meant 1 6

Tag: "meant" at medical news

Banned Additives Found in Children’s Medicine

...ng or additives should be strictly banned in drugs meant for children under three. This study also indicated the presence of chemicals like four different azo dye colourings, eight benzoate and two sulphite preservatives and six types of artificial sweetener. Azo dyes which were found in Anbesol teething...

Drugs to Tackle Anemia may Be Playing Dracula

...lly engineered drugs, erythtropoietins//, that are meant to counteract anemia. These drugs, such as Epo, are given to patients suffering from anemia caused by chemotherapy and kidney failure. They are hormone-based drugs, usually derived from kidneys. It was seen that there was a more than a warra...

No Survival Benefit for CT Screening for Lung Cancer

...or lung cancer compared to what was expected. This meant that as a direct result of the test, an additional 99 people were diagnosed with lung cancer and an additional 98 had lung surgery. However, the early detection and treatment did not change the death rate. There were 38 deaths due to lung cancer, and...

Hope for Obese Canines

...ug can only be got when prescribed by a vet and is meant to be used only as recommended. Yet what vets hope for, is a final change in owner’s habits as is it primarily due to over- feeding and negligence in exercising their dog, that leads to most canines piling on the pounds. Says Vet Grant Petrie: "T...

Chemicals Used To Make Synthetic Color Can Cause Cancer And Permanent Blindness

...micals. Many of these colors sold are in fact dyes meant for industrial use, i.e. dyes for textiles, hence, not suitable for “Human Application”. But none the less, they are still sold openly in markets. With not licensing required and no governing body to oversee quality, the situation has been getting wo...

EU Commission to Set Up Rapid Action Team

... team of professionals from various disciplines//, meant to deal with sudden and dangerous outbreaks of ani...er necessary investigations. The expert team is meant to be on-call duty any time an emergency occurs and to be ready to move within 24 to 36 hours to the...

Garlic-Not So Good Anymore

...supplement industry group, counters that garlic is meant as an aid in maintaining good cholesterol levels in an already healthy population. According to him, garlic can keep people from developing high cholesterol. Mary Charlson and Marcus McFerren, of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, in an edit...

Low-risk Prostate Cancer Patients Prefer Surgery Over ‘active Surveillance

...en, only 28 opted for 'active surveillance', which meant electronic rectal examinations along with PSA testing and biopsy. The remaining men preferred to undergo surgery which removes the prostate gland. In the opinion of the researchers, low-risk patients opt for surgery as they are unsure of the method...

Dummy Emergency Operation Launched

...lu epidemic hitting the nation and the exercise is meant to train medical and health professionals to handle the situation. Usually bird flu refers to the virus found chiefly in birds, but infections with these viruses have occurred in humans since 1997, in Asia, parts of Europe, the Near East and Africa...

Infant Amnesia-not Anymore, Says Experts

... i.e. before the age of 3, that incident must have meant a lot to you.// Science has always pondered over 'infant amnesia' -inability to remember the past. It was put down to babies being unable to form memories. Yet researchers from Duke University, who presented their findings at the American Associa...

Arsenic Compound Effective in Treating Rare Leukemia

...ere were good days and bad days, the support I got meant I never completely lost hope,” she said. She is now looking forward to many long and productive years with her family, friends and colleagues. br>Source-Newswise SRM...

Record Donation to Children’s Hospita

...ic in Canada. The remaining 5 million dollars is meant to expand infrastructure and research at the Labatt brain tumor center, which has made groundbreaking strides in the field of cancer stem cell research since it opened 10 years ago. John Buckle, whose six-year old daughter, Brianna, was born with...

Marked Increase of Cancer Cases Among Aging Population

... organised mammography screening programmes, which meant that more cancers were detected, and at an earlier stage. "These programmes have the short-term consequence of increasing the incidence, which has risen by 16% since our latest 2004 estimates." Despite the benefit of screening programmes, he said tha...

Health Workers Need Better Preparation for Developing World

...they worked. In many cases, shortages of resources meant that these problems could not be addressed – for example poverty led to families being forced to sell malaria nets, and HIV was not addressed because of the cost of testing and medication. Eight out of ten respondents said that national government...

Stem Cell Banking Evokes Mixed Response

... are generally used for everyone, private ones are meant for the families of the donors. According to Professor Robin Lovell-Badge of Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research, the use of these stem cells can only be limited to treat a set of disorders of the blood. But the embryo...

US, Indian Doctors Bag Thai Medical Awards

...ake of goodness, because such achievements are not meant for any individual but for the benefit of mankind as a whole". The ORS, consisting of salt, sugar and water, was introduced in 1960s as a simple, low-cost and easily accessible solution to treat dehydration from cholera and diarrhoea. Since earl...

Drugs Policy, Turning a Blind Eye?

... has to make hard choices I really didn’t think it meant allowing people to go blind."br>SV...

Anemia Drugs to Be Taken With Caution

...ons is bound to be safe. Generally EPO drugs are meant for people undertaking chemotherapy or radiation. But as per Amgen, this drug has also been prescribed for patients who are not undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. Hence clear information on the conditions in which these EPO drugs to be used wou...

Thailand Goes Ahead With Licenses for Generic Drugs

... According to the Health Minister, the drugs are meant for treating HIV-AIDS and heart disease. He did not elaborate on whether the drugs would be generic substitutes to products from Abbott, Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Elaborating on the reasons behind such a move, he said, "We have to do...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

...ical Research Award. The beavertail modification meant that 95 per cent of the 20 patients who completed the study (there were 36 originally) were able to swallow successfully after one year of tongue reconstruction. Only one patient still had problems with swallowing. The surgery involves removing th...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10