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Prostate Brachytherapy Causes Fewer Side Effects Than Surgery

...ears. Brachytherapy, however, showed moderate, but persistent side effects over the two years. Urinary incontinence was more common after surgery; however, urinary irritation was a more common complaint from those who received brachytherapy. Impairment of sexual function was found to be consistently higher amon...

New Data Shows Significant Asthma Control With Symbicort

...dy results, involving patients with mild-to-severe persistent asthma who previously required treatment with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, held in San Diego. SYMBICORT is a newly approved, twice-daily, inhaled combination therapy contain...

Newborns With Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease

... term newborn who develops respiratory distress or persistent hypoxemia (low oxygen in the blood), especially th...ciliary aplasia or Kartagener Syndrome, PCD causes persistent wheezing and cough in children and is associated with recurrent or persistent sinus and ear infectio...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

...ls and compounds — at ground zero, were developing persistent respiratory ailments. Calling for a minimum of a billion dollars, the mayor put the estimated cost on New York’s health departments in the treatment of the affected as 150 million dollars. This amount includes the cost of screening, treating and...

Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation

...dure that has had the best long-term cure rate for persistent atrial fibrillation. The simplified procedure is termed Cox-maze IV, and the surgeons believe it can replace the older "cut and sew" Cox-maze III in which ten precisely placed incisions in the heart muscle created a "maze" to redirect errant electr...

Drug For Iron Overload Cleared

...cotland, a drug that aids patients who suffer from persistent iron overload has been cleared. This was approved by// Scottish Medicines Consortium. Patients suffering from a rare genetic condition or conditions of anemia like sickle cell disease need regular blood transfusions. Generally these people are give...

Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

... it’s because we’re a fat society. If heartburn is persistent or chronic, patients should have a thorough exam and endoscopy to see if they have developed Barrett’s esophagus, which carries an increased risk of cancer and signals the need for close surveillance with periodic endoscopies and biopsies,” Orringer ...

Pure Gold can Cause Allergy

...t with gold. Some people develop intermittent or persistent eczema on their hands and feet. It is usually a blistering type of eczema, known as pompholyx. "Until now, the medical community has assumed that this allergic response is due entirely to gold alloys including nickel, but often there is no obvious ...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

...ture of any residual mass and essentially rule out persistent cancer within the mass if the scan is PET-negative...ompelling clinical and/or biochemical suspicion of persistent disease. If the biopsy is positive, these patients can rapidly be considered for salvage therapy. ...

Inhaled Steroids Proved Effective for Childhood Asthma

...apy for school-aged children with mild to moderate persistent asthma. The researchers, who studied 285 childre...l daily therapy for children with mild to moderate persistent asthma. These results support the current asthma clinical guidelines, which recommend inhaled cor...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

Parents of healthy infants and young children with persistent fluid in the middle ear// need not worry about dev... Among the group of those children who developed persistent middle ear fluid before age of 3 years, the researchers found no evidence that prompt insertion of e...

Patients Dissatisfied Following Closed Reduction Of Nasal Fractures

...ite. 'Increasing evidence shows that patients have persistent aesthetic concerns about the outcome and obstructive symptoms after closed reductions.' Terry Hung, M.B.Chir, F.R.C.S., and colleagues at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, interviewed 62 patients who underwent a closed ...

Living Near Toxic Waste May Bring On Diabetes

...s: clean, without hazardous sites, contaminated by persistent organic pollutants and containing other types of waste or pollutants. The study examined whites and blacks between the ages of 25 to 74, correcting for potential factors that could skew the data, such as age, race, sex and average household income. ...

New Line of Antibiotics Could Halve Treatment Time

...target the dividing bacteria and one to target the persistent form." If something like penicillin is taken along with this, one might be able to get a treatment course which lasts one or two days, rather than the current five to seven – They added. SR...

Genetic Mechanism Helps Explain Chronic Pain Disorders

... and that has been implicated in the modulation of persistent pain, as well as cognition and mood, is regulated by a gene, also called COMT. Previous UNC-led research showed that common genetic variants of this gene are associated with increased pain sensitivity and the likelihood of developing TMJD. Now, the...

Common Cold Virus Leads to Death in Lung Transplant Patients

...ad transient rhinoviral infections, three showed a persistent infection. The others were able to clear the virus...th graft dysfunction.” Dr. Kaiser noted that the persistent infection suggests that certain cases can act as viral reservoirs to sustain transmission of rhinovi...

Two Lung Cancer Patients Die Due To HRV

...ad transient rhinoviral infections, three showed a persistent infection. The others were able to clear the virus...th graft dysfunction." Dr. Kaiser noted that the persistent infection suggests that certain cases can act as viral reservoirs to sustain transmission of rhinovi...

Vulnerability to Ear Infections Lessened by Breast Feeding

...ad required drainage tubes to assuage recurrent or persistent ear infections were also placed in the "susceptible" category. "We know that the tendency to get this infection runs in families, and so we decided to look for small variations — what we call ‘single-nucleotide polymorphisms,' or SNPs — in three imp...

City Kids With Asthma Lose Out on Preventive Treatment

...e city children 2 to 9 years of age diagnosed with persistent asthma and studied pharmacy records. Overall, only 20 percent of the 180 got the recommended amount of daily controller medication, which is six or more refills in a 12-month period. Sixty percent of children got too little therapy to fully prevent f...

Medication Not Available On Time To Inner-city Children

...e city children 2 to 9 years of age diagnosed with persistent asthma and studied pharmacy records. Overall, only 20 percent of the 180 got the recommended amount of daily controller medication, which is six or more refills in a 12-month period. Sixty percent of children got too little therapy to fully prevent f...

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