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New Oral Medication That Could Arrest Autoimmune Diseases In its early Stages

...ery could eventually lead to the development of an oral medication to arrest autoimmune diseases in the early stages....

Is caries in primary and permanent tooth related?

...ries in primary teeth have long-term effect on the oral health of the child? Research says that there exists an association between dental caries in primary maxillary incisors and dental problems in their successors. Previously also studies have tried to find out if its possible to predict dental heal...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...ase the ability of the peptides to treat potential oral infections up to double their original power. On...ary mucin molecule is quite effective for treating oral fungal infections. Even active in very low concentrations, when used with inhibitors, the peptide ki...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...icans,// which is responsible for most HIV-related oral infections. It is known that candidiasis, also known as thrush, is a disease characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth, tongue and throat. It primarily affects people with weakened immune systems caused by antibiotics, ...

A New Addition Could Help Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...y . For the study researchers compared once-daily oral rasagiline to the drug entacapone, which must be taken with every levodopa dose, and a placebo in around 690 patients. Both of the additional drugs were effective in reducing the amount of “off time” defined as periods during the day when patients ha...

Sugar-Free Yogurt Can Stop Bad Breath

...that eating traditional yogurt or curd may help in oral hygiene by reducing oral bad breath and harmful bacteria. The scientists of the Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan, conduct...

FDA Approves New Drug For Asthma In Children

...haler 220 mcg to be taken only once daily// . The oral inhalation treatment may take about 1 to 2 weeks o...ug may also be used for adult patients who require oral corticosteroids. These patients will require lesser doses of corticosteroids or stopping of the ster...

Light can help fight gum bacteria

...t as a mode of treatment against bacteria of// the oral cavity. The dental samples obtained from patients...t (380 to 520nm). The light had selectively killed oral black-pigmented bacteria in the gum cultures and the dental plaque samples obtained from patients. M...

Pregnant mothers dental health can lead to pre-term babies

... birth weight. Researchers have evaluated specific oral bacteria like Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus ...here is no results to show that treatment of these oral infections will be able to control the effect of these bacteria. Reference: Journal of Periodontolo...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

...ea, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS. Availability of oral re-hydration therapy, antibiotics, anti-malaria drugs, and insecticide treated bed nets are some very common treatments that can successfully stop these children from dying. WHO urges the medical community across the globe to practice a continuous me...

Chronic back pain may be relieved by special physiotherapy

..., treatment is often in the form of physiotherapy, oral and intramuscular/intravenous anti-inflammatory medications, acupuncture, epidural injections and rest. This is the time when patients are reported to have lower pain and more physical fitness that had made them enjoy the things they could not do pr...

Genes from saliva may predict oral and breast cancer

... be the biomarkers that can predict the //onset of oral and breast cancer in people. These biomarkers ar...archers have been able to successfully predict the oral cancer growths in nine out of ten people. The UCLA team has developed ways to isolate the messenger ...

Have green tea to prevent prostate cancer

...son developed the cancer. They all had been having oral administrations of green tea catechins (GTC). While the property of green tea catechins or a component of green tea called EGCG had been suspected to prevent cancer of various cells, this is the first time it had been tested clinically to establish ...

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

...matory drugs (NSAID) may reduce the risk of having oral cancer.// Norwegian scientists, who had conducte...xtended time period have 65% less chance of having oral cancer than others, when both the groups are moderate smokers of tobacco. The study suggested that N...

Tobacco smoke increases the levels of Cox 2.

... study had found out higher levels of Cox 2 in the oral mucosal cells of the mouth lining of the smokers t...e important for people as the biopsies of smokers’ oral linings have produced the increased levels of these two proteins and these are taken as primary sign...

Vitamin D, calcium don’t prevent fractures in elderl

...re. These people were treated with 800 IU daily of oral vitamin D3, 1000 mg of daily calcium, oral vitamin D3 of 800 IU combined with calcium 1000 mg daily or placebo. The results of the trial showe...

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

Chemicals found in oral contraceptives may lead to babies born with deform...re important as a substantial amount of women take oral contraceptive pills, and always have a chance of having a conception from missing out on a day’s pil...

New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

...SA) had approved Baraclude (entecavir) tablets and oral solution for treating patient with chronic hepatitis B in adults.// The new medication Baraclude slows down the progress of the disease by interfering with the reproduction of the virus. The drug was approved on the basis of three studies that were...

High blood pressure during sleep may cause high blood sugar

...ts. Twin blood sugar tests of fasting and two-hour oral glucose tolerance had revealed an average score of 95 and 133 for the bigger group, and 105 and 144 for the patients of the smaller group. Researchers suggest that the medical professionals should start monitoring the glucose in blood for patients w...

Asthma may increase the risk for bacterial infection of the lungs

...ted with use of rescue therapy or long term use of oral corticosteroids, being prescribes at least thrice for the use of -agonists in the year before the beginning of the study. The results of the study had concluded that asthma is an independent risk for invasive pneumococcal disease and the risk is al...

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