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An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...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...

A New Study Throws Limelight in HIV Vaccine Production

...on, showing this is predictable based upon the HIV patients individual HLA class 1 profile. This is a novel and advanced description of how the human immune system attacks the virus, and how it responds says Dr. Richard Harrigan, Director of the Centres Research Laboratories and study co-author. While we ...

Cancer Patients in New South Wales to Receive Advanced Image Guided Radiation Therapy Treatments

...ast region of New South Wales, Australia . Cancer patients in New South Wales now have access to state-of-the... available at the NCCI, we will be able to provide patients with the most modern, highest quality radiation oncology treatment available in Australia," said Are...

Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

...ain blood vessel damage is more likely to occur in patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, says 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. Dr. Caterin...

MedAir AB Announces the Launch of Fingertip Pulse Oximeter

...d how to deliver care. It is equally critical that patients on supplemental oxygen receive accurate readings in order make the proper adjustments to their oxygen flow. While the cost of oximetry is an important consideration, accuracy is too critical to be sacrificed. OxyCheck meets the requirements for both ...

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...estigational, non-antibiotic , polymer therapy for patients with Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CD...tibiotic vancomycin, as measured by the percent of patients with resolution of CDAD. This result contrasts with the findings from Genzyme's earlier Phase 2 stud...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...ther explored. "Nevertheless, I would not advise patients to take selenium supplements greater than those in multiple vitamins," he said. Stranges' team studied data on some 1,200 U.S. adults enrolled in a cancer prevention study. The participants were 63 years old, on average. They lived in areas where...

First Brain Cancer Vaccine Approved in Switzerland

..., intends to begin making DCVax-Brain available to patients before the end of September, according to a statem... States and make it available for the treatment of patients with brain cancer at select centres in Switzerland. "We are delighted to be the first company to r...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...ited States is an outlier for financial burdens on patients and patients forgoing care because of costs. Half of sicker adults in the United States said that they did not se...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...und that a form of antibiotic could prevent cancer patients from losing hair during chemotherapy, a doctor involved in the research said Monday . Toshiyuki Sakai said his team had found "alopestatin" reduced hair loss by 70 percent when used on rats also given etoposide anti-cancer drugs. Etoposide is wid...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...he trust did not provide cleansing alcohol gels at patients wash sinks, lockers or tackle superbugs attached t...00,000 investment in cleaning the wards, screening patients before admission and our prudent antibiotic policy, the trust is winning the battle against hospital...

Overweight Baby in Clinic

...exercise." She said that all the parents of her patients co-operated with their treatment....

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ifts from pharmaceutical companies. He claims that patients sometimes see ads for antidepressants on televisio...rican Medical Association, actors pretending to be patients went to doctors in the San Francisco area and said they were depressed. Incidentally, the "patients"...

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

...ts, the new criteria for probable AD requires that patients show progressive memory loss over more than six months, and at least one or more of the supportive biomarker criteria-like atrophy in a particular part of the brain shown by MRI, abnormal biomarker proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, a specific patt...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

... When all stages of breast cancer in the Jefferson patients were analyzed, the results showed that African American women had tumours that were more often estrogen-receptor negative (48 percent versus 37 percent), had higher rates of expression of the growth-promoting gene Ki-67 and higher expression of a tum...

Genetic Marker That Increases Colon Cancer Risk Discovered

...amily history of more than 1,800 colorectal cancer patients with that of 1,900 healthy people with the same br...arker and colon cancer was especially strong among patients diagnosed with colon cancer at a young age, less than 50 years. "The specific genetic cause for t...

Boffins Identify Gene That can Protect Humans from Nephronopthisis

...reening of those having NPHP. They found that some patients carried mutations in the same GLIS2 gene as in the mouse model confirming that GLIS2 is a crucial player in NPHP also in humans. "This is an excellent example of how combining basic research with clinical studies can help uncovering mechanisms of ...

Malawi Targets 150,000 People With AIDS Drugs

... of the programme meant that three-quarters of HIV patients who are need of ARVs would be receiving the drugs by the end of the year. "It's quite tremendous and we are on course and superceeding our overall (target) rates when we consider that we had less than 5,000 people on ARVs in 2004" he said. Mwale ...

Battle Between Google and Microsoft Could Trigger Revolution in Healthcare

... are already having to come to terms with informed patients who have 'googled' their symptoms could see these same patients gaining access to their genetic profile and managing their health using an online patient record. W...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

...m Leader Dr. Fiona Rahman. "In the case of cancer, patients have more than 90 per cent five year survival rate if their condition is detected in the primary stages, and pharmacogenomic testing remains the foremost weapon in the fight against cancer." Furthermore, medical communities are increasingly stressi...

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