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Allergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful for Chronic Ear Inflammation

...e needs to be some assurance of benefit. Don’t use ineffective medications just because you have nice visual images. You're better off doing nothing." Source-Newswise SRM...

Thalassemic patient is now HIV positive due to faulty Diagnostic kit…

... in February. She could have got infected then, as ineffective diagnostic kits from the jute baron Govind Sarda's firm; Monozyme (India) Pvt Ltd, were used in the bank at approximately the same time, as reported in the September 29th issue of TOI. When she went to Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College for a regular...

Autism 'Connected' to Improper Connections in Brain Cells

... suggest that the abnormal connections could infer ineffective and inconsistent communication within the brains of autistic people. This current research could be beneficial in detecting autism at an early stage....

Depression Benefitted by Internet-based Interventions

... but it may be that there is a reduction in use of ineffective and potentially damaging treatments. It may also be that the information on the websites really only becomes effective once people have put into place the treatments and practices recommended. "The findings also suggest that brief interventions may ...

Super Chow, Laced With Semi-Synthetic Vitamin E, Inhibited Spread of Cancer

... had the same effect on tumor size, but V?-TOS was ineffective when delivered in this way, Akporiaye said. “We found that V?-TOS wasn’t stable, and returned to its natural vitamin E state,” he said. To gauge the effectiveness of a dietary treatment, the researchers had special rat chow manufactured that incorp...

US to Lift Ban on Canadian Drug Imports

... to protecting the American public from unsafe and ineffective medications. We will be focusing our resources to best protect the American public." A spokeswoman for the FDA said the agency had no comment because it had not been officially informed of the change. NL...

Monoclonal Antibody Reduces Exacerbations in Asthmatics

...ng spondylitis, Crohn’s disease and psoriasis, but ineffective in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),” said Dr. Hansel. “Preliminary reports of efficacy in asthma patients with concomitant rheumatoid arthritis have been encouraging. Small prospective studies of a soluble receptor directed...

Blindness And Trachoma

...only active trachoma for treatment is likely to be ineffective for long-term trachoma control and may adversely affect disease prevalence over time. While the 'F' and 'E' components of the SAFE program will need to be evaluated for their efficacy in decreasing rates of active trachoma and infection, a vaccine wi...

Stem Cells Of Little Use In Damaged Hearts

...s of heart attacks and found that these cells were ineffective in repairing damaged hearts. Researchers looked at whether stem cells could repair the main pumping chamber of the heart, but did not find evidence that it did so. RAS...

Kochi To Conduct Campaigns Against Chikungunya

...ign would be conducted regularly since fogging was ineffective in containing the mosquitoes that spread the disease. The State chapter of the Indian Medical Association said in a statement that people need not panic as chikungunya was curable. RAS...

Drugs ineffective in treating depression in teens

...age has been debatable. The drugs were found to be ineffective in curing depression in kids and teens in most of the clinical trials studied at an FDA meeting analyzing this topic. // In a recent study published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Dr. Richard Malone, from the Depart...

South Africa To Make Available Two New Drugs To Fight The TB Outbreak

...ves, as they fear that it could prove itself to be ineffective in fighting the new super bug that threatens to worsen South Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis. Charity Bhengu, a departmental spokeswoman said, “We don't have many drugs for TB to choose from simply because no major new inventions have been made for the pa...

Doctors Unaware If Pediatric Dosages Are Safe

...y to be published if the drug was deemed unsafe or ineffective in children. "Because children have different ph... were published, and when the drug was found to be ineffective in children, only 38 percent were published, the study found. The FDA publishes label change inform...

Vaccine Quality 'blamed' for Polio Menace in UP

...Ahmad Hasan Friday said polio vaccines have proved ineffective in the state in tackling the disease among childre..., otherwise there is no reason why it should prove ineffective in so many cases. "Hasan told reporters here. "After all, most of the detected cases are among chi...

Key component of sunscreen heals sunburn and prevents skin cancer

...rdles in the research were that many chelators are ineffective protectors of cells, and many of them are patented and so cannot be used freely by all researchers. The researchers had to find chelators which were strong enough to export the excess iron out of cells, but that would not have an adverse effect on...

Proper Fitting Of Football Helmets Essential To Prevent Concussion

...hools. The authors found that helmets were often ineffective because they were not fitted properly to the players. The study found that high school football players are at high risk for head injury as coaches or other individuals fit their helmets rather than a certified athletic trainer. It was noted that i...

PSA Can Predicts The Treatment Response In Advanced Prostate Cancer

...e factor. These findings could help patients avoid ineffective treatment and could help researchers design further trials,” Hussain says. Source: EurekAlrt....

Adult stem cells are sensitive to responses from the environment

... the heart becomes so scarred that stem cells seem ineffective in fixing the damage by turning into replacement cardiac muscle. "The cardiac tissue may have been so damaged during the heart attack that the stem cells do not recognize the microenvironment as a guide for turning into heart muscle," Discher said...

A New Breed Of Mice Might Hold The Key For Depression Treatment

.... "Current medications for clinical depression are ineffective for a third of patients, which is why the development of alternate treatments is so important." Mice without the TREK-1 gene ('knock-out' mice) were created and bred in collaboration with Dr. Michel Lazdunski, co-author of the research, in his labo...

Current Cooling Devices Ineffective in Preventing Brain Injury

.... Louis have found the current cooling devices are ineffective in preventing brain injury// as they do not penetrate deep into the brain. Cold slows down the rate of chemical reactions, potentially slowing the reactions that cause permanent injury in patients with stroke and other head trauma. Scientists use...

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