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Relief For British MS Patients: Cannabis-Based Oral Spray

...icensed in the UK. The Home Office has allowed the mouth spray drug to be imported for individual patients in exceptional cases, provided their clinician believes they will benefit. The Home Office has agreed to requests from doctors and patients to allow Sativex to be imported from Canada, where it has b...

Smoking and mouth cancer

...te adolescents about the effects of smoking on the mouth and in particular its relation to oral cancer. “Sm...are also educating their parents about smoking and mouth cancer,” Hutchinson points out. It is estimated that about 4,300 new cases of oral cancer occur in ...

India - Favored Orthopedics Surgery Destination

...alth service in the UK, USA and Canada.. Word of mouth publicity and the Internet are proving the biggest connecting links as they are able to help establish patient confidence in the surgeon even before they meet, said 38-year-old Cara Maria Gudeus of Las Vegas. For the real estate developer the decisio...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...ation of malignant or pre-malignant cells from the mouth could represent important therapies for dentists, oral health professionals and oncology specialists to prevent and treat oral diseases, he said. Oral cancer is fast emerging as one of the leading cancers n the world thanks to the killer called Tob...

Vegetarian Food may protect against cancer

... is found to be effective against infection of the mouth which may lead to stomach and oral cancers. An other study has shown that the chemicals in the sprouts have found to be effective in reducing the incidence of stomach cancers and skin cancer. Large number of recent research has focused on the use o...

Novel drug holds promise for treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

...tients. Patients received 25mg of dnaJP1 daily by mouth for six months, and the treatment was found to be safe and well-tolerated. When compared with a placebo, patients in the treatment group experienced lessening of symptoms such as swollen joints, tenderness, pain and decreased mobility. Improvement wa...

Role Of Tobacco In Development Of Oral Cancer And Heart Disease

...d in stained teeth, bone loss, shrinking gums, and mouth sores besides reducing the acuity of the taste and smell. Tobacco has general consequences as well. Almost 50 percent of all coronary heart disease (CHD)-related deaths can be attributed to smoking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says...

Sunlight For Healthy Gums And Teeth

... the disease as an overreaction to bacteria in the mouth that causes damage to the bone and the soft tissues that support the teeth." The best way to lower this risk is to make sure that you get adequate amount of exposure to the sun so that the body is able to replenish its Vitamin D reserves. "Too much ...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

... a well-known fact. This habit does not spare your mouth as well.// Besides conferring the peculiar smokers' breath, chronic smoking injures the teeth, causing the distinctive brownish black discoloration and harms the gums as well. The frequency of tooth loss in chronic smokers' has been well documented. ...

Drinking, Smoking And Unhealthy Food Linked To Mouth Cancer In Young People

... young people are increasingly getting affected by mouth disease and mouth cancer. The reasons have been linked to increased smoking, drinking and eating of unhealthy foods by...

Younger People More Susceptible To Gum Disease

... develops only after mid 30s. Inflammation in the mouth caused by such infections can lead to similar inflammatory disorders in other parts of the body, thereby leading to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and obstetric complications. Investigators studied data gathered from 400 people and analyzed h...

Understanding The Role Of Olfaction In Taste

...om the outside world, while sensing it through the mouth - or "retronasally" - causes the perception that i...e eating or drinking which blocks airflow from the mouth through the olfactory system - stops flavour perception and releasing the nose restores the sense of...

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

... use of mouthguards can help protect children from mouth injuries. Mouthguards help cushion blows that mi...ance on their lower jaw, the dentist may suggest a mouth protector for those teeth as well. Kids suffer thousands of injuries each year on the playing fiel...

Fight against Fungus - A new ray of hope

...ally cause infections in places like toenails, the mouth & the vagina. Fungi can however travel into the body in patients with weakened immune systems and cause a disease called candidiasis. Patients who are most vulnerable to candidiasis are those who are HIV-positive, those who have received organ trans...

Brain defect may play role in stammering

...veloped pathway connecting language areas with the mouth motor output areas, in the brain. Weiller felt that, they know now where to look for treatment. So far, some believed an overactive right hemisphere would be the problem, which would have resulted in a suppression of right hemisphere activity. Our re...

Fight oral cancer with gene therapy mouthwash

...ral cancer by destroying suspicious growths in the mouth before they become malignant. The idea is to attac...ous patches, as well as those who already have had mouth cancer and risk recurrence. This shows that in future we shall have mouthwash to fight cancer...

New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

...s when bacteria infect the gum or the bones of the mouth to cause inflammations and pain, and at times may result in tooth loss. More on Medindia: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ PatientInfo/menopause.asp ...

Red Color Causes The Allergic Reaction To Strawberries

... to red strawberries - itching and swelling in the mouth and throat - are often able to eat white strawberr...ften causes itchiness and swollen areas around the mouth and the throat. For those who suffer from this form of food allergy, only white strawberries do not ...

Post-Menopausal Status May Cause Tooth Decay

...eria, acid, food debris, and saliva combine in the mouth to form a sticky substance called plaque that adheres to the teeth. For more information on Tooth decay: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/toothdecay.asp ...

Britney Spears Donates $50 000 To Support Cancer Patients

... known as Oral Cancer The oral cavity includes the mouth and all the structures within it, such as the tongue, teeth, gums, lower jaw etc.Cancer is an abnormal disorganized growth of cells in the tissue of a person. Cancer cells keep on multiplying without paying head to the body's command to stop. This ab...

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