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Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...t of their bodies. None suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, who led the study, said more research is needed to show how much the preserved body mass strengthens patients and boosts recovery. But he believes t...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...on in later life. Dr Glover said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development. "One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormones such as nor-adrenalin, which is known to constrict the blood vessels and decrease blood flow," she said. "Another possible mecha...

Fructose cause digestive problems

...markers for fructose intolerance. More research is needed to confirm the link between fructose and gastrointestinal problem - but, in the meantime, a low fructose diet may provide relief for patients with IBS-type symptoms....

Detection of Cancer

...Professor Parish cautions that further research is needed to evaluate this possibility. The second stage, C-Test2, would use a similar technique to identify the type of cancer present."Mass spectrometry may enable us to identify a molecular 'signature' unique to each cancer and therefore give us a way of d...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...r's age. The researchers said further work was now needed to be done to identify exactly why the sperm mutations occur, and how they can be spotted....

Beer does good

...sponsible for converting glucose// into the energy needed by cells to function properly. When the mitochondria found in the cells of the outer lens of eye are damaged in this way it can lead to the development of cataracts. Dr John Trevithick, who presented the research to the International Chemical Confe...

FDA Approves New HIV Drug, Viread

...ke Viread, such drugs work by blocking the process needed for HIV replication in the body. But Viread is the first nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor to be approved for treatment of HIV in the US. As a result//, it may offer a treatment option for patients whose infections have become resis...

A Chinese herb kills cancer cells

...- death within just eight hours. What is basically needed now is some rigorous animal studies - observations to date suggest that the new drug may be very effective, but more research is needed....

Unsatisfactory Grade On Women's Health Issues

...thcare services and increasing the availability of needed healthcare providers. After the release of the report, four states made improvements in women's access to health coverage, while five states improved benefits for pregnant women. Many states improved health screenings for women's cancers. Still, fe...

Recovery from lung injury

... 20 per cent for those over 60. The older patients needed more time on the ventilator and longer in intensive care. And the survival rate tended to decrease with each decade of age. The researchers conclude that age should not be a factor in deciding whether a patient needs a ventilator....

New treatment for diabetics

... in the pancreas that produce the hormone insulin, needed to control blood sugar levels. It usually develops early in life, and sufferers may need at least one insulin injection every day. Type 2, or non-insulin dependent diabetes is the most common form of the disease, and usually affects people later in...

Asprin aids in pregnancy

...y have to be reconsidered. "More analysis would be needed to clarify the optimal dose of aspirin and the best time to start the drug in pregnancy....

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

... few operations. Dr Spiegelhalter says caution is needed in interpreting his findings because the data sources are not of a high quality and rely on individual hospital reporting rates. He says the policy lessons to be drawn from the study are unclear and that it does not necessarily follow that concentrat...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...id the work nevertheless suggests that research is needed to determine if a link exists between diets high in processed meats and the incidence of heart disease and cancer. Approximately 16 million Americans are thought to have diabetes. About 90 percent of the cases are type 2, or adult-onset disease. In...

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

...ugs’ effects on mental sharpness, and more work is needed to determine whether statins really can lower the risk of getting the much dreaded degenerative brain diseae....

Lack of solar radiation causes cancer

...of UV-B on dietary pre-vitamin D. More research is needed to establish the role of such supplements. Meanwhile, a daily walk in the open air might be a good way of ensuring you're not completely cut off from solar radiation, especially if you live in a northern latitude....

Treating eye pain eases migraine

...tudy suggests that treating this may be all that's needed to relieve the migraine itself. According to researchers in Texas, they studied five women with migraine who reported pain in the eye socket. Tests, including brain imaging, revealed that they had trochleitis. Steroid injections reduced the inflamm...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

..., the report indicates. However, more research is needed into the effects of the powder form of the drug in children, and larger studies are needed to confirm the safety of taking the drug in powder form, the authors add....

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...d no better than the older drug, but said patients needed some different options. According to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, FDA received many reports of severe liver toxicity linked to Arava use, including 50 hospitalizations and 10 deaths. Two of the deaths were people in their 20s. Since Arava and methotrexate work...

Vitamins suppress artery injury after transplant

...eir antioxidant effect. Further investigations are needed to reveal whether the benefit of vitamin therapy can be sustained in the long term, to help patients get the most out of their precious transplant....

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