Tag: "fails" at medical news

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain.

...elick said, but he noted what works in arat often fails in humans....

Parke-Davis (India) runs into rough weather – Court orders attachment of asset

...d with the attachment of properties if the company fails to furnish security. <br...

New gene for hairloss

...o develop. Babies are born with scalp hair, but it fails to regrow after being shaved, as is the custom in the Pakistani family in which the gene was identified. Other work has shown that a malfunctioning hairless gene can cause another hair-loss disorder, called papular atrichia. They investigated the fu...

Snoring could be a warning

...oetus at risk, and sometimes even the maximum dose fails to get blood pressure down. New Scientist magazine reports that a team from Umea University in Sweden have discovered that breathing problems that cause snoring may be a risk factor. Dr Franklin and colleagues gave questionnaires to 453 pregnant wo...

Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

...ssumed, but for how long.The study says naltrexone fails to prevent drinking relapses, and in fact is no better than sugar pills at keeping hardened alcoholics on the wagon....

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...f the disease is also much longer because the body fails to clear the infection quickly. The discovery could hamper efforts to find an effective dengue vaccine. The risk, is that if the vaccine does not "hit" all four types of the virus, the vaccine may end up mimicking a second natural infection. For exa...

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

...tered when shocking the heart with a defibrillator fails to revive the patient. Vasopressin, a synthetic hormone that narrows blood vessels, has been around for decades. A few years ago, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation revised its guidelines to add vasopressin as an alternative first...

Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Could Help Prevent Spina Bifida

...e (an embryonic form of the brain and spinal cord) fails to fuse. Spina bifida is a condition that involves lifelong medical management. It is also one of the most common malformations of human structure. Results show that folic acid supplementation around the time of conception and early pregnancy was fo...

Epilepsy surgery to help child development

... to certain types of epilepsy where the medication fails to give the patient a life free of seizures, or where the dosage of the medication may cause harmful side effects. The researchers had studied the postoperative results of 50 children in the age group of 3 to 7 yrs who had undergone the epilepsy sur...

New clues about immune system from leprosy microbes

...ight exactly how the immunity of the body works or fails to work when attached with a foreign infection. Reference: Harvard School of Public Health, Press Release, May 2005...

Details Of Heart Failure Discovered

...ails, but rather is a condition in which the heart fails to provide itself with enough blood under certain conditions. The research will be published in the July edition of Physiological Reviews. (IANS) Medindia on heart failure- further information Heart failure: This is the condition in which t...

Secret Of Heart Failure Revealed

...ails, but rather is a condition in which the heart fails to provide itself with enough blood under certain conditions. Source: IANS More on Medindia Chest Pain...

Blood Test To Predict Heart Failures

...heart failure, the beta-adrenergic receptor system fails to work properly. One of the functions of GRK2 or beta-adrenergic kinase (?ARK1) is to turn off beta-adrenergic receptors. Source: Newswise ...

Maybe It Is Time For Doctors To Look After Their Health As Well

...is patients that he loses his own health or rather fails to take care of himself while doing so. A recent study has reported poor mental health and burnout among hospital consultants // in the UK, supporting the above-mentioned statement. Over 800 consultants were surveyed and a 27% prevalence of poor me...

New Vaccine Targeted At Effective Treatment Against Tuberculosis

... termed BCG is currently available which, however, fails to protect against the most frequent form of disease, pulmonary tuberculosis in adults. Moreover, multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis strains are on the rise, which cannot be treated by first-line drugs. A more efficient vaccine is urgently needed for ...

New Two-Drug Regime To Tackle Malaria

...falsiparum, which causes a severe form of malaria, fails because patients are resistant to chloroquine. Thus, the government has decided to replace the drug by a two-drug regime including artemisinin and sulphadoxine to prevent deaths and transmission. New challenges: It will be another 2-3 months be...

Risk Of Birth Defects Slightly Increased Due To IVF

... born are conceived through IVF. The study however fails to prove that IVF is the sole cause of the observed birth defect. The study was limited to children aged 1 year that hinders the extrapolation of the observation to babies born through IVF. Several factors involving the infertile couples and the tr...

Penicillin To Pave Way For New Antibiotics

...ere cases. But most doctors would view a drug that fails in one out of four patients, as penicillin does in strep cases, as unacceptable, Pichichero said. Pichichero said children and parents are much more likely to adhere to taking all the prescribed medication in four or five days rather than 10 days....

Usage Of Oral Contraceptives Need Not Be Feared By SLE Patients

...stitutes of Health (NIH). In this disease the body fails to recognize as self and starts to attack its own tissues of the skin, joints and other internal organs. Initially clinicians are very hesitant to give contraceptive pills (orally) to the patients with SLE because of the fear that they might show i...

Reality Of Lung Cancer May Discourage Smoking

...mated either, as the sight of a suffering relative fails to have the necessary impact on many of those who watch them suffering. The social and psychological factors should also be taken into account in smoking cessation programs. Many people simply lack the will power to give up the habit. In Canada, as m...

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