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Cancer patients turning to Internet for information

...etz's patients said they are accessing information from Internet health sites. Slightly more than 20% of the patients said they used it to find cancer relative information. In the related study, investigators found that patients are not the only ones ousing the Internet. In many cases, their companions...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

...safely introduced new genes into six men suffering from hemophilia. This method shows signs of helping these men fight the disease by producing the blood clotting protein they lack. None of the patients suffers side effects even after one year of the treatment. The study was designed only to test the s...

Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

... really it is the disease process itself, probably from reduced vascular compliance. According to America... found that their overall sexual satisfaction rose from about 7.3% before losartan therapy to 58.5 % after losartan treatment. It was also reported that th...

Mystery behind Preeclampsia uncovered

...ylvania. The investigators analyzed blood samples from 21 women who were diagnosed with preeclampsia and compared the results with samples from 21 healthy pregnant women and 12 non-pregnant women. Their findings are published in the June 8th i...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

...e study done by Irwin Goldstein MD, and colleagues from Boston University School of Medicine who administered DHEA to 32 patients. Long-term risks of androgen replacement therapy are not known. Dr. Goldstein and colleagues note that more research is needed to determine whether women with sexual dysfuncti...

Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

...ent of the total export earnings of the country is from drugs and pharmaceuticals which amounts to $3.5 billion. The council Chairman, Mr. Kishore Chokhani, in his welcome address said the organisation, which came into existance in 1963, had established itself as one of the biggest councils with a member...

Smoking spreads Cancer

...e lungs that increase the risk of tumors spreading from other sites. Inspite of the fact that it is not completely clear whether smoking provides a nidus in the lungs which envisages the spread, there may also be some lifestyle factors to explain the risk. Murin also points out, however, that it's not c...

Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of ‘Huntingtons’ Disase

... in Huntington's disease (HD). Dr. Elena Cattaneo, from the University of Milan, in Italy and colleagues found that the huntingtin protein controls the production of another protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is essential for maintaining the type of brain cells that die off in ...

Unravelling the secrets of ‘Huntingtin’ Protein - towards the treatment of Huntingtins’ Disese

... in Huntington's disease (HD). Dr. Elena Cattaneo, from the University of Milan, in Italy, and colleagues found that the huntingtin protein controls the production of another protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is essential for maintaining the type of brain cells that die off in...

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...o urge the government to ban prescription drug ads from television, news papers and magazines. American Medical Association's New Jersey delegate Dr. Angelo agro said that such ads can undermine doctor's credibility especially if physician thinks an advertised drug isn't the best choice for a patient who ...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

...ut researchers have found no psychological benefit from the use of ginseng. Bradley Cardinal, PhD, associate professor and co-director of the sport and exercise psychology lab at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon and his colleague, Hermann Engles, PhD, conducted the study and found that th...

Virus Combats Brain Tumour

...hese virus killed the tumour cells that were taken from the humans and grown in the laboratory. In their study, mice that had human glioma cells transplanted to them, they used live virus in one set and dead virus in another group. Ninety days after being treated, the majority of the mice treated with li...

TIZANIDINE - New solution to chronic headache

...you happen to be one of the unfortunates suffering from this chronic migraine, then there is a reason to c...provide new hope for millions of people who suffer from frequent headaches. American scientists in World Congress of Neurology told that tizanidine, can cu...

"Make AIDS Therapy affordable" - Physicians demand

...ountries while a large majority of HIV victims are from developing world. Speakers at the meeting focused onto deliver HIV/AIDS care in a countries, including the Ukraine, Thailand, Kenya and Cameroon. They variously noted that abject poverty, government indifference and corruption, lack of public educat...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

...ntion. Hence the prime modality to prevent deaths from cancer is by targeting the high risk individuals as this study goes....

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

... high blood sugar, were studied by the researchers from the Center for Behavioral Medicine Research at the... with the raise in blood sugar. Daniel Cox, M.D., from the University of Virginia says, "For the first time, we can demonstrate that performance of the bra...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...e this situation, but not all people are benefited from this situation. Hence for these people injecting p...d to other medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery is the only other option left. "Botulinum tox...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...urine were nearly 4.5 times as likely to have died from cardiovascular diseases 15 years later as those wi...no albumin in the urine could be detected."We know from studying people with diabetes that we can reduce microalbuminuria with ACE inhibitors and that this ...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...earch which included 177 patients with age ranging from 18 to 85, he randomly assigned them to receive five treatments in a period of three weeks. By the end of one week it was found that the acupuncture group showed a significant improvement in pain reduction and motion compared to others. But after thr...

Noise tampers hearing

...adults, children are likely to suffer hearing loss from continued exposure to loud noises like music, powe...culty discriminating even more words such as 'cat' from 'bat' and their speech may be affected, says Sievers. If children are near a firework display or so...

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