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NIH Announces Phase III Clinical Trial of Creatine for Parkinson's Disease

...compounds. The double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III study is one of the largest PD clinical trials...s in a select group of patients, to the definitive phase III trial of effectiveness in people with Parkinson’s disease. "This study is an example of the In...

India to Market Female Condoms

...ribute 500,000 female condoms by June in the first phase at a cost of Rs.180,000 in its second line of defence against HIV/AIDS, said a Tamil Nadu State Aids Control Society (TANSACS) official here. The project will reach out to 11,000 sex workers in the country with the help of 400 civil society groups....

New Initiative to Combat Infant Mortality

...omotive aspect of the infant care during the early phase and thus improve the survival chances of the newborn, a leading doctor involved in the project has said. SRM...

Australian Food Industry Plans to Phase Out Trans Fats

...Sydney has come out with the decision to gradually phase out trans fats from their products//. The move follows similar ones followed overseas by other food companies. The industry in Australia is also coming under pressure from the federal government to deal with the issue, or else face regulatory requi...

Lactococcus Strain may Offer End to Food Allergies

...ective for treatment. "The challenge is going to phase two human trials for prevention, but also for treatment of food allergy," he said. Allergen labelling regulations that came into force on 25 November require companies to label all pre-packed foods if they contain any of the 12 listed allergenic fo...

Panic may Lead to Serious Mental Health Problems in Adolescents

...nges, it makes sense that it might be an important phase when teenagers are at risk for developing panic-type problems. The researchers designed their study to look specifically at one factor in the relationship between puberty and panic – the role of “anxiety sensitivity” or the general tendency to resp...

Health Care Systems for Critically Ill Patients Need Restructuring

The health needs of people in the last phase of life are not sufficiently met and need to be up... of people living with serious illness in the last phase of life, write Sydney Dy and Joanne Lynn, two palliative care doctors based in the United States. ...

Government Allot More Funds for Revised TB Program

... than 5 percent," the minister said. "The second phase of RNTCP will consolidate, maintain and further improve the achievements of first phase," she added. Under the second phase, the government would strive for implementation of DOTS-Plus for multi-drug resistant TB in a much broader way. Procurement ...

Care During Last Phase of Life Needs to Be Uplifted

... of people living with serious illness in the last phase of life, write Sydney Dy and Joanne Lynn, two pall...l health were aberrations, rather than an expected phase that lasts months or years nearer the end of most of our lives, they say. Yet only a few per cent ...

A New Drug for Halting Metastatic Kidney Cancer

... nature has been based solely on immunotherapy. In phase III of the research sunitinib was compared with interferon (a type of immunotherapy) in 750 patients with metastatic kidney cancer and it was shown that sunitinib is more efficient in halting the progress of the disease. 101 medical centres from all ...

Glaxo Files Cancer Drug For Approval With FDA

...ven to people who have just had surgery as part of phase III trial to prevent the tumor from growing in size. As per the report on Phase I study presented recently at Barcelona, 89% patients responded positively to Tykerb taken in combination with chemotherapy and radiation. JY...

Chronic Wasting Disease In Alberta

...long Red Deer River near Empress and in the second phase it will move to Wainwright area which is south of Lloydminster. Helicopters will be used to collect deer this time beside the ground team. JYT...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...g that uses two indicators to identify the fertile phase in a woman’s menstrual// cycle is as effective as ...dentify accurately the time of the woman’s fertile phase by measuring her temperature and observing cervical secretions. In the largest, prospective study of...

Swedish Biotech Licenses HIV Drug to China for Development

...ower than products currently being investigated in phase III trials in Africa. A second Medivir NNRTI – MIV...n combination with the microbicide Carraguard in a phase I study. Medivir says that MIV-160, still in pre-clinical development, has shown good activity ag...

Giant Healthcare Provider to Set Up Massive Gene Bank

...housands of cardiologists. As part of the second phase of the project, workers will collect genetic material by way of cheek swabs and blood samples from the enlisters. This move may well make Kaiser Permanente the largest repository of genetic material. Yet as fears that information garnered this wa...

Enzyme Critical for Early Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

...at these cells push the inflammation from an acute phase into a chronic phase. The researchers suspect that this chronic inflammation eventually causes other enzymes to eat away at the structural proteins of the aorta, causing the vessel to balloon slowly and ultimately rupture in patients whose aortas are...

Arsenic Compound Effective in Treating Rare Leukemia

... or APL, and participated in a multi-year national phase III clinical study. Twenty eight patients from NSUH and LIJ enrolled in the clinical trials, the largest number of participants from any facility in the New York metropolitan area – and the second largest nationwide. The study involved 582 patients n...

UC Davis Creates New Nanoparticles

...plications to various government agencies, and, if phase one is successful, phase two would involve product development. However, Kennedy said most methods to implement the technolog...

Largest Ever African HIV Vaccine Trial Opens in South Africa

...e subtype prevalent in South Africa. Analysis of a phase I study presented last year at the Vaccines 06 meeting showed that between 30%-70% of participants who produced responses to subtype B also had responses to subtype A and C. The South African study is also likely to provide data on the vaccine’s e...

Its February - Time for a Talk With Your Teen

... teenage children. Teenage is the most difficult phase in the process of growing up. Love and romance form an integral part of this mind-boggling time. The researcher suggests that an open talk on sex between parents and their wards will prevent the teenager from becoming sexually active. And what occasi...

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