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High-protein diets may pose health risks

...he minimum 100 grams per day that are necessary to prevent loss of muscle tissue....

Activated charcoal for poisoning treatment

...an be easily used in children at home and may help prevent a trip to the hospital. The substance is a fine powder form of processed charcoal that binds to many types of poisons and can keep them from being absorbed into the bloodstream. Stocked by some pharmacies, it can be mixed at home with water, juice or...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...ed aromatase inhibitors, which work differently to prevent certain kinds of breast cancer than does tamoxifen. This new drug, Letrozole shrank tumors better and helped more women survive. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Femara as first-line hormonal treatment for advanced breast cancer in...

Cirrhosis on the rise

...he liver - is irreversible, although treatment can prevent it from getting worse.Among 35 to 44-year-olds, there has been an eight-fold increase in deaths among men, and seven-fold among women. Cirrhosis of the liver now kills 1,600 women a year, compared to 1,200 seven years ago - more than cervical cancer....

Triglycerides Linked To Stroke Risk

... learned that drugs that lower blood fats can also prevent strokes. The precise relationship between blood fats, particularly triglycerides, and stroke has not been clear, however. In the study, researchers followed more than 11,000 patients who had coronary heart disease but had never had a stroke or a tran...

Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

.... The drug was also shown to suppress cravings and prevent relapses. In fact, the latest study was intended t...ut for how long.The study says naltrexone fails to prevent drinking relapses, and in fact is no better than sugar pills at keeping hardened alcoholics on the w...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

... on patients' hospital identification bracelets to prevent giving the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. The bar codes would include such information as a unique product code number, a lot number and an expiration date. Such information would not only facilitate matching, but would aid in recalling products...

Pregnancy should not be confined

...efore flying, and should wear support stockings to prevent any fluid from accumulating in their legs. Similar...ove their legs periodically during their flight to prevent blood clots....

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...e is moderate consumption of red wine is likely to prevent heart disease....

High Demand for a child vaccine

... year. And until Prevnar, there has been no way to prevent them. Prevnar was approved by the FDA two years ago. In June, a government advisory committee recommended that all children under 2 receive the vaccine. Demand soared, far exceeding the expectations of Wyeth-Ayerst, said drug company spokesman Dougl...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

... minimize the risk of illness may more effectively prevent the spread of disease than isolating everyone who has been exposed. The smallpox vaccine can also be used to treat the infection if given in the days immediately after exposure....

Miraculous Salads

...ats.// They said that 1g of onion a day can help prevent the process that causes the condition - resorption...a new field and that this will be a possibility to prevent osteoporosis provided it works in humans and that humans can eat sufficient amounts of this stuff," ...

Olive oil does good

...y found that it reacts with acid in the stomach to prevent the onset of bowel and rectum cancers. They studied bowel cancer rates in 28 countries across the world, most of which were in Europe. However, rates of the disease in the UK, the USA, Brazil, Colombia, Canada and China were also examined. The rese...

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

...onal trials are on to explore its use as a drug to prevent and treat breast cancer. Bonmax comes to India with an international experience of around four years. There are more than 10 million users of the drug in the US alone. With life expectancy of women in India on the rise, a safe and efficacious thera...

New drug may stop alopecia

...h which contains a drug known as GW8510, helped to prevent hair loss// in rats subjected to chemotherapy. Lead researcher Stephen Davis said the gel completely prevented hair loss in half of the rats that subsequently underwent chemotherapy. No side effects were detected and the drug did not interfere with ...

Genes for Vision discovered

... will be able to find ways to treat, and possibly, prevent disease,” said Cepko. Information about how the genes work inside photoreceptors - which genes are turned on and when -could even lead to ways to replace dead or damaged cells. “Can we manipulate these genes in such a way to coax stem cells to becoem...

Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

... a 20-year-old study showed that the pill can help prevent ovarian cancer. The study is based on examination of the medical and oral contraceptive histories of more than 3,200 women who took part in a study. The groups included women who took no pills; those who took pills high in both estrogen and progesti...

Breast screening among diabetic women

...cer should be detected in early stages in order to prevent it from advancing. Women who have diabetes should go for a mammogram as a routine check up, thereby enabling a thourough screening of breast cancer. //According to a new study there has been decreased detection of breast cancer and henceforth brest s...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...ing animal protein and salt may be a better way to prevent stones from recurring. In the study, 20% of men on a low-animal protein, low-salt diet that contained normal amounts of calcium had recurrent stones after 5 years, compared with 38% of men on a low-calcium diet. The results point to a new dietary ap...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

...spirin and other “antiplatelet” drugs that help to prevent blood clots confirmed that aspirin reduces heart a...ents who have suffered a heart attack or stroke to prevent a recurrence. But Baigent and his team found the treatment could also help prevent an initial heart ...

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