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Tag: "profiles" at medical news

Heart Patients More At Risk Get Fewer Medicines

.... Clinical use of quantitative multifactorial risk profiles or algorithms that convey information regarding probability of poor outcomes could be applied to better identify such patients. Source: Newswise...

Clinical Comparisons Between ADHD Drugs Are Less

...regarding the comparative effectiveness and safety profiles of different drugs within pharmaceutical classes. The majority of the head-to-head trials identified by the Oregon reviewers compared the widely prescribed ADHD medication Ritalin with other drugs. Most of these comparative trials were short in dura...

DNA Identity Mix-Up In Bone Marrow Donors, And Miscarriages Of Justice Involved

...heir blood can contain a mixed DNA profile. Mixed profiles can also occur when DNA is collected from swabs taken from the inside of the cheek, rather than blood samples. This practice is already standard in the UK and is increasingly being used by US police. The report, which appears in the October issue of...

Safest painkiller Ibuprofen found to cause severe GI bleeding

...onsidered to have one of the most favorable safety profiles of all of the traditional non-selective NSAIDs, touted as the painkiller with the fewest side effects and lowest incidence of ulcers or GI bleeding. Researchers have expressed concern over people with chronic pain such as arthritis who often increa...

Genetic Profile To Predict Ovarian Cancer Prognosis

...ime around. "We found that together these two gene profiles [CRP and OCPP] are a more powerful predictor of a ...annistra. "This represents the first time that two profiles have been combined to yield such a powerful result in this disease." Contact: Bonnie Prescott ...

Oral Sex Linked To Mouth Cancer Risk

...atients with mouth cancer and compared their viral profiles with 320 healthy people. It was found that 36 percent of the cancer patients were harboring the HPV as compared to only 1 percent of the control group. “You should avoid having oral sex,” said the dentist and researcher Kerstin Rosenquist, and lead a...

Heparin does not protect from recurrent heart attacks

...d undergo routine medical check up for their Lipid profiles and regularly monitor their health for risk of heart attacks and they should have a balanced regular diet with regular risks which will maintain a good health....

Indian Doctor in World's 65 'caring' doctors

...on. The book - "Caring Physicians of the World" - profiles 65 physicians, including Malik, from 55 countries who best reflect the principles of caring, ethics and science, said an IMA statement Saturday. Dr.Malik has been bestowed with B.C. Roy national award and has organized free health check-ups and trea...

Men Use Their Brain Differently From Women

...n to men. There are also instances where different profiles and symptoms were displayed by men and women under similar conditions. A total of 33 right-handed volunteers were used in the tests. This points towards differences with regard to ‘hard wiring’ in the case of men and women where their brains are conc...

Move to make HIV Tests mandatory For Soldiers In Northeast

...learance." Singh said the proposal to create DNA profiles of armed forces personnel, once cleared by the government, would be implemented by three special centres set up across the country. Other officials indicated that this database would facilitate the identification of soldiers killed in bomb attacks i...

Designer Rats Reveal Possible Heart Disease Genes

... scientists built 2,200 microarray gene expression profiles from these designer rats. They have provided a highly valuable new online resource now available to researchers worldwide. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health funded this study. Scientists have b...

A new database exclusively for autism

...odalities and the prognosis. Chat sessions, member profiles and links to outside autism resources are also planned. Dr. Paul Law of the Kennedy Krieger Institute says that the influence of the society and parents will oversee the development of the resource. The data collection and management processes will...

Why Are Some People More Depressed Than The Rest When Faced With Similar Situations?

...n in that time. The researchers compared their DNA profiles with their lifetime history of major stress to find that a particular gene, 5-HTTLPR interacted with the environment to bring on depression. They reported their findings in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Geneticist Peter Schofield said that tho...

Loneliness Results In High Blood Pressure In Elders

...blood pressure than non-lonely people with similar profiles on the other measures. The research also showed that the normal increases in blood pressure associated with aging are augmented by loneliness. The paper builds on Cacioppo’s earlier research that demonstrated that the loneliness is related to i...

Sensory Input Necessary During "Critical Periods" Of Brain Development

...e other intact. They then compared gene expression profiles of the cortex supporting the open eye to that of the missing eye. They found that Bdnf is not alone-visual input changes the levels of expression of ten additional genes, dubbed the "common set," at all ages investigated. By chemically inhibiting a M...

Genes That Cause Diabetes Risk Identified

...ute to the onset of the disease would help develop profiles of obese individuals at the greatest risk, Attie said. --Edited IANS...

PAI-2 Plays a Pivotal Role in Eye Infections

...r mechanisms that dictate the different expression profiles of PAI-2 in human corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells.’ Source: Eureklert...

Ranbaxy Gets USFDA Nod For Simvastatin

...ercholesterolemia requiring modifications of lipid profiles and adolescent patients with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). "We expect to launch Simvastatin 80mg on an exclusive basis immediately. We believe that by offering an affordably priced generic alternative, we will have a positive i...

No More Dietary Restriction for Heartburn Patients - Study Says

...l days to see if their sphincter pressures or acid profiles markedly improved.’ Gerson and her co-authors said that to really sort out how effective, or ineffective, dietary and lifestyle changes are in combating GERD, future research has to be designed to specifically look at the effects of implementing th...

Ireland’s Gay Men Have a Forum for Their Grievance

...ated to gay men such as hate crime, mental health, profiles of services, body image, ethnicity, HIV secondary prevention and transgender services were discussed at the forum. Various hardships and the realities of the lives faced by gay and bisexual men were discussed. The survey analysed the sexual health ...

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