Tag: "receive" at medical news

One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

...o have delays in treatment and were less likely to receive lifesaving therapies such as clot-busting drugs or the artery-clearing treatment angioplasty. And they were more likely to die -- approximately one in four patients without chest pains died during their heart attacks, compared to one in 10 patients w...

Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

...allergic rhinitis. The subjects were randomized to receive either 30cc of a homeopathic preparation of principal inhalent allergen or placebo. In the third and fourth week after the start of treatment, the group compared changes in nasal inspiratory peak flow and visual symptom analogue scale scores to basel...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD

...angiographically proven coronary artery disease to receive either transdermal HRT--17-beta-estradiol with or without cyclic norethisterone--or no hormone replacement therapy. The women were followed for 4 years. Overall, 134 women received hormone replacement therapy. Of these, 58 had a previous hysterectomy...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease

...angiographically proven coronary artery disease to receive either transdermal HRT--17-beta-estradiol with or without cyclic norethisterone--or no hormone replacement therapy. The women were followed for 4 years. Overall, 134 women received hormone replacement therapy. Of these, 58 had had a previous hysterec...

Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

...urce of health care are less likely than others to receive important preventive services such as flu shots and cancer screenings’, Sounds scary but this report will surely make at least a few physicians to sit up and shed the accumulated rust. In this context it is to be borne is mind that the Union Ministry...

Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu

... multidisciplinary approach to ensure that couples receive adequate preconception counseling, detailed sexual health and fertility assessment, and careful monitoring of the woman's HIV status during treatment and pregnancy. Though man hasn’...

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

...d about the dreaded disease? Especially so when we receive emails telling us to forward the message to people around us!!!!! In the U.S. many people inadvertently forward mails to their friends and well-wishers without realizing that they are helping the rumour mill working overtime! The rumours are fanned ...

Infant receives first bloodless liver transplant

...ah’s Witnesses are prohibited by their religion to receive transfusions. The boy received 20% of his mother’s liver during the transplantation on February 7th at the children’s hospital in Los Angeles. To avoid complications during the surgery doctors recycled the blood lost from the infant’s body back to h...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...standard treatment" and 31% feared that they might receive an inactive placebo rather than the treatment being studied. Placebos are never used in trials on drugs that may be used to treat cancer.While a few drug trials are very successful, a few of them are very disastrous. Especially with the results being...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...on following organ transplant, Eason said patients receive rabbit ATG for just two days, the first dose during the transplant itself. The study found 4 percent of steroid-free patients developed post-transplant diabetes, compared to 14 percent in the steroid group, and only 50 percent of those receiving rabb...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

...rmine whether women with sexual dysfunction should receive this treatment....

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...anging from 18 to 85, he randomly assigned them to receive five treatments in a period of three weeks. By the end of one week it was found that the acupuncture group showed a significant improvement in pain reduction and motion compared to others. But after three months they found that there were no signifi...

Say "no" to x-rays

...who had initially received the radiography did not receive any clinical benefit. Indeed they reported// having more pain for longer, reduced functioning and overall bad heath status. The group not given radiography also reported being more satisfied with the care they received. The authors suggest radiograp...

A treatment for blindness

... received treatment in the affected eye or did not receive any treatment. Results after 10 years showed that total retinal detachments continued to occur in untreated eyes throughout the follow-up period, increasing from 38.6 percent when the children were 5.5 years old to 41.4 percent by the time they wer...

Digital mammography proves effective

...wo methods is essential. Fifty thousand women will receive both a digital and a standard mammogram and will be followed for several years to assess the accuracy of the two methods in predicting breast cancer....

Male contraceptive in trial

...impair long-term fertility.Trial participants will receive the injections for up to 18 months, with the trials to be extended to India and China if the results are successful....

FDA's control is inherently weak

... ensure that trial participants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little idea where research takes place overseas, what level of ethics review exists, how foreign researchers recruit participants or how many patients are taking experimental ...

Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes

...on issued guidelines stating that women should not receive hormone replacement for the sole purpose of preventing recurrent heart attacks. This came after several studies suggested the combination therapy of estrogen and progestin actually raises the risk of recurrent heart attack, at least temporarily. Cu...

Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

...rly 2 years before donating a kidney. People who receive an organ transplant are known to have an increased risk of several types of cancer, including Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. The inability to fight off cancer-causing viruses due to a suppressed immune system as w...

High Demand for a child vaccine

...ry committee recommended that all children under 2 receive the vaccine. Demand soared, far exceeding the exp...ld to delay the booster shot that children usually receive when they are a year old. Henceforth if we immunize your baby at 2, 4, and 6 months, that immunity ...

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