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Calcitriol [Vitamin D] with combination of painkillers for cancer treatment

...y the body and more effective than other Vitamin D pills and fortified milk. The researchers wanted to exploit the earlier research results of Calcitriol and pain killers in the treatment of cancer, the workers wanted to test the synergistic effect of combining both the drugs for cancer treatment. In a t...

Indian Health Ministry approves sale of Emergency contraceptives as over the counter drug

... factor for breast cancer. Emergency contraceptive pills have fewer side effects compared to normal contrac...e government wanted to reduce the price. Emergency pills consist of a hormone levonorgestrel, which avoids pregnancy. Dr. Mittal said, “We have a drug which ...

Simplest therapeutic regimen found less effective against HIV

... around against AIDS. In comparison to a litany of pills that HIV patients have to swallow to keep the virus under control, Videx and Viread, are a lot simpler to use, as they have to be taken just once a day. However, recent studies have shown that HIV quickly grows resistant to the drugs when all three ...

FDA Warns Against Birth-Control Patch

... half of the estrogen dose is lost. Although most pills and the patch are loaded with the same amount of e...rom patches go directly into the bloodstream while pills are swallowed and digested first. The result is that women using the patch have much higher levels o...

Family planning is insisted upon Muslims by Shia cleric

...nning is not restricted for Muslims and the use of pills by women and condoms by men are permissible. Common people ignoring these methods have no right to guide others. The word family planning is not used in the religious books but these books tell about the necessities for woman’s health. He explained...

Perimenopausal Hormone Therapy Fights Heart Disease

... Kaplan was of the opinion that oral contraceptive pills were to be recommended since animal research demonstrated the wisdom of stocking up on oestrogen before menopause....

Newer Generation Sleeping Pills Lack Superior Performance

... increasing number of people resorting to sleeping pills for treatment of insomnia has no doubt prompted fo...derful gift, there are the new generation sleeping pills that substitute the previously used benzodiazepines. These new class of medications were introduced ...

Usage Of Oral Contraceptives Need Not Be Feared By SLE Patients

...clinicians are very hesitant to give contraceptive pills (orally) to the patients with SLE because of the fear that they might show increased and unwanted disease activity. This study which included 183 women with inactive or stable SLE were given oral contraceptives (triphasic 35 μg.ethinylestradiol/0.5...

a New Pill Can eliminate menstruation

...e takes a seven-day break from other contraceptive pills is in fact triggered simply by the sudden drop in hormones. However, in the case of the new pill, there is no trigger for this process as there is no break and the lining remains without causing any problem to the woman. Wyeth hopes to make the p...

Caffeine pill to keep soldiers alert in the field

...to break new ground by experimenting with caffeine pills of different potency, with some containing the equivalent of half a cup of coffee and others that of two cups. The differing doses will be tried on people with varying weights, physical conditions and ages to find the best match for different Asia...

Women Who Take Pill - Risk Losing Their Sex Drive

New York: Women who use oral contraceptive pills can lose their sex drive for up to a year after they stop taking it according to a recent study//. Loss of libido, muted or non-existent orgasms and painful intercourse have long been known as side effects of the pill. A previous research had, howe...

Roche Commits More Antiviral Pills To Asia For Bird Flu

... Tamiflu said that it// will allot more antiviral pills to Asia and provide the necessary aid to organizations in this endeavour to fight a possible pandemic. Roche said that it was currently in talks with the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the donation of more of the medicine, which is thoug...

Countries Step up Battle Against Bird Flu

...e against flu, said it would donate more antiviral pills to Asia, the epicenter of the pandemic threat. Turkish doctors feel early use of the drug would help save some young victims of the H5N1. Roche told a bird flu conference in Tokyo it was in talks with the World Health Organization about donating mor...

Use Of Viagra May Affect Eyesight

...story of heart problems and consume anti-impotency pills like viagra run a very high risk of getting their eyesight damaged, according to a study conducted by the University of Alabama. //The researchers suggest that taking viagra may result in the anterior optic nerve receiving a lesser blood flow, giving...

Anti-cholinesterase drugs for treating Alzheimer's not worth the price

...nction. Though NICE has not recommended that the pills are useless but speculate they can help in reducing the disease but not completely cure Alzheimer’s disease and the cost of the drug is very high. Anti-cholinesterase drugs are produced by the manufacturers Pfizer Inc, Eisai Co., Johnson & Johnson, S...

Contraceptive Pills Don’t Result In Weight Gai

...lief weight is gained as a result of contraceptive pills is only a myth, and that such beliefs// are not ba...w years that examined the effects of contraceptive pills and patches. As they report in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews1, they found no evidence ...

Placing a Finger on Responses to Placebo Types

... perceptible effect of types of placebo devices Vs pills on patients administered over a period of time. Earlier studies used placebos to gauge the effectiveness of novel treatment methods, but this time researchers were keen on examining the effects of different types of placebos. Ted Kaptchuk, assistant...

Demand For Diet Drugs On The Rise

.... The dug companies invest a lot of money in these pills and it also involves the hard work of many scientists that they fail to mention the side effects at least in their initial advertisements. Christopher Gardner, a nutritionist and assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, says t...

Pill ‘o’ mania: Sleep of mind is priceles

...ted to grow to$3.8 billion in the future. Sleeping pills come with a host of side effects that include sleepwalking, amnesia and addiction, apart from hangovers. Sleep aid gadgets have flooded the market in a wide range that intends to provide succor to a sleep(less) enthusias....

New Pills To Keep You Awake!

...eral days at a stretch with the development of new pills that may hit the markets very soon. // The ‘24-hour lifestyle’ pills currently under development may allow people to get by on only two hours' sleep each night. The pil...

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