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Combined modality approach for effective treatment and enhanced survival in bile duct cancer

...on enables surgeons to remove the entire liver and obtain better tumor clearance. Patients treated with transplantation have enjoyed a higher likelihood of prolonged survival than those treated with the conventional operation. Patients receive high dose external beam radiation therapy, followed by high do...

Chest Pain Can Be Identified By New Tracer Chemical 30 Hours After Pain Relief

...he procedure so valuable is that it is possible to obtain the required information without disturbing the normal bodily functions. Ever since the introduction of nuclear medicine in diagnosis, it has been possible to identify any structural and functional abnormality in various organs. It has now been d...

Using Eyes As The Line Of Reference For Fetal Brain Imaging

... can move during the study, making it difficult to obtain the required imaging views, especially when study ..., whereas in the past, it took several attempts to obtain the diagnostic images needed. Also, the total examination time, using the modified technique is now ...

Enjoy Moderate Exercise and Keep Your Heart Fit

...patients to engage in regular exercise in order to obtain pulmonary and cardiovascularbenefits.”...

HIV Mortality declining in India due to Generic Antiretroviral therapy drugs

...nfected people living in India have been unable to obtain treatment due to the high cost. Prior to 2000 only 22% of HIV positive patients could afford ART drugs which has risen to 44% of patients getting ART drugs from 2003 and the affordability is rising. Opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis, a ...

Bortezomib for salvage therapy against progressive myeloma

...ogeneous previous regimens. Therefore, in order to obtain more careful information about the efficacy and tolerability of this drug in more homogeneously and less heavily pre-treated patients, researchers from Italy focused on the effects of bortezomib on a selected cohort of MM patients who had progressive...

Severe Hypoglycemia And Spatial Memory In Children With Type 1 Diabetes

...ey combined data from three independent studies to obtain a sample of children aged 6–18 years with type 1 diabetes and nondiabetic control subjects. Each study evaluated previous severe hypoglycemia and tested short and long delay spatial memory with the spatial delayed response task. Type 1 diabetic par...

Researchers finding link between malaria susceptibility and genetic makeup

...malaria-endemic area in Kenya for which they could obtain the necessary data. In one case, they determined incidence of mild clinical malaria in 640 children over a period of 5 years. For the second part, they monitored severe malaria that led to hospitalization and non-malaria hospitalizations in 2,900 chi...

Relief For British MS Patients: Cannabis-Based Oral Spray

...ada. // Patients in Britain will soon be able to obtain an unlicensed, cannabis-based medicine on prescription to treat multiple sclerosis and possibly rheumatoid arthritis even though it is yet to be licensed in the UK. The Home Office has allowed the mouth spray drug to be imported for individual patien...

A Change In Lifestyle Can Help In Weight Reduction

...activity and one of the best ways to do that is to obtain a pedometer to count steps and gradually increase daily walking. One limitation of the study is that it only included obese patients who were otherwise healthy and excluded obese patients with health problems possibly related to their obesity, such...

Radiation And Chemotherapy, A Better Option For Head And Neck Cancer

...t of patients who underwent radiation were able to obtain essential nutrients orally, while only 64 percent of the laryngectomy patients were able to do so, “The overall survival rate is high for both sets of patients but those patients who respond well to the initial treatments and can avoid the surgery a...

Birth Weight of Babies Important Predictor for Salt Preference

...differences in liking for salty taste, and hope to obtain needed insights into the underlying factors driving salt preference and intake. Perhaps, individuals with high blood pressure could even use the results of the experiment for more effective strategies to reduce salt intake....

Mother Claims Hefty Compensation For Failed Abortion Of Twins

...Jayde. She suffers an impediment in her ability to obtain employment in consequence of her care for the child," the lawsuit states. Ms Dow herself says that the hospital should have checked more thoroughly if they were aware that she was having twins. "They ought to have known the contraceptive jag could ha...

Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated

...ion would be extracted. This would be processed to obtain two different types of cells; mesenchymal stem cells capable of differentiating into bone, cartilage, fat cells, neurons and hematopoietic stem cells capable of differentiating into blood cells. This would be followed by processing of the mesenchym...

Australian Health funds stand accused

...oducing by the Government, funds no longer have to obtain commonwealth permission to increase premiums unless they are seeking a price rise beyond inflation. An Australian Private Hospital Association spokesman said despite health funds securing substantial premium increases year after year and citing hos...

Kiwi veterinarians angry Over Doctor's Advice

...lderly audience that New Zealand vets could easily obtain the drug, but they would be taking a big risk supplying it. Nembutal is registered as a prescription-only medicine in New Zealand. Medical Association chairman Ross Boswell said the drug was "rarely, if ever" dished out by doctors and most chemists...

Drug Database Goes On Air

...of difficulty. It was very time consuming as to obtain the information one has to go through a large volume of book, journals and electronic databases. These have to be searched, accessed, compared, written or run over which took about four years for the database to be complete. Drug Bank is also lendi...

Bird Flu Threat Prompts Stockpiling Of Food And Medicine In America

...ntial shortcomings with their family physician and obtain the required amount of medicinal supply to avoid shortage during a pandemic. The practical implementation of this request is unclear due to problems associated with procurement of medicines through private insurance plans. The above initiative, a r...

Nearly 15% Of U.S. Workers Work Under The Influence Of Alcohol

...ent agencies were interviewed through telephone to obtain information about use of alcohol and the associated impairment of work, over the past 12 months. The study sample was designed to represent the working population of the U.S. between 18 and 65 years of age. The study participants were asked about t...

Sperm Retrieval, Difficult in Klinefelter’s Syndrome Patients after 35 Year

... sperm in semen). They found that it was easy to obtain sperms from testicular tissue in 26 patients but failed to extract the sperms in case of 25 men. The patients from whom sperm retrieval was possible were all in the average age of 31 years and in the failed case were all in the average age of 38 ye...

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