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Increased risk of common infections in patients suffering from diabetes

...vaccine, drinking plenty of fluids, and in general leading a healthy lifestyle. Reference: Clinical Infectious Diseases, online edition, June 2005...

Banning the drug Valdecoxib In India

...lt in severe skin reactions. Although some of the leading pharmaceutical companies have stopped manufacturin...e withdrawn the drug from the Indian market, a few leading companies differ in opinion and have adopted a “wait and watch” approach as a result of which they h...

Enzyme for treatment of arthritis

...ad to damage of the tissue and cartilage in joints leading to the inflammatory condition of arthritis. Researchers of the study feel that the enzyme can be targeted for the treatment of arthritis as it is involved in the very initial stages of the arthritis condition and hence may bring long-term relief. C...

Two New Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to prevent cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of female cancer mortality worldwide, with 288,000 deaths annually. About 510,000 cases are // reported each year, 80% of them in developing countries. Two new vaccines are undergoing trial to prevent HPV infections, which causes cervical can...

Healthy Feeding Guidelines for Children Ages 0 to 24 Months Issued

...rics at Baylor and CNRC, were part of the panel of leading pediatric experts who developed the new guidelines. Members on the panel discussed about the growing problem of childhood obesity. They also stressed the importance of better tools for communicating about the importance of healthy eating habits in ea...

Hope for patients with Chronic leukemia

...asing age. Fludarabine has emerged as one of the leading drugs for treatment of CLL, and can be used as a stand –alone therapy or as a combination therapy. It helps control CLL by shortening the life-span of existing leukemia cells and interferes with the making of new DNA, thus preventing leukemia cells f...

Drug regulatory officials giving the nod for sale of Unapproved drug formulations in India

... market. Dr Reddys’s Laboratories one of India’s leading makers of nimesulide have announced that they have stopped making four combinations of nimesulide and explained its decision as part of rationalising its nimesulide strateg....

Dementia and memory linked to IQ of the teens

...ricular activities in schools and mental alertness leading to higher IQs as a teenager seems to have a significantly lower correlation to the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment in late life. Each of these factors alone or in combination may affect the mental alertness and its loss in later life. Ref...

Researchers discover receptor cells that can cause epilepsy

...ex that sends wrong neural information to thalamus leading to the symptoms of the seizures. The new study reveals the target that can be treated to control the expression of the epileptic seizures, especially in children. Reference: Journal of Neurophysiology, July 2005...

Third generation Small pox vaccine from Cell-culture

... to use small pox as a biological weapon. Research leading to the third generation vaccines, such as vaccinia viruses that are further attenuated, inactivated viruses, subunit or peptide based vaccines should have significant use to public health....

Obesity may cause frailties in elderly women

...ng mortality along with lowering of general health leading to a varied number of diseases. The condition is very common in people suffering from chronic disease and elderly populations. Some of the symptoms pf being frail are slowness of movements, physical weakness and low level of activities done during th...

Blood Test May be Able To Predict Heart Attack Risk

...ot available commercially. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. What is interesting is this type of tests will be able to give the doctors lead-time and advice patients to change their lifestyles. More research and validation studies are required before the test becomes commercially...

Experimental Blood Test May Spot Heart Attack Risk, Study Says

... not available commercially. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world What is interesting is this type of tests will be able to give the doctors lead time and advice patients to change their lifestyles. More research and validation studies are required before the test becomes commercia...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

.... SIDS is a disorder that seems to have no reasons leading to it and yet there are certain risk factors that seem to increase the incidence of SIDS. Researchers from University of Glasgow have reported that there is an association between parents sharing the bed with their infants and increasing incidence o...

New Race –Specific drug

...ally the cause ofheart failure. In contrast, the leading causes of heart failure among white people are clogged arteries and damage to the cardiac muscle caused by previous heart attacks. The issue of whether biological differences can bedetermined by one's ethnic origins is a long-standing one, and it rai...

Screening For Prostate Cancer May Reduce Mortality Rate

...equently diagnosed cancer in men and is the second leading cause of death by cancer in men in the USA. Many of these cancers are discovered when they have already spread to other organs. PSA blood test is a simple tumour marker that rises early in prostate cancer. Most of the times it indicated an underlying...

Innovative footwear may prevent fall in elderly

...uries to the elderly population, and is one of the leading causes of accidental deaths in the elderly population. Reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 2005...

Alcohol more harmful to women

...r a faster progression of the developmental events leading to dependence among female alcoholics — the telescoping effect — and an earlier onset of adverse consequences of alcoholism." For getting results of the study CAT scans were done on the individuals to assess the extent of brain damage.The study as p...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

...hma causes inflammation in the airways of the lung leading to lung muscle constriction leading to difficulty in breathing. Though, the FDA panel has approved the stay of Serevent, Adavir and Fora...

Environmental estrogens can cause breast cancer

...o understand the effect of environmental pollution leading to development of breast cancer. The researchers are planning to continue their investigations by looking into the effects of developmental exposures of nonylphenol on breast cancer....

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