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Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...e a difference of 0.4 degrees celcius may not seem impressive it is noted that the risk of stroke patients dying doubles for every increase of 1 degree celcius. "Though its effects may be modest in size," Dippel added, "it is cheap and has almost no harmful effects."...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...ldren's Hospital said it was a novel approach with impressive results. ...

Gene therapy restores sight

...ronmental factors contributing to blindness. "It's impressive that the researchers have shown such a degree of improvement in sight - a several fold increase." However, Dr Stone told ABC Science Online that applying this work to humans would not be immediate nor straightforward."In the dog, LCA shows a slow pr...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

...ion spreads through rat flea bites. "Despite the impressive advances in medicine since then, HIV/AIDS is likely to surpass the Black Death as the worst pandemic ever. If we don't improve access to treatment in the next 10-15 years we could have as many as 65 million deaths from this disease," said Peter Lampt...

Additional Radiotheraphy for Breast Cancer

...her booster doses will also cut mortality. These impressive results mean that a boost should now be considered the standard treatment for early breast cancer, particularly in younger women....

Gene therapy restores sight

...ronmental factors contributing to blindness. "It's impressive that the researchers have shown such a degree of improvement in sight - a several fold increase." However, Dr Stone told ABC Science Online that applying this work to humans would not be immediate nor straightforward."In the dog, LCA shows a slow pr...

Glaucoma may be delayed by eye drops

...nt of the controls. Researchers felt that it is an impressive finding, given that the eye drops lower intraocular pressure by just 25 per cent....

Quicker healing with active bandages

...he skin by 33 per cent. Deeper wounds healed in an impressive five to seven days. It's hoped that human trials of the hydrogel dressings will start early next year....

Treating wounds without stitches

...in both cases. In fact, the researchers say it was impressive to see how inconspicuous all the wounds then were. Doing without stitches could save time, money and patient discomfort. <b...

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

...ditional global pharmaceutical partnerships and an impressive drug discovery platform. AEterna's and Zentaris' combined clinical development strategy is based on five factors; development costs, competitive environment, involvement of pharmaceutical partners, time to market and potential markets for future dru...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...cer Center. He says: “In addition, one of the most impressive outcomes of this research is that the test also identified 27 of the 30 patients with stage 1 disease. Finding these cancers early means earlier treatment and better prognosis.” BR>...

The Benefits of Strontium in the treatment for Osteoporosis Questioned

...ntium is washed out once treatment is stopped. An impressive increase in bone mineral density occurred in the spine (14.4%) and hip (8.3%).7. However, some caution is necessary in interpreting these figures because much of this effect is due to the higher atomic number of strontium (Z = 38) compared with calci...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

...rs taking placebo. Though the figures are not so impressive we have to think this drug as a prospective drug as has an effective drug for treating early-stage lung cancer as it easy to cure compared to end-stage lung cancer. Tarceva is one of the new class of drug that slows down tumor growth by arresting t...

Yet Another Use For Cocoa Flavonols

...cture of flavonols found in nature and now have an impressive library of different flavonols. They also say that they are able to synthesize not only those found in nature but also compounds tailored to specific needs. Several studies in recent years have demonstrated that the flavonols found in cocoa and dar...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

...nary kind. Nevertheless, he said, ``these are very impressive and very encouraging results. When you see zero restenosis at one year, it's a breakthrough. It's almost too good to believe when you see zero.'' Especially encouraging, Smith said, is the fact they seem to work in unusually small arteries and in th...

Calcitriol [Vitamin D] with combination of painkillers for cancer treatment

...th of prostate cancer by 70 percent. Due to very impressive results, the research team has started a clinical trial to see if the approach also works in men. "There is great enhancement when the drugs are given together, using what we think is a safe dose in humans," Feldman said in a statement. "It‘s hard to...

Overdentures: An Optimal Solution To Edentulousness

...urvival rate of implant-placed overdentures was an impressive 95.4 percent over a decade. In the upper jaw or the maxilla the survival rate was found to be 87.3 percent, while it reached an astounding 99.5 percent in the lower jaw or the mandible. Vincent J. Iacono, DMD and president of the American Academy of ...

Nicotine Vaccine May Help Smokers To Quit Smoking

...moking for at least 30 days. "This result was an impressive and completely unexpected study," researcher Dorothy Hatsukami said. However he said, "more research is required to answer a number of questions about the vaccine, including how long it remains effective in smokers and whether it can be used to help...

Public Health awareness to help scientists in Scotland!

...ealth and pharmacogenetics, and brings together an impressive list of lead investigators and collaborators who collectively represent an unbeatable combination of proven research expertise in Scotland. This unique cross-institutional, interdisciplinary endeavour will make Scotland internationally competitive in...

Drug Addiction Recovery Buffered by Spirituality

...aid that the research though is limited, is a very impressive study as it uses state of the art methodology, a large representative sample, and relevant statistical analyses makes tremendous advances in the field....

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