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Common drugs to treat essential tremor

...ed by AAN, deep brain stimulation is known to have fewer complications, in treating essential tremors through surgery, than thalamotomy. in the thalamotomy a lesion is made in the small part of the thalamus to stop the signals that cause the tremors. In the deep brain stimulation procedure an electric prob...

Antibiotics for acute uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection

...up for whom immediate antibiotics were prescribed, fewer patients in the delayed and control groups used antibiotics, fewer patients were "very satisfied” and fewer patients believed in the effectiveness of antibiotics. The ...

Clazosentan May help to Improve Blood Circulation after Brain Hemorrhage due to burst Aneurysm

...ause of death. Patients on the drug also develop fewer cerebral infarcts. Dr Peter Vajkoczy, Neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Mannheim, and the main author of the study comments: "While our understanding of cerebral vasospasm has continued to improve, a solution to thi...

Prevent Global Warming by Becoming A Vegetarian

...the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels," He feels that giving up pork chops, lamb cutlets and chicken burgers would do more for the environment. He adds that the animals we eat emit 21 percent of all the carbon dioxide that...

Laparoscopic surgery can be safely employed for radical resection of cancer

...rter hospital stay. In addition this group needed fewer analgesics as compared to the patients in the open surgery group. The length of the bowel resected , morbidity and mortality in 28 days period after the surgery did not differ between two groups....

Innovative footwear may prevent fall in elderly

... the elderly maintain their balance and hence have fewer falls. Falling down can cause grievous injuries to the elderly population, and is one of the leading causes of accidental deaths in the elderly population. Reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 2005...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

... 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 numbers to be sure, this surprising finding, were it to apply to primary tumors when first diagnosed is the first hint that it m...

Treating Testicular Cancer With A Single Dose Of Chemotherapy

... 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 numbers to be sure, this surprising finding, were it to apply to primary tumours when first diagnosed is the first hint that it ...

Sepsis Death Reported With Mifepristone – FDA Issues Warnin

...e termination of early pregnancy, defined as 49 or fewer days gestation. Physicians have identified the bacterium Clostridium sordelli a common germ not usually associated with illness as the cause of two of the four deaths and suspect it as the cause of the other two deaths. Acting director of FDA's ...

Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?

...ecreases the appetite, leads to the consumption of fewer calories and results in weight loss. In an accompanying editorial, Dr Arne Astrup of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen said, “preventing weight gain is a more complex matter than simply telling people to eat less and ex...

Air Pollution Increases Risk For Heart Disease In Women

... Those who died of CHD were older at baseline, had fewer years of education, and were more likely to have h... of the females were postmenopausal, and of these, fewer had undergone hormone replacement therapy. The authors said that air pollution might affect females...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...f the study, Neer's team found that besides having fewer spinal fractures, women on parathyroid hormone were half as likely as those in the control group to sustain other types of fractures. Their bone density benefited as well, with women on the higher hormone dose seeing a greater increase in bone mass t...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

... contraceptive that targets CatSper would have fat fewer side effects than a hormone-based contraceptive. Discovery of the CatSper ion channel was reported in an article published in the jouurnal Nature by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator David Clapham and colleagues at Harvard Medical School. ...

Eating healthy is cost effective

... of high-fat, less nutritious "red" foods to 15 or fewer servings per week. On the whole, the researchers felt that the families greatly reduced their caloric intake and successfully changed their diet to meet current dietary recommendations. Further, the families greatly increased their intake of green f...

An insight of the small intestine

...malformations and tumors, than the barium test but fewer than the capsule endoscopy. Based on these results, Dr. Hara suggests the best treatment may be to first use the CE to look for abnormalities and get an approximation of location, then go to the CT for more precise locating of the lesion. CE is FDA ...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...nd that's why in their menstrual years, women have fewer heart attacks and strokes than men." Rako said other issues are raised, too, when considering period suppression. "We're not just talking about doing away with menstruation," she says. "We're talking about doing away with women's normal hormonal...

New !! Birth Control Option For Men

...gh. In a study of 300 men, there was less pain and fewer complications such as swelling and bleeding. Researchers say Twenty-four to 36 hours after the procedure, you can get back to doing regular activity as far as walking, exercising, and things along those lines. However it takes a little bit longer tha...

Humans Found To Have The Ability To Block Unwanted Memories

... Results of the study show participants remembered fewer words they actively tried to ignore than those they were told to remember. Researchers say these results suggest that the human brain has the ability to block unwanted memories. Researchers say the study shows people are capable of repeatedly bloc...

New Vaccine Found To Be Effective In Reducing Childhood Pneumonia

...d among both // blacks and whites. In 2002, 14,730 fewer cases occurred among whites and 8,780 fewer cases occurred among blacks compared with the average number in two prevaccine years, 1998 and 1999....

Seaweed Supplements Could Prevent Breast Cancer

...g breast cancer. Women who have longer cycles have fewer periods over their lifetimes, and fewer periods are linked to a lower risk of the disease. When treating two women with menstrual problems ...

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