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Clinical Studies Evaluate Potential Treatments for Mouth Ulcers

...s per day for 60 days, while 12 took three placebo pills per day. Both groups continued to keep diaries and also returned to the clinic for examinations after 30 and 60 days, and again 60 days after completing treatment. "Patients taking pentoxifylline had less pain and reported smaller and fewer ulcers...

Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

...en who received an advance supply of birth control pills for emergency contraception had an equal chance of...o emergency contraception could help women use the pills more quickly when they needed them, and that in turn — since EC is a time-relevant medication — this...

Period Eliminating Pills

...f like a tap is sure worrying”. Though there are pills in the market to stop period for short while it ha...rs are of the view that women taking birth control pills need not bleed the fact that they do bleed is not true period. They also opine that the new pill nee...

Lifestyle changes not prescription drugs to fight diabetes, say scientists

...ffective, they stress. Trials show rosiglitazone pills do work, but so does weight loss, which is a safer and cheaper way to avoid type 2 diabetes, the researchers argue. In the British Medical Journal, Professor Victor Montori and colleagues, from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, warn against tur...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...s high. Yet mothers still come to him to request pills for their daughters, believing that thin girls are shameful because they look 'sick'. To be 'sick' is often a euphemism for having HIV/AIDS in Africa. But the message is getting through to some Mauritanian women, like Mounina's nieces who have star...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...Seasonale, for example, combines 84 days of active pills with seven days of placebo, reducing the number of pill-induced periods from 13 to four annually. Seasonale has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, but long term research was not required for approval and the long term safety of m...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...ete insulin to reduce dependency on injections and pills for a lifetime," said Raj Kumar. Another wonderful aspect of the treatment is its cost. Only about Rs.150,000 is needed for stem cell therapy while other regular treatments like transplants can cost up to twenty times more but have a success rate ...

Alli- a New Weapon for War Against the Bulges

...eating 15 grams of fat at each meal and upto three pills in a day. A higher fat consumption could lead to unsavory side effects including gastrointestinal issues such as urgently needing to go to the bathroom. The pharmaceutical company has been up-front about this, even recommending that people wear dark ...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

... had to be hospitalized. They were taking up to 15 pills a day without a perceptible sign of improvement. More than 50,000 coronary operations and over 4,000 heart surgeries are performed each year in Spain....

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...rance companies often limit the number of migraine pills people are allowed each month. Trip tans work most effectively when taken at the first sign of a migraine, but patients hold off, not wanting to "waste a pill," the doctors said. Dahlof says early management of migraines by a specialist may be the...

Study Finds No Correlation Between Number of Pills and Adherence to It

...here is no correlation between the daily number of pills a patient is prescribed to take and how well a patient will adhere to a dosing regimen, suggests a new study presented recently at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) held in San Diego (April 11-14). The large-scal...

Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...linded: physicians and patients did not know which pills contained the active agent. Using a scale from 1 to 4, patients recorded the daily number of mild, moderate, severe, and very severe hot flashes. Researchers found that median hot flash frequency and score decreased between 22 percent to 27 percent...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...atments for men with erectile dysfunction, whether pills or minimally invasive therapies, must be used 'on demand', thereby reducing the spontaneity of the sexual act.' The Wake Forest therapy works by inserting small pieces of DNA into cells to trigger the production of proteins which, in turn, help smoot...

Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans

...ple who received these nutrients from multivitamin pills had an increased risk of developing the disease. A... of developing pancreatic cancer, but that vitamin pills were not helpful. Two other large American studies also found the food nutrients to be protective, b...

Too Much of Iron During Pregnancy is Harmful

...is does not mean that women should be popping iron pills or any vitamin pills indiscriminately, the study, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology said. T...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

...hs caused by them. The discounted birth control pills will be sold at 3,500 "people's pharmacies," where the government offers subsidized medicines. The new programme comes amid a controversy between the Catholic Church and Lula's government over abortion. During his recent visit to Brazil, Pope Ben...

Repeat of Heart Attack can Be Prevented by Fish Oil Supplements

...rove fatal. However, the guidelines only suggest pills for patients who have had a heart attack in the previous three months and are not getting enough oily fish in their diet. Experts drawing up guidelines for NICE said lifestyle changes were as important as drugs in preventing a recurrence of heart att...

FDA Approves Wyeth's Oral Contraceptive Lybrel

...usual regimen for oral contraceptives is 21 active pills taken consecutively, followed by seven placebo pil...le medical research shows that the side effects of pills that suppress menstruation are similar to those of other birth control pills. The most significant r...

FDA Approves Birth Control Pill for Continuous Use

...pproved by the FDA Tuesday. Standard birth control pills have a 21-days on, and a 7-days off regimen that are placebos or pill-free. Women who use Lybrel would not have a menstrual period, but will most likely have unscheduled bleeding or spotting, according to the FDA. Two year long clinical studies i...

Policeman in Trouble for Seeking Oral Sex in Return for a Favour

...ving some "happy pills." "I sometimes have these pills as I may take one or two before going to a club," ...computer in his patrol car, she wrote. He took the pills and scattered them in the brush beside the highway. "Then he asks me, what does it cost for someone ...

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