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New Drug Found To Benefit Patients With Osteoarthritis

... found to reduces gastric complications that often occur with other treatments. It is common for doctors to prescribe non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce pain in patients with osteoarthritis . However, the side effects of these drugs can cause gastrointestinal ulcer complications...

Water borne diseases, need caution

...the rainy season as as water stagnation and floods occur through out the country,Water Borne diseases are more prevalent.//Experts attending the workshop on 'water microbiology' stressed the need to regularly test water sources and confirm their purity, as water supplies were contaminated with sewage as we...

Negative Emotions Could Lead To Stroke

...types of strokes, which are among the most common, occur when blood flow to the brain is reduced. All the participants were interviewed between one and four days after having the stroke to see if they had experienced any anger, strong emotions, or sudden change in body position prior to the stroke. More ...

The Link Between COPD And Osteoporosis

...as also linked to loss of fat-free mass, which can occur in COPD patients even if they maintain a normal body mass index. In this study, 17 patients were found to have lower-than-normal fat-free mass while still having normal BMIs. Researchers also linked elevated markers of cellular protein breakdown with...

Risk Of Developing Infections High In Patients Who Suffer From Abdominal Trauma

...e death rate from these types of infections, which occur in 2 percent to 9 percent of cases, can be more than 50 percent if the diagnosis is delayed after multiple organ failure develops....

Another Cause of Thyroid Cancer Discovered

...ents who are exposed to radiation the gene changes occur in the RET gene. In both cases, the gene changes or mutations transform normal cells into malignant cells. A recent study has uncovered a novel gene mutation , researchers say part of the AKAP9 gene and the BRAF gene are involved. The fusion of thes...

More Treatment Options For Malaria

...who do make it to the hospital, half of the deaths occur within the first day of admission. Most anti-malaria drugs are given by injection, making it difficult to administer outside of a hospital. In order to more effectively treat malaria and save lives, researchers say more treatment options need to be ...

Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Effectively Treated With Chemotherapy

...r older, and about half of new breast cancer cases occur in the age group. Thus researchers conclude saying that based on their data clinicians should be encouraged to offer healthy older patients participation in newer trials....

New Screening Method Found To Detect Testicular Cancer In Its Initial Stages

... year nearly 13,200 new cases of testicular cancer occur and it is the most common cancer in men between ages 20 and 39. More than 90 percent of the cases can be cured, especially if it is caught early. // However, it is often difficult to detect the cancer before it starts to spread. Researchers now say t...

Teens and women are more at risk of getting sunburned

...e to sunburn than others. Maximum sunburn seems to occur at the age of 20 yrs, while more women volunteers got sunburned than their male counterparts. People who were more sun exposed were more sunburned, while exposure in the hours of 12 noon to 3 pm caused most sunburn. Reference: Archives of Dermatolo...

Brain cells associated with insomnia and obesity

If sleeplessness and obesity occur concurrently, then this may be due to the hypocretin or orexin cells in the //hypothalamus region of the brain. These cells are easily excitable and sensitive to stress. In daily stressful living these cells in the brain may be over excited and mai...

Heart rate can predict the risk of sudden death

...of the opinion that sudden death is more likely to occur if the healthy people tend to have abnormal heart rate profiles during exercise and recovery. Researchers had looked into the heart beat profile of 5713 asymptomatic working men of ages between 42 and 53 years who had undergone standardized graded e...

Teen depression maybe short lived

...ions at the age of 15 or 20. Recurring depressions occur in teens with poor social relationships at the age of 15. Also children of depressive mothers are at a higher risk than others, while girls tend to be at a greater risk from depression than boys. The results of the study were presented at the Americ...

Spray on contraceptive clears Phase I trial

... as gastric irritability due to changes in pH that occur with oral dosing and variable transit times in the gut resulting in rapid fluctuations in plasma concentrations....

Developmental Origins of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

... consequences of metabolic programming events that occur during foetal development; we may need to look further back up the generations and look at more factors than previously considered; and finally, adverse events for one generation may have reproductive implications for the next....

Tumour marker for detecting early Recurrence of Thyroid cancer may be soon available

...detected in 2005, with 19,190 of those expected to occur in women. 1,490 people are expected to die of the disease. Reference:Ernest L. Mazzaferri, OSU emeritus professor and chairman of medicine, was a co-author of the study. Contact: Darrell E. Ward:Ward-15@medctr.osu.edu614-293-3737, Ohio State nive...

PET scans can detect the results of cognitive behavior therapy

...ccessfully detect the changes in the brain // that occur following the cognitive behavior therapy in patients. Researchers behind the study feel that this may prove that cognitive behavior therapy can bring about changes in the brain chemical levels that will get long lasting results in patients like those...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

... the result of re-infection, which would no longer occur if infection was effectively prevented. Doxycyclin has been used a safe and cheap drug and has been around for many years. however a note of caution is warranted when it is used in children. In them it may cause irreparable damage to the teeth and...

FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Tysabri, a New Drug for MS

...ved therapy, new and unexpected adverse events may occur that were not seen in clinical trials. In the case of Tysabri, required post-marketing studies facilitated the rapid reporting and response to this new information. According to Biogen, Idec, outside of the approximately 3,000 patients who received ...

AIDS - The ‘silent but lethal tsunami’ of Asia

...ad is rapid and deadly. One in four new infections occur in Asia every day. 1,500 persons effected with the virus die here every day. What is extremely alarming is that the disease has already spread into several provinces of the world’s most populated country – China. India too is not far behind; it’s nam...

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