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US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

...gent design and breach of warranty. The company maintained that Mr. Riegels surgeon should not have used the balloon catheter because of Mr. Riegels condition and that the surgeon used the device in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Both a Federal District Court and a Federal Appeals Court in New Yo...

Cord Blood may Hold Potential Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

...e children required significantly less insulin and maintained better control of blood sugar levels than children of comparable age with type 1 diabetes who were randomly selected from the clinic population. The researchers also noted that the children who received cord blood infusions had higher levels of re...

Papworth Breathing Technique Cuts Asthma Symptoms by a Third

...ment. And this improvement in symptoms was still maintained one year later. At 12 months patients who had been treated using the Papworth method scored 24.9, while patients who had not scored 33.5. Use of the Papworth method was associated with less depression and anxiety, and symptoms from inappropriate br...

Scientists Identify New Possible 'biomarker' for Pancreatic Cancer

...reas cells -- and those over expressed levels were maintained in 'metastases,' the areas that the tumours spread to," explains Waltz, Associate Professor and Director of the Oncology Research Program, Surgery Department, Cincinnati University. During the study, the researchers noted that the RON receptor was ...

Patient-Doctor Ratio

...atio in various State Government Hospitals is not maintained centrally. The doctor-patient ratio, varies from case to case depending upon various factors like the type of disease, nature of specialization, type of patient-care required i.e. indoor/outdoor. According to the Medical Council of India, the allopat...

Dabur India Q4 Profit Surges 31%

...idered as the final dividend for the year. We have maintained out pay-out policy in 2006-07 and have disbursed a total dividend of 213% during the year on pre-bonus capital, Dabur India chairman Mr. V C Burman said. Dabur India (Consolidated) Dabur India Ltd (Consolidated) recorded a 53.9 per cent surge in ...

Cutting Calories, Not Exercise, Plays Bigger Role In Maintaining Weight Loss

...for two years. The 80 percent who had successfully maintained their weight loss consumed fewer calories than tho... Its encouraging to report that weight loss can be maintained primarily through a low calorie diet. EatRight, created at UAB more than 30 years ago, is based on...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

...ified the distributors who had bought the beef. He maintained that no E. Coli was found inside the PM Beef facility and the large scale voluntary withdrawal was to get any product that might be in question away from the public, period." During 2003 also, PM Beef had similarly recalled from the market 1,126 po...

Clock Gene Plays Role in Weight Gain, Study Finds

...d that both groups of the genetically altered mice maintained normal weight and activity levels, and, of particular interest, the ones fed the high fat diet gained only slight weight even over long periods of time. The normal mice on the high fat diet, however, ballooned, gaining more than twice the weight of t...

Statins may Help Treat Hepatitis C Patients

...fter statin therapy and the number of patients who maintained their normal ALT levels after initiation of statin...anged. Of the 47 beginning in the normal range, 45 maintained their ALTs. "This is the first report of prospectively using fluvastatin in HCV patients. Two rema...

Researchers Claims to Have Found Cure for Hepatitis C

... years). It was found that 989 of the 997 patients maintained undetectable levels of the virus. The remaining eight patients tested positive for the hepatitis C virus at an average of two years following treatment completion. The study found that the eight patients exhibited no consistency in age, gender or h...

Exercise may Help Breast Cancer Patients to Lead a Healthy Life

...s and quality of life was seen in those who either maintained or increased their activity levels over the cancer...s of this study was that it emerged that those who maintained vigorous activity levels reported less weight gain and cared more about their appearance. Since exc...

Scientist Observes real Time Generation of Neurones in Mammals

...mplex cell, and how already developed neurones are maintained in the highly active and changing environment of the brain. Dr. Mizrahi notes that the research may some day lead to significant breakthroughs in treatment of neural disorders, for "there are only a few small areas in the brain which are capable o...

How Plague-Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense

...s still incomplete, Navarro said. But Yersinia has maintained YpkA over millions of years, so it must be doing something important. The researchers speculate that YpkA plays an important role in disabling the bodys immune system beyond its previously known role of disrupting the host cells normal structure, whi...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

...sponded to REMICADE (infliximab) in earlier trials maintained improvement in their clinical symptoms for up to two years. The trials were conducted under co-principle investigators William Sandborn, M.D. of the Mayo Clinic and Walter Reinisch, M.D., of the University Hospital Vienna, Austria. The data measure...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...r. In addition, young people who played Re-Mission maintained higher blood levels of chemotherapy and showed higher rates of antibiotic utilization than those in the control group, indicating that Re-Mission helps patients adhere to cancer therapy regimens. Re-Mission was developed by HopeLab through a collab...

Mylan Wins Its Amlodipine Case With Pfizer

... we were the first to assert and have consistently maintained concerning this product for over four years. We are further pleased that our first to market generic amlodipine products have saved patients, corporations, the government and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare costs." Amlodipin...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...s, ending the experiment at day 44. Participants maintained their typical exercise habits and made no lifestyle changes that could account for weight loss. During the inpatient stays, food intake was measured throughout the day under carefully controlled conditions. Participants were allowed to eat as much as...

National Cancer Database Reveals Disparities in Access to Thyroid Cancer Surgery

...he NCDB is a nationwide oncology outcomes database maintained by the Commission on Cancer of the ACS for more than 1,400 Commission-approved cancer programs in the United States and Puerto Rico. "Cancer specialists agree that large tumors merit removal of the entire thyroid gland. But, historically, the surgi...

Eating Smartly- A Key to Lose Weight

...unds compared to 14.7 pounds. Weight loss was well maintained by subjects in both groups during the second six months of the study. Records kept by the women showed that those who included more water-rich foods ate 25 percent more food by weight and felt less hungry than those who followed the reduced-fat die...

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