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Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

...osteoporosis, can be grouped into two classes. The first category comprises agents, which limit the rate of bone loss and are referred to as ‘‘anti-resorption drugs’’. The second group of drugs promotes bone formation and is referred to as ‘‘bone forming drugs’’. // No single class of drugs is perceived...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...best known were hailed as "wonder drugs" when they first hit the market in the 1980's.//hey act to modify levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical messenger generally thought to be associated with mood and feelings of pleasure. Prozac is known as Seroxat in Britain and Paxil in the US. This drug h...

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

...- blood vessel formation - have been shown for the first time to be effective. It also provides the first indication that the drugs, known as angiogenesis inhibitors, vary in effectiveness depending on the ...

Pollution could be a risk

...ims from Asia were interviewed and asked when they first started feeling the symptoms. The risk of heart attack was higher among those who had experienced a higher level of small pollution particles called PM2.5s in the two hours before the attack. These fine particles are mainly produced by car engines,...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

... as are cattle and horses. // Sleeping Sickness first came to international attention when colonial explorers like Livingstone and Stanley noticed that their horses could not survive in parts of Africa. But people had been dying from the bite of the Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still...

Frozen food invite food poisoning

...alth Laboratory Service (PHLS) has done one of the first studies of the sources of Campylobacter . They examined 7,000 reported cases in England and Wales over a one year period. One in five had travelled outside the UK in the weeks prior to diagnosis, many of them to Asia - especially India or Pakistan.//...

Genesis of SUPAC

...assure a smooth scale-up operation. US FDA was the first regulatory body to address this issue. // Any pharmaceutical product developed by R&D team has to undergo various stages of scale-up from ‘laboratory-scale’ to ‘pilot-scale’ to ‘production-scale’ before it reaches the market. Scale-up process is a...

Vitamin B for Hepatitis

...ne treatment, HBV DNA was undetectable.This is the first study to investigate thiamine for treating hepatitis B infection....

Complementary and Alternative medicine

...st popular. Who knows what will be in vogue in the first decade of the 21st century? One thing's for sure - complementary therapies are here to stay....

Medicis Pharmaceutical company enters pediatric market

...an additional $10 million per year for each of the first five years. This transaction provides Medicis with critical mass to assist with the entrance into the category of pediatrics. "We are pleased to announce our carefully planned entrance into the pediatric market with a transaction we expect to be ac...

The new born nightmare

...at those babies given oral erythromycin during the first two weeks of life were 12 times more likely to dev...n should be used with great precaution in a baby’s first four weeks of life. br>...

Medications to Prevent Relapse to Cocaine Use

...ed drug abstinence, and this research could be the first step in the development of a new medicinal approach to make it easier for a recovering addict to remain drug-free....

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...andard medical management for their condition. The first report of the trial now urges caution over surgery. The sickest patients - those with the worst lung function- have a higher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't have surgery. Whether those who survive surgery wil...

FDA Approves Contraceptive Ring

...U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first hormone-releasing contraceptive implant. NuvaRing, sold by Organon, Inc., effectively blocks conception between 98 percent and 99 percent of the time -- meaning that for every 100 women who use it for a year, only one or two will become pregnant, the...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

...ommonest complications in diabetes. // In the first trial, carried out by doctors in Boston, USA, 1500 patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease were given either losartan or placebo. After three years of follow up, the losartan group had a 28 per cent lower risk of end-stage kidney disease. Th...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...s on reducing women's concerns about weight is the first treatment to significantly improve smoking cessation in weight-concerned women. Previous interventions for weight-concerned women assumed that the best approach to fostering smoking cessation was to help them prevent any weight gain after they quit s...

The patient's voice

...e put onto a website that everyone can access. The first two groups are patients with high blood pressure and prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by experiences of cancer of the breast, bowel and cervix. The site will also have lots of other useful and up-to-date information, as wel...

Surgeons implant second artificial heart

Kentucky surgeons who implanted the world's first self-contained artificial heart in a 59-year-old m... by Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts, is the first major advance in the development of an artificial replacement heart in nearly two decades. The surge...

Heat therapy relieves back pain

...// Intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) was first developed at Stanford University, and involves delivering heat through a treatment wire into the space between the disks in the backbone. It works on a specific type of back pain called internal disk disruption (IDD), which is responsible for 40 per ...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

... the patients monitored received drugs after their first epileptic seizure, although high rates of recurring seizures meant that more than 75 per cent of the group received treatment at some point....

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