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Tag: "possible" at medical news

Mammography aided by computer

...ping them beat breast cancer, through the earliest possible diagnosis....

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

...cerous cell. Using microarray technology, it's now possible to analyse thousands of genes in one experiments.// Doctors at the University of Michigan have now produced the first ever molecular fingerprint of prostate cancer. They examined more than 700 prostate tissue samples from more than 50 men - coverin...

Quit Smoking

...ying a pack of cigarettes a day. The drug poses possible side effects such as dry mouth, headache and insomnia, but half of users suffer none of them and in most of those who do the effects are short-lived and not serious. It should not be taken by pregnant or lactating women, or people who have epilepsy ...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...d it was therefore important that as many women as possible were encouraged to quit, and that health care givers should focus on the most effective interventions....

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

... strain of drug-resistant E. coli has emerged as a possible new source of urinary tract infections. E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the digestive tract that can cause both intestinal upsets and urinary infections. But while E. coli from bad food is a frequent cause of diarrhoea and other digestive miseries,...

Renal problem alleviated

... he said.// Dr Vaziri suggested that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers...

The new born nightmare

...ad researcher, adding that the study was only made possible by the vast amount of data stored in the Regenstrief system. The researchers conclude that erythromycin should be used with great precaution in a baby’s first four weeks of life. br>...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...ult. Naturally researchers wondered if it would be possible to get the same diagnostic result with a non-invasive method. A team from Glasgow, Scotland, studied a group of 114 patients undergoing the standard method for detecting aneurysm and also tried a number of non-invasive techniques for comparison. Th...

Emphasis on eating pattern

... grains, vegetables, fruit, milk or meat, ten more possible points for dietary limitations - total fat, satura...hen ten more points for dietary variety. The total possible is 100. The mean score, for a group of 340 women of average age 50, was 77.8 - as measured by resear...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

...now. They also underline the need for the earliest possible diagnosis of kidney disease in people with diabetes....

Supply of Radiopharmaceuticals Hampered by Attacks

...d continue to get radiopharmaceuticals so that all possible treatment options would be open to the victims of the attacks....

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...e gastrointestinal symptoms, the authors suggest a possible explanation. They point out that hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, is known to affect the gastrointestinal system. For example, high levels of blood sugar can promote feelings of nausea, they note....

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...puncture has been joining mainstream medicine as a possible extra help. Acupuncture involves the insertion of tiny needles at various set points around the body. Although there is evidence that it works for a variety of conditions.// Electroacupuncture also involves inserting needles, but then passing diffe...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...desirability of lowering blood pressure as much as possible to achieve the greatest reduction in cardiovascular complications. The team also specified that on average all antihypertensive drugs had similar long-term efficacy and safety. ...

Health at heights

...per rest and avoid stressful situations as much as possible - no easy task given the nature of their challenge. Exhaustion can severely impair performance, and is caused by insomnia, illness, stress and overwork. Although the cabin is heated to 15°C, temperatures outside are well below freezing - and the hig...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...ars, introduction of the new technique may make it possible to prevent breast cancer by improved screening of ..., it is also likely that the procedure may soon be possible with local anaesthetic. Pre-cancerous cells have already been identified in four women who had sympt...

Depression disturbs heart rate

...a heart attack, if the patient is to have the best possible chance of survival....

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

...t the risk is doubled when you have diabetes. It's possible that pollution exposure and diabetes affect the same pathways to heart disease and when both are present the risk is compounded. But people with diabetes were not at any extra risk of PM10-induced respiratory symptoms. The message is that people with...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...Company, St. Louis, USA. He discovered that it was possible to use a transition metal to produce a chiral catalyst that could transfer chirality to a non-chiral substrate and get a chiral product. This development has been led by another of this year's Laureates in chemistry, Ryoji Noyori. The Japanese scie...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...ne why stress should impact on development. "One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormone...ssels and decrease blood flow," she said. "Another possible mechanism is that anxiety may have a chemical effect on the development of the blood vessels earlier...

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