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The 'forgotten epidemic' killing millions

... treatment, infecting and killing more people than ever before -- sickening as many as 900 million last ye... treatment, infecting and killing more people than ever before -- sickening as many as 900 million last year, according to estimates by the U.S. Agency for ...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

...ay be the toughest health assignment the world has ever faced, but it is also the most urgent," said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization. "The lives of millions of people are at stake. This strategy demands massive and unconventional efforts to make sure they stay alive." ...

Lack of Smell And Its Potential Risks

...an cause chronic olfactory dysfunction. If you’ve ever been sick and could not taste or smell, you know how different you feel. Some people live with an impaired or absent sense of smell every day. New research finds people with this problem are at risk for experiencing life-threatening situations includ...

The Importance Of Skin Cancer Screening

...study, researchers asked patients whether they had ever undergone a full body exam to screen for skin cancer or if they would be willing to undergo one. Only 32 percent said they regularly underwent such an exam (55 percent among those with previous skin cancers), but 87 percent said they would welcome th...

Relationship Between Genetic Structure And Quality of Life

... had metastatic colorectal cancer. Before patients ever received chemotherapy, quality of life and genetic marker data were evaluated. Patients were treated with a new regimen that involves common side effects, such as fatigue, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, low white blood cell count, dehydration, and numbn...

The Effects Of Delaying A Delivery Questioned

... disability for the baby. Until now, no study has ever compared the effect of delaying a delivery to an immediate delivery for a premature baby. In a recent study researchers compared these two methods. For the study, 588 babies were randomly assigned to have immediate delivery or delayed delivery. The b...

The Link Between Hepatitis B Vaccine And Multiple Sclerosis Questioned

...ainst liver cancer, making it the first vaccine to ever protect against a major form of cancer in humans. It is considered one of the safest vaccines ever produced. The researchers also emphasize they cannot be sure whether the vaccine actually caused pe...

Chicken-Pox vaccine not fool proof

...atory //vaccinations, and no comparative study has ever been conducted. Now they may have to do a rethink, after new studies in the US have raised doubts about its effectiveness. According to the study, published last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found the effectiveness of th...

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...controlled phase III clinical trial of acupuncture ever conducted were published in the December 21, 2004, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The multi-site study team, including rheumatologists and licensed acupuncturists, enrolled 570 patients, aged 50 or older with osteoarthritis of the knee. P...

More Treatment Options For Malaria

...y lives. Most children who die of malaria// do not ever make it to a hospital. For children who do make it to the hospital, half of the deaths occur within the first day of admission. Most anti-malaria drugs are given by injection, making it difficult to administer outside of a hospital. In order to more...

Dental appointment fear: is it gender specific?

... afraid, only they’ll admit it less. In the first ever nation wide study of Canadian nationals about fear...fice of the dentists, only they are less likely to ever admit it, even to themselves. The results said that only 5.5% of the total 1,100 Canadians surveyed...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...ls release are part of the problem, but no one has ever been sure which chemicals are responsible." When a spine is damaged, the change in its ability to function follows a well-defined pattern. In response to the initial shock, the spine immediately becomes completely nonfunctional but then starts to re...

Low dose Radiation Exposure May Cause Cancer

...sk of developing cancer. This is the largest study ever conducted in 15 countries involving 407,000 nuclear industry workers. It was estimated that the chronic exposure could lead to a 10 percent raised risk of death from all types of cancer and a 19 percent increase from leukemia. Dr Elisabeth Cardis, ...

New Race –Specific drug

... If approved by the FDA, it wouldbe the first drug ever to be licensed for use by a single ethnic group. The results of clinical trials are testament to BiDil's value. In trials, it improved survival rates among black people who had suffered heart failure by 47 per cent. In white patients, the figure wa...

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

Forget all you have ever heard about eating sensibly and exercising. The way to lose excess weight and stay fit is to fast one day and feast// the next - the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors did. The remarkable finding, which could revolutionise conventional wisdom about n...

Indian Hospitals – A Destination For Quality Medical Care

...ity of clinical practices. To conclude, with the ever increasing demand for medical attention it is particularly important to ensure that that the right people are being identified and referred for the right treatment at the right time. Description: India is now recognized worldwide as a reliable des...

Breakthrough in cancer therapy

...nd many people do not believe that their hair will ever grow back even if they are told it is a temporary phenomenon. Professor McVie said hair loss had become more of a problem with the advent of new drugs taxol and taxotere. Taxol, used for breast and ovarian cancer, is associated with the loss of eye...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...idespread among US gay men before the HIV epidemic ever started. Their study also exposed that far into the HIV when more men were implementing safe anal sex but largely not protecting themselves during oral sex--the Kaposi's-linked virus remained common.// They think that transmission routes other than a...

Cut meat to cut blood pressure

...ey reported a physician's diagnosis or if they had ever been advised to make dietary changes due to high blood pressure. Researchers found that the meat eaters had a higher blood pressure compared to vegans, and fish eaters and vegetarians were in the middle. These differences remained even after the res...

Glivec the hot cancer drug from Novartis

...hronic myeloid leukemia. It is the first treatment ever proven drug to cause certain types of tumors to disappear. While other cancer drugs killsoff healthy cells along with sick ones, Glivec interfere with the proteins that cause tumors to grow. Glivec also is used to treat other rare types of cancer suc...

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