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The Link Between Hepatitis B Vaccine And Multiple Sclerosis Questioned

... three-times more likely to develop MS // over the next three years than those who were not vaccinated. While this finding is disturbing, the investigators emphasize the overall effect of the vaccine on the development of MS was small -- 93 percent of MS patients in the study had not received the vaccina...

Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk

...itored for the progression of their disease. “The next step is to develop an effective therapy for treating high-grade PIN before prostate cancer has a chance to take root,” say specialists ....

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...ye ointment. Researchers measured results over the next two years by testing residents for evidence of the bacteria. Results showed the treatment was overwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less than 1 percent. Thus researchers say their r...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...ye ointment. Researchers measured results over the next two years by testing residents for evidence of the bacteria. Results showed the treatment was overwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less than 1 percent. Thus researchers say their r...

Common Infections Found To Raise An Individuals Risk Of Having A Heart Attack Or Stroke

... of having a heart attack or // stroke within the next few days, say researchers based on findings of a recent study. Previous work has linked chronic inflammation, which occurs anytime we have an infection, to atherosclerosis, or clogging of the arteries. Since vaccines produce an immune response to pa...

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...ogramme by 2005. However achieving this target by next year is likely to be a very big challenge for WHO. Source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2004/pr93/en/Contact:debenoistb@who.int ...

Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

... until very late at night and to wake up early the next morning. But melatonin supplements may decrease sleep onset latency—the time it takes to fall asleep after going to bed—in persons with primary sleep disorders such as insomnia, although the magnitude of the effect appears to be limited.Melatonin sup...

The Bio-probe –“ Boon to women ?

...done by the patient at home conveniently. Over the next six months to 12 months, researchers will gather data to figure out whether the probe is as effective as a Pap test. If it is, this small device could make a big difference. The bio-probe was originally created to measure changes in the menstrual cy...

The Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis And Heart Failure

...ay be one of the reasons. Thus researchers say the next step is for researchers to determine what measures rheumatoid arthritis patients can take in preventing heart failure....

Preventing 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...

Drug Used To Improve Lung Function In Infants Could Slow Down Motor Coordination

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

Vaccine for Cervical cancer

...may be available to general population as early as next year, will bring relief to many dying from this disease. Researchers of Brazil and US had conducted the trials jointly. The results of this study was published in latest issue of The Lancet Oncology. Reference: The Lancet Oncology, issue April 200...

WHO says damage to eco systems are affecting human health

...fect to human health and may cause greater harm in next 50 years. Diseases such as malaria and cholera are threatening to cause a major outbreak and new diseases are emerging because of 60% of the beneficial factors of the eco system are being used in unsustainable way. The report emphasizes that the li...

Infections in childhood may lead to adult heart disease

...searchers have however warned the parents that the next time their children have an infection, they should not think in terms of an impending cardiac arrest. Studies are still at a preliminary level to make such a conclusion. It is still not known which infections cause the stiffness of arteries in child...

Smoking may affect multiple sclerosis

...years. Over the years, the patient may go into the next phase called secondary progressive multiple sclero...hances of 3.6 times more of smokers to go into the next phase of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis than in a person who have never smoked....

New medicine for ovarian cancer

A medication called RAD001 may be the next drug that can stop the growth and spread of ovarian cancer cells.//The new medication targets an enzyme known as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). The drug stopped the cells so that they cannot divide anymore or move o a different location and sp...

Depression is associated with high risk for heart disease

...sted for people who went on to have the disease in next five years. For this group the level of inflammatory markers of types C-reactive protein (CRP); fibrinogen; interleukin-6 (IL6); and adhesion cellular molecule -1 (ICAM-1) were also at a high level. 28% of the people of the high-risk group expressed ...

Low grade prostate cancer may be treated with mild treatment

...state cancer has a very less risk of developing in next 20 years. Scientists have treated men in the age of to 74 years who were diagnosed with clinically localized prostate cancer conservatively. They have used either observation or immediate or delayed androgen withdrawal therapy. The patients were obs...

Grandmother’s diet in pregnancy can affect grandchildren’s blood sugr

...ode of the fetus that may affect the health of the next few generations. Their research had provided evide...n be passed genetically from mother to daughter to next generation of offspring’s, especially the expression of several chronic diseases like obesity and di...

Patients with long ICU stay may be at risk from dying

...arious cardiac surgery procedures and survived the next 30 days and compared them with the medical history of similar patients but who were discharged 48 hours after the surgery. The research showed that patients who spend on an average about 11 days post operation in the intensive care survived longer t...

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