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Pneumonia Effectively Treated with Short-Term Antibiotic Course

... of clear evidence to allow clinicians to know the optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for many common infections. He added, ‘We know that some infections do require long-term therapy to prevent relapse. We know for others that short courses of antibiotics are as good as long courses.’ ‘This concept is ...

Garlic Helps To Reduce Cholesterol in Rats

... in humans and hence the researchers feel that the optimal dose for a 150-pound person would be equivalent to 1.25 ounces of daily dose of raw garlic....

Manual vs. Automated Chest Compression After Cardiac Arrest

...essions is a difficult task. The desire to provide optimal chest compressions led to the development of automated mechanical chest compression devices. The load-distributing band (LDB) is a circumferential chest compression device with an electrically activated constricting band on a short backboard and has ...

IMP3 the Novel Biomarker for Metastatic Cancer

...n be used at initial diagnosis, which would be the optimal time for considering early systemic therapy for those patients whose cancer has a high likelihood of metastasizing. ‘IMP3 testing is a simple, inexpensive and reliable assay that can be easily applied in routine clinical practice,’ explained Jiang...

An analysis of pros and cons of health education at the workplace

...care professionals, provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces, and environments. Source: Newswise ...

Striking a Gold Mine: H5N1 Vaccine may Serve as an Antidote for Mutants and Variants

...ducting the study. The team also showed that the optimal strategy for vaccination of immunologically na?ve individuals will be the use of two doses, which in the ferrets triggered more antibody protection than a single dose. Immunologically na?ve individuals are those whose immune systems have not been sti...

Cancer Survivor Gives Birth To Baby Girl

...logy team to ensure her health and to determine an optimal time to start a family. Although they did not use the eggs she froze before chemotherapy, achieving pregnancy wasn't easy. After multiple miscarriages and the ups and downs of IVF treatments, the husband and wife team worked diligently to pursue a he...

Scientists Discover Non-dietary Therapy For Celiac Diseases

...toxify gluten, our laboratory set out to devise an optimal oral enzyme therapy for celiac sprue by borrowing from nature. In germinating barley seed, gluten serves as a nutritious storage protein that is efficiently digested by enzymes. One enzyme, EP-B2, plays a crucial role in this process by breaking glut...

Study Show Positive Affect Of Music On Intelligence, Mental Health, & Immune System

...ing neural networks in a more united and thus more optimal fashion. Other studies in this volume look at music's positive effects on health and immunity, how music is processed in the brain, the interplay between language and music, and the relationship between our emotions and music....

Misconception on Treatment Options among Prostate Cancer Patients

...er, clinical trials have failed to demonstrate one optimal therapy. Each treatment option has benefits and its own unique and significant adverse side effects. Radical prostatectomy, for example, has only minimal survival benefits compared to even observation, but is associated with complications, such as im...

Fluctuating BP and Stroke Lowered Patient Survival Rate

... that additional studies are needed to clarify the optimal management of blood pressure in the setting of acute ischemic stroke,’ says Latha Stead, M.D., Mayo Clinic emergency medicine specialist and lead author of the study. ‘Until those studies are performed, health care providers should be careful not to ...

Researchers Find Molecular "Brake" to Cell Death

...tosis, or programmed cell death, and they say that optimal anti-cancer therapies should take a two-pronged ap...need ATP for continued functioning, he says. "An optimal cancer therapy should combine both strategies," Tang says. "They should maximize release of CC and m...

Simple Lifestyle Changes May Improve Cognitive Function and Brain Efficiency

...h lifestyle strategy, which may help us develop an optimal combination. (Surce: Newswise)...

University Participating in West Nile Vaccine Trial

...age 18 to 50. The study will also help identify an optimal dosage of the vaccine. "We can learn a lot from it, and we can measure a lot of things that will inform us about how these vaccines work," Wright said. Until an effective vaccine is found, public health officials urge the public to take steps to ...

Marijuana Abuse Responds to Psychotherapy, Overall Is Hard to Treat

...apy.” He said that similar combinations “may prove optimal in the treatment of cannabis dependence.” People often fail to notice that a friend or neighbor has a marijuana problem because the consequences of cannabis use are less striking than those associated with other drugs, according to Dr. Alan J. Budn...

Too Much of Air in the Lungs Results in VILI

...w frequently.’ ‘This study demonstrates that an optimal frequency range of deep inflation delivery exists,.... ‘Differences between LVDI and HV suggest that an optimal frequency range of deep inflation exists, within which the benefits of maintaining an open lung outw...

Is Addition Of Proteins In The Sports Drink Beneficial?

...e subjects in those studies received less than the optimal recommended amount of carbohydrate,’ says Gibala. ‘Our study shows that protein confers no performance benefit during 'real life' exercise when athletes consume sufficient amounts of a sports drink.’ The study, which was funded by Gatorade, comes a...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...oes, and excess UVB irradiance is not required for optimal vitamin D production.” Cedric Garland said “vitamin D in the appropriate dose is giving society new hope in the fight to prevent cancer.” (Sourc: Newswise)...

Study Compares First-Line Drug Therapies For Treating HIV

...determine from among three different therapies the optimal approach for patients beginning HIV treatment for the first time, will be reported at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006). Of the two triple-drug approaches evaluated in the randomized trial, the therapy consisting of two nucleoside r...

“ Middle age mums” as big a problem as “teenage mums?!

...oblem because women en masse are moving out of the optimal age of childbearing and that brings preventable disease and stress with it," she argues in a paper to be published later this year in the Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review. "Middle-age pregnancy has complications in the same way as teenage pregnan...

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