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Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women's Sleep Issues

...leep issues as they pertain to women, and how they managed sleep complaints from their female patients. The majority of respondents indicated that they regularly ask their female patients about their sleep patterns and the sleep habits of family members. The following was gathered from the respondents: ...

New Data Shows Significant Asthma Control With Symbicort

...cated in patients whose asthma can be successfully managed by inhaled corticosteroids along with occasional use of inhaled, short-acting beta2-agonists. Additional data from these studies presented at AAAAI showed SYMBICORT provided significantly greater improvements in asthma control compared to its mono...

New Drugs Shows Promise in Slowing the Progression of Prostate Cancer

...e cancer can be viewed as a lifetime disease to be managed much like AIDS is looked at now. This would be major shift from the current paradigm for cancer treatment, and is a promising area of research. This study must be viewed cautiously, however, as we are comparing statistics from historical control grou...

Culturally Specific Diabetes Management Helps Low-Income Patients

...“bad cholesterol”) and blood pressure are commonly managed risk factors among diabetes patients. The study appears in the latest online issue of Health Services Research. The clinical team included a registered nurse/certified diabetes educator and a medical assistant and a registered dietitian who were...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

...e cancer can be viewed as a lifetime disease to be managed much like AIDS is looked at now. This would be major shift from the current paradigm for cancer treatment, and is a promising area of research. This study must be viewed cautiously, however, as we are comparing statistics from historical control grou...

Max Planck Researchers Incorporate Odorant Receptors into Artificial Membranes

...n the lab. However, Max Planck scientists have now managed to incorporate in-vitro synthesized membrane proteins directly into artificial lipid membranes. The senses of living organisms function using various mechanisms, among other things utilizing membrane proteins as receptors. Researchers at the Max Pl...

Doctors Still Deny Older Patients Tests and Treatment

...ests or prescribe treatment. Patients over 65 were managed differently from those who were younger. The findings are based on a survey of almost 90 general practitioners, specialists in care of the elderly, and cardiologists from across Southern England and the Midlands. Participants were specifically qu...

India Lags Far Behind in Controlling Maternal Deaths

...s like Bangladesh, Gautemala and Morocco that have managed to arrest this trend. India's Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, was 301 in 2002 and 2003. According to the Sample Registration Survey (SRS), 70,000 women die every year in India but UNICEF says ...

Malaria and TB Kills Indian Kids in Brazil

...nous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COAIB) managed the Manaus Special Indigenous Peoples' Sanitary District (DSEI) and was responsible for treating the indigenous people in that region. As the contract was not renewed, Funasa took on the obligation of providing these services to the settlements in ...

Scientists Find Potential Weakness In Plague Germ

...otein. When mice were exposed to it, the bacterium managed to begin infection normally but the disease never progressed into the second phase and the mice were not dying from pneumonia. The mice did eventually die, but it took much longer and probably resulted from a bloodstream infection. Goldman said t...

IRS Helps Curb Malaria in the Tropics

...riculture] DDT is very effective, but it has to be managed correctly.” Each IRS treatment lasts between four to twelve months. The effectiveness of the spray depends on the type of house and construction material. Lluberas explains that the insecticidal sprays lasts longer in homes built with mud thatch a...

Scientists Assess Risk of Flu Pandemic Spread Via Global Airlines

...sharing of resources, which could be organized and managed by the World Health Organization, as an efficient way to deal with an emerging influenza pandemic waiting for vaccine development. Source-Newswise...

TEMPE Spray Delays Ejaculation

...elivers a combination of lidocaine and prilocaine, managed to delay ejaculation by just under an extra four minutes after using the product" reports Professor Wallace Dinsmore from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. "Meanwhile the control group, who were prescribed a placebo (dummy) spray, increased the...

AIIMS Creates Record by Completing 100 Four-arm Robotic Surgeries

...units of blood but by using this technique we have managed to achieve much precision and success. It has increased the comfort level of the doctors and further minimised the chance of technical and human error," he added. "It can perform cancer surgeries with better accuracy and of blockages in the kidney ...

New Generation - Medicinal Products

...chemistry (CNRS/University Toulouse 3), has indeed managed to develop a novel synthetic process for these materials, which significantly increases their diversity. Some biodegradable polymers such as polyesters have already been employed as excipients in pharmacology. But this was only possible when they w...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

...eight-month-old kid died in her arms. Although she managed to take her daughter from her impoverished Sagmal village //to the Barwani District Hospital, it was too late. 'Still we tried our best,' said a senior doctor in the hospital, adding it was a case of severe malnutrition. 'But the child had stopped r...

Accuracy of Gene Expression Test for Heart Transplant Patients Confirmed

...dentify low-risk patients who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods and who may benefit from being more aggressively weaned off intensive immunosuppressive regimens that are associated with serious side effects. 'Additional clinical roles for this new mode of transplantation rejection monit...

Indian Students Thrilled to Talk to Sunita Williams

... from Chandigarh had proved to be fruitful as they managed to see as well as interact with the astronauts. The students said a polite "Thank you" at the end of every question they asked and were very attentive. Sunita, who was attired in a sky-blue half-sleeves shirt and grey shorts, smiled before answer...

Tamil Nadu Checks AIDS Spread

...t of HIV/AIDS most-affected states, Tamil Nadu has managed to keep the numbers of infected from growing, than...by the Voluntary Health Services, has in two years managed to reach out to 50,000 male and female sex workers in the state with help from 25 NGOs. "TAI addre...

Scientists Come Up With A Powerful Weapon To Fight Drug Resistant Bacteria

...or the other. And, as if this was not enough, they managed to design these new synthetic peptides (protein fragments) to contain only four amino acids, as opposed to the 12 - 50 found in their natural forms. These findings will hopefully open up a whole range of potential applications. The short length of...

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