Tag: "patient" at medical news

The flip side of AIDS cocktails – HAART regime damages live

...have however clearly improved the condition of the patient in terms of controlling the HIV disease but the side effects on liver forced many to stop treatment. Dr. Chung said the next step would be to see if there are factors that may help doctors predict which HIV infected patients are most at risk for sev...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...elops, the physician should consider switching the patient to an alternate antibiotic or an alternate therapy. The scientists are also probing the possibility of harnessing a therapeutic vaccine to prevent acne. If successful, this can prove to be an effective solution for millions of patients, most of the...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

... Matapurkar has won the patent after four years of patient waiting, there is a long way to go before this magical technique becomes widely used....

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...ng, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Pharmaceutical giant offers AIDS related antifungal drug free to 50 countries

...ng, shipping, transportation, medical training and patient education....

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...nks an advertised drug isn't the best choice for a patient who demands it. He also added that ads have tuned ...l more of their anthistamines of nasal sprays. The patient is at best incompletely informed and at worst deluded. Hence the proposed resolution asks the AMA t...

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

... of the brain is impaired in the short term when a patient has too much blood sugar. Once you get above a blood glucose level of about 270, the brain starts to show evidence of slowing down. A similar thing happens when you get to a level of less than 80. The brain works optimally between those levels". Thi...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...d that the average number of tablets taken by each patient was 28 each week, with 16 using pain medication daily. They stopped all the analgesic medications and found that the headache symptoms decreased after 2 months.Inspite of the fact the exact roll of these analgesics was not known, it is proposed that ...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...ion of the day is about the recovery - whether the patient would recover and if so how long would it take. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in Maryland devised a method which allows doctors to give patients and their families more accurate information about t...

Leptospirosis epidemic feared in mumbai - 12 killed

... and consists of a course of antibiotics, once the patient comes in on time. If there is delay death occurs." The symptoms of this disease include high grade fever, headache, diarrhoea, pain in the joints or muscles. The disease is present in the urine of rats and is transmitted to humans through dogs, catt...

Mechanical Heart

...tained mechanical heart has been implanted and the patient is resting comfortably after the seven hour operat...han 30 days to live and the life expectancy of the patient who got the new device is expected to be extended by about a month. Courtesy : The New Indian Expre...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...the body),also called LV diastolic dysfunction.The patient presents with shortness of breath. The reasearchers made their observation in a group of 27 subjects who did not have any evidence of heart disease.They were divided into two groups with one group left with smoking and the other with nicotine gums ...

Eye Saver

...e regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had instead undergone radiation therapy.// Davidorf, Professor of Opthalmology and investigator of COMS, Ohio said that removal of the eye is the only option for bigger tumours. The study looked at 1,317 patients with cancer of the choro...

Alerts for safety of heart device

...heless, having a safety warning is a worry for the patient and supplying a replacement is costly. With the growing population, it is likely that more devices will be fitted and it is important that manufacturers make sure that they are reliable....

Early detection of heart attack

...l emergency, and a series of tests is given to the patient to determine whether they have indeed suffered a heart attack.// These tests normally take a minimum of 24 hours and require hospital admission. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary in England, doctors have now found a way of streamlining the process...

Reversing heart failure

...w shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves the condition of the heart muscle. The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stron...

How to diagnose heart failure?

...the neck. Increased pressure may indicate that the patient with heart failure is retaining excess fluid. These new findings should direct physicians' attention towards simple measures that can detect those patients most at risk. In this study, these two signs heralded an increased risk of death from heart ...

Surviving surgery

... cent mortality. However, without this surgery the patient might die of their disease. So it's a matter of the doctor and the patient weighing up the risks and benefits of different kinds of surgery....

Acupuncture for conception

... that acupuncture specialists say will prepare the patient for pregnancy,as the news states....

Ranbaxy joins hand with Cipla to co-market ciprofloxacin

...f Ciprofloxacin in terms of convenience and better patient compliance should percolate to the maximum number of doctors and patients. The company believes that the Ciprofloxacin agreement has strengthened the spirit of cooperation that was started a few years ago between Cipla and Ranbaxy. Together, both th...

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