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Fruits and vegetables found to interact with drugs in a dangerous way

...ied or well documented of these effects is the one involving grape juice. Consumption of grape juice has been known to inhibit the functioning of the CYP3A4 enzymes, that are responsible for the metabolism of more than 60 percent of orally administered drugs. Drugs that have been known to interact with grape...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

...ling. Evidence for this comes out of an experiment involving two patients who apparently lost the ability to perceive their own body because of an extremely rare illness. The two specific patients involved in the study have deficits in their ability to interpret the actions of other people, the psychological...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...erent partners. A complete epidemiological study involving more than By looking at more than 1,000 children’s with ALL were screened for gene fusion and found the pattern and type of gene fusion predicted the severity and prognosis to treatment. Children’s with fusion of etv6 with runx 1 - about 20% of child...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

...andomized, double blind, placebo-controlled design involving 19 type 2 diabetic subjects with hyperlipidemia was used. After 60 days of TRF treatment, subjects showed an average decline of 23, 30, and 42% in serum total lipids, TC, and LDL-C, respectively. The goal in type 2 diabetics is to reduce LDL-C levels...

Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer

...ture II, is part of a continuing phase three trial involving more than 25,000 patients in 33 countries. Similar...sults were previously seen in a much smaller trial involving only 277 women. Dr Charles Lacey, now of York University but a member of the British arm of the tri...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

...er. These findings were arrived at after a study involving // more than 250,000 children. Jason Armfield, a researcher at the Australian Centre for Population Oral health at the University of Adelaide was categorical in saying that the study highlighted the need for fluoridation, "The study shows that water ...

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

...eported in patients receiving Linezolid. Treatment involving ZYVOX should be discontinued if patients develop or have worsening myelosuppression. Lactic acidosis has been reported with the use of ZYVOX. Peripheral and optic neuropathy has been reported in patients treated with ZYVOX, primarily those patients...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

...andomized, double blind, placebo-controlled design involving 19 type 2 diabetic subjects with hyperlipidemia was used. After 60 days of TRF treatment, subjects showed an average decline of 23, 30, and 42% in serum total lipids, TC, and LDL-C, respectively. The goal in type 2 diabetics is to reduce LDL-C levels...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

...arborescens have previously been reported, usually involving one knee, with occasional reports of involvement of other joints including the hip, shoulder, wrist and elbow. Lipoma arborescens is usually mono-articular. Drs A.P. Davies and N. Blewitt, from the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, Unite...

MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism

...ist as done a systematic review of various studies involving the use of Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) vaccin...’s may cause Autism. This review looked at studies involving millions of children around the world and concluded that MMR shots are safe and effective. Since th...

Herbal remedies to be tested by Zambia for AIDS treatment

...of AIDS, Zambia has initiated clinical drug trials involving herbal medicines. //It has been estimated that one in every six Zambians are afflicted with the disease. The initiative would focus on the efficacy of herbal remedies in the treatment of AIDS/HIV. About 14 natural remedies were considered out of wh...

UV- Light Tanning As A Type Of Substance-Related Disorder

...evaluate subjects for a substance-related disorder involving UVL tanning. Of the 145 subjects, 38 (26%) met the modified CAGE criteria, and 77 (53%) met the modified DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for a substance-related disorder with regard to UVL and related sun tanning. The results from both instruments we...

India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.

..., but we should also be aware that clinical trials involving humans may be dangerous and it should not lead to exploring the poverty and ignorance of Indians involved in these clinical trials. So, a registry containing datas and results of clinical trials would be available to patients as well to committee mon...

Aspirin May Protect Against Hyperglycemia With Diabetes

... production and/or biodisponibility by a mechanism involving the accumulation of superoxide anions. Data from...ion homeostasis and NO production, via a mechanism involving the reduction of the superoxide anions levels possible by acting on PKC-induced NADPH activity. In a...

Measuring disseminated cancer cells in bone marrow - valuable tool for detecting early breast cancer metastasis

...tumor progression. Analysis of data from 9 studies involving 4,703 patients with stage I, II or III breast cancer, the authors evaluated the association between detection of bone marrow micrometastases and patient outcome over a 10 year period. The study compared the effects of different factors, such as tum...

Hip Replacement Can Now Be Performed On Virtual Patients

...whom it surgery is necessary. Several techniques involving virtual reality, tissue profiling and stereoscopic vision have been culminated to create virtual patients that mimic the tissue of real patients. After the virtual surgery, doctors can even get a feedback regarding the likely success or failure of th...

Vitamin D Helpful In Gum Disease As Well

...analyzed data from a U.S. nationwide health survey involving 6,700 Americans between 1988 and 1994. Researchers found those in the quintile with the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood were 20 percent less likely to have gingivitis than those in the quintile with the lowest levels. Gingivitis is a mil...

Bhitarkanika Sanctuary In Orissa Takes Precaution To Monitor Bird Flu

...strict administration have formed a special squad, involving NGOs, health officials, veterinary doctors, environmentalists, village council officials and scientists to monitor the health of the local and migratory birds and the officials will also collect blood samples of birds if they suspect the presence of ...

And now candy that is good for your teeth!

...fter testing it out in a two-year toothpaste study involving 726 patients. The findings of the study are detailed in the quarterly Journal of Clinical Dentistry (Volume 16, Number 3). "CaviStat can be considered to be a super-saliva complex that picks up where fluoride has left off," said Dr. Israel Kleinberg,...

Eloxatin combination reduces bowel cancer recurrences

...mmon cancers occurring in humans. A clinical study involving patients taking supplementation of Eloxatin drug with other chemotherapeutic cancer drug for treatment of bowel // cancer has found better prognosis and reduced recurrence in these patients. This study which is called as NICE study has proved a combi...

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