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Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

...oronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients . Lead author K. Lance Gould, M.D., professor in...ed false-positive results in 40 percent of the 259 patients who participated in Goulds study. In 23 percent of those patients, it showed severe false abnormalit...

Napo Obtains Special Protocol Assessment Agreement From FDA for Crofelemer

...e of crofelemer and the placebo, providing for 125 patients on placebo and 125 patients the selected crofelemer dose. The primary study analysis is planned after all subjects complete the ...

Deep Insights into Type2 Diabetes by Wesley Researchers

...wide treatment standards for Type 2 Diabetes where patients and pharmacists work together to manage the disease....

Overdose of Paracetamol was Dropped

...Myers used administrative data to review over 1500 patients hospitalised for acetaminophen overdose between 1995 and 2004. Since 1995, the hospitalisation rate has dropped 41% from 19.6 per 100 000 population to 12.1 per 100 000 in 2004. Myers team found that although for under 50s the rate fell 46%, there ...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

Varying advice means patients at high-risk of having a heart attack are unclear ...es, say Dr Khavandi and colleagues, that high-risk patients do not seem to be receiving clear effective guidance from their doctors. One of the symptoms of a ...

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...his weeks BMJ highlights the importance of helping patients to stop smoking as young as possible. It points to evidence that, beyond 40, people lose three months of life expectancy for every further year of smoking....

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

...more accurate than either Framingham or ASSIGN. In patients aged 35-74, Framingham over-predicted cardiovascul...GN by 36% and QRISK by 0.4%. QRISK predicted 9% of patients aged 35-74 years to be at high risk compared with 13% for the Framingham equation and 14% for ASSIGN...

Concerns Raised Over Risks for Patients and Staff in Australian Hospital

...has raised serious questions on the risks both the patients and the staff there are exposed to every day. T... in the current structure; it's very difficult for patients to be isolated in a single room," said Dr Thomas, who is also chairman of the Australian Medical Ass...

Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa

...le-medicine unit, said that with this facility the patients will no longer be required to travel to far off places to avail expensive and expert medical advice....

Benefits From the Use of the Internet in Healthcare Applications Highlighted

... in healthcare has been rapid. A growing number of patients are becoming increasingly involved in the healthc...acteristics that distinguish them from traditional patients and are an important factor in driving the use of the Internet in healthcare. "Free choice of doc...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...stribution of HIV testing kits that has put Indian patients in serious danger of contracting AIDS from contami...g kits which has jeopardised the lives of innocent patients without violating the confidentiality agreement with the Bank," Saha said. "I plan to hold a vide...

Single Drug to Check Both Glucose and Cholesterol in Diabetics on the Cards

...for keeping both glucose and cholesterol levels of patients with type 2 diabetes under check may soon be avail...en found to significantly reduce glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. People with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol face a number...

New Conditions That Will Increase the Risk of Alzheimers Identified

...ain blood vessel damage is more likely to occur in patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, says Dr. Rosano. Since we know that prevention of these conditions can lower risk of heart attack and stroke, it is likely that it would also lower the risk of developing Alzheimers, she adds...

Cancer Risk is High Among HIV/AIDS and Kidney Transplant Patients

...ers have found that HIV/AIDS and kidney transplant patients are at higher risk of developing 20 different type...rates between these HIV/AIDS and kidney transplant patients with the general population. The study found that HIV/AIDS patients were 11 times more likely to d...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

...caused adverse reactions in several young leukemia patients in hospitals of Guangxi autonomous region in southern China and the eastern financial center of Shanghai. "Some of the children have felt pain in their legs and some have experienced difficulty in walking after being injected with the methotrexate ...

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...s," he said. Deisseroth, who sees many depressed patients in clinic, said he has come to appreciate how the bumps in the road that most people see as normal obstacles in life become insurmountable hurdles to depressed people, causing them to lapse into helplessness. Reasoning that the brain is essentially...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

...alths officials, the social stigma attached to HIV patients and the difficulty in drawing the individuals out to take up a policy on their own , had forced Star Health to adopt the institutional route to offer this cover. In addition, the company has also come out with a product called `Red Carpet' for seni...

New Cancer Fighting Virus

... a case report from this ongoing clinical trial in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver at ...study, the scientists are testing the treatment in patients with colorectal cancer that have not responded to chemotherapy and where the cancer has spread to th...

No Flu Outbreak Here , West Australians Told

... Hospital staff had examined double the number of patients they would usually see, with 320 patients attending the hospital on Saturday compared with 159 the week before. Staff at The Gold Coast Hosp...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...l fibrillation, it is estimated. And the number of patients is forecast to soar. It is a condition in which...rt surgery the only proven method for curing many patients and in the long run more cost-effective than drugs, which generally offer temporary relief. Thousan...

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