Drink a Day may Keep Diabetes Away

... who consume a light to moderate amount of alcohol each day may decrease their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Research on diabetes and alcohol intake has produced conflicting results, with most studies showing a higher risk among heavy drinkers and a lower risk among light to moderate drinkers. Scien...

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

...ty scores overall worsened by about 11 percent for each additional month a person experienced restricted activity, but the association was significant only for those who initially fell into the low and intermediate risk groups. There was no association between functional decline and restricted activity in...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...y researchers found as many as 98,000 deaths occur each year from medical errors, fand many of these are medication errors...

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

..., therefore, may contribute to thousands of deaths each year worldwide." As road deaths rise up the global burden of disease, interventions for prevention are also rising up the international health policy agenda, hence more studies such as this one are needed to assess the effectiveness of interventions...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...s for the most neglected diseases." "Millions die each year from lack of effective, affordable drugs for curable tropical diseases," said Bernard Pecoul, Director of MSF’s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. In a press release from WHO it said that the world’s most neglected patients desperately ...

Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

...ldren in the U.K. and more than 200 in the U.S die each year from asthma. Dr. Roberts' team studied 19 chi...t //for a life-threatening asthma attack, matching each patient to two other patients treated for a non-life-threatening asthma attack. In the medical publ...

Gynecological Surgeries Reduce Cancer Risk

... the balancing of potential benefits and harms for each individual women faced with this difficult decision."...

Thymus transplant could save babies

...five and 10 children are born in the United States each year without a thymus gland, and they always die because they cannot develop an immune system. The thymus is the organ that programs the T-cells that recognize and attack invaders //such as bacteria and viruses. But a team at Duke University Medic...

Almonds Help Lower Cholesterol

...also took a 20-milligram cholesterol-lowering pill each day. The third group followed the "Portfolio" eati...nts on the Portfolio diet ate a handful of almonds each day. Researchers say the almonds, which are high in vitamin E, may have been a factor in lowering th...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

... Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number that seems sure to grow as more people enter late stages of the disease without drug treatment. Reports have shown, that in one major South African hospital, King Edward in Durban, an estimated 90 percent of hospital patients were HI...

Baltimore doctors perform three simultaneous kidney transplants

... in labeled coolers among six operating rooms. "We each have a piece of each other inside us," said one of the recipients.The six synchronized operations -- three to remove the ...

Diabetes on the Increase but Death Rate Falling

...tudy, the associated death rate fell three percent each year. Commenting on the findings published in this week's edition of the medical journal The Lancet, Edwin Gale, diabetes expert at Britain's University of Bristol, warned against complacency."Make no mistake, obesity and diabetes are indeed on the ...

Mutant sperm beat out healthy brethren in study

...iterally hundreds of millions of sperm are made in each batch, so in most cases there are still many normal sperm available. Because the few mutated sperm are more likely to be used to make a baby than would be expected, the mutation must provide them some competitive advantage over their normal counterpa...

Optimum Timing for HIV/AIDS Prognosis

... of information on how to predict the prognosis of each patient. Researchers in Switzerland conducted a study looking at HIV patients who had received HAART. The study analyzed the patients’ cell counts and followed how well they fared. Results showed patients with higher CD4 counts had lower risks of AI...

Drug Effective for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

...of dalteparin or an injection of a saline solution each day for up to six months. Researchers tracked each patient’s progress to see if the foot ulcer healed or if the patient ended up needing their foot amp...

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