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Cure for sleepless nights

...y insomnia.Some were given the sedative temazepam, others behavioural therapy, some a combination of the two and the rest a placebo. They received the treatment for eight weeks and were followed up over a two-year period. The researchers found that drug and behavioural therapy combined was most effective i...

Hormone replacement therapy helps women

...a// is conflicting - some studies do believe while others have failed to demonstrate benefit.A new report, from researchers, is therefore of especial interest. They followed a group of over 1,000 women from different countries for a few years - assessing them with the State Exam, which measures cognitive ...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...Some patients rely on walkers or wheelchairs while others are completely bedridden. Exposure to noise, touch or emotional distress can set off muscle spasms, and some patients are afraid to leave their house because of the spasms. High doses of antibodies may help relieve the muscle rigidity and spasms ass...

A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

...s into specific tissues, without putting them into others where they're not wanted, said Cynthia Dunbar, a clinical hematologist at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md.Specifically, she said, researchers have been trying for about 12 years to find ways of getting red blood cells to ...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...child, but some women may carry a higher risk than others because of genetic susceptibility.// The finding could help medicine better determine the causes of low birth weight, though the researchers said they were not recommending at this point that women be screened for presence of the genes involved. "O...

Final push to eradicate leprosy

...e leprosy remains a major public health issue. The others are India, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar and Nepal. WHO has committed itself to eradicating leprosy by 2005, a goal that public health experts say is attainable. WHO director-general Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland said she was confident the target woul...

Sun Pharma to launch chiral version of omeprazole soon

...rally offers all the therapeutic benefits with the others having side-effects. Isolation of benefits results in smaller dosages with lesser side-effects. SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd is to launch a chiral version of the anti-ulcerant drug omeprazole - ‘es-omeprazole’ - within this month. The chiral ve...

The brain wave

...may be behind the unique quality to sympathise for others and help the needy. Neuroscientists searching for roots of empathy have now found brain regions involved in learning by imitation.// They have also identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas t...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...y hope women will take notice of their results and others that have found smoking can harm a developing baby....

Harm to the chest can be destructive

...ls died, while resuscitation saved the lives of 19 others (the remaining two recovered spontaneously). The type of blow that causes commotio cordis lands directly over the heart, is non-penetrating, and occurs at a specific phase of the heart beat. Most such injuries occur during sports like baseball, hoc...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...ontacted said they would recommend the surgery for others in their age group. The researchers also found significant improvements in post-operative death rates compared with surgery that took place a decade ago on patients in this age group. In addition, the researchers found that the risk of major compli...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...ousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim its unrivaled uses as a prescription drug. The Food and Drug Administration banned GHB in 1990. President Clinton signed a bill in 2000, indicating that its possession or use is illegal except for supervised study on narcolepsy. The government...

Statins reduce risks for angioplasty patients

...ithin 4 years. Some patients suffer heart attacks, others need repeat angioplasty or bypass surgery. A new study, involving 1,456 patients in 12 countries, has found that cholesterol-lowering drugs could reduce the risk of these complications by 30%, compared with patients taking a placebo. The risk reduce...

Drug Offers Hope for Alzheimer's disease

...t advance in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, others remain much more cautious about the drug's potential and how it's benefits could be misinterpreted. Forrest Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. manufacturer of the drug, is expected to file for FDA approval sometime this year. The company is also exploring u...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

... doctor about an untreated health problem and prod others to take their prescription drugs more faithfully. Sixty percent of the print and broadcast ads were for just 20 medications, including the arthritis drugs Vioxx and Celebrex, the ulcer drug Prilosec, Viagra for impotence and the allergy drugs Clariti...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

..., or that they are responsible for the findings of others in which adult stem cells seemed to show multipotency," Lander told UPI. "If indeed that's the only way such adult stem cells become multipotent, then one would indeed have to be concerned that such cells are clearly not 'normal' in the sense of havi...

FDA fish warning criticized

...afoods - shrimp, trout, salmon and catfish are the others - only tuna has worrisome mercury levels. A tuna industry spokesman denied that the industry influenced the FDA's advisory. "Plenty of people, pediatricians, consumer groups, met with the agency on this issue besides us," says Randi Thomas of the U....

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...ng.Some people think it is a normal part of aging, others that it is an early sign of Alzheimer's dementia, while there is also the view that it's a disease in its own right. A new clue comes from the now-famous Nun Study, which is looking at 500 Sisters of Notre Dame. The Sisters agreed to have frequent ...

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...x, which kills about 30% of its victims and leaves others covered in sores. But giving a vaccine within days of exposure can protect against illness. A French drug company offered to donate up to 90 million doses of decades-old smallpox vaccine and the United States said it would accept the supplies if they...

Depression has a worthwhile treatment

... is too complicated to screen for depression while others believe it could be worthwhile.Researchers at the Hopkins University in USh have analysed all the data relating to depression screening. They find that where a screening programme is in place, between seven and ten per cent more depressed patients ...

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