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Preventing Vision Loss

... of these people could avoid advanced AMD over the next five years if they took the vitamin supplements recommended by the earlier study. They write, "Avoiding the development of advanced AMD can have a major effect on the quality of life for an individual ... These data suggest that the recommendations ...

Diabetes cases could double in developing countries in next 30 years

...es is likely to increase more than two-fold in the next 30 years, from 115 million in 2000 to 284 //million in 2030. WHO has marked World Diabetes Day, 14 November, 2003, with a commitment to increase its efforts to reduce the impact of diabetes and its complications, particularly among low- and middle-in...

Preventing Vision Loss

... of these people could avoid advanced AMD over the next five years if they took the vitamin supplements recommended by the earlier study. They write, "Avoiding the development of advanced AMD can have a major effect on the quality of life for an individual ... These data suggest that the recommendations ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...d, the compromise came in at $395 billion over the next decade, $5 billion less than the amount set aside for the package under the fiscal 2004 budget outline, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis. That gave the plan's drafters room to sweeten the proposed drug benefit in a bid to further...

Senate assures ban on smoking

... homeowner would see an $800 property tax increase next year. As many as 50 other communities around the s... of time the tax hikes homeowners are sure to face next year, whether legislators eventually approve Menino's measure or not....

Prevention of Vision Loss

... of these people could avoid advanced AMD over the next five years if they took the vitamin supplements recommended by the earlier study.Thus researchers conclude, “Avoiding the development of advanced AMD can have a major effect on the quality of life for an individual ... These data suggest that the rec...

Free Tissue Transfer Effective in Treating Massive Skin Cancers

... and repair the damage using flaps of skin located next to the cancerous area. In some cases, however, facial skin cancer goes untreated for a long period of time and therefore grows to a massive size. In others, patients have recurring skin cancers on the face that cause significant disfigurement. Rep...

Stronger Backing for Drug-Coated Stents

... of patients.” He says drug-eluting stents are the next major step in interventional cardiology. In an ac...g ‘real world’ angioplasty.” He concludes that the next step should be a mandatory registry established by the Food and Drug Administration to report proble...

Drug-Coated Stents – Proven to be More Effectiv

...ording to researchers ,drug-eluting stents are the next major step in interventional cardiology. Researchers, say their results “go a long way in re-assuring the practitioner that drug-eluting stents are in fact safe and effective in a wide variety of patients undergoing ‘real world’ angioplasty.”...

Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough

...chers say the most dramatic health benefits in the next half-century will happen when the number of smokers who quit significantly increase....

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

... or coronary artery disease. Researchers say the next step should be to do randomized clinical trials in which half of a group of patients gets a statin and half gets a placebo and they feel that the results of this study could indeed lead to a novel treatment for heart disease....

The Answer To Prevent Osteoporosis

... on the drug continued to receive the drug for the next two years. Then for the next five years, women on 5 milligrams or 10 milligrams of the drug continued with the drug at the same d...

Lung Therapy Found To Have Long-Term Side Effects

... for one week. Then, the dose was tapered over the next three weeks. Results of the study showed children in the dexamethasone group had significantly poorer motor skills, motor coordination and visual-motor integration than those who did not receive the therapy. Children in the dexamethasone group were...

The Cause Of Visual Problems Different From Race To Race

...ual disabilities will increase markedly during the next 20 years, owing largely to the aging of the U.S. population....

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...itta says. The test could become available in the next five years. Patients often don't experience symptoms before they are diagnosed with kidney cancer. However, some patients will experience back pain, abdominal pain, or blood in their urine before diagnosis....

Genetic Breakthrough in Common Eye Problem

...fect 2 percent of the total. Researchers say the next step is to produce cell cultures and animal models that have the mutations identified in the study....

New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine

...s say clinical trials could be possible within the next two to three years.In laboratory tests using rabbits exposed to a lethal dose of inhalation anthrax, nasal immunization with the powder resulted in an 83-percent to 100-percent survival rate. The results are similar to the protection offered by the i...

Gel Offers A More Targeted Approach

...ions simulating a human body. However they say the next step is to conduct in vivo studies of the hydrogel system so it can be modified to produce oral pills....

Dogs Can Sense Bladder Cancer

.... The dogs identified their chosen sample by lying next to it in nine separate tests. The dogs detected the bladder cancer samples 22 out of 54 times, 27-percent more than would be expected by chance alone. Results of the study showed that the dogs' capacity to recognize an odor characteristic of bladde...

Tissue Transfer For Treatment Of Massive Skin Cancers

... and repair the damage using flaps of skin located next to the cancerous area. In some cases, however, facial skin cancer goes untreated for a long period of time and therefore grows to a massive size. In others, patients have recurring skin cancers on the face that cause significant disfigurement. Repai...

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