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The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live

...e HIV disease but the side effects on liver forced many to stop treatment. Dr. Chung said the next step would be to see if there are factors that may help doctors predict which HIV infected patients are most at risk for severe liver toxicity with HAART. The idea would be to single out those patients who...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...best. Pimples (acne) spoil the beautiful faces of many and severe acne is characterized by pustular sores and scarring. Only two major therapies are available at the movement to treat them - antibiotics and vitamin A. Both treatments have side effects. Vitamin A therapy in particular has been linked t...

Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

...l remains a controversial treatment in the eyes of many cancer specialists....

Cancer patients turning to Internet for information

...nts are not the only ones ousing the Internet. In many cases, their companions are also performing Web searches to obtain cancer-related information. Dr. Sofia Yakren of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and her colleagues surveyed more than 400 cancer patients and their companions and ...

Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...e of the most prevalent diseases in the world with many ravaging complications, affecting millions of people. Complications can lead to heart disease, eye damage, kidney failure, non healing ulcers all over the body and can also cause complications of the nervous system. Diabetes is caused by the defici...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...eck pain often remains a therapeutic challenge for many practising allopathic medicine. so now the alternative forms of medicine has taken its stride. Acupuncture vs massage for treating pain has been widely debated with some practitioners. Dr. Dominik Irnich of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich ha...

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

...productive Technology (ART). In some countries as many as three percent of children have been conceived using some form of fertility treatment. "These very wanted children are well-adjusted and much loved," Professor Susan Golombok, told a fertility conference. "My parents needed help and I'm grateful t...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...with its colleagues. CML is a disease in which too many white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow...nsplantation is the only known cure. But there are many problems and side effects regarding the tranplantation which makes it more difficult to perform. Gl...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...with its colleagues. CML is a disease in which too many white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow...nsplantation is the only known cure. But there are many problems and side effects regarding the tranplantation which makes it more difficult to perform. Gl...

India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

...ng days. The large number of AIDS cases has lured many companies to develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting innovative approaches to pricing. The anti-AIDS drug market, currently dominated by Mumbai-based Cipla, witnessed the entry of four more pharmaceutical companies incl...

Shock it to Heal!!

...can have Complication as its other name. Among the many complications that a diabetic could have, the dreaded would be the foot ulcer, as damage can be severe enough to require amputation. For diabetics with this dreaded foot ulcer, a boon in disguise would be a new device that delivers a high voltage el...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...anti-AIDS drug segment also witnessed the entry of many more pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals and Zydus Cadilla. Recently, the US based Dade Behring diagnostic company renewed its contract with Ranbaxy, putting an end to the guesswork that the ...

Big and Bright

...ce to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might als...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...rejected approval of Natrecor because it caused so many cases of hypotension rates of 8 percent to 14 percent, depending on the dose used. Hence studies were conducted in another study group of 498 patients with a much smaller dose. This time, low blood pressure struck only about 4 percent of patients. So...

Focus on DNA transcription

...ted in the cell" Erie said.She further added that many cancers involve over or improper expression of genes and some are regulated at the level of transcription.Knowing now that there are two binding sites on the enzyme instead of one will enable scientists to interpret data they collect much more accura...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...ggesting that sperm abnormalities had been present many years before the diagnosis of cancer, they conclude there may be common risk factors for poor sperm quality and testicular cancer and suggest these factors may be present in the developing male foetus....

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

...arried out tests on 500 men who had died suddenly, many of whom had had a cardiac arrest. They found tha... in the general population.// The gene is one of many involved in the blood clotting cascade. Men with HPA-2 Met have blood that is 'stickier' and more pr...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...sk of fatal ovarian cancer. The risk persists for many years after therapy is discontinued, researchers from the American Cancer Society report// in the Journal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 and found ERT (oestrogen replacement thera...

Tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease

...state cancer. They hope it will be just one of the many studies that will be done on the benefits of tea.// Generally tea drinkers are less likely to have heart disease or cancer, although the reason is still unknown. One likely reason is the high levels of antioxidants in tea. Antioxidants, found also...

Genetic influence in menopause

...ol the age of menopause because there are probably many different genes involved....

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