help 1 6

Tag: "help" at medical news

The patient's voice

...beliefs and insights about their illness. It would help new patients too - showing they're not alone, and giving them vital information on managing their condition. // Doctors at the UK Cochrane Centre, are creating a unique database called DIPEx (Database of Individual Patients' Experience of Illness)...

Wound healing made faster

...obably doesn't last in that form for very long. To help maintain it, the researchers plan to attach it to ...-healing complex in treating chronic ulcers and to help speed the recovery of joint replacement patients....

All the more bad

... heart disease in their blood. The discovery could help explain why smokers have more than twice the risk of heart attacks than non-smokers. Paraoxonase is a enzyme which helps to prevent fatty deposits building up and blocking the blood vessels. A team of Swiss researchers examined 367 people with hear...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

... suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, who led the study, said more research is needed to show how much the preserved body mass strengthens patients and boosts recovery. But he believes the drug could safely slow hypermetabolism in thousands of patients, ...

New gene for hairloss

... understanding the //hairless gene's function will help scientists figure that mechanism out. Previous work has shown that people who inherit a malfunctioning version of hairless can get an extreme form of a condition called alopecia universalis, in which eyebrows, eyelashes and body hair fail to develop....

For healthy lungs

...e to antioxidant properties of the vitamins, which help protect the tissues of the lung from damage. The two vitamins are found abundantly in certain fruit and vegetables. The properties are also thought to be responsible for protecting the lungs against the development of cancer, according to a separat...

Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes

...ave long thought hormone replacement therapy might help protect women's cardiovascular health, warding off heart disease and, possibly, stroke. But recent research has questioned that reasoning. The American Heart Association issued guidelines stating that women should not receive hormone replacement fo...

Photographs for Diagnosis

Retinal snapshots could help identify with precision people at high risk of suffering a stroke, say US researchers. They say their technique is cheap enough to be used by opticians and GPs to mass-screen patients.Strokes are caused by brain cell death due to bleeding from damage...

Spreading its wings

...s and Druggists Association (APCDA) has decided to help its member chemists to computerise their business transactions. The Association is in the process of developing a software, which could be commonly utilised by its members. It will also procure the computers in bulk in order to ensure a rock-bottom p...

Biotechnology on the lead

...anding of diseases like anthrax and botulism, will help in developing tests and vaccines that will protect society against bioterrorist attacks - as well as natural epidemics.// The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) heard from Colonel Dick Collins, head of th...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...een linked to colon cancer. The oestrogen may also help to reduce levels of a hormone called IGF-I that has also been linked to an increased risk of bowel cancer. They focused on the results from 19 international studies that compared bowel cancer rates for women who had taken an oral contraceptive betwe...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...female chemical messengers known as pheromones may help dupe men into thinking plain women are more attrac...ignals from men. Scientists believe pheromones may help people choose biologically compatible mates....

Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

... of direct-to-consumer drug ads argue that the ads help educate consumers about treatment options and increase the awareness of the consequence of disease. Dr. Woloshin's group proposes that the US Food and Drug Administration mandate a standard format for summarizing the information about a drug in adver...

Genetics helps in attacking cancer

...cer drug interacts with specific genes, which may help refine future treatments. Ceflatonin, a natural product, is being tested as an anti-cancer treatment. Meanwhile, the US company ChemGenex is looking at the effect of the drug on the genes that are activated in cancer. They find that specific genes an...

Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp

Caffeine can help increase reaction time and improve performance for...vicemen who must perform complex tasks or who need help staying alert for longer periods of time, according to a new report by the National Academy of Scien...

Why running noses are a good thing

Doctors have a new clue to help sort out whether people with aches and coughs have...intertime respiratory ills. So asking about it can help doctors rule out anthrax. The possible overuse of antibiotics worries officials at the Centers for...

Anti-Cancer Drug Restores Normal Cell Growth

...itors. Fojo and colleagues believe these drugs may help restore normal growth to cancer cells, which typically arise from normal cells in which growth regulation has gone awry. The drug's side effects were comparable to those seen with other types of chemotherapy and included fatigue, nausea and vomitin...

Hormone treatment helps obese people slim down

...ural hormone that helps control body weight, could help many overweight people slim down. Discovered in 19...ht. The work suggests that leptin treatment can help not only those very rare overweight people who completely lack the hormone, but also those with low ...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

Levels of blood proteins may help decide the course of treatment for people with coronary artery disease (CAD), according to the results of two preliminary studies. CAD occurs when fatty deposits narrow the arteries that supply blood to the heart, and can lead to chest pain and heart...

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

...cancer." It is not clear yet why exercise should help - it may alter levels of hormones which are key to cancer development, or perhaps alter the speed at which food moves through the bowel, which may also have a bearing. Professor Gordon McVie, Director General of the Cancer Research Campaign, said: ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10