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Tag: "potential" at medical news

Solving Puzzles Could Boost Brain Power

...on. "This suggests that attention training is a potential way to improve sensory processing by reducing older adults' susceptibility to distracting stimuli," Mozolic said. Crossword puzzles, sudoku and similar highly focused task could help us keep our minds young, the study suggests....

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

...en, said. This study specifically highlights the potential of naturally-induced hormones in protecting individuals from developing RA in the future. Furthermore, it adds to the growing body of evidence in favour of breast feeding and its positive health implications this time demonstrating its protective be...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...imagined it could be. "Anti-VEGF drugs have the potential to halve the number of people going blind each year and patients in the UK who can benefit from them must all have them - and quickly." Tom Bremridge, chief executive of the Macular Disease Society, said: "We are appalled by the Nice consultation ...

Humanized Antibody Therapy Found Highly Effective in Easing RA Symptoms

...f Rheumatology in Barcelona. These data show the potential of tocilizumab as a novel and attractive approach to treating RA. The symptom improvements observed across both 4mg/kg and 8mg/kg doses show that tocilizumab offers significant promise to patients with moderate and severe RA, said lead researcher Dr....

Boffin Identifies Gene Causing Otosclerosis

...wth of bone in the middle ear, it may have a large potential for therapy", she added. Thys and her team decided to study a gene called TGBF1 which they already knew had non-genetic indications of involvement in otosclerosis: it plays a role during embryonic development of the ear and is expressed in otosclerot...

Alzheimers Disease Enzyme may Interfere With Brain Function

...f seizures in Alzheimers patients and suggest that potential treatments that block this enzyme called beta-secretase may alleviate their occurrence. Alzheimer's disease is characterized by plaques within the brain of the toxic amyloid-beta protein. Amyloid-beta is formed when the larger amyloid precursor p...

Gene Study Throws Up New Targets for Leishmaniasis

Gene sleuths believe they may have identified potential chinks in the parasite that causes leishmaniasis, ... human genes, they present a limited repertoire of potential targets for drug and vaccine development, allowing researchers to optimise the use of limited resour...

Obese Infant Kacey Causes Concern

... think it is unhelpful to see childhood obesity as potential neglect. Babies who gain weight too fast in the first years of life can become obese and develop high blood pressure later in life, putting hem at risk of early heart disease. Teams at Southampton found in a number of studies that babies weighing l...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...h on Epilepsy : Currently, scientists are studying potential anti-epileptic drugs with the goal of enhancing treatment for epilepsy. Doctors are also now experimenting with several new types of therapies for epilepsy, including transplanting fetal pig neurons into the brains of patients- to learn whether cell ...

Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...it said. "This study specifically highlights the potential of naturally-induced hormones in protecting individuals from developing RA in the future," said lead researcher Mitra Keshavarz, of Malm Hospital University, Sweden. "It further adds to the growing body of evidence in favour of breast feeding and i...

China to Curtail Organ Sale

...d. The penalty fee will be raised to ten times the potential profit. The new move by the state council attempts to standardize transplant surgery procedures besides regulating the organ barter system. US based group Human Right Watch is skeptical about the effectiveness of the new laws. It believes th...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

...ng drug, said Temel. But our research suggests the potential for having too much cholesterol in the bile, which could possibly cause gallstones. The researchers hope to study the question in monkeys and said more research is needed to see if the drug increases gallstone formation in some people. Until more r...

Preimplanted Genetic Screening Should Be Interpreted With Caution

...in why PGS would not be able to increase pregnancy potential but rather can serve as a prognostic tool in a limited number of cases, says Ms Frumkin. It can also help us make optimal decisions about the value of switching to a different assisted reproduction technique, for example egg donation....

Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

...MH team has since treated two more patients. The potential benefits to patients are huge, says lead surgeon Dr. David McCready, who also heads the PMH Breast Cancer Program. Treating the specific area of cancer with this kind of precision protects the skin, heart and lungs from unnecessary radiation, minimiz...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...r by giving appropriate doses of the drug. Another potential future application is in agricultural genetic engineering. The method might make it possible, for example, to create genetically engineered plants in which the precise timing of fruit ripening would be controlled using a substance that increases th...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...major cause of illness and death. Aside from the potential to transform clinical psychiatric practice, these new developments will surely change the relationship between doctors and the drug industry and between the industry and the public. Direct-to-consumer advertising will become nearly irrelevant because...

Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

... calls for health professionals to be aware of the potential for abuse in ethnic minority groups, where the breach of codes of honour may be punished by violence. For example, it says, women in some Asian families may be expected to tolerate abuse by their husband rather than seek help or leave the family home...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

...ite injury is a deceptive wound and because of the potential for infective, functional and aesthetic complications it requires prompt treatment....

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

...drip irrigation system and sprinklers, whereas the potential is 690 lakh hectares," said Nimbalkar. "Such systems are limited to horticulture and should be extended to the rest." In a country like India where 80 percent of water is used up by the farm sector and 60 percent of work force is employed by the ...

Intraoperative Radiation Therapy a New Step in Breast Cancer Treatment

...MH team has since treated two more patients. "The potential benefits to patients are huge," says lead surgeon Dr. David McCready, who also heads the PMH Breast Cancer Program. "Treating the specific area of cancer with this kind of precision protects the skin, heart and lungs from unnecessary radiation, minim...

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