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Smokers Cloud Has A Silver Lining?

...ctors. As smoking can promote both gum disease and oral cancer. The study says that people who smoke are ...he dentist, even though they run a greater risk of oral health problems. A regular visit to the dentist is a must for everyone. Not only can your dentist pi...

Overdentures: An Optimal Solution To Edentulousness

... quite sometime now and it has proved to replicate oral function better than the traditional dentures. As ...rtable for the patient and helps in regaining lost oral function to a better degree than the traditionally constructed dentures....

Risk Of Stroke May Be Genetic By Nature

...mental risk factors ranging from smoking to use of oral contraceptives. The identification of the PDE4D gene is thus an important advance. Several other studies have examined the association of PDE4D with stroke in different populations and most studies provide support for the original Icelandic findings...

Novartis MS Drug Shows Promising Results

...confirm the significant effects of FTY720, a novel oral medication//, for the treatment of patients with r...study results confirming the significant effect of oral FTY720 on reducing both clinical relapses and inflammatory disease activity that we first saw during...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...s have known for some time that smokers have worse oral and gum health than non-smokers but for the first time we have shown that quitting smoking together with routine gum treatment results in healthier gums," he concluded....

Use of a fast-acting insulin analog to control diabetic ketoacidosis in Children

...ed, the child was alert, and vomiting has stopped, oral rehydration was started. Cerebral edema, the most feared complication of DKA, did not develop in the patients during this study. Also, there were no deaths or "near death" episodes, and no patient had to be treated with mannitol. The study, publishe...

Papillomavirus no more a sure sign of child abuse

...ranes, causing warts to grow in the anal, genital, oral cavities or respiratory locations of the body. Genital warts or venereal warts are the most easily recognized sign of genital HPV infection. The presence an STD in a child has always been a cause of much concern, and genital or anal warts in children...

Dental health neglected by over 60 % of Indians

...ing is practiced, there is a striking incidence of oral cancer, accounting for as much as 50 % of all canc...are reflected in the low awareness levels and poor oral hygiene habits. In addition, it has been shown that people do not associate dental health with adequ...

A new anti diabetic drug on the anvil

...06 and will be conducted using single and multiple oral doses on healthy volunteers. The objective of this...ying significant reduction in glucose excursion on oral glucose challenge. Pre-clinical studies have also demonstrated that GRC 8200 has the potential of be...

Ruling: HIV victim exempted from disclosing condition to partner

...y engaged in protected vaginal sex and unprotected oral sex. However, Judge Susan Thomas today dismissed t...ndom during intercourse and not ejaculating during oral sex. She added that although people might expect a sexual partner to inform them of their HIV status...

Hate flossing? No problem, Waterpik? Dental Water Jet will do the needful

...rnative that fits effortlessly into their existing oral care routines. In fact, no matter what type of tooth brush you use, the Waterpik? Dental Water Jet can significantly improve your gum health." The details of the study are published in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Dentistry...

Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

... incident of protected vaginal sex and unprotected oral sex. The case was Dalley's second brush with the law over his HIV status. In June he was sentenced to 300 hours' community work for having unprotected sex for four months with a former partner and not telling her of his condition. Despite the earlier...

Gold Nanoparticles: Agents For Noninvasive Cancer Therapy

...nt by selectively delivering gold nanoparticles to oral carcinoma cells that overexpress EGFR, a clinicall... targeted photothermal therapy. In the study, two oral squamous carcinoma cell lines and one benign epithelial cell line were incubated with anti-epithelia...

New Hope For Patients With Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

...confirm the significant effects of FTY720, a novel oral medication, for the treatment of patients with rel...study results confirming the significant effect of oral FTY720 on reducing both clinical relapses and inflammatory disease activity that we first saw during...

NSAIDS, Reduces The Risk Of Oral Cancer But Causes Heart Attacks

...i-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), reduces the risk of oral cancer in smoking individuals by at least 50%. But...itional, non-COX-2-specific NSAIDs and the risk of oral cancer, since previous work has suggested that these drugs can lower risks for other malignancies, s...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

... at certain ages when molars are erupting into the oral cavity. Fluoride toothpastes are also recommended.... excess chocolates as well as a general neglect of oral hygiene also cause dental caries. Fluoride is recognized as a protection against the same. Water flu...

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

...Kinnon and his team have found out the benefits of oral ZYVOX for the treatment of skin infections and pne... of Intravenous Vancomycin. The results show that oral tablets of Linezolid (ZYVOX), provides better treatment and significant savings of money spent to he...

Anti-anxiety treatment found effective in lowering blood pressure

...rty-six patients were randomized to receive either oral diazepam or sublingual captopril, Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate were recorded hourly for 3 h. Both treatments were found to decrease BP significantly in the study group. The researchers, writing in the September issue of American Journal of Hy...

Gum Disease Increases Chances Of Pre-Term Birth

...sicians should be aware of the systemic risks from oral inflammation with periodontal pathology." Dr. White added that since symptoms appear late in gum disease, people tended to ignore them, "Dentists have become complacent. The last thing they want to do is provide treatment way back there in the mouth...

Lower doses of oral contraceptives helpful in treating acne

...ymptoms. Physicians have known for many years that oral contraceptives (OCs) can reduce the incidence of acne and help diminish acne lesions. The mechanism by which OCs improve acne most likely involves a decrease in the amount of circulating androgens. Specifically, OCs reduce total and bio-available tes...

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