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Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...'s the latest wrinkle in research toward finding a pill that will help protect and even treat hearing loss from exposure to loud noise. While the effort is hardly new, experts say it has picked up steam in just the past few years.// Starting in a few months, a group of 600 Marines will face rifle trainin...

Memory-Aid To Help HIV Patients

...rueling task for patients who must follow a hectic pill schedule, a combination of drugs called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Those who miss their medication a few times quickly develop a viral resistance to the drug, a problem since replacement options are few. Fifty-eight of 64 patients...

Sharp Increase In Morning-After Pill Sales Among British Women

...in the over the sales counter of the morning-after pill with more women //buying it from the nearby chemis...r cent of the women who obtained the morning-after pill in 2004-05 bought it from a chemist. This is much greater when compared to 27 % between 2003-04. Unt...

Effect Of Cooling And Exercise To Be Analyzed In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

...re. The patients will also swallow a temperature pill developed by the NASA that would transmit the temperature reading to an external monitor during its travel through the human body. Various physiological measurements that will help enable the identification of the effect and effectiveness of the c...

Negative Effects Of Sedatives

...ns of sleep, accounting for 40 percent of sleeping pill prescriptions, but - importantly - because there isn't enough evidence-based research carried out on older people in this area, an expert Lorna Layward was quoted as saying. "The research reinforces the need for regular reviews of medicines for ol...

FDA Warns Against Birth-Control Patch

...han with the pill. Hormone levels in women on the pill are highest one or two hours after taking it. Twelve hours later, estrogen levels are quite low, meaning the body is not exposed to high levels of estrogen 24 hours a day, said Dr. Leslie Miller, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at...

Chlamydia Screening To Be Offered With Emergency Contraception

...isease. Young women asking for the morning-after pill at pharmacies will be given a discreet plain purple box, containing a bottle for their urine sample, free postage and a confidential questionnaire offering them a variety of ways they can receive their diagnosis within three working days. If the e...

Mystery Surrounding Use Of Abortion Pill Yet To Be Resolved

...ock syndrome following consumption of the abortion pill RU-486 (Mifeprex) has created much confusion // a.... It is still unclear if something in the abortion pill that could have caused the tragedy by increasing the chances of the infection. Identifying C. sord...

Viagra Pill For Women To Be Developed

...er Ellis has revealed that a version of the Viagra pill meant for women will be developed. The female sexu...t it also // that much more difficult to develop a pill for that, according to Ellis. The desire, arousal and pain experienced by the woman has to be factor...

Erectile Dysfunction Drug Viagra Launched In India By Pfizer

... India much before the launch of the launch of the pill in the U.S. drug market before 7 years. An amendment in the patent law implemented later this year has led to a change in the scenario with the law falling in line with the one prevalent across other parts of the world. This also complies with the ...

a New Pill Can eliminate menstruation

...wered. They have now developed a new contraceptive pill that promises to eliminate menstruation completely.The pill developed by New Jersey-based Wyeth and called 'Anya', may help women to avoid unplanned// pregnanc...

Caffeine pill to keep soldiers alert in the field

A defense pill to keep soldiers alert in the field by producing t...ology Lab, as saying. "DSO is also working on a pill that will maintain a sustained release of caffeine, so that caffeine is made available in the body o...

Women Who Take Pill - Risk Losing Their Sex Drive

...er, Colorado shows that a chemical produced by the pill to stop ovulation continues to suppress testostero... online edition of The Sunday Times. Women on the pill had four times the level of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which stops testosterone from circu...

Kiwi veterinarians angry Over Doctor's Advice

... the way for the first "peaceful pill" – a suicide pill promoted by his Exit group – to be made in New Zea...he workshop, New Zealand could have its first such pill this year, he said. The suicide pill – which mimics barbiturates like Nembutal –kills within secon...

US Government Licenses New Hypertension Drug

...il is the first drug that can be administered as a pill that has a positive effect in the lung's vessels. “It broadens the right vessels, helps good aeration and improves the intake of oxygen in the lungs”, he said. The drug can also help those who suffer from the milder form of high lung pressure or pe...

Reach Of The Morning-After Pill Treatment Inadequate Among Sexual Assault Victims

... The treatment, commonly known as morning-after pill for exposure to HIV, should be used in cases of known HIV exposure for a period of 28 days. If this information is not known, offering the treatment is largely based on the discretion of the attending physician. While doing so, it is equally importan...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Be Prevented?

... one’s life. Hence researchers have come up with a pill that could erase all the bad memories or atleast reduce the pain. Psychiatrist Hilary Klein has witnessed a lot of cases who later go on to develop PTSD. This problem was first seen in Vietnam War veterans. But the good news is that only 24% of t...

Pill splitting program of University of Michigan can save money

...for a long time using their drugs by splitting the pill the University program comes as an official messag... patients were happy about the money saving due to pill splits. The pharmaceutical industry is not happy with the new program as they feel that the new p...

Drug Firms To Produce Single Pill AIDS Treatment

...to have 1 million AIDS patients. The new single pill treatment will also bring in more infected people ...la. The reason for not having brought out a single pill is reported to be purely commercial. Apart from this, no single firm had the rights over all the dru...

Male Contraceptive Pill Being Developed By Berlin Pharmaceutical

...hersome injection. "If you swallow testosterone in pill form, it is broken up in the liver and rendered useless," Habenicht adds. Nevertheless, she is confident that men will accept this form of contraception. "For many, according to surveys, this is an alternative to cutting the vas deferens", the sperm...

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