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Sioux Herb Confirmed as Shield Against Colds

...ses. The study is a "meta-analysis" comparing the outcome of 14 published trials using echinacea. One of the trials combined with echinacea with vitamin C, which showed the two together reduced the incidence of a cold by 86 percent. The analysis was led by University of Connecticut pharmacist Craig Colema...

Preterm Labor Drug Causes More Side Effects

...as more effective in achieving the study's primary outcome - preventing delivery for 48 hours with uterine quiescence. But there were no significant differences in the treatments' ability to delay delivery, in the gestational age of the newborn or in the birth weight of the infants. The researchers specula...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

... vulnerable areas. Results Just Published The outcome of the study featuring this new technology, comprising over 300 patients, was announced last week at the 12th International Conference on Optimal use of Advanced Radiotherapy on Multimodality Oncology in Rome. The study itself was performed by Profes...

Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Family

... therapy probably play a role in the incidence and outcome of breast cancer. Dr Hartman says the findings are relevant to women with newly diagnosed breast cancer, and to those treating them. The next step will be to understand what is inherited; tumor biology, response to therapy or vigilance of the immune ...

HCV Patients Survival After Liver Transplantation is Not Improving

... a better understanding of factors associated with outcome that we are minimizing harm to patients with our current management strategies."...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...battle for essential services that ensure the best outcome for their disabled child, and that also make their own lives more tolerable, she concludes....

Pain and Intensity Of Post-stroke Spasticity Decreased by Botox Treatment

...edical Center. Significant improvements in these outcome measures indicate a better quality of life for post-stroke patients suffering from spasticity-related pain, according to the researchers who presented their findings today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Boston. Spastici...

Premature Birth Linked With Increased Use of Pesticides

...onment has potential pandemic effects on pregnancy outcome and possibly on child development is a momentous observation, which hopefully will help transform the way humanity cares for its world," said James Lemons, M.D., Hugh McK. Landon Professor of Pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Lemons is dir...

Dont Worry- Be Good To Your Heart

...ee if treatment to reduce anxiety, can improve the outcome of patients with coronary artery disease....

Risk of Heart Attack, Death High Among Extremely Anxious Patients

...ic efforts on factors known to influence long-term outcome in coronary disease, such as making sure to aggressively lower LDL cholesterol. The results of this study demonstrate that we may need to consider more thoroughly evaluating patients with mood disorders such as anxiety, as treatment may very well red...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

...hildren to prevent them from substance abuse . The outcome is based on decades of research and success in helping to change smoking and other high-risk behaviors of teenagers and adults. The University received a $3.5 million, 5-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to support its innovative...

Death and Disability from Brain Injury Reduced, Emory Researchers Report

...This is the first therapy exists that improves the outcome of brain injury patients," says Dr. Wright. Emory's researchers designed a clinical trial to assess the promise of progesterone for treatment of TBI. Their three-year pilot study, called ProTECT (which stands for "Progesterone for Traumatic brain inj...

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

... PCI compared with drug therapy improves long-term outcome of asymptomatic patients with silent ischemia afte... 'This is the first, to our knowledge, long-term outcome study of an invasive therapy compared with an intensive anti-ischemic drug therapy in asymptomatic p...

WHO to Investigate Hepatitis Vaccine Deaths in Vietnam

...tage. WHO will send out further advice pending the outcome of this investigation." Connor said the LG vaccine had been used for some years and that WHO had received no reports of deaths or serious reactions from any other countries....

Statins may Help Treat Hepatitis C Patients

...tudy may contribute to developing a more effective outcome of treatment," Bader said....

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

...e association between sleep apnea and the combined outcome of heart attack and death, but also adjust for other traditional risk factors for heart disease, says researcher Neomi Shah, M.D., of Yale University. We recommend that patients who experience symptoms of obstructive sleep apneaexcessive daytime sl...

Researchers Claims to Have Found Cure for Hepatitis C

...oday, we are able to help some patients achieve an outcome that effectively enables them to put their disease behind them," Shiffman said. The new findings are based on a long-term follow-up study, during which researchers reviewed 997 cases of patients with chronic hepatitis C and patients with both hepat...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...m, or less stringent about diagnostic criteria and outcome measures, producing inconsistent results across st...al procedures at all sites and by using "composite outcome measures and a more rigid definition of success compared to other studies," according to the study. ...

Better Working Conditions for Nurses Might Decrease Patient Infections

...gram for nursing excellence in hospitals). Patient outcome data came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system and Medicare files. After careful review, findings revealed that ICUs with higher staffing had lower incidence of central line ass...

Antibiotics Highly Effective for Treating Lyme Disease

... long-term use of antibiotics does not improve the outcome in people with chronic symptoms after customary treatment of Lyme disease. Specifically, further treatment does not improve overall health quality of life, memory, or depression. Long-term antibiotic use can be associated with such side effects as di...

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