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Albendazole Effective In Reducing Seizures Caused By A Common Parasite

...r drug, dexamethasone, per day for 10 days, or two placebo drugs. Investigators noted a 46-percent reduction in the number of seizures in the albendazole group, although they say this number is not statistically significant. However, the active treatment did lead to a significant reduction in seizures clas...

The Use Of Oral Steroids For Muscular Dystrophy Questioned

...a progressive weakness in muscles. Compared to the placebo period, patients were better able to climb four stairs and run nine meters when they were on the active drug. Ten out of the 16 patients suffered side effects from the drug, but none of the patients dropped out of the study due to these effects, and ...

Drug Reviparin Found To Reduce Death Rate After Heart Attack

...ity was reduced from 11 percent of patients in the placebo group to 9.6 percent in the reviparin group a 13-percent lowered risk. Benefits were still seen at 30 days with significant reductions in death rate and significantly lower numbers of additional heart attacks however no significant differences were o...

Treating Altitude Sickness With Viagra

...ily doses of sildenafil. The other half received a placebo for comparison purposes. Results show sildenafil...tolic pulmonary artery pressure and men taking the placebo continued to have higher pressures. Researchers also noted no significant adverse effects in the men...

The Use Of Colistin To Treat Cystic Fibrosis Questioned

...ffective. Researchers administered colistin and a placebo to 24 children between the ages of 5 and 18 to see..., researchers were not able to confirm whether the placebo or the colistin caused the reduction in lung function. In conclusion, researchers say inhalation of...

The Counter Effect Of Alzheimer's Drug

...in agitation after six or 26 weeks compared to the placebo group. It was also observed that those taking quetiapine showed a significant cognitive decline. Thus researchers say though quetiapine has been regarded as one of the safer antipsychotics, their study indicates that quetiapine should not be used as...

Reducing Corticosteriod Use In Asthmatics

...ed with 2.24 incidents per patient per year in the placebo group.The study also showed an overall corticosteroid use was cut by 32 percent in those who took Montelukast, and inhaled corticosteroid use decreased by 40 percent. In conclusion researchers say, that montelukast shouldn't be used the whole year r...

Preventing Osteoporosis

... milligrams of the drug for three years and then a placebo for the next five years. Researchers say 247 women stayed with the study for the entire 10 years. The study showed women on 10 milligrams of alendronate daily increased their bone density compared to women not on the drug. Women on 5 milligrams had...

Folic Acid and Vitamin B12 Effective In Reducing The Risk Of Hip Fracture After Stroke

... 1,500 micrograms of B12 and 314 patients received placebo . Over the two-year follow-up, there were eight fractures in the treatment group and 32 in the placebo group. In addition, patients taking folate and B12 experienced a 38-percent decrease in their plasma...

Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...ts were randomly assigned to receive the drug or a placebo for up to 24 weeks. At the end of one-month, pat...ed an average of 0.37 kilograms while those on the placebo lost an average of 2.21 kilograms. After eight weeks of treatment, patients on thalidomide had lost ...

Damaged Heart Rejuvenated By Stem Cells

.... In contrast, the hearts that were treated with a placebo showed a decline in the function and health of the heart. In conclusion, embryonic stem cells can contribute to a stable beneficial outcome on the function and remodeling of the heart after a heart attack. However, the number of stem cells delivered...

A New Addition Could Help Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...hich must be taken with every levodopa dose, and a placebo in around 690 patients. Both of the additional drugs were effective in reducing the amount of “off time” defined as periods during the day when patients have symptoms. Rasagiline reduced “off time” on average by 1.18 hours, compared to 1.2 hours for ...

Promised Drug Doesn't Help Acute Heart Failure

...r a week, there was also no difference between the placebo group and group receiving tezosentan in incidence of death or worsening of heart failure. After six months, no difference was observed in overall mortality....

Bone fracture risk reduced by drug

... in the women who took alendronate compared to the placebo group. Effects of alendronate occurred very early in the treatment, and benefits of the treatment were greater in women who already had a vertebral fracture and/or other risk factors. In conclusion, alendronate is effective in reducing the risk of v...

Long-term use of calcium supplements to prevent colon cancer

..., and was given 1200 mg. of calcium supplements or placebo medications daily. The results had showed that calcium supplements had been able reduce overall polyp formation by 19% in people. New study had now showed that of 822 of the original subjects of the previous study, follow up colonoscopies were perf...

Placebo for relief from emotions

Researchers have shown that placebo treatment can reduce the nature of emotional exper... Karolinska Institute, researchers have shown that placebo treatment can effectively control the impact of negative experiences by controlling the expression o...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

...iae) on ultrasound in one in five patients. In the placebo group the rate was 89%. "The importance of these findings for therapy should not be underestimated," Professor H?rauf emphasizes. "The mature worms are after all responsible for such symptoms of the disease as the extreme swelling of the limbs. In ...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

...grams vitamin D3, 10 micrograms of vitamin D3 or a placebo for one year. They also collected other important ...gram/day group. There was no increase found in the placebo group. Similar changes were noted in the lumbar spine. This study clearly indicates that the curre...

Maintaining Weight Loss with Drugs

...tat three times a day, and 182 children received a placebo three times a day. Both groups were given instruct...tle more than one pound, while patients taking the placebo gained nearly seven pounds and body mass index (BMI) decreased by .55 on orlistat and increased by ....

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

...grams vitamin D3, 10 micrograms of vitamin D3 or a placebo for one year. They also collected other important ...gram/day group. There was no increase found in the placebo group. Similar changes were noted in the lumbar spine. This study clearly indicates that the curre...

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