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Tag: "intestinal" at medical news

Useful drug for stem cell transplant problem

...ived a new drug. Defibrotide is extracted from pig intestinal tissue. Around a third of the patients experienced complete reversal of VOD and 35 per cent of them survived for at least 100 days after their transplant. This is important for only 10 per cent of this desperately ill group would be able to survive...

The hazards of domestic travel

...in country rivers, streams or lakes. Giardia is an intestinal infection that comes from ingestion of contaminated lack or stream water....

Caffeine reduces infant blood flow

...tration and 25 percent after two hours. Within the intestinal arteries, the BFV decreased to 10 percent after an...20 milligrams of caffeine reduces BFV in brain and intestinal arteries, while cardiac output remains constant. The decrease in BFV is attributable to vasoconstric...

Important substance in curry conciliate Inflamed Colon

...a group of conditions in humans that can result in intestinal inflammation, cramping and chronic diarrhea. The researchers also gave some of the mice a 2% diet of curcumin before the colitis was induced, in order to see whether the compound had a preventive effect, and 2 days after colitis was induced, to see ...

Rumbling stomach

...e when a doctor uses a stethoscope can indicate an intestinal blockage. The noises are softer or louder dependin... gas, both swallowed air and the waste products of intestinal bacteria. When the stomach is normally full of food and liquid, the noises tend to be muted, but whe...

Weight-Loss Drinks Can Make You Gassy

...hich an individual lacks a sufficient supply of an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of milk-based fo...actose preparation experienced a large increase in intestinal gas. The women passed gas three times as frequently--from about 10 times a day to 30 times a day--co...

FDA approves surgical gel

...nternal scar tissue that can cause chronic pain or intestinal obstruction. Various adhesion-preventing treatments already are sold, but Intergel is the first liquid one. It is only for use during open gynecologic operations -- not the increasingly common "keyhole" surgeries where doctors operate through a sma...

Iron is a two sided sword

...chers at Ohio State University. They exposed human intestinal cells, in test tubes, to iron concentrations resembling those in food supplements. It is a reasonable model of what goes on in the body, for these cells take up iron from food and transport it into the bloodstream. The experiments show that when suc...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...ccording to a report. But the frequent stomach and intestinal troubles may be a result of poor control of blood ...ing poor glycemic control were more likely to have intestinal symptoms than diabetics who reported being able to keep their blood sugar under control. Although ...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...okineticins played an exclusive role in regulating intestinal muscles. The researchers found two prokineticins...nd a site that may be a receptor on the surface of intestinal muscle cells. This site had a chemical structure that may be able to bind with the proteins in the l...

The new born nightmare

Newborns are more likelier to develop a serious intestinal disorder if they are given the commonly prescribed antibiotic erythromycin, say US scientists. A research team from Lousiana University has linked use of this drug to pyloric stenosis, a condition that affects about 1 in 400 newborns and it is the m...

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

...abitant of the digestive tract that can cause both intestinal upsets and urinary infections. But while E. coli from bad food is a frequent cause of diarrhoea and other digestive miseries, urinary tract infections were thought until now to result mostly from inadvertent contact with the victim's own feces. Urina...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...profen, but with less chance of causing ulcers and intestinal bleeding. Aspirin inhibits two closely related cyclooxygenase enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2. These new drugs specifically inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting...

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