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Drug saves heroin addicts

...ance was the drug used inappropriately. No adverse reactions were reported and early results were encouraging. The doctors are now studying the uses of “take home” naloxone and argue for its wider distributio....

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

...hese antibiotics because they misunderstand simple reactions to be drug allergies. Penicillin and penicillin-like antibiotic drugs are often preferable to alternative antibiotics, Salkind noted, because they are cheaper than many other drugs and less likely to induce side effects or cause drug resistance.The ...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...worried about rejections and other steroid induced reactions these words of Dr. Eason will sound musical to their ears. But for a comprehensive analysis of ATG, one has to wait and watch the long-term effects. If it continues its good work, ATG will reduce the steroid related side effects and costs for patient...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

... responsilble for a raise in the suspected adverse reactions due to drug intake in UK. Pharmacovigilance stat...of MCA has shown a raise of about 37% more adverse reactions so called "yellow cards" during the period of January to April 2001 compared to that of last years. ...

Cats to protect children from asthma

...om the University of Virginia looked at the immune reactions of 226 children to cat allergens in their hormones. They found that 1 in 5 of the children showed an immune response to cat dandruff without having any allergic reaction. These children's immune system produced an antibody called IgG4 rather than IgE...

Meditation relieves stress

...ts to gain greater insight into their perceptions, reactions and behaviours in life situations. Through the practice of mindfulness, subjects are taught to consciously respond to stressful situations in their daily life....

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...s adopted to eradicate the mosquitoes had no toxic reactions in any animals, and deltamethrin, the insecticide used, is not thought to be a hazard to consumers....

Role of zinc in development

...mmune response.// The researchers found that the reactions of children's immune systems to shortages of vitamin A, iron and zinc could be countered by dietary supplements. Zinc deficiency is often seen in developing countries where people eat a lot of cereals, pulses and vegetables but no animal products. Th...

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...depressants have the potential to cause withdrawal reactions when people try to stop taking them, but that Paxil/Seroxat is the worst....

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...oped chiral catalysts for two important classes of reactions in organic chemistry: hydrogenations and oxidations. The achievements are of great importance for academic research, for the development of new drugs and materials, and are being used in many industrial syntheses of pharmaceutical products. // Thi...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...ourless, were then replaced by water and the men's reactions were studied. In each case, the men were asked to grade the women's attractiveness. They were more likely to think the women were attractive when they were exposed to the pheromones and the testosterone in their saliva increased. There were also fe...

Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp

...ecifically, it can be used in maintaining speed of reactions and visual and auditory vigilance, which in military operations could be a life or death situation. The military also is considering other drugs, including modafinil, a drug sometimes used to counteract narcolepsy, that could help servicemen stay awa...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

...d from conditions such as chemical burns, allergic reactions to drug and auto-immune diseases causing damage to the part of the eye called limbus, were successfully treated through this method in the last few months. // Stem cells are found in limbus, which regenerates the ocular surface of the cornea. Condi...

More about HIV

...And with greater side effects comes greater stress reactions and the risk of illness and disease not even related to the infection.Currently, there are two problems with the new class of drugs used to treat HIV. Firstly, many patients suffer worse physical side effects that they did with AZT, which adds to the...

Control of inflammation

...sults: invasion by bacteria or viruses, injury, or reactions to one’s own tissues. Chronic inflammation is characteristic of such disorders as asthma, chronic hepatitis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Little is known about the body,s own mechanism for controlling inflammation and the tissue damage that accom...

Cloud of smoke over Zyban

...ven reports in the UK, linking the drug to adverse reactions and deaths. // Touted to be the world’s most successful smoking cessation drug, Zyban received a high decibel launch in India in June 2001. The cause for concern, however, was a safety update on the site of British regulatory body, Medicines Contr...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...ands more people use methotrexate. Citing similar reactions abroad, the European Union last year warned patients and doctors about Arava's toxicity, Wolfe said. He wants the FDA to go further and ban Arava's sales. The FDA said it would carefully consider Wolfe's petition. A spokeswoman for Arava manufacture...

Spirituality relieves stress

...ts to gain greater insight into their perceptions, reactions and behaviours in life situations. Through the practice of mindfulness, subjects are taught to consciously respond to stressful situations in their daily life....

Chemists Discover Cation Considered Too Unstable To Exist

...pentamethylcyclopentadienyl cation by carrying out reactions with the cation to learn more about its properties...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

.... The patient specific vaccine produced very minor reactions in contrast to conventional treatments for cancer. There was also the suggestion of some encouraging clinical findings in a minority of patients. For two patients, after successful surgical removal of the lung tumors, after three and half years of va...

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