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Islet cell transplants for Type 1 Diabetes

...l transplantation may decrease the need of insulin injections for people with type 1 diabetes. // This study conducted by James Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada and his team was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. In this study, processed islet ce...

Steroids Ineffective In Tennis Elbow

Steroid injections are apparently of no use in tennis elbow and a wai...nd again after a year. Initially, corticosteroid injections were the most successful treatment, with 78% of those in the group reporting improvements, followed ...

Gene Transfer Using Mutant Form of Good Cholesterol Cuts Vascular Plaque and Inflammation

...rials at the Cleveland Clinic in which intravenous injections were found to shrink plaque in human coronary arteries. Souce-Newswise SRM...

Bariatric Surgery Patients Have Special Medication Needs

... to enhance absorption,” said Miller. “Monthly B12 injections and early bone density testing should also be considered.” Source-Newwise SRM...

Vision restoration with a drug for macular degeneration

...h a specific type of retina degeneration by giving injections of the drug Lucentis. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.The research involved 716 patients who were given eye chart tests before and after receiving the drug or a placebo. It was found that sight loss was slowed down in...

DNA vaccine for ragweed allergies

...year of the study, 14 people were given six weekly injections of the new vaccine before the ragweed season began. The remaining 11 received six weekly injections of a placebo. The symptoms like sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes, and itching had reduced by 60% ...

New wonder drug could treat blindness

...ied on 716 patients in the US who received monthly injections of the drug into the affected eye over a two-year period. One-third experienced a "marked improvement" in vision, enabling them to read more lines on an eye chart than before and return to abandoned hobbies, reported the online edition of Daily mai...

Results for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Show Significant Vision Improvements

...tudy, patients were randomized to receive Lucentis injections once a month for two years. Patients in the ANCHOR study were randomized to either receive Lucentis injections once a month or photodynamic therapy every three months for two years. Lucentis is designed to blo...

GSK Seeks Permission to Market Breast Cancer Pill Tykerb

... taken daily in a pill form, Herceptin is given as injections every month. Clinical trials showed a longer time to disease progression among women taking Tykerb, almost double that seen among those receiving e chemotherapy agent alone. Positive results caused an early end to the trial. According to GSK over ...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration

...ury, the animals were randomly assigned to receive injections with a p38 MAP kinase inhibitor alone, the angiogenesis stimulator FGF1 alone, both agents together, or saline (placebo) for four weeks. Three months later, rats that had received both FGF1 and the p38 MAP kinase inhibitor had markedly improved heart...

Some Antidepressants may Cause Aggression in Adolescents

...ersity of Texas at Austin, US, and colleagues gave injections of the drug fluoxetine (sold in pill form as Prozac) to pubescent and mature hamsters. They injected either a low dose (10 milligrams per kilo of body weight) or a high dose (20 milligrams per kilo body weight), while other hamsters received a plac...

Review Opens Bag of Tricks for Reducing Pain from Children’s Shot

...th children getting up to 20 vaccinations or other injections during their childhood, managing the pain is important. Needles are among the most feared experiences for children. And in a classic vicious cycle, the more a child fears the pain of a needle, the worse for everyone involved, and the fear only makes ...

A winning shot is here to battle ‘tennis elbow

...ike bracing, physical therapy and corticosteroids injections which only offer a temporary palliation.However more investigations are essential before this therapy can be made available for patients suffering with tennis elbow world wide. Source-Medindi MST...

Substance P May Pre-empt VIP in Regulating Temperature

...water-perfused suits. Each person received various injections into the skin of one arm designed to desensitize the NK-1 receptor and block nitric oxide. This step was then followed by circulating heated water through the suit to raise core body temperatures to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The investigators the...

Probe Ordered into Children’s Death in Chhattisgar

... years, died within 10 minutes after they received injections for treatment of fever, cough and cold Friday in v...er members of the same family, who were also given injections at the health centre, are in critical conditions after being shifted to a district hospital for adva...

Diabetics press for additional government involvement in finding cures

...teen thousand syringes, a measure of the number of injections a juvenile diabetic may need to take in the first 10 years of life. Almost one hundred children suffering type one diabetes assembled with their families, to make headway with parliamentarians to press for extensive research into possible cures for...

Ozone Treatment - A Good Alternative For Spinal Injury

...in and disc disorder now have a reason to smile as injections of ozone gas could bring better results than conventional// surgery. Ozonucleolysis, as the treatment is medically known, has started gaining ground in western countries, according to senior doctors who are here for a conference on the subject. 'O...

Steroid Use Linked to Crimes

...ed to male sex hormones which can be taken through injections or orally. Several athletes, bodybuilders and others, both male and female, use steroids without a prescription to build muscle bulk and strength to look better. Some of the side effects of taking steroids include liver cancer, kidney disease and ...

Lives of Diabetics Transformed

...dition can be roughly corrected by regular insulin injections throughout the day, night-time control can be difficult. David Dunger, a member of the Cambridge team, said: “Getting the computer algorithm right will be the big job. There is a high risk of glucose levels going low at night. This really frighten...

New Device To Monitor Diabetics' Blood Sugar

...dition can be roughly corrected by regular insulin injections throughout the day. Source-IANS...

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