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Lack of Basics Health Awareness Results in Escalating Hospital Expenditure

...vascular disease followed by respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and diabetes. The researcher said that it was the first time a study of this kind is pursued at the local level. He said that many people could be treated in ways apart from hospital admissions if their condition were detected earlier. Th...

Nitazoxanide, potent drug to plug the purge caused by rotavirus

...the approval from the FDA for its use in combating gastrointestinal infections in children. A team of Researchers at the Romark Institute for Medical Research in Tampa, Florida, compared the efficacy of nitazoxanide administered twice a day for three days vis a vis a placebo amongst 50 children who were suffering...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...nutritional supplements and vitamins (11 percent), gastrointestinal medications (8 percent), cardiovascular medications (7 percent) and hormonal medications (6 percent). Authors on the paper are Miller, Lehmann and John Clark, Pharm. D., of the Department of Pediatric Pharmacy. Founded in 1912 as the children’s h...

New Drug to Help Smokers Kick the Habit

...of Tennessee in Memphis, "There are some important gastrointestinal side effects and, in the current studies, most people given the drug actually did not quit smoking". Dr. Karen R. Reeves, from Pfizer Global Research and Development in Groton, Connecticut, and colleagues compared the effects of Chantix against tho...

Warning against Consuming Raw Korean Oysters

...known to sometimes carry norovirus, which causes a gastrointestinal illness. In New Zealand these Korean oysters are packed frozen in 1kg bags and labeled according to the current import health standard, with a statement that the product must be cooked or must not be eaten raw. These oysters are to be cooked in...

Revolutionary New Treatment Plan Developed For Treatment Of Unexplained Symptoms

...ue, as well as musculoskeletal, nervous system and gastrointestinal complaints.“Medically unexplained symptoms are common and costly,” Smith said. “A patient’s symptoms just won’t go away, so a doctor orders more tests or gives more medicine or even operates on the patient. Pretty soon the patient will actually devel...

Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...tion on the overall health of children, since both gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms were reduced during the month after the second SP dose. One of the advantages of the treatment is that it proposes a simple oral administration, does not require a new infrastructure, and is cost-efficient compared to other...

Protein Behind Food Allergies Identified

...tamines and antibodies that induce symptoms in the gastrointestinal tract, airways and skin, and in the most severe cases induces anaphylactic shock, an often fatal systemic reaction. These allergies are often characterised by abdominal pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, hives, swelling of the eyelids, face, lips and tong...

Stem cells help in the understanding of drug-resistant, recurrent tumors

...er and in cell lines of central nervous system and gastrointestinal tumors. Standard treatment for ovarian cancer – surgical removal of all involved tissues followed by chemotherapy – usually appears successful, but treatment-resistant tumors recur in the vast majority of patients, leading to a five-year survival ...

Obesity Surgery Complication Rates Higher than Previously Thought

...ons of surgical procedure, intestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal disorders, abdominal pain, chest pain, and nutritional disorders. Readmissions of post-obesity surgery patients for these conditions increased from 6.5 percent to 10.6 percent between 30 and 180 days. In addition, the study team analyzed visits to ...

"Miracle" Cancer Drug Gleevec Can be Toxic to the Heart

...DGF receptor is crucial to its effect in thwarting gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Designing a drug to inhibit the PDGF receptor but not ABL, then, could still work against such tumors but not cause heart problems. “We’ve learned something about the biology of the heart,” Dr. Force says. “ABL is important for card...

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

...tent entails its use in treating kidney cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST). This drug is not easy on the pocket, costing about ￡2,400 per patient on a monthly basis. There is concern that the high cost of this drug might cause NHS to be careful in its use....

Turmeric and Onions-Weapons against Colon Cancer

... used as a treatment often left side effects, like gastrointestinal ulcerations and bleeding. Quercetin a flavanoid derived from plants and known to have anti-oxidant properties has been shown to inhibit growth of colon cancer cell lines in humans as well as abnormal colorectal cells in rodents. It is found in a var...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...n// of vitamin D. These cancers include 6 sites of gastrointestinal cancers, 3 cancers of female sites, 3 urogenital cancers, 2 types of lymphomas, and 2 upper aerodigestive tract cancers. The analysis examined age-adjusted mortality rate data from 49 states plus the District of Columbia for two periods: 1950-69 an...

Risk of Brain Hemorrhage Rises with Old Age

...rs also found that in addition to older age, prior gastrointestinal hemorrhage, anemia, renal insufficiency, hypertension and coronary disease were also risk factors for hemorrhage. "The low rates of hemorrhage in our study show that clinicians may safely prescribe warfarin for many older patients with atrial fibri...

Avoid unnecessary screening tests for celiac disease in the absence of symptoms in children with Downs syndrome

...hers looked at the potential benefit of preventing gastrointestinal malignancy by detecting celiac disease in children without symptoms of the disease and weighed the benefit against the cost and quality of life issues associated with screening and treatment of celiac disease. They also calculated the number of asymp...

What does High-fiber Foods Really do?

...r foods, they bang up against the cells lining the gastrointestinal tract, rupturing their outer covering. What we are saying is this banging and tearing increases the level of lubricating mucus. It's a good thing.’ Although the fact that consuming roughage increases mucus production was known earlier and the disco...

A Glass of Orange Juice To Keep Recurrence Of Kidney Stones At Bay

...tients can't tolerate potassium citrate because of gastrointestinal side effects, said Dr. Clarita Odvina, assistant professor of internal medicine at the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research and the study's lead author. In those cases, dietary sources of citrate – such as orange j...

Medical Guidelines to treat 9/11-related illness

...eral medical ailments like severe lung disease and gastrointestinal problems has been done since the 2001 attacks, in thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers and volunteers who slogged at ground zero. "Five years after the World Trade Center attacks, many New Yorkers have disaster-associate...

Risk Of Colorectal Polyps Recurrence Can Be Controlled By Rofecoxib

...erious adverse events, including significant upper gastrointestinal events and, as reported previously, increased risk... who research, diagnose and treat disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. The AGA, a 501(c6) organization, administers all membership and public policy activ...

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