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A Vitamin A Day May Delay The Life span Of HIV Patients

A vitamin a day could slow down the progression of HIV, according to new research. Researchers say this could be a low-cost way to delay the progression of this deadly disease. Past studies have indicated that // multivitamins may play a role in the pro...

Asthmatics May Be At Risk for Lung Disease In The Future

... tobacco smoke and air pollution may delay disease progression to COPD. Some specialists also suggest that effective anti-inflammatory therapy at the onset of asthma may decrease the likelihood of developing COPD....

Delaying The Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

...Aricept), and a placebo for delay or prevention of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s dise...atients who took a placebo. The average delay in progression was about six months. Even though patients on donepezil progressed to Alzheimer’s at a slower rate t...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...stop that scarring. "At best, we hope to stop the progression of the disease," he says. "It's our hope that the treatment of Gleevec will increase the length of their life as well as improve the quality." The research is currently ongoing to find out just how effective Gleevec is. For the study, Michael takes...

Drug Found To Bring Relief For Individuals With Early Parkinson’

...dase type B inhibitors, which are used to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Doctors have been slow to prescribe selegiline to patients because previous studies have linked it to an increased risk of death. However, selegiline did not increase the risk of death for patients in the current study. Resea...

Drug to Delay the Onset of Arthritis

... the molecular pathways that are implicated in the progression of arthritis. They hope this understanding will help in the discovery of novel targets for arthritis drugs....

Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

...ut there was no significant difference seen in the progression of the eye disease between those taking vitamin A plus a control and those taking vitamin A plus DHA over four years. In a separate analysis of the same study, researchers investigated the effect of DHA on patients not already taking vitamin A prior...

Another Treatment Option for Benign Tumors

...rgery can successfully // control their growth and progression with minimal toxicity. CyberKnife is a non-invasive robotic radiosurgical device that can remove tumors and other lesions without open surgery. It uses a robotic arm, controlled by a computer, that sends multiple beams of high-dose radiation directly...

Hope For Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

...showed that beta interferon injections delayed the progression of symptoms among people with early evidence of MS and found people who have the shots lose less brain tissue. People who received the active medication had their brain tissue decline on average by 1.18 percent over two years. Those who received a pl...

Stopping The Progression Of Parkinson's Disease

...f Parkinson’s disease may also be able to stop its progression say researchers . The drug, pramipexole (Mirapex)...ds promise in protecting the brain against further progression of the disease however these results have been seen only in animal studies involving the administrat...

Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk

...men with PIN should be carefully monitored for the progression of their disease. “The next step is to develop an effective therapy for treating high-grade PIN before prostate cancer has a chance to take root,” say specialists ....

Green Tea Might Help Patients With Prostate Cancer

...d in significant inhibition of prostate cancer and progression of the disease. Prostate cancer usually strikes older men, thus researchers believe substances such as green tea that are capable of holding off the disease for as long as possible could have important health benefits....

Preventing A Heart Attack Can Also Prevent Memory Loss

...cent medical studies on drugs designed to slow the progression of mixed dementia, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer's. They compared that with information relating to heart-protecting therapy and dementia. They found significant benefits in the latter, while they say the memory-loss prevention drugs may cause a m...

Contact Lenses Found To Slow Progression Of Myopia in Kids

...t lenses. Compared to soft lenses, the RGPs slowed progression of the condition by about 30 percent. Though the ... researchers say even the temporary slowing of the progression of the condition could hold important health implications because severe myopia can lead to a detach...

Effective Treatment Option For Macular Degeneration

... say treatment with pegaptanib reduced the risk of progression to legal blindness in the study, promoted stability of vision, and in a small percentage of patients, resulted in more visual improvement at week 54 than among those receiving sham injections....

Raising Good Cholesterol Levels Found To Improve Heart Health

...holesterol profiles and helps prevent angiographic progression of coronary stenosis, and may prevent cardiovascular events in some people who exercise regularly and eat low-fat diets....

Damaged Heart Rejuvenated By Stem Cells

...offered to patients with heart attack calm disease progression but do not help repair the heart.// Embryonic stem cells, which are totipotent, may be a potential source for regeneration of heart function and form after heart attacks. These cells have a promising future in this regard. This has been explained b...

Enlarged waistline may predict atherogenesis for postmenopausal women

...mate the risk of cardiovascular mortality and the progression rate atherogenesis. Atherogenesis is the process of plaques etc forming in the inner lining of the arteries that make them hard causing a state of atherosclerosis. This causes disturbed blood flow and may cause serious damage to heart. The study do...

Smoking may affect multiple sclerosis

...been able to associate habitual smoking with rapid progression of the condition of multiple sclerosis. In a study comprising of 201 cases of multiple sclerosis and 1913 control subjects, the researchers had matched the onset of the diseases from the first time diagnosis to the habit of smoking. Multiple sclero...

Hip X-ray can help to find out progression of osteoarthritis

... or more. The results of the study indicated that progression of hip osteoarthritis were quite evident in the X-ray photographs, and thus this procedure may also be used to predict osteoarthritis in people who have hip pain....

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