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Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

... on the market. Evaluation of Plavix in a single large trial with stroke patients was not significantly better than aspirin in reducing further strokes, and the company has twice been cautioned by the FDA not to promote the drug. Finally, the British Medical Journal concluded that addition of dipyridamol...

Epilepsy can be predicted

...y have considerable practical implications for the large population of patients with uncontrolled epilepsy. "If proven reliable, such an application would lower the medical consequences of seizures and improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy by decreasing the risk of injury, and the sense of he...

Liver transplant oversight urged

...still not clear exactly how safe it is to donate a large part of one's liver,'' he wrote....

Shelved bowel-syndrome drug still in demand

...ation and ischemic colitis, or inflammation of the large bowel, caused by reduced blood flow. By year's end, the FDA had learned of 141 such cases, including 7 deaths, according to the Public Citizen Health Research Group, which had petitioned the agency in September 2000 to withdraw the drug. Glaxo and FD...

Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

... disease. Green and his colleagues decided to do a large study that included 988 people with Alzheimer's disease and 1,669 healthy family members, who acted as controls. The researchers took into account age and other factors that put people at risk and still found that the statins offered a mighty shield ...

Artificial silicon retina

...that implanting three more people will give them a large data. He would be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men suffering from retinitis pigmentosa .The whole procedure would be about 2-1/2-hour and will take place in Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois, where two of...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

... but schizophrenia researchers do not yet have the large database of evidence gathered by researchers in other fields. One limitation had been that diagnosing schizophrenia is based on self-assessed symptoms, said Dr Ward. There's no lab test for hallucinations, you just rely on the patient saying they ar...

Acoustic neuroma in older patients to be treated

...should only be treated by surgery if the tumour is large and pressing upon the brainstem, or with rapidly worsening symptoms. Otherwise, it may be better to leave well alone....

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...roving kids' diets, given that it takes up such as large proportion of their daily food intake. However, that it is up to parents and schools to provide healthy snack options for children, such as fruit, vegetables and low-fat dairy products. Young people may be afraid to try new foods, she said, but if ad...

Patients with testicular cancer dying through unfamiliarity

...xamination of the abdominal system. Some men with large testicular lumps continue to evade the medical profession despite all efforts. According to him, medical professionals and the general population, especially men, need to be educated to recognise that testicular lumps are a medical emergency. This t...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...gest that a mother's genes may have a particularly large influence on birth weight, since genetic material in cell powerhouses called mitochondria, which are found in the cytoplasm, are inherited only from the mother. Many factors are known to influence birth weight, such as nutrition, smoking, drug use a...

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

...roduce a genetically-altered mouse which has grown large numbers of new blood capillaries in its skin. This gene is known to send commands to several other genes, including one which produces a growth factor important in the formation of new blood vessels. However, other scientists are concerned that man...

A closer look at Vitamins

...re cardiovascular risk. Research said from ongoing large clinical trials will be necessary to determine if these benefits exist....

Heart attack risk starts at 20

...s,// and there certainly is an opportunity to make large changes in behavior early on. He said that twenty percent of people find out they have heart disease by dropping dead" so the goal of the guidelines is to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, "This doesn't imply that one would be placed on drugs...

New surgery in head and neck cancer

...ndard surgery and, in some, the tumour size was so large they could not close their mouths. After treatment, there was a considerable decrease in pain and discomfort. Radiofrequency ablation was able to control the cancer locally, with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue. So far results have bee...

Many factors influence sexual potency

...changing.Many men are taking help, particularly as large segments of the population age. Many men suffer from impotence. Estimates range from 12 million to 30 million men in the United States alone. Approximately 75 percent to 85 percent of impotence is caused by medical rather than psychological reasons....

Toxin injections support stroke associated spasticity

...tness - may help with this problem. In the first large trial of botulinum toxin (also known as botox) in stroke, a group of 120 stroke patients affected by hand and finger spasticity had either a one-off botox injection or placebo. Significant improvements were reported in the botox group during the 10 w...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...he time involved, others had breasts that were too large or chests that were too narrow. Some felt the system was not worth the relatively small gain (one cup size) made in breast size. According to Greco, a few patients dropped out because we could not make a definite statement as to wh...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...netic material. One of the deletions was nearly as large as an entire gene. Although they once were labeled junk or useless DNA, these jumping elements have been known for some time to affect the genome profoundly. L1 elements, which account for about 17 percent of our genome, have been implicated in a ty...

Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...k compared to those on placebo.// They report on a large scale trial of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer. A group of 6050 women aged 36 to 65 years, from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe took either tamoxifen or placebo for five years. All the women were considered as being at increased risk of ...

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