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Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...y the Department of Revenue that they have several options for proving they can still drive safely, starting with a statement from their physicians. Drivers may also have to retake the standard on-road driving safety test administered by the State Highway Patrol. "Officials with the Department of Revenue, ...

GlaxoSmithKline’s Tykerb is to Be Started Earlier in Breast Cancer, Study Find

...etastatic HER2 positive breast cancer have limited options once their cancer has progressed on trastuzumab and standard initial chemotherapy regimens. There has been a clear need for alternative treatments to help women with metastatic breast cancer in this advanced setting. Lapatinib combined with capecitab...

Anti-rejection Therapy a Boon for Patients With "anti-donor" Antibody Levels

... that they can be evaluated and the best treatment options can be determined for them. Patients who have a living donor do not need to be on dialysis before being transplanted, and the data show that if patients get transplanted before they start dialysis, they acually do better.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Researchers Find Stem-cell Therapy Effective in Targeting Metastatic Cancer

...roach could significantly improve future treatment options for patients with metastatic cancer," said Karen Aboody, M.D., assistant professor of Hematology/Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Neurosciences at City of Hope. "It not only has the potential to destroy residual tumor cells, but it should also ...

Therapy Modulates Highly Sensitized Immune System to Let Mother Give Kidney to Daughter

... that they can be evaluated and the best treatment options can be determined for them. Patients who have a living donor do not need to be on dialysis before being transplanted, and the data show that if patients get transplanted before they start dialysis, they actually do better.” One of seven hospitals i...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

... – and those of endangered species – giving better options to young women facing cancer therapies that may leave them infertile and others who simply want to delay reproduction. "Our hypothesis is when we introduce sugars into cells and into oocytes, we can protect them against freezing-associated stresses...

New Drug Offers Promise as Single Treatment for HIV

...ly be a welcome addition to the existing treatment options for those persons infected with HIV-1," concludes the new study, led by Dr Martin Markowitz of The Rockefeller University, New York. Thirty-five previously untreated patients with HIV infection were randomly assigned to receive one of four differen...

Liver Clinic Opened At GH, Tamil Nadu

...his Clinic, besides providing advanced therapeutic options to diseases like jaundice, kidney failure and loss of immunity, will also focus on preventive measures - said S. Barnaba Durairaj, head of Medical Gastroenterology. There will be provision for conducting research in hepatology too – he added. 40 p...

Are You Health-Conscious or Tongue- Conscious?

...r said that it is not very to get a lot of healthy options in a restaurant menu, she adds on, "I'm health con...t restaurants here don't offer low cal food. The options for people like me are very limited when we go eating out. Even the traditionally low cal continenta...

The GreeneChip- First Tool to Provide Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

...ed by plasmodium falciparum (malaria). Therapeutic options for treatment of VHF are limited; however, rapid isolation if infected persons is critical to curb contagion. In contrast, human-to-human transmission is not a primary concern with malaria and early, specific therapy can have a profound effect on ill...

Lenalidomide Gives New Hope To Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients

...ody rituximab, relapse is inevitable and treatment options at that point are limited. Lenalidomide is a novel immune modulating, non-chemotherapy, cancer drug that is chemically similar to thalidomide, but is more potent in the laboratory and appears to lack some of the more common side effects of thalido...

Older Medication May Be More Cost-Effective for Some Schizophrenia Patients

... the first phase of CATIE, expanding the treatment options for patients with schizophrenia. It casts doubt on the notion that the second generation antipsychotics are better than the first generation antipsychotics, and suggests that perphenazine and other first generation antipsychotics may be just as benef...

RU-486, The Abortion Pill, May Quell The Breast Cancer Gene

...gesterone available, hopefully there will be other options in the future for these women.' This has certainly raised the curiosity of the scientists who could translate the success in the mouse model and reflect it on better drugs for humans. Once scientists are able to nail how BRCA1 actually causes tumors...

Octogenarians Are Not Too Old for Cancer Surgery

... year in the United States. A variety of treatment options exist for this traditionally slow-growing cancer, including hormone therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cryotherapy, surgery and expectant management (“watchful waiting”). JAMA reported in 2000 that urologists typically offer a radical prostate...

Now, a Hormone-free Contraceptive Pill for Men

...y for contraception have limited choice with their options extending to condoms, vasectomy or simple abstinence. The new pill developed by Nnaemeka Amobi and other researchers would be more likely to be trusted by women because they are not relying on their man having to remember to take his pill every da...

Health Minister Stresses the Importance of Realistic Health Targets

..., it is important that targets also have fall back options to make-up for unexpected delays. The minister has however assured best efforts to improve the waiting times for patients....

Surgery vs. Non-surgical treatment for back disorders

... back surgery in comparison with other nonsurgical options to treat severe back pain// was studied in a recent research.Back pain related to disorders of spinal disc can be effectively treated by other physical therapy as well says the study . Patients with a herniated disc, where the soft tissue between th...

Insect Protein Effective for Treating Heart Enlargement, Arrythmias

...d arrhythmias – conditions that have few treatment options and ultimately progress to heart failure and sudde...vent enlargement of the heart to improve treatment options for patients and reduce mortality.” The heart enlarges in response to a variety of internal and ex...

Common Virus Enhances Cancer-Fighting Ability of Standard Chemotherapy Drugs

...hese findings may lead to more effective treatment options for patients suffering from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the lung. The research focused on work conducted by SAIC-Frederick, Inc., a prime contractor to the National Cancer I...

Cancer Stem Cells Alone spread Cancer

...l definitely help to find more effective treatment options according to the author John Dick, who is a senior scientist at University Health Network and also a professor of molecular and medical genetics at the University of Toronto. Treating cancer stem cells alone will be a better way of dealing with th...

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